Flickr takes aim at more social photo-sharing apps like Instagram and adds friend mentions to its update for iPhones released today (Feb. 21). But it hasn't forgotten its serious photographers who ...

SAN FRANCISCO--In return for the huge amount of work Flickr users do to tag photos on the popular photo-sharing site, they should get the benefit of the algorithms the service uses to bring meaning to ...

Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before that, Josh wrote about everything from new Web start-ups, to remote-controlled robots that watch your house. Prior to joining CNET, Josh ...

As we've discussed a number of times, the human brain is superb at image analysis, and computers come nowhere close to matching it. A pair of computer scientists have now attempted to get a computer ...

Downloading pictures from Flikr is a simple task, but if you’re a first-time user, you might find it a bit difficult to understand where and how to get these photos onto your computer. But there is ...

Smart as they are, computers are still as blind as a bat. It’s why search engines index the web using text and why you still have to fill out those annoying captchas. But with advances in machine ...

Not everyone is happy with Flickr’s latest use of users’ images: The photo sharing website has recently begun selling physical prints of pictures uploaded to the site, without compensating the ...

What can you do with millions of images? Computer scientists from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) think you can use web images to add realism to your photos. For example, the goal of one of their ...

When we hear about social media and how we can use it to increase our marketing, too many times we pigeonhole ourselves into talking about the same sites. We think about using Facebook, Twitter, ...

I just migrated my photos off of Flickr. Yes, it’s 2017, and I was still using Flickr. Why? Because I’d been using it since 2005, it’s free, and the mobile app is… fine. But now that it seems like ...

If you’re a photographer, the photo-sharing site Flickr offers a great way to get your work seen and to elicit feedback. But it’s unlikely that others will find your stuff without a little help from ...