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How to use Google Translate to translate images in real time
Transcend communication barriers with a few taps
Google Translate is a nifty tool for understanding foreign languages on the go. It can take input in the form of text, images, or voice and translate it into the language of your choice. Although it is available on the web and mobile, the former is a limited version. The app works on both Android and iOS, but Google Pixel owners get access to the latest features. We show you how to use Google Translate on most devices, whether you use it on your phone or desktop PC.
How to restore reverse image search in Chrome
If you're not a fan of Google Lens, you can restore reverse image search on Chrome. Here's how
Google reverse image search finds images on the web using an image as the search query. When you upload an image to Google, it locates where the image came from and other sites that use the same image. The service has been with us since 2011, but Google recently replaced reverse image search with Google Lens. Now, when you right click an image on the web, it prompts you to search for it with Google Lens.
How to add image captions to Google Docs
Google Docs doesn't have caption support, but there are tricks you could use
A picture is worth a thousand words, but captions provide context. It's not every time you grasp or relate to what you see immediately. When you create content in Google Docs from your personal computers or phones, provide enough details so that people understand what you're saying. You commonly see captions underneath or beside images acting as short descriptions.
What is Stable Diffusion?
Stable Diffusion is an image generator focused on realism: Here's how it works
The world of AI creation seems like it's jumped forward decades in only a couple of years because of tools like ChatGPT and Midjourney. However, these user-friendly apps have long-term foundations in technology and research that were carefully put together by programmers over time. That yields incredible tricks, whether it's ChatGPT imitating a president or Midjourney creating surreal artwork.
This smartphone sensor wants to fix bad white balance permanently
Meet Real Tone's hardware-level equivalent
Smartphone cameras are all about convenience and ease of use, but despite improving by leaps and bounds in recent years, most shooters are still imperfect. One of the most prominent issues remains dialing the white balance just right. Image processing software funnel solutions exist but a hardware-level solution would be more desirable. CES 2023 has shown us all sorts of exciting tech, including a new multispectral image sensor from Spectricity that promises to fix the issue for good.
TinyWow is the picture-perfect tool for converting JPGs to PDFs
TinyWow lets you convert image formats quickly and easily.
By and large, the PDF files you encounter are word-based. They may feature the occasional graphic, chart, and/or illustration, but they won’t bear images the likes of which will send the megabyte count soaring.
The world's largest photo of a work of art is here, and there's a dog in it
It's a very good painting, yes it is
Advances in imaging have meant new ways of studying the solar system, improving athletic performance, and interacting with the arts. Ultra-high-resolution photos (any image exceeding 400 megapixels) have emerged as a way to allow deeper examination of priceless works without damaging the original artifact. And now, the largest, most comprehensive photograph of a work of art has arrived from Operation Night Watch.
Twitter is getting a long overdue change (emphasis on the 'long')
Announced two months ago, non-cropped photos should be live for everyone now
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Twitter has been aggressively restricting access to third-party mobile apps, frustrating users by pushing them onto the company's branded version. But at least they've kept working on it, if not as fast as some would like. Case in point: the annoying image crop on the timeline is going away, making it easier to see vertically-oriented images without an extra tap.
Google tweaks Chrome's lazy-loading images to help save more data
Native lazy-loading is also available for iframes
Google Chrome has supported native lazy-loading images since Chrome 76, which first rolled out a year ago. When websites utilize the feature, they can help you save some precious data by only loading images when they're about to come into view. Google has decided to make that feature even more efficient, reducing the threshold that determines when to start loading images that you are about to scroll to. That should help save you even more data.
Every few months or so, Facebook's servers seemingly decide to take a nap. This time around, the core services themselves (Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp) are still up, but people around the world are complaining about images and other media not being able to load.
Plenty of details about Samsung's upcoming Note10 have already leaked, but some of the particulars have changed over time, and another tweak has just been spotted. In what looks like the first set of real-life photos for the upcoming device, it seems that Galaxy Note "Pro" name may not pan out. The presumably bigger phone in the upcoming pair will go by the name "Note10+," and you can get a glimpse of the hardware that goes with it just below.
Every manufacturer carrying out a beta program of Android Q is doing so in their own unique way. Some are tailoring it toward developers while others, like OnePlus, are making it easy to load on and hop off as their users would like. The company is now celebrating a milestone in the developer preview as it has released its first big update for the OnePlus 7 and 7 Pro.
Android Q Beta 4 has just been released, and while those of us in the Beta Program wait for OTAs to roll out via the more traditional (and slower) means, images for manual flashing are also available — though they don't get updates. If you're chomping at the bit to test out Beta 4, you can pull them down now.
Android Q Beta 2 brought with it a lot of new features, though it's not surprising that some stuff is being broken given that it is a beta. Google today announced a patch for Q Beta 2, and factory and OTA images are available for installation right now. OTAs will roll out within the next 24 hours.
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Google continues the day's deluge of announcements. Next up with a pile of new features is Google Images, with changes including Lens integration, image ranking tweaks, and expanded captions for context. A new "featured videos" card for automatically played results will also appear for some queries.
Microsoft Outlook has gained the option to block external images in emails. While this might seem like a minor tweak, it can be helpful for privacy-minded users, as images can be used to track whether emails have been read — valuable information for spammers.
Twitter doesn't show full photos when they appear in the stream—you need to tap to expand the whole image. Unfortunately, the cropped version of the photo is often framed awkwardly because it's just the middle section of the image. Twitter is solving that problem with a neural network that can understand the composition of your images.
Until now, the default resolution for images sent and received on Facebook Messenger was 2K. That's quite small in terms of megapixels, and anything higher you tried to send someone would be compressed by Messenger before sending. Facebook has just bumped the default image size up to 4K (up to just over 16MP) so you can now send photos of much higher quality to friends and family.
Smartphone leaks are inevitable, no matter who you are. But they usually happen pretty close to a device's launch date, and they're usually only specific to a single product. Last month, much to Alcatel's dismay, serial leaker Evan Blass shared an image of not one but six upcoming Alcatel phones. Now, Blass has shared higher-resolution renders of those same devices.
The Portrait mode on the new Pixel 2 phones is impressive. With just a single camera, the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL are able to mimic a convincing depth of field effect, like that created by much larger hardware. It isn't quite as good as an SLR, but it's a reasonable approximation. And if you were interested in exactly how it works, we've put together an explanation.