The folks behind Facebook's image upload software are revealed to have been translating images into ASCII art automatically. While we're not certain how web standards enthusiast Mathias Bynens ...

In case you grow tired of clear-written, understandable code, obfuscation contests provide a nice change of scenery, and trying to make sense of their entries can be a fun-time activity and an ...

Peter Nitsch of Teehan+Lax has been experimenting with new ways of interacting with ASCII art that go well beyond static text images. His latest project combined a projector and a computer too allow ...

Amid all the fuss over DeepSeek, OpenAI has pushed out o3-mini, a new AI reasoning model available to all ChatGPT users. The mass roll out means people are already putting it to intriguing uses, which ...

A Twitter user has uncovered a trick to turn some Facebook or Instagram photos into nostalgic works of text-art. Mathias Bynens, a ‘web standards fanatic’ according to his profile, recently revealed ...

As Polaroid cameras make a serious comeback, popular apps like Instagram exchange clarity and focus with filters that give photographs a vintage feel. “[The app converts] the pic to grayscale, and ...

Computer graphics have come a long way. Some video games today exceed what would have passed for stunning cinema animation only a few years ago. However, it hasn’t always been like this. One of the ...

Facebook (and its subsidiary Instagram) have a rather bizarre hidden feature. It only seems to work on public photos, but it's something like this: if you go into the code and find the image address, ...