Adobe's Photoshop for iPad

Painful early reviews hit Adobe Photoshop for iPad

At the kickoff keynote for Adobe Max, the company’s massive annual creativity conference, 15,000 designers and creatives cheered as Photoshop on the iPad was unveiled on stage. The long-anticipated app had been teased since last year’s conference, and the air in the Los Angeles Convention Center was filled with excitement as attendees finally got to…

Black Friday deals on Pixel phones

Google’s early Black Friday deals on Pixel phones you need to check out: more digestible prices for the holidays

Google has announced a few of its Black Friday deals on Pixel phones, and they’re currently focused around its Pixel phones. You’ll be able to find decent discounts on unlocked Google Pixel 4, Pixel 4 XL, and the midrange Pixel 3A and Pixel 3A XL soon at a variety of retailers, including Amazon, Best Buy,…

Audible

Amazon’s Audible is a quintessential violation of copyright law: Major book publishers sue Amazon over new speech-to-text feature

Some of the world’s largest book publishers have jointly filed a lawsuit against Amazon-owned audiobook Company, Audible; over a new, controversial speech-to-text feature the literary industry claims is a violation of copyright law. The lawsuit, filed in the Southern District Court of New York, includes the Big Five: Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin Random House, and Simon…

The lawsuit against Edward Snowden

The lawsuit does not seek to block the release of the book by Edward Snowden: The US government is suing for his book profits

The Justice Department has  against Edward Snowden that would recover all proceeds of his recently released memoir, the department announced on Tuesday. The charges coincide with the official publication of the book, which is titled Permanent Record. Snowden’s memoir was allegedly not submitted to the CIA or NSA for pre-publication review, a required practice among former employees of…

The Kindle is getting a Kids Edition and a Year of Amazon’s Free Time service are included

The Kindle is getting a Kids Edition and a Year of Amazon’s Free Time service are included for younger readers

Amazon’s been offering Kids Edition versions of its Fire tablets for years, and now it’s bringing a bundle to its Kindle e-readers with a new Kindle Kids Edition. The move makes a lot of sense, given that Amazon already pushes reading and education pretty heavily with its FreeTime service on the Fire tablets. It’s only…

New movie trailers

This week’s new Movie trailers: Dolittle, American Son, Lady and the Tramp, and more

I always thought Jesse was slighted by the end of Breaking Bad. Not the last episode….it sent him off on the right note, as far as things were going; but the final season as a whole. Jesse’s humanity ultimately became more important than the wreck that was Walter White, but the show didn’t care to reenter…

Latest superhero backlash Disney CEO

The latest superhero backlash: Disney CEO says Scorsese and Coppola can ‘bitch about movies’ if they want

There’s a war brewing between some of Hollywood’s most revered directors and fans of Disney’s Marvel Cinematic Universe, but the latter camp just got some help from Disney CEO, Bob Iger. At a Wall Street Journal conference in California on Tuesday night, Iger was asked about recent criticisms Academy Award-winning directors Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola leveled against comic book…

Android 10 launched

Android 9 was installed on less than a quarter of the ecosystem as Android 10 launched: Google hopes Android 10 upgrade will happen sooner this year

Google is announcing that last year’s version of Android, Android 9, accounted for 22.6 percent of the ecosystem as of this past August. That’s more than twice as good as the update rate from Android 7 to 8 was the year before, but it’s still abysmally low compared to the update rates on the iPhone…

Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ feature

Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ feature may get early-access release before the end of 2019, Says Elon Musk

Tesla may grant certain customers early access to a “feature complete” version of the company’s “full self-driving” (FSD) capabilities by the end of 2019, Elon Musk said in a call with investors. Musk said that this wasn’t “for sure” — but that he thinks Tesla is on track for the release. It’s a kind of…