The latest Adobe Photoshop update rolling out today delivers the Select Subject tool promised last fall, a one-click selection tool that chooses what it thinks is the subject of a photo and automatically selects it. As a way of getting you about 90 percent of the way for a subset of your images, it’s great. …

Back in late 2014 we gave high marks to Samsung’s 850 Evo solid-state drive (SSD), calling it a top performer for the money. Now we get the new 860 Pro and 860 Evo, the latest additions to the company’s SATA interface lineup. Combining the latest 512- and 256-gigabit 64-layer V-NAND, they’re designed to deliver pro-level data transfer speeds and improved …

Listen up. Now you can hear the bestselling book “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” along with other popular audiobook titles, via  Google Play.  The company said Tuesday it’s releasing audiobooks on its Google Play store in nine languages across 45 countries. Titles will be available on iOS and Android for phones and on the web with Google Play Books, …

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Instagram’s efforts to one-up Snapchat continue with the addition of animated GIFs in its Stories.  Instagram stories now include GIF stickers.  Instagram The Facebook-owned social network announced on Tuesday that you’ll now see a GIF option when adding stickers to a photo or video in stories.  Powered by GIF library Giphy, you’ll be able to browse GIFs that are trending as well …

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Scorning lesser tech souls? Kimberly White And now they turn on their own. It used to be that Silicon Valley was one vast love-in, with so many of its senior figures believing they were angels brought together to deliver the world to a better place. …

Thousands of text messages between FBI agents apparently have gone missing, and US President Donald Trump is suggesting that Samsung may have played a role. “In one of the biggest stories in a long time, the FBI now says it is missing five months worth of lovers Strzok-Page texts, perhaps 50,000, and all in prime time,” Trump tweeted early Tuesday. …

Fresh off the heels of a successful CES 2018, Acer unveiled a new duo of modest Chromebooks. First up is the Acer Chromebook 11 C732. It’s a simple, fan-less notebook with a durable build and features a spill-resistant keyboard. It has two USB-C ports, 4G LTE connectivity and an estimated 12-hour battery life. It goes on sale in March starting …

You want to stay safe from hackers while still using an older version of Apple’s MacOS, the underlying software that runs its laptops and desktops. Now, there’s a patch for that. On Tuesday, the company released updates to the Sierra and El Capitan operating systems that will protect users from Meltdown, the design flaw that could let hackers access sensitive …

I’m not up to anything untoward, I assure you. I just don’t want my kids, who are constantly borrowing my phone to play music or Google something, reading my texts as they go by.  If you want to restrict the contents of the iOS Messages app to its intended audience only (read: you), then here are five tips to to …

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If Facebook gets its way, maybe the next time you want your friend to hold the door for a second, you’ll say, “Hang on for 705,600,000 flicks.” Well, OK, you probably won’t. But you could, because Facebook introduced a new unit of time on Monday called the flick. The company thinks it’ll be useful for programmers if not for talking …