Like most of us, Swiss photographer Nicola Tröhler had some extra time due to the coronavirus pandemic. He used it to perfect his animation skills, and he shared with us some hilarious animations he’d created. In his latest video, he shows you how to do it yourself. So if you’re up for making some goofy animations from photos, check it out below. Nicola used old public domain libraries of Switzerland and the US to find photos to animate....

What does GG mean? What does GG mean? GG stands for “good game” and is intended to be a sign of good sportsmanship in online gaming. By saying “GG” at the end of a match, you are signaling that you enjoyed the game and that your opponent fought well. Consider it the online equivalent of shaking hands with your opponent after a game in real life. It is a show of respect....

If you’ve used Google Lens, you know that it’s capable of solving lots of different tasks. And now, it has a superpower that only pharmacists have had so far – it can decode doctors’ handwriting. At its annual conference in India last week, Google announced that it’s working to bring you a “doctors’ handwriting translator” in the app. And of course, it’s working closely with pharmacists to develop the tool....

Google’s Gcam research team focuses on computational photography. They develop the algorithms that assist in shooting photos with smartphones and other small cameras. When one of the team’s then researchers, Florian Kainz, went out to shoot under a full moon with a high end DSLR. He got one photograph he was particularly proud of, so took it into work. His teammates challenged him to recreate the image with a phone. Of course, Florian shot it with a Canon 1DX and Zeiss Otus 28mm f/1....

When the Google Pixel 2 came out it was extremely impressive. Despite only having the single rear camera, it beat out everything else on DxOMark and held the position for quite a while. When the Pixel 3 was announced, it also had only the single rear camera. And despite one or two issues with the phone overall, Google made some great improvements with it. Google has published a blog post on how they taught the Pixel 3 to predict depth for its Portrait Mode....