Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

Google has blogged about its recent improvements in AI and photography — specifically regarding portrait mode on the Pixel 3. The post discusses how Google has improved the way its neural networks ...

Sunday: Cheap phone photography, editing apps, and a history lesson Sunday: Cheap phone photography, editing apps, and a history lesson The technological foundation of mobile photography How to take a ...

Portrait Mode has become a staple feature in almost every single smartphone camera — from budget to expensive flagship devices. It’s when a blur (or bokeh) effect is added behind a subject to deliver ...

The Google Pixel 2 has one of the best smartphone cameras on the market, and one of the niftiest features is its support for portrait-style photos that blur the background. While that’s not an unusual ...

Itching to get your hands on the Google Pixel 2’s camera effects, but don’t have the cash? A developer just unlocked one of the flagship smartphone’s camera features using software. Charles Chow ...

This so-called Portrait Mode has actually been around for a while in the Android world; it was just never really publicized, perhaps because it never really worked quite as well as one would have ...

When Apple introduced portrait mode on the iPhone 7 Plus nearly two years ago, it became a much talked-about and sought-after feature. A phone that could give your photos that coveted look of a fancy, ...

Of all the AI-related features inside the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL, the portrait mode is arguably the most impressive -- Google manages to produce dramatic-looking depth-of-field effects without relying ...

Google has only just revealed the new features coming to Pixel devices as part of the upcoming ‘feature drop’ and one of the changes is already rolling out to users. Google Duo version 68 has hit the ...

While Google's Pixel 2 didn't change much from its predecessor, which came out only a year before, one of the newer smartphone's standout features is the background-blurring Portrait mode. But this ...