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Snapchat is bringing its “Dual Camera” feature front and center on the app’s main camera toolbar. Starting today, the feature will be available for iOS users on iPhone XS/XR or…

Snapchat’s Dual Camera feature isn’t quite a BeReal copycat

To mark the expansion of Meta’s bland virtual reality platform, Horizon Worlds, into France and Spain, Mark Zuckerberg recently shared a selfie. The graphic, featuring the boyish CEO in front…

Mark Zuckerberg says the metaverse won’t be as cringey as his cursed selfie

Lately, Snapchat’s 3D Cartoon lens has been all the buzz, making all of our friends look like Pixar characters. But since 2013, a staple filter on the ephemeral photo-sharing app…

Following lawsuits, Snapchat pulls its controversial speed filter

Some of you may recall the South Korean app Zepeto that went viral among Gen Z users a year and a half ago. The app, which renders selfies into animated…

Snow’s avatar app Zepeto registers 150M users, eyes China market

Your iPhone is capable of some impressive feats of computational photography, and a new app created by developer Gabriel O’Flaherty-Chan shows one way all that power can be put to…

Emojivision app turns your iPhone’s camera into a real-time emoji painting machine

In China, striving for accuracy in a piece of facial recognition software isn’t enough. As Alibaba’s e-wallet affiliate Alipay has recently demonstrated, the way software presents a user’s look is…

China’s Alipay adds sought-after beauty filters to face-scan payments

Remember Prisma? The Moscow-based team behind the app that sparked a style transfer craze in 2016 has raised a $6 million Series A, led by early stage artificial intelligence focused…

Prisma Labs raises $6M for its AI-powered approach to visual editing

JibJab, one of the first companies that let people insert selfies into videos, gifs and e-cards, has been acquired by Catapult Capital. The Los Angeles-based private equity firm announced the…

JibJab, one of the first silly selfie video makers, acquired by private equity firm Catapult Capital

I thought the worst thing about Popsugar’s Twinning tool was that it matched me with James Corden. Turns out, the hundreds of thousands of selfies uploaded to the tool were…

Popsugar’s Twinning app was leaking everyone’s uploaded photos

Prisma Labs, the startup behind the style transfer craze of a couple of years ago, has a new AI-powered iOS app for retouching selfies. An Android version of the app…

Prisma’s new AI-powered app, Lensa, helps the selfie camera lie

First it was the notch, now the hole-punch has emerged as the latest tech for concealing selfie cameras whilst keeping our smartphones as free of bezel as possible to maximize the screen…

Move over notch, the hole-punch smartphone camera is coming

You’ve probably had the experience of posing awkwardly for a photo while everyone else looks great. Now China’s top photo-editing firm Meitu has a solution that helps you resist the…

Popular Chinese selfie app Meitu now includes 3D editing

Once a month or so, I’m reminded that my phone has a front-facing camera when I accidentally hit the toggle button, only to be greeted with a closeup image of…

I would happily ditch the selfie camera for a full-screen phone

Google’s Arts & Culture app has been around for about a year and half. But it’s taken an art selfie feature to generate a bit of viral interest in the…

PSA: Google’s art selfie feature is US only for now

Meet Teleport: An app that’s using a trained neural network to power a selfie-editing feature that lets you change the color of your hair at the touch of a button. 

Teleport’s neural networks let you try before you hair dye

Face-morphing app FaceApp, which uses a neural network for editing selfies in a photorealistic fashion, has updated its app to what it’s calling FaceApp 2.0 — further fleshing out its…

FaceApp adds paid selfie styling effects

Move over duckface. Shove off rainbow spew. There’s a new selfie game in town and it wants to turn your 2D visage into uncannily accurate 3D — then splice that…

Miso Happy is a 3D selfie app that rocks the uncanny valley

If only all algorithmic bias were as easy to spot as this: FaceApp, a photo-editing app that uses a neural network for editing selfies in a photorealistic way, has apologized…

FaceApp apologizes for building a racist AI

There seems to be a trend bubbling up for better tech to test a guy’s sperm in the privacy of his own home. A Harvard-designed sperm motility app made headlines…

At-home sperm health selfies are on the rise

Selfie app and phone company Meitu has unveiled its latest smartphone, which doubles down its focus on selfie cameras and beautification. Meitu went public in December with a Hong Kong…

Meitu’s new phone includes a dual pixel front camera and AI-powered beautification

Most consumer drones available on the market today fit in one of two categories: full-fledged UAVs like DJI’s Inspire, Phantom or Mavic, or portable “selfie” drones like Hover that prioritize size…

Dobby’s foldable pocket drone is the perfect mix of portability and functionality

If you’re finding the vision of Trump’s visage with a smile on it generating ‘uncanny valley’ levels of unease and creepiness you’d be right. The smile is FAKE NEWS folks!…

FaceApp uses neural networks for photorealistic selfie tweaks

You’ve probably seen a Meitu selfie in your Instagram or Facebook feed in the past 24 hours. The app smoothes skin, slims down faces, and even applies a layer of…

The cost of hot selfie app Meitu? A healthy dose of your personal info

In a different kind of British invasion, Snap (the company that launched 1,000 ephemeral selfies) has planted its disappearing flag in the UK for its international home-away-from-home as it preps…

Snap crosses the pond and makes a home in the UK

Coca-Cola may be thinking of Snapchat Spectacles with its latest marketing ploy, a selfie-snapping bottle that features a camera in what can only be described as a bottle boot with…

Coca-Cola made a selfie bottle; luckily humans only have 1,000 years left

MasterCard is moving from trials of facial biometrics for payment authentication, including one in the U.S. and Canada launched earlier this year, to its first proper rollout of what is…

MasterCard launches its ‘selfie pay’ biometric authentication app in Europe

Art photo filter app sensation Prisma, which only launched this summer but racked up more than 55 million downloads in a matter of weeks, has sparked a rush of other…

Now CanvasPop wants to turn your Prisma photos into wall art

With what looks to be an eye on Snapchat’s selfie-loving fanbase, messaging platform Telegram has beefed up its in-app photo editor in what it dubs an “entertainment-heavy update” — including…

Messaging app Telegram adds selfie masks, DIY GIFs

DJI hopes you’re tired of shaky and embarrassing smartphone videos. The Osmo Mobile is a handheld 3-axis stabilizer gimbal for smartphones. Just strap a phone to the top and a…

DJI wants to end shaky smartphone videos

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