An artificial intelligence-powered tool that transforms pixelated images into clear photos has been accused of racial bias. Called Face Depixelizer, the tool was released on Twitter for users to test, ...

Pixelation has long been a familiar fig leaf to cover our visual media’s most private parts. Blurred chunks of text or obscured faces and license plates show up on the news, in redacted documents, and ...

Pixelation is great for hiding faces and covering up nakedness, but it’s not good for disguising text. It’s so bad, in fact, that it might not even protect you at all. The explanation comes by way of ...

The common practice of blurring text using pixelation — where text is replaced with pixels representing averaged values — always bothered security researcher Dan Petro. Intuitively, he knew that the ...