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Apple will use its street view Maps photos to train AI models

Engadget

Apple blurs faces and license plates photographed in Look Around images to protect the privacy of any individuals caught in its survey efforts. "In There's also Clean Up in Photos, which you can use to remove objects from your favorite snapshots. The tool allows users to see locations from ground level.

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This volunteer crew is on a mission to fix Wikipedia’s worst celebrity photos

Fast Company Tech

Visit a celebritys Wikipedia page and theres a good chance youll be greeted by a blurry, outdated, or unflattering photo. Some photos are so notoriously bad, theyve even earned a spot on a dedicated Instagram page. to capture high-quality, freely licensed images specifically for Wikipedia. The reason? Wait, youre from Wikipedia?

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Google Images is making it easier to license photo rights

The Verge

Google is rolling out an update to Google Images designed to make it easier to license photographs or pictures that are covered by copyright. Images with licensing information provided by the publisher will now appear in search results with a “Licensable” badge over the thumbnail.

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Volunteer photographers are fixing Wikipedia's terrible celebrity headshots

Engadget

Go to a profile of any celebrity on Wikipedia and it's quite possible that you'll be met with a terrible photo of them. Given that professional photographers want to make money from their work, they don't tend to share their photos there. For the love of God, please take down that photo. His publicist said no," Dixit recounted.

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How to choose a photo storage service

The Verge

Photo by Vlad Savov / The Verge. Back in 2019, photo storage service Flickr changed its previous policy of offering 1TB of free storage to its users, limiting free storage to 1,000 photos instead. As a result, we published a roundup of photo services that our readers might want to check out instead. Google Photos.

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How you can help save declining butterflies

Fast Company Tech

Photo: USFWS/ Flickr ] We found declines in just about every region of the continental U.S. Photo: Renee Las Vegas/ Wiki Commons ] Some species numbers are dropping faster than others. Photo: Walter Siegmund/ Wikimedia Commons , CC BY-SA] When we looked at each species by its historical range , we found something else interesting.

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Google Maps now lets you create Street View photos with just a phone

The Verge

Google Maps is getting a new update that lets you create Street View photos using just a phone. Where people contribute connected photos, they will appear in the Street View layer on Google Maps as dotted blue lines.”. Google is allowing submissions initially in Toronto, New York, Austin, Nigeria, Indonesia, and Costa Rica.