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Want to locate the source of an image, verify its authenticity, or find related images? Then, you may wish to do a reverse image search. With the rise of AI, this has become much easier. I tested over 20 modern solutions and narrowed down 10 of the best reverse image search tools. Here’s everything you need to know: Lenso.ai is my current go to reverse image search tool . It enables you to search for people, places, duplicates, similar, or related images. By analyzing key features, lenso.ai performs image searches with high accuracy and presents only relevant results. Moreover, its keyword and domain filter options let you refine your search for more precise results. The platform’s sorting options also help you quickly find the best and worst match, newest and oldest images, or random ones. Additionally, if you perform an in-depth search, you can save images to Collections for further reference or create Alerts for specific images and get email notifications when new image results come up. Check below for more on how to use lenso.ai effectively. Why Choose lenso.ai? Try lenso.ai TinEye is a long-running reverse image search engine that helps users find the origins of images online. It also helps identify modified versions , higher-resolution versions, and similar images. TinEye lets you search using images instead of keywords , creating a unique digital signature for each image. It then matches this with other indexed images. It boasts over 52 billion indexed images , giving you a high chance of finding exact or similar images. Moreover, it uses image recognition algorithms to identify even heavily edited versions of the original image. As well as uploading an image, you can provide an image URL to conduct your search. Why Choose TinEye? Try TinEye Another specialized reverse image search tool is Image Raider. It’s offered by Infringement Report and is mainly intended to find images that are infringing on copyright law. Nonetheless, it functions like most reverse image search engines. You can simultaneously search for images on Google, Bing, and Yandex, providing a broader range of search results . You can perform batch searches , allowing you to upload 20 images at once. Furthermore, you can specify a specific region to search within, such as worldwide, North America, or Europe. Image Raider stores your search history , allowing you to revisit previous searches or keep track of your reverse image search activity. You can also download all the images from their search results with a single click. Why Choose Image Raider? Try Image Raider The reverse image search tool by SmallSEOTools lets you upload an image or enter an image URL to find similar images and their sources across multiple search engines. It uses Bing, Yandex, and Google, so you can draw from a large pool of images online. Plus, you can enter a keyword related to your image to narrow down the results. To upload an image, it has a simple drag-and-drop interface and you can also source images from Dropbox and Google Drive. Its Pro version offers a higher search limit, no ads, and batch uploads. Why Choose SmallSEOTools? Try SmallSEOTools Reverse Image Search Formerly Image Match, Bing Visual Search is Microsoft’s own reverse image search tool. It searches for similar images and related information by using an image as the input . You can take a photo directly on the platform , paste a URL, or upload an image via drag-and-drop. The tool provides related search suggestions based on the content of the input image, helping you discover more relevant information. It also recognizes product images and provides links to websites where you can purchase the product or find more information about it. I like that on the homepage it offers numerous shortcuts, such as identifying dog breeds or pinpoint location . I.e., if you have an image of a landmark but don’t know where it is in real life. Why Choose Bing Visual Search? Try Bing Visual Search If you are a Pinterest user, then its Visual Search and Lens tools can help you find visually related images and content on the platform. The process involves uploading an image or choosing one from Pinterest itself. You can search for images with similar visual characteristics, making it easy to discover new ideas and inspiration. Moreover, it offers related pin suggestions based on the content of the input image. It can also be used in conjunction with Pinterest Lens, which enables you to search for related content by taking a photo or screenshot with your device. Results align with your account history for a tailored experience and results include shoppable pins, which allow you to purchase products . Why Choose Pinterest Visual Search? Try Pinterest Visual Search I couldn’t make a best reverse image tools list without mentioning Google Images. While its main function is to simply search for images by keyword, you can certainly do reverse searches too. All you have to do is click on the camera icon in the search bar to open Lens, then upload an image from your device or provide an image URL to initiate the search. It works by using advanced algorithms to analyze the visual content of the input image, including its colors, shapes, and patterns. The search engine then compares the input image to its vast database of indexed images to identify similar images or related content. In addition to finding visually similar images, Google Lens can also help users identify the source of an image and locate higher resolution versions. Why Use Google Lens? Try Google Lens Similar to Google Lens, Russian search engine Yandex has a visual search feature that’s perfect for reverse image searches . Its powerful technology can identify source images and similar images even when the original has been modified, cropped, or resized. It also provides additional sizes of the same image, making it easier to find the best resolution for their needs. When you upload an image or enter an image URL , Yandex analyzes the visual content of the image. It then ranks results based on their similarity to the input image. Visual Search also provides related content , such as web pages where the