It always seemed a bit odd to me that Sony’s “normal” full-frame prime lens was a 55mm f1.8 — a fine lens, but not the standard 50mm and not particularly “pro”-fast at f1.8. Now the company has finally introduced a staple professional lens, the Planar T* FE 50mm F1.4 ZA (SEL50F14Z), as part of its …

When the Donald Trump campaign revealed its far-less-than-expected fundraising results Monday, lagging way behind Hillary Clinton’s, people headed to Twitter to mock him with the now-trending #trumpsopoor hashtag. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee started June with $1.3 million in cash, according to a campaign finance report. There was at least one attempt to hijack the hashtag with anti-Clinton sentiment, but …

Pandora is ready to make you laugh. The streaming-music service on Tuesday launched a new comedy station: New Comedy. The station debuted with a mixtape by Gabriel Iglesias called Five “Fluffy” Years. It features a collection of skits from Iglesias’ favorite comics, including Nikki Glaser, Brian Regan, Rachel Feinstein, Jim Jeffries and Sam Morril. In general, the New Comedy channel …

If there’s an overarching theme to the set of new capabilities in Photoshop CC 2015.5 and Creative Cloud, it’s efficiency. There’s little here that you couldn’t do before, but Adobe’s concentrated on reducing the number of clicks required to produce results and speeding up aspects of Photoshop. It also includes the continuation of its aggressive push to attract designers to …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Now playing: Watch this: Every major Apple announcement from WWDC 2016 2:39 Before launching into the 27th Worldwide Developers Conference, Tim Cook took a moment to address the recent events in Orlando and to celebrate Apple’s diversity. Then came the numbers. All very …

Now playing: Watch this: Pebble Watch hands-on: how smart is this smartwatch? 4:09 What’s Pebble teasing? The company hopes you’ll check in Tuesday for the answer, based on the countdown clock posted on the front page of its website and repeatedly shared in its Twitter feed. It’s scheduled for 7 a.m. PT/10 a.m. ET Tuesday. (That’s 3 p.m. in the …

Ready and waiting to order a OnePlus 3 phone? You’ll have to get in line — virtually — behind users of the company’s Loop VR headset. In a blog post Monday, OnePlus announced that it’s giving away 30,000 Loop VR headsets until they run out and that OnePlus 3 orders will start in its VR store — inside its virtual …

Canon’s mirrorless system gets a new lens, bringing the total EF-M models available up to 6. The EF-M 28mm f3.5 Macro IS STM is the first macro lens for that mount. It offers some novel features, including built-in lights around the lens and a switch that increases the magnification from 1x to 1.2x. It also incorporates Canon’s Hybrid IS optical …

Enough’s enough, says Microsoft. The software giant announced in a blog post Thursday that, on Windows 10, its Cortana voice assistant won’t be able to deliver results from any search engine other than its own Bing or via any browser but Windows 10’s Edge. The move is Microsoft’s way of protecting its own properties. Basically, the company says it can’t …

A little over a year ago Adobe launched its Document Cloud service, the company’s comprehensive service for minding the gap between paper and electronic document and form processing. Given the scope of Document Cloud, the latest round of updates seems relatively minimal, albeit notable for the strategic direction they suggest. Acrobat DC. Adobe says it’s streamlined the experience of commenting, …