Arm, whose chip technology reaches every smartphone and just about every corner of the computing industry, announced a new processor architecture Tuesday designed to significantly improve security and performance. The architecture, called Armv9, should make its way into an estimated 300 billion processors starting this year through the next decade, the UK company said. Armv9, …

Adobe has a new way to sell you Photoshop for iPhones and iPads plus three other mobile apps. For a monthly cost of $15, the new Design Mobile Bundle that Adobe announced Tuesday combines the image editing app with Illustrator for design tasks, Fresco for drawing and Spark for short punchy videos. Years ago, Adobe cemented its dominance by bundling …

After years of struggling to keep up with competitors, Intel will adopt their core strategy by making other companies’ chips for them, new Chief Executive Pat Gelsinger said Tuesday. Intel largely has focused on making its own chips, but that’ll change with the new and independent Intel Foundry Services business unit. If the shift works, it’ll mark a major turnaround …

Last fall, I realized my decades-old wallet strategy was due for an update. Since I was a teenager, I’d been stuffing everything into a traditional folding wallet. But now I’ve made a dramatic change to the way I haul around money and cards, and I’m expecting even more radical changes to come. I felt no need for a new approach …

Twitter has taken a significant step in helping you protect your account with hardware security keys, a top authentication technique when it comes to security. Previously, you could register one key for logging in, but now you can enroll multiple keys, Twitter said Monday. Passwords have abundant shortcomings. We forget them, we pick bad ones, and hackers steal them. Two-factor …

Microsoft Edge will follow Google’s lead in speeding up browser releases, issuing a new version every four weeks instead of every six weeks, the software maker said Friday. The change means swifter access to new features and to bug and security fixes, though browser makers can issue updates more rapidly to handle serious problems. It’s part of a general shift …

A new Photoshop feature lets you quadruple the number of pixels in a photo using artificial intelligence technology. The new ability, called Super Resolution, will also soon be built into Adobe’s Lightroom software for editing and catalog in photos, Adobe said Wednesday. With the feature, Adobe closely examines the details of a photo and then predicts how to expand it …

Adobe on Wednesday released Photoshop for Apple’s M1-based Macs, a key software package for the new family of computers, and it runs 50% faster than on Intel-powered equivalent laptops. “Our internal tests show a wide range of features running an average of 1.5x the speed of similarly configured previous generation systems,” Photoshop Product Manager Pam Clark said in a blog …

Thunderbolt, Intel’s super-speedy connection technology, isn’t widely used. But that may change in the coming year, as more computer makers incorporate the USB competitor into their new models. Intel has hoped Thunderbolt, which debuted in 2011 on Apple’s 2011 MacBook Pro, would become commonplace for computer users. A year later, the chipmaker forecast that “most PCs” would have Thunderbolt by …

ProRaw, the new photo format Apple introduced on its iPhone 12 Pro Max, is the number one thing pulling me away from my Pixel phone. I still love my Google Pixel. But more and more often, I reach for my iPhone 12 Pro Max when taking a shot. Its telephoto camera, which sits alongside wide-angle and ultrawide cameras, is a big …