You already know how this story ends: Amazon gets U.S. Patent No. 8,676,045 on taking a photograph of an object in front of a white background. The headline “Amazon Patents White-Background ...

The official portrait, released on Monday by the White House, features a somber Mr. Trump against a dark backdrop.

All Nash wanted from AI was an image of a plain, pure, white background; in color-code lingo, the color #FFFFFF or RGB(255,255,255). Nothing else. Such an utterly simple task proved to be rather ...