image appears. Why Choose Yandex Visual Search? Try Yandex Visual Search CopySeeker is powered by AI and analyzes the pixels of your image to find duplicates and similar images online. You can search via image URL or by uploading an image. Results are shown in a list based on page rank and it identifies the original source with a symbol. This is useful for determining the copyright status of the image or if your own image has been stolen. Depending on the image, you also get additional info such as the date, location, and the organization or individual that created the image or photo. Why Choose CopySeeker? Try CopySeeker FaceCheck.ID takes a slightly different approach to reverse image searching by focusing on people, rather than general images. It uses advanced AI technology to locate people online . By uploading a photo or providing an image URL, you can search for individuals across various sources like social media, news articles, blogs, and videos. Its database contains over 793 million faces and results are displayed with a useful confidence score from 0 to 100. warning indicators appear above search results to alert you of potential concerns, such as known criminals, scammers, and predators. The drag-and-drop interface supports batch uploads , though this is intended for the same person. Why Choose FaceCheck.ID? Try FaceCheck.ID DNSChecker.org also offers a powerful reverse image search tool. It’s powered by major search engines such as Google, Bing, and Yandex. You upload your image or paste a URL and add related keywords . It then uses the image recognition capabilities of these search engines to compare the input image to their respective databases of indexed images. It’s useful for finding the source of an image , related images, and relevant non-image info. The main drawback is it’s much slower than the likes of Lenso.AI or going to Google or Yandex themselves. Why Choose DNS Checker Reverse Image Search? Try DNS Checker Reverse Image Search As my top pick, here’s how to get the most out of lenso.ai for reverse image searching . 1. Goto lenso.ai and drop, paste, or click to upload your image. 2. Agree to the terms and proceed with the search .3. On the results page , you will find duplicates and their sources at the top, related images in the middle, and similar images at the bottom. 4. You can save the search or apply a filter with the buttons below the original image. 5. To sort results , click Show more on a category such as “Duplicates” and click the sort button . 6. To create an alert , go back to the category and click the Alert button . All reverse image search tools have their own pros and cons. However, as an all-round solution, lenso.ai takes the top spot with its powerful search, filtering, sorting, and alert features. TinEye is also a popular choice. And while individual search engines offer their own tools, many third parties combine them into one tool. What’s your favorite reverse image search tool? Let me know in the comments below.
Weeks after winning the election, President-elect Donald Trump took aim at Mexico and Canada over border security. The Great White North appears to be acting as the threat of tariffs looms. Trump issued his warning to Canada and Mexico last month that if they did not stop the flow of illegal drugs and illegal immigrants across the United States's northern and southern borders, then the president-elect would impose a 25% tariff on all imports into the U.S. when he entered office. “I will sign all necessary documents to charge Mexico and Canada a 25% Tariff on ALL products coming into the United States, and its ridiculous Open Borders. This Tariff will remain in effect until such time as Drugs, in particular, Fentanyl, and all Illegal Aliens stop this Invasion of our Country! Both Mexico and Canada have the absolute right and power to easily solve this long simmering problem. We hereby demand that they use this power, and until such time that they do, it is time for them to pay a very big price!” Trump posted on Truth Social last month. The Canadian government is working on a plan to increase its border security, according to a report from the New York Times. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other top officials said plans were being made during a meeting Wednesday. The report claims that officials are considering using drones, dog units, technological advancements to curb the flow of illegal drugs, and databases, among other proposals. The cost of the measures is expected to be released Monday, according to the report, and the plan is expected to be presented to the incoming Trump administration prior to the president-elect's inauguration next month. Trump and Trudeau met in Mar-a-Lago shortly after the initial tariff threat by the president-elect, in what was called a “very productive meeting” by Trump and an “excellent conversation” by Trudeau. Earlier this month, after the Trump-Trudeau meeting, Canadian Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc told Canadian news outlet CBC News about the importance of border security between the U.S. and Ca nada to be improved in a “visible and muscular way.” CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER Since making the initial threat of tariffs against Canada, Trump has joked about the country being the 51st U.S. state and calling Trudeau the governor "of the Great State of Canada." Trudeau also took a jab at the U.S. for not electing its first female president last month, instead opting for Trump, after previously rejecting a female candidate for president in 2016, Hillary Clinton, who Trump also defeated. Canada only has one female prime minister, Kim Campbell, who served in the position for a few months in 1993.European nations suspend Syrian asylum decisions“Wanted” posters with the names and faces of health care executives have been popping up on the streets of New York. Hit lists with images of bullets are circulating online with warnings that industry leaders should be afraid. The apparent targeted killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and the menacing threats that followed have sent a shudder through corporate America and the health care industry in particular, leading to increased security for executives and some workers. In the week since the brazen shooting , health insurers have removed information about their top executives from company websites, canceled in-person meetings with shareholders and advised all employees to work from home temporarily. An internal New York Police Department bulletin warned this week that the online vitriol that followed the shooting could signal an immediate “elevated threat.” Police fear that the Dec. 4 shooting could "inspire a variety of extremists and grievance-driven malicious actors to violence," according to the bulletin, which was obtained by The Associated Press. “Wanted” posters pasted to parking meters and construction site fences in Manhattan included photos of health care executives and the words “Deny, defend, depose” — similar to a phrase scrawled on bullets found near Thompson’s body and echoing those used by insurance industry critics . Thompson's wife, Paulette, told NBC News last week that he told her some people had been threatening him and suggested the threats may have involved issues with insurance coverage. Investigators believe the shooting suspect, Luigi Mangione , may have been motivated by hostility toward health insurers. They are studying his writings about a previous back injury, and his disdain for corporate America and the U.S. health care system. Mangione’s lawyer has cautioned against prejudging the case. Mangione, 26, has remained jailed in Pennsylvania, where he was arrested Monday . Manhattan prosecutors are working to bring him to New York to face a murder charge. UnitedHealthcare’s parent company, UnitedHealth Group, said this week it was working with law enforcement to ensure a safe work environment and to reinforce security guidelines and building access policies, a spokesperson said. The company has taken down photos, names and biographies for its top executives from its websites, a spokesperson said. Other organizations, including CVS, the parent company for insurance giant Aetna, have taken similar actions. Government health insurance provider Centene Corp. has announced that its investor day will be held online, rather than in-person as originally planned. Medica, a Minnesota-based nonprofit health care firm, said last week it was temporarily closing its six offices for security reasons and would have its employees work from home. Heightened security measures likely will make health care companies and their leaders more inaccessible to their policyholders, said former Cigna executive Wendell Potter. “And understandably so, with this act of violence. There’s no assurance that this won’t happen again,” said Potter, who’s now an advocate for health care reform. Private security firms and consultants have been in high demand, fielding calls almost immediately after the shooting from companies across a range of industries, including manufacturing and finance. Companies have long faced security risks and grappled with how far to take precautions for high-profile executives. But these recent threats sparked by Thompson's killing should not be ignored, said Dave Komendat, a former security chief for Boeing who now heads his own risk-management company. “The tone and tenor is different. The social reaction to this tragedy is different. And so I think that people need to take this seriously,” Komendat said. Just over a quarter of the companies in the Fortune 500 reported spending money to protect their CEOs and top executives. Of those, the median payment for personal security doubled over the last three years to just under $100,000. Hours after the shooting, Komendat was on a call with dozens of chief security officers from big corporations, and there have been many similar meetings since, hosted by security groups or law enforcement agencies assessing the threats, he said. “It just takes one person who is motivated by a poster — who may have experienced something in their life through one of these companies that was harmful," Komendat said. Associated Press reporters Wyatte Grantham-Philips in New York and Barbara Ortutay in San Francisco, contributed to this report. The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The AP is solely responsible for all content.
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An all-in-one device straight out of science fiction. While it may be hard to believe at a time when any and everybody is making gaming handhelds , there was a time when just one company dominated the portable business. Barring a few solid attempts from Neo Geo and Sega in the ‘90s, Nintendo essentially cornered the market right from its inception thanks to brand recognition, impeccable game design, and the foresight to focus on battery life over fidelity . After 15 years of the Game Boy ruling portable gaming, however, a worthy challenger in Sony finally stepped up to compete with Nintendo’s juggernaut. Few were better positioned to do so, and on paper, it couldn’t have been a better time. Sony had already bullied its way into the console market, with its first console outselling its contemporaries and the second well on its way to becoming the best-selling of all time . And with Nintendo ditching the Game Boy brand for its Dual Screen experiment , entering into the portable ring was a no-brainer. Thus, in December 2004, Sony would release the PlayStation Portable in Japan. As a handheld, the hardware would have a solid run, with plenty of games folks remember fondly even 20 years later. But its remarkable marriage of hardware and software is more impressive than any of its games. Sony’s PSP was a one-of-a-kind multimedia device far, far ahead of its time. It’s the progenitor of the iPhone Apple will never acknowledge and the great-great-grandfather of Nintendo’s Switch in spirit. The PSP deserves its flowers for being as bold as it tried to be, even if it mostly fell flat on its face. The PSP was an unfathomable device back in 2004. Not only did it play games that looked comparable to console games of the time (something most consumers thought they wanted at the time), it was capable of playing music, displaying photos, and even movies. Those in Europe and Japan could purchase attachments that allowed it to take photos or provide GPS navigation. And it didn’t need a monthly contract like the Blackberry’s totted by businessmen and women. It was an all-in-one device straight out of science fiction. And yet, here it was with its gorgeous widescreen display, Frutiger Aero face and shoulder buttons, and a damn analog stick. I got a PSP for my 12th birthday, shortly after its U.S. release. And it was every bit as unbelievable as I imagined. It was mindblowing to go from playing Need For Speed Underground to watching a UMD copy of Spider-Man 2 to listening to the two Eminem tracks I could squeeze onto the 32-megabyte memory stick the console came with. I wasn’t just living in the future. The PSP brought it to my fingertips. Things only got better by the summer as Sony added a fully functioning web browser via a free software update. For many, this was the first time we could surf the web in the palm of our hands without a cellular company charging us for the privilege. A burgeoning internet homebrew scene encouraged me to check out emulators and indie games for the first time. Up-and-coming writers were making free zines formatted for the PSP’s screen. In the mid-2000s, Sony’s handheld was its own little online ecosystem unlike any other. The PSP had a solid movie collection within a few months of launch. With all of this working in its favor, it seems like it should have become just as popular as the other consoles that came before. Alas, it did not. That weird two-screened device Nintendo released? Turns out it’s one of the greatest gaming devices of all time, once again thanks to brand recognition, impeccable game design, and the foresight to focus on battery life over fidelity (if Nintendo is anything, it's consistent). But the PSP’s shortcomings weren’t just about what the competition was doing right. While the PSP was capable of doing virtually everything, it did them all just slightly worse than more dedicated devices of the time. As a music player, the PSP was good. So long as you were willing to shell out obscene amounts of money for proprietary memory sticks, something that Apple’s increasingly popular iPod didn’t require. It also wasn’t the most ergonomically convenient device to fit into a pocket, even in the big jeans of the early-aughts. As a video player, it was awesome. But as time went on, UMD support from major movie studios was hit or miss . This coincided with portable DVD players finally becoming affordable. And while MP4s could play on the device, digital video wasn’t a thing just yet. Even the PSP’s ability to surf the web, while neat, was more of a novelty in an era where most media consumption wasn’t centered around an internet connection. The iPhone would end any chance of the PSP being taken seriously as a multimedia device by mid 2007. At launch, the PSP was the undisputed multimedia device. But by the end of 2005, everyone else was starting to catch up and fast. The iPod Video landed in November and Microsoft’s Zune followed close behind. As a gaming device, the Nintendo DS library ran circles around it as players realized mobile-friendly titles fare better than retrofitted PS2 games. By 2007, the end-all-be-all of all-in-one devices , the iPhone 4, would change humanity forever, thwarting Sony’s dream once and for all. The PSP was the stuff of dreams that Sony made into reality. The vision for what it was supposed to be was way ahead of its time, even if that vision was muddied by limitations both technical and self-imposed. Still, it should be remembered as one of the earliest affordable smart devices consumers could purchase. Video Games Technology PlayStationLOS ANGELES — The partnership between the NFL and Jay-Z and his entertainment company, Roc Nation, won't change despite a woman accusing the rapper and business mogul of raping her when she was 13 years old, league commissioner Roger Goodell said Wednesday. Jay-Z, whose real name is Shawn Carter, was added as a defendant Sunday to a civil lawsuit filed against fellow hip-hop star Sean "Diddy" Combs in U.S. District Court in New York. The complaint, originally filed in October, now alleges that the two men raped the 13-year-old at a party after the MTV Video Music Awards in 2000. Combs and Jay-Z have denied the accusations, with the latter issuing a lengthy statement Sunday vowing to fight the "idiotic" charges. Goodell addressed the issue with reporters following the conclusion of the NFL owners meetings in Irving, Texas. "We're aware of the civil allegations and Jay-Z's really strong response to that," Goodell said. "And we know obviously the litigation's happening now. And from our standpoint, our relationship is not changing with them, including our preparations for the next Super Bowl." In 2019, Roc Nation signed a deal with the NFL to consult on live music entertainment and social justice issues. The partnership has resulted in several well-received Super Bowl halftime shows — including performances by the Weeknd, Shakira and Jennifer Lopez as co-headliners, Rihanna and a West Coast hip-hop lineup that featured Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem and more — and was renewed in October. Kendrick Lamar, the Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper who had three Billboard No. 1 hits in 2024, will be the halftime performer at Super Bowl LIX on Feb. 9 at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans. Music superstar Beyoncé, who is Jay-Z's wife, will perform during halftime of the Baltimore Ravens-Houston Texans game on Christmas Day on Netflix. "I think they're getting incredibly comfortable with not just the Super Bowl but other events they've advised us on, helped us with," Goodell said of Roc Nation. "They've been helpful in the social justice area to us on many occasions. They've been great partners that have provided a lot of great value for us." Combs has been charged by federal prosecutors with crimes including sex trafficking and racketeering. No co-conspirators have been named, but the prosecutors have stated their investigation is ongoing. ©2024 Los Angeles Times. Visit latimes.com . Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.