The Canon 5DS and 5DS R (pictured here) boast a 50.6-megapixel CMOS sensor. Lexy Savvides/CNET Canon and Pentax just put on a burst of speed in the race to attract well-funded camera buyers. The smartphone camera has proved to be a mixed blessing for the photography industry. With a smartphone, people always have a camera …

Microsoft ICE stitches still photos or video frames into a single panoramic image. Version 2.0 can fill in gaps so you don’t have to crop as much. Screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET Microsoft on Thursday added new creative options to its ICE software for creating panoramic scenes out of a collection of photos — and now from a video, too. ICE …

Yahoo’s search share perked up over the last two months after a deal with Mozilla steered away traffic that previously went to Google. StatCounter Yahoo’s deal with Firefox maker Mozilla seems to have reversed years of hard times trying to reclaim its search-engine popularity lost to rival Google. Under the late-2014 deal, US Firefox users see search results from Yahoo …

The Dell Precision M3800 laptop workstation now comes with Thunderbolt 2 ports and a 4K display. Dell Dell, trying to curry favor with video editors who are more likely to use a MacBook, updated its M3800 workstation on Tuesday with a super-high-resolution 4K display, a faster Thunderbolt 2 connection and more capacious storage options. In a quest to return to …

Vivaldi Technologies Startup Vivaldi Technologies debuted a new browser Tuesday, a technical preview version designed more to attract users of fifth-place Opera than to dethrone leading browsers like Google’s Chrome. Perhaps the world doesn’t need another browser. But Jon S. von Tetzchner, Vivaldi’s chief executive and co-founder, believes there’s room in the market. And maybe he should know: he formerly …

Ericsson forecasts that growing smartphone use means mobile networks will cope with an eightfold increase in traffic from 2014 to 2020. Ericsson Ericsson expects that 4G smartphones will be able to download data three times faster later this year with a little help from wireless spectrum usually used by Wi-Fi, the company announced Monday. The Finnish firm sells network equipment …

In 2014, people registered about 3.6 million domains using hundreds of new addresses like .berlin, .pizza and .florist. NTLDstats In 2014, the renaming of the Net has begun in earnest. A dramatic liberalization of the Internet address system means that people can set up websites and email addresses ending in .photography, .london, .gift, .beer and .restaurant. And since they started …

Flavio Gonzalez Vazquez’ Camera FV-5 app for Android 5.0 lets photographers take raw photos with Nexus 5 or Nexus 6 phones. Stephen Shankland/CNET For more than a decade, photographers using traditional cameras have been able to get higher image quality by “shooting raw.” The new Android 5.0 brings that ability to mobile-phone photographers, with software support now arriving. Raw photos …

The $150 Beddit monitors sleep quality by reporting data to a smartphone app. Stephen Shankland/CNET A lot of health monitors supplement your own observations. You can count your steps as you walk, clock your lap time as you jog and scrutinize your heart rate as you bike. But what about when you can’t pay attention because you’re unconscious? I’ve been …

Adobe attracted 644,000 more Creative Cloud subscribers in its fourth fiscal quarter, but on average they aren’t paying as much. The company expects its Fotolia acquisition will improve average revenue from subscribers. Stephen Shankland/CNET Taking a new step toward becoming a services company, Adobe Systems has signed a deal to acquire Fotolia, one of a handful of “microstock” companies that …