Some of our latest articles on visual tech:

• 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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• Flattening the Curve using Visual Technologies

  
  

  Visual technologies will help flatten the curve today & proactively track health of society.

  Many of the technologies that we are depending on today to help us flatten the curve are leveraging cameras and other visual technologies to capture and analyze visual data. These visual technologies can make the difference between life and death for the millions of people who will be infected or exposed to COVID-19 over the course of this pandemic.

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• Can Visual Content remain trustworthy?

  
  

  The battle is on. The forces of truth against forces of deception. With visual AI making it easier to fake visual content, its credibility is at stake. And with it, the income of thousands upon thousands of people worldwide who depend on the credibility of visuals to thrive: Newspapers, magazines,

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• 2019 : The year of the face

  
  

  It’s been ten years since Instagram launched and not long after, the selfie. It has taken the same amount of time for visual recognition to understand how to read our faces. If anything, 2019 has been the year where faces have taken center stage of visual tech, for good and bad… All

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• The ubertification of photography

  
  

  It made a giant noise as it caught everyone by surprise — $230 million investment in a company providing photo services.  After Adobe’s $800 million purchase of French microstock photo company Fotolia, Pond 5’s $64 million investment and Shutterstock’s  $76.5 million IPO, it is the highest figures ever seen invested

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• Leaving one’s comfort zone: What can we learn from the Google Pixel 4?

  
  

  Let’s say your company has developed very strong expertise that could be applied to other use cases or markets than those you’ve successfully pursued. That makes it very tempting to expand. However, while some companies do this successfully, a large number of others learn through the school of hard knocks

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• It’s here, it’s live…it’s a badge

  
  

  For most of the world, it has absolutely no interest. For the few that still rely on licensing photos to make a living, it's a big deal. Google Image search now features a "where to license" badge under some of the images it returns after a query. … Read More →

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• A slippery road

  
  

  How the implementation of article 17 of the European Copyright directive is going to deepen the value gap rather than fix it for photographers. … Read More →

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