Some of our latest articles on visual tech:

• Shutterstock, Turbo Squid and an ocean of content

  
  

  Shutterstock’s acquisition of 3D marketplace Turbo Squid is significant for a few reasons, some of which might not be obvious. The first and well-understood purchase trigger is that the microstock company is under pressure to expand its offering horizontally. There is a known ceiling to the paid licensed still images

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• From Photo Frame to Media Empire?

  
  

  Remember Framen? This German startup’s CEO, Dimitri Gärtner, did a Show & Tell presentation at Visual 1st two years ago, showing his company’s digital frame photo viewing solutions. To my surprise, I learned a few days before Christmas that a company no less than Axel Springer had just acquired the

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• Our predictions for visual tech in 2021

  
  

  2020 has made screens our primary interface to the world. While pre-pandemic, we were mostly physically interacting with the world, using all of our six senses, the past year has been essentially just visual.  Except for our immediate family, it is via a digital representation, text, photos, or video that

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• Fixing our trust in content

  
  

  According to a recent study, over 63% of Americans say they often come across fake images online. Whether those images are truly faked or perceived as such, the damage is done. We are rapidly losing trust in what we see, our evolutionary number source of information. If this trend continues,

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• 10 questions for a founder : wrnch.ai

  
  

  A little less than a week before he takes the stage at the 2020 edition of the Visual 1st Summit, we sat down with Paul Kruszewski, founder, and CEO of wrnch.ai for a sneak preview of his talk on human-centric AI-enabled cameras.   – A little about you, what is your

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• The business of deepfakes, cheapfakes, and misleading manipulated media

  
  

  Some speculate that overall fake news could cost the economy $39 billion a year. Quite a market to grab for a savvy tech startup, even at 1%! But while fake news and in particular deep fakes have been accused of wreaking havoc on minds and economy, there is surprisingly only a minimal amount of companies offering tools to combat them. The reason?

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• 10 Questions to a Founder : Sensity

  
  

  While damages are very real and can go far beyond a bruised reputation, companies and people are left unprotected against deepfakes and synthetic media. Only a handful of companies offer solutions to this growing threat. Deeptrace Labs, a startup based in the Netherlands,  offers to change that. We discussed with co-founder and CEO Giorgio Patrini on how it works :

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• How to catch a fake

  
  

  There are three types of fake photos and yet, no real net to catch them. For an industry built on illusion, it is not such a surprise.

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• Are videos overtaking photos? – Not so fast…

  
  

  For a long time, videos have been heralded as the Next Big Thing, the capture format that was going to replace still photography.  But technology disruption often progresses more slowly than one might think. Or much faster than one might think. Or ends up stopping dead in its tracks. So where

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• From Giphy with love

  
  

  Facebook's acquisition of the Gif search engine Giphy proves, once again, that whoever controls visual content also controls audiences.

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• Article 17: Are you ready?

  
  

  6 months away from the full implementation of Article 17, it seems no one is ready. Working models have yet to be agreed upon, laws have yet to be passed, and platforms have yet to be ready. At least right holders of photographs can start to get ready. … Read More →

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• Protection of who?

  
  

  There is a reason for professional photographers. They document events with the most proximity to the truth. Denying them access to facts is denying a whole nation of citizens access to these facts and information. … Read More →

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