The mobile version of Microsoft Hyperlapse creates accelerated video on Android and Windows Phone devices. Microsoft Microsoft announced on Thursday three apps for making hyperlapses — videos that compress the passage of time to make a breathlessly fast-paced version of the original clip. The company’s imaging researchers released two free mobile versions, Microsoft Hyperlapse for …

Google’s Open Location Code gives addresses to buildings like this Corsican guesthouse that don’t have street addresses. Screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET CARGESE, Corsica, France — Ours is a 21st-century family. On our April vacation to Corsica, we booked lodging through Airbnb, navigated by satellite and followed trail maps on a smartphone. But in one way, our two-week journey to France’s …

Showing just how serious it is about giving its Web browser a fresh start, Microsoft has detailed exactly how much of Internet Explorer’s technology the company has removed from its new Edge browser — and it’s a lot. Microsoft’s browser has accumulated hundreds of features and abilities over the years. Whatever their merits when introduced, they’ve become a burden to …

Lightroom 6 can combine three shots at different exposures into a single high dynamic range (HDR) shot at right. Screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET Adobe’s photo editing and cataloging software now gives photographers new ways to merge multiple shots into one. More and more, photos can be transformed into something beyond the single frame you first snapped. Adobe Systems’ new version …

Alex Komoroske, senior product manager for Chrome’s open Web platform, speaks at Google I/O 2013. Stephen Shankland/CNET A Google project called Fizz is beginning to pop, letting programmers make Web apps on mobile devices livelier and easier to use. The Android version of Chrome 42, released last week, brings some new Fizz features to better match what’s possible with native …

The EF 24-70mm f/2.8L II USM, one of Canon’s most popular lenses for professionals and enthusiasts, is now $100 cheaper at $1,900. Canon USA Pining for that ultrawide zoom or supertelephoto for your Canon SLR camera? Good news: for the second time in less than a year, Canon has cut the prices of many high-end lenses. A total of 33 …

A prospective customer tries an Apple Watch during a one-on-one fitting appointment at the Galeries Lafayette, a high-end Parisian department store. Stephen Shankland/CNET PARIS, LONDON, NEW YORK and PALO ALTO — With Friday’s Apple Watch retail debut, Apple took some of its own “think different” advice. Apple Stores have always been polished, but the Apple Watch takes the upscale approach …

Sundar Pichai, Google’s senior vice president of products, announces Google’s mobile network plans at Mobile World Congress in March. Stephen Shankland/CNET Google reportedly is in talks with the operator of the UK’s Three and several other mobile networks to let subscribers use its upcoming mobile phone service without charge while abroad. Google hopes to offer customers free use of its …

Myoungsup Han, head of Samsung Electronics’ imaging team, unveils the NX1 camera in 2014. The camera can shoot 4K video compressed with the HEVC/H.265 technology. Stephen Shankland/CNET Maybe you won’t be watching that 4K streaming movie, shooting that 4K video or buying that 4K TV as soon as you thought or at the price you expected. That’s because of a …

Chrome lapel pin Stephen Shankland/CNET A decade ago, Microsoft was the laughingstock of the Web: its Internet Explorer browser was old, insecure and slow, and the company didn’t even bother with a browser group trying to advance what the Web could do. My, how things have changed. Microsoft on Wednesday scored a victory in the Web world: Google reversed its …