Last spring, a group of United States congresspeople introduced the "Countering CCP Drones Act," which argued DJI drones posed "an unacceptable national security risk." This week, DJI published line-by-line counterpoints rejecting that stance.
In a development that sounds straight out of a science fiction movie, China may bring its national surveillance system to its planned lunar base.
Photographer Stefan Irvine spent four years exploring the New Territories and outlying islands around Hong Kong visiting villages that are being reclaimed by nature.
A court in Beijing, China has awarded an AI image copyright status after the person who made the picture sued a blogger for using it without permission.
When it comes to protecting its intellectual property, Canon is among the most litigious. Whether printer ink or lenses for the RF mount, the company spends significant effort shutting down unregistered third party brands. From the outside looking in, this can come off as petty, aggressive, or even greedy.
China has warned military fans to stop posting photos of the country's army equipment online -- or face prison.
Michigan-based Photo Systems will bring Kodak Professional-branded development chemicals back into production after Sino Promise, the Chinese holding company that previously held the license, exited the photo chemical business this past April.
Andy Summers is best known as a guitarist for the English rock band The Police, popular in the late 1970s to the mid-1980s. But he has also been a passionate and award-winning photographer from the film days through the digital transition to today. Summers has published five books on his photography, the latest from teNeues is A Series of Glances, and has had his work shown at over 60 exhibitions worldwide.
A seemingly innocuous photograph of two Chinese athletes embracing each other at the end of a race has been censored by authorities.
Artists in China have launched a boycott of one of the country's largest social media sites, Xiaohongshu, after it trained its artificial intelligence tool using images from users without their permission.
Microsoft analysts have warned today that Chinese operatives are creating AI images intended to spread disinformation among voters in the U.S., targeting divisive political issues.
The Chinese government banned the use of all foreign-branded phones for government work and from being brought into offices, including Apple's iPhone which remains supremely popular in the country, The Wall Street Journal reports.
TikTok has opened its first European data center as the video app attempts to combat long-held privacy concerns over its links to China.
Shipments for digital cameras are at their highest point since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and that boom is being largely driven by China, Sony and Nikon say.
A major Chinese photo agency is demanding an astrophotographer pay $12,000 to use his own photos after he posted his work to social media platform Weibo. The photographer says he never licensed his photos to the agency.
Miaoya is an AI portrait app that is sweeping across China charging users $1.40 to generate different style portraits.
While dedicated retail centers and shopping malls may be on the decline throughout much of the United States, China is experiencing a shopping mall boom, per the South China Morning Post. Nikon is capitalizing on the surge with three beautiful flagship retail stores in Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Chengdu.
China has announced new rules on generative artificial intelligence (AI), mandating that the technology must follow "core values of socialism."
A Chinese video surveillance system is publicly shaming people who jaywalk in the street.
The world's only all-white panda has been recorded on an infrared camera at the Wolong National Nature Reserve in Sichuan, China.
A leading Chinese technology company is allowing users to create artificially intelligent (AI) deepfake "digital humans" based on any individual within 24 hours for $145.
Midjourney does not allow users to generate pictures of Chinese President Xi Jinping on its platform -- the only world leader whose likeness is banned on the AI image generator.
China says it would "firmly oppose" any forced sale of TikTok in order to avoid a nationwide ban in the U.S.
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew today told Congress that Chinese parent company ByteDance may still have access to U.S. data as the video-sharing app attempts to prevent a potential nationwide ban.
President Biden gave government agencies 30 days to remove Chinese-owned TikTok from federal devices yesterday (Monday).
The United States Department of Defense has released a photo taken by a U-2 spy plane pilot that shows a perspective from inside the cockpit and above the Chinese balloon that was shot down earlier this month.
Lenses are big business: while we have seen the value of camera shipments nose-dive year-on-year, lens value has slowly increased and is now equal to about a third of the camera market. It's for this reason that third-party manufacturers have increased their stake in this market and particularly at the low-cost end where Chinese manufacturers proliferate. Who are these companies and what does their appearance presage in terms of the camera market as a whole?
Mysterious green laser beams that appeared over the night sky in Hawaii have been pinned on a Chinese satellite.
The United States government is currently tracking what it describes as a Chinese "high-altitude surveillance balloon" as it floats over Montana.
Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO) has issued a written demand to the CEOs of Google and Apple to remove TikTok from their company's app stores due to the possibility that China's government could "weaponize" the app against the United States.
A photo of a popular park in Wuhan, China has won the Global SinoPhoto Awards 2023.
Sony has transitioned the manufacturing of cameras that are destined to be sold in Japan, the United States, and Europe out of China and to a factory in Thailand, which amounts to about 90% of its total production.
A photographer has given free funeral portraits to nearly 3,000 elderly people in China's rural areas.
Members of both the United States House of Representatives and the Senate have introduced a new bipartisan bill that aims to completely ban TikTok from operating in the country amid spying concerns.
Authorities in China have made a series of policy announcements regarding artificial intelligence (AI), including banning AI-generated images that are not labeled as such.
Chinese protestors angry with endless COVID restrictions have been flipping videos filmed on their phones and adding filters to avoid the government's online censors.
China has been accused of censoring maskless fans at the World Cup on state TV to maintain the illusion that the country's strict zero-COVID rules aren't dissimilar from the outside world.
A photographer captured this incredible image of the Leonid meteor shower earlier this month that shows himself and his wife enjoying the show.
As protests around China’s zero-Covid policy mount, police appear to be searching phones for apps like Instagram, Twitter, and Telegram, which are banned in the country, with the goal of stopping photos of the protests from being released.
A senior BBC cameraman was arrested and beaten up while covering anti-lockdown protests in China yesterday.