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Microsoft Surface Pro 8: Larger, faster and still doesn’t come with the keyboard

The Surface Pro 8, announced at the Microsoft Surface event on Wednesday, brings Microsoft’s top two-in-one up to par with its competition just in time for Windows 11. Also announced at the event was the Surface Laptop Studio, Surface Duo 2, Surface Slim Pen 2, Surface Go 3 and some new accessibility features. The Surface Pro 7 …

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Microsoft Surface Slim Pen 2 gets touchy

Microsoft announced the Surface Slim Pen 2 on Wednesday, a stylus with a haptic twist in conjunction with its updated Surface device line. (Many of the updated Surface products will ship beginning Oct. 5.) For $130 (£120, AU$190), it can charge wirelessly via magnetic attachment to your supporting device, a la the Apple Pencil 2 (which has a single flat side for …

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ProRes slated for iPhones later in the year

Apple is bringing its pro video feature ProRes to the iPhone 13 later in the year, the company said Tuesday at Apple’s September event.  The feature essentially optimizes videos. It’s handy for those who color grade or use editing software like Final Cut Pro X or Adobe Premiere Pro. ProRes will let you record up to 4K at 30 frames …

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How to use the iPhone’s ProRaw mode to make your photos look better than before

Apple gave phone photographers an upgrade to get excited about last year. With the release of the iPhone 12 lineup, Apple added a new raw photo format to the iPhone 12 Pro and Pro Max, called ProRaw, which gives you the customization of a raw file infused with the iPhone’s computational photo smarts. We don’t know whether Apple will expand …

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OnePlus Nord 2: 5 reasons to love this affordable smartphone

OnePlus calls its new Nord 2 the “flagship killer,” and I get why. This phone has impressive specs, performs well and when paired with a reasonable starting price (£399 here in the UK), it’s designed to offer everything you’d need from a phone without emptying your bank account. A powerful processor, a solid dual rear camera setup, 5G connectivity, super …

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Photoshop and Lightroom Super Resolution: How to quadruple your photo size

Adobe’s Super Resolution feature in Lightroom and Photoshop is remarkable technology that uses artificial intelligence to quadruple the size of your photos. It’s not perfect, but it’s a great way to breathe new life into older shots and to print photos larger