Oct 2021 One of the problems with having a sophisticated, already excellent e-reader like the Amazon Kindle Paperwhite is that it’s hard to make it much better. The same might be said for Apple’s iPhones and plenty of other devices. But with an e-reader, you’re dealing with a limited feature set and a core technology, …

Verizon and Amazon are teaming up on a new connectivity project, with the nation’s largest carrier turning to the e-commerce giant to try to boost its wireless network. In their announcement Tuesday, the two companies revealed that they have entered into a “strategic collaboration” that will aim to “pair Verizon’s terrestrial mobile network with Amazon’s low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite …

YouTube told Congress on Tuesday that it removed more than 120,000 videos that either sexually exploited children or were otherwise sexually explicit featuring minors during the first half of this year. By comparison, YouTube removed 15.9 million videos total during that period for violating any of its community guidelines. YouTube also reported them to the National Center for Missing and Exploited …

ProRes video has finally arrived on the iPhone 13 Pro and 13 Pro Max. On Monday, Apple released iOS 15.1 which included the addition of ProRes in the native Camera app. This comes weeks after the app Filmic Pro added the ability to record ProRes videos in its app. Apple first announced ProRes at its September event, when it unveiled four versions of the …

The Sony Xperia Pro-I isn’t the first phone to have a 1-inch camera sensor. But it’s the first to put the 1-inch sensor from the popular Sony RX100 VII camera into a phone. Lucky for us, Sony didn’t stop there and added a mechanical dual aperture, a new 50-millimeter lens, EyeAF support to video and a new app called Video …

Palm, an early maker of smartphones that fell out of relevance years ago, is back with a new offering: wireless earbuds. The company on Tuesday unveiled Palm Buds Pro, which feature active noise canceling, environmental noise canceling and an “emphasis on studio grade audio and enhanced bass,” according to a release.  Palm Buds Pro are available for preorder at a …

Former President Donald Trump’s legal effort to get his Twitter account reinstated was dealt a setback on Tuesday when a federal judge ruled his lawsuit should be moved from Florida to California. Trump was banned from Twitter in January after a mob of his supporters stormed the US Capitol building in a riot that left several people dead, including a …

Adobe released an enormously important feature for its Lightroom photo editing software on Tuesday, a masking tool that uses AI to select elements in a scene for much more sophisticated changes to color, tone and exposure. The first version of Lightroom permitted changes only to the entire photo, but in 2008 Adobe added an ability to make local adjustments that affected …

Adobe is bringing slimmed down versions of Photoshop and Illustrator to web browsers, it said Tuesday. They’ll let you share documents on a browser, allowing collaborators to provide feedback without downloading the apps or getting a subscription to Adobe’s Creative Cloud. It’s also previewing basic editing tools for making minor tweaks and quick edits without having to launch the apps. …

Twitter’s user base grew 13% in the third quarter as it experimented with features to keep people on its platform. But the microblogging site swung to a loss on a one-time litigation charge even as it appeared to weather changes to Apple’s mobile operating system that have affected other social media companies.    Twitter has focused on creator tools, live …