Lightroom 5.7 lets people organize and edit photos. Screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET Adobe Systems released Lightroom 5.7 Tuesday night, adding support for two high-profile new higher-end SLR cameras, the Nikon D750 and Canon EOS 7D Mark II , and Apple’s iPhone 6. The software is used to edit and catalog photos, in particular those shot …

The Nokia Store will shut down by mid-2015. Screenshot by CNET As Microsoft continues sloughing off the Nokia brand name on phones, the Nokia Store for feature phones will cease to exist. Having already dropped the Nokia branding for its latest smartphone — the Microsoft Lumia 535 — Microsoft is set to shut down the Nokia Store in the first …

If you’re trying to be the next E.E. Cummings or Emily Dickinson but can’t find the right turn of phrase, the Jaden and Willow Smith Poetry Generator might be a good place to start. All you have to do is drag and drop little tidbits from the siblings’ much-publicized recent sitdown with The New York Times “to discuss prana energy, …

Nokia has turned to Android and Intel for its N1 tablet. Nokia Nokia, reborn after the sale of its phone business to Microsoft, on Tuesday unveiled an Android tablet: the N1. Set to cost around $250, the 7.9-inch N1 tablet will be on sale in China before Chinese New Year — 19 February 2015. Prices and release dates for other …

Samsung is in the process of deciding which smartphone models it will drop next year. Andrew Hoyle/CNET Samsung will stop producing so many models of smartphones and focus on a core set of devices in the new year, the company said Tuesday. Speaking to investors in New York, Samsung’s head of investor relations, Robert Yi, said his company plans to …

Matt Elliott/CNET I once found myself long ago in a beer hall in Munich with a college friend. We often passed the time by playing backgammon and thought the game would be the perfect accompaniment to our afternoon of enjoying giant mugs of beer. Without a backgammon board or even a set of dice, we’d draw a board on a …

Apple on Tuesday released a toolkit for software developers to create new apps for the Apple Watch, the company’s first wearable. The tools, called WatchKit, will let developers using Apple’s iOS operating system come up with new ways to use the smartwatch, using its notifications, watch crown and touchscreen display. Apple said last month WatchKit would become available in November. …

Jason Cipriani/CNET Editors’ Note: This article was originally published April 24, 2012, and has been updated to reflect current offerings. If 2014 isn’t known as the year of wearables, it could be known as the year of cloud storage. Between updates to Google Drive and Dropbox, and revamped offerings from Apple’s iCloud Drive, Amazon’s Cloud Drive and Microsoft’s OneDrive, access …

Josh Miller/CNET The Google Nexus 6 is now available to pre-order in the UK, and Google’s Lollipop-packing phablet will set you back £499. The Nexus 6 is a 6-inch phablet built by Motorola. Along with the Nexus 9 tablet it’s one of the first devices to show off the new version of Android, Google Lollipop, and it could be in …

Senate vote deals setback to efforts to reform NSA programs. Shara Tibken/CNET Lawmakers’ efforts to overhaul some of the National Security Agency’s controversial surveillance programs were dealt a setback Tuesday when a reform bill failed to garner enough votes to proceed in the Senate. The USA Freedom Act would have curbed powers granted to the NSA under the Patriot Act …

Thalmic Labs Thalmic Lab’s gesture-control Myo armband is still adding potential applications to its portfolio, in preparation for when consumer models start shipping — which really could be any day now. The latest? A stage show spectacular. Related articles Thalmic announces smart glass compatibility with Myo gesture control arm band Better than air guitar! Now you can conduct the music …

CNET It’s official: not unlike winter, the iceman and something wicked, Netflix is coming. The company has named March 2015 for its formal debut on Australian screens — rather than the ‘backdoor shenanigans’ it has been accused of currently indulging in previously. While we’re still waiting to see what sort of pricing and catalogue the service will launch with — …

The new Jawbone Up3 next to the older, larger Up24, may not sell as well in 2015 because of new smartwatches. Sarah Tew/CNET Apple Watch won’t launch until early 2015, but it’s already expected to hurt rivals. The number of fitness wearables shipped next year will drop to 68.1 million units from 70.2 million units in 2014, according to Gartner. …

The US National Security Agency is one organization that benefits from being able to read unencrypted Web traffic. NSA A tech-industry alliance announced a move Tuesday to help make privacy on the Web the rule rather than the exception. Web privacy comes through encrypted connections that scramble data sent across a network between servers that house a Web page or …

Best Buy If you like the idea of a Chromebook — a lightweight, inexpensive laptop that’s good for email, Web browsing and other basic stuff — but not its restrictive Chrome OS, you’ve come to the right place. Today only, and while supplies last, Best Buy has the Asus EeeBook X205TA 11.6-inch laptop (in blue) for $139.99shipped (plus tax). That’s …