It’s not easy finding a jury in Silicon Valley for a patent trial pitting Apple against Samsung. More than a half dozen times, US District Judge Lucy Koh excused potential jurors in the case because they owned Apple stock. As she tried to find eight jurors from among 74 candidates on Monday, three were excused …

Good news if you’re a Chrome OS power user: You’ll soon be able to run Linux software like programming tools, photo editors and word processors on the Google operating system. At its Google I/O show Tuesday, the company announced it’s released a test version of software that brings the Debian Stretch version of Linux to its personal computer software. Right …

You may think of Photoshop, Premiere Pro and After Effects as expensive professional tools for photographers and video editors, but Adobe Systems wants them to be what your kid sees when flipping open the laptop lid at school. Adobe will offer K-12 schools its full suite of Creative Cloud software for $5 per student per year, starting May 15, it …

Google took a new step Tuesday in its effort to curtail internet skullduggery, opening up its .app online real estate that requires the kinds of encrypted connections that can thwart such problems. The .app domain is one among many joining traditional top-level domains like .com and .net. But Google, the winning bidder among several for .app, wants it to be …

Brave Software has 2.2 million people using its ad-blocking web browser and expects it’ll roughly double that, or more, by year’s end. “User growth remains strong, and we anticipate millions more by the end of 2018,” Brave said in a blog post Friday. Roughly three quarters use the browser on mobile devices and one quarter on personal computers, and most …

Adobe Lightroom’s new profiles feature puts photo editing presets on steroids — and now you can build your own profiles, too. Profiles now use technology called a 3D lookup table (LUT) that mathematically transforms colors and tones in precise ways. They’ve long been used in cinema to give movies a certain mood or look — the oppressive greenish cast in …

I’ll admit it. With monthly bills, network data caps, cracked screens, privacy invasion risks and guilt pangs about being glued to a gadget, my smartphone has lost much of its appeal. The novelty is gone, and the chime of a notification elicits more anxiety than excitement. But a broken water pump helped restore my faith. I was driving the family …

You’ve likely seen artificial intelligence technology spread into apps, devices and services, doing things like recognizing your friends’ faces in photos and endowing smart speakers with human-sounding voices. Well, good news: The processor industry has noticed, too. That means we’ll see a slew of new chips that should speed up AI tasks not just on your phone or laptop but …

If the Facebook privacy scandal has you freaked out, you might be interested to know that Firefox for iPhones and iPads now blocks websites from tracking your online behavior. Mozilla’s browser has an option called tracking protection that blocks tracking software embedded in websites — from website publishers, advertising companies and tech giants like Google and Facebook. Now that option …

Adobe’s Lightroom has beefed up an obscure photo-editing feature to give you a significant new way to give pictures the tonal and color styling you want. Lightroom — a software favorite among enthusiasts and pros willing to pay $10 a month for it and Photoshop — has long had a tool called profiles to try to match the look a …