Tag: cameras

• The Maillet Daguerreotype Collection

  August 23, 2025

  This June, Christie’s offers one of the most important collections of daguerreotypes to come to market in the past 25 years. Announced to the world in 1839 and born of… more ›

• The eyes of Amazon: a hidden workforce driving a vast surveillance system

  July 12, 2025

  How low-paid employees in India and Costa Rica power the system used to monitor warehouse workers https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2022-11-21/the-eyes-of-amazon-a-hidden-workforce-driving-a-vast-surveillance-system?utm_source=tbij-uncovered.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=the-sportswashing-showdown-of-the-summer&_bhlid=33af9b2c437869613133ad5fa751db47e4b3fe1f more ›

• The Maillet Daguerreotype Collection

  July 2, 2025

  This June, Christie’s offers one of the most important collections of daguerreotypes to come to market in the past 25 years. Announced to the world in 1839 and born of… more ›

• Mobile Computational Photography: A Tour

  September 20, 2021

  The first mobile camera phone was sold only 20 years ago, when taking pictures with one’s phone was an oddity, and sharing pictures online was unheard of. Today, the smartphone… more ›

• Connie Chan – projector phones

  July 19, 2020

  My phone suddenly feels very small. https://twitter.com/conniechan/status/1284610329721225216/video/1 more ›

• This Company Built a Private Surveillance Network. We Tracked Someone With It

  September 22, 2019

  In just a few taps and clicks, the tool showed where a car had been seen throughout the U.S. A private investigator source had access to a powerful system used… more ›

• Made in China, Exported to the World: The Surveillance State

  April 25, 2019

  In Ecuador, cameras capture footage to be examined by police and domestic intelligence. The surveillance system’s origin: China. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/24/technology/ecuador-surveillance-cameras-police-government.html more ›

• How AI is changing photography

  January 31, 2019

  If you’re wondering how good your next phone’s camera is going to be, it’d be wise to pay attention to what the manufacturer has to say about AI. https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/31/18203363/ai-artificial-intelligence-photography-google-photos-apple-huawei more ›

• The era of the camera: Google Lens, one year in

  December 31, 2018

  There is, of course, the vacation beach pic, the kid’s winter recital, and the one–or ten–obligatory goofy selfie(s). But there’s also the book that caught my eye at a friend’s… more ›

• Here's the tiny drone the US Army just purchased…

  June 11, 2018

  Here's the tiny drone the US Army just purchased for soldiers » The drones, Flir’s Black Hornet Personal Reconnaissance Systems, are the world’s smallest combat-proven nano-drones, according to the company. more ›