It finally happened. After months and months of hemming and hawing about the subject, it looks like lawmakers in the United States finally issued TikTok’s parent company ByteDance an ultimatum to sell the company or shut it down in the United States. Citing national security concerns, among other things, the US Congress approved the bill […]
Author: Kehl Bayern
Kehl is our staff photography news writer since 2017 and has over a decade of experience in online media and publishing and you can get to know him better here and follow him on Insta.
One of the recurrent headlines we write about around here in our news section is the mishaps that befall people when taking photographs. Sometimes they are accidents, but more often than not, they are the result of deliberately stupid actions on the part of participants. Selfies, in particular, seem to be a dangerous genre with […]
It’s not going away and how platforms deal with now could shape the direction things take in the future. Naturally, we’re talking about AI content, the latest trend every major company is latching onto in the hopes of either supplanting traditional media production in some way or just out of curiosity. Whatever the case, AI […]
There’s no doubt that smartphone photography has come a long way. And even with AI threatening to put us all out to pasture, there’s still a demand for authentic content. Heck, even implementing AI directly in Instagram probably won’t change the desire for most of us to actually put out real content. But as popular […]
It was inevitable but the day is finally here. Instagram just launched an AI chatbot for its direct messaging and it is capable of generating images, recommending content, and helping users tailor messages, among other things. Part of Meta AI, the Instagram variant reminds us of the AI bot that Snap rolled out not too […]
It’s always better to be late than never show up in the first place, right? Well, for some of us, HDR on social media makes perfect sense but we’re just now getting it on Instagram and Meta’s new competitor with X (formerly known as Twitter), Threads, in a move that couldn’t come soon enough for […]