Category: Software & Technology

The concept of Precorder is simple. You open the app, and it starts recording video automatically in the background. Once you hit the record button, the last several seconds of footage will automatically be prepended to everything that you record

WHNPA president Ron Sachs’s statement said, “It was brought to our attention that the image ‘State Champion’ by Washington Post photographer Tracy Woodward, that received an Award of Excellence in the 2013 WHNPA ‘Eyes of History’ stills photo contest in the Sports Feature/Reaction category, was digitally manipulated in violation of the contest rules.”

Digital photographs from Getty are typically tagged with basic descriptors of who or what is in the photograph — small bits of information known as metadata. Luminate will take those photos and append additional metadata, including, for example, Ms. Kardashian’s Web site, Twitter feed or related articles about her. When a user hovers over an image, the information will appear on the screen.

As with every acquisition/merger, people will say “I love [Behance]. Please don’t ruin it.” That’s totally understandable, but I wouldn’t worry

Flickr announced a new iOS app today for shooting, editing, sharing and discovering photos. Based on the demo Wired saw, this is exactly the kind of gorgeous application that Flickr users have been longing for and that Flickr has always needed.

The move comes one day after Instagram completely cut off the ability to embed Instagram photos in tweets. That was just the latest volley in an escalating fight between the two companies.

Imagine dynamic Instagram filters that react to the focus point of a photo. That’s pretty much Living Filters

Damon Winter returned to the campaign trail this time to find a different tone and candidate

The New York Times has assembled a “Convention Storybook,” an online archive of the conventions. It is a look inside the two parties as they sought to articulate their platforms and positions as clearly as possible, without interference.

The “Convention Storybook” presents photographs by Stephen Crowley, Josh Haner, Todd Heisler, Doug Mills, Damon Winter, Mike Appleton, Travis Dove, Edward Linsmier, Luke Sharrett, Robert Stolarik, Max Whitaker and Jim Wilson. Michael Barbaro provided audio and it was produced by Nick Corasaniti, Jacqueline Myint and Cornelius Schmid

Using a very thin wafer of silicon the scientists have created a flat lens that is only 60 nanometers thick and does away with the normal aspherical glass we’re used to seeing on most cameras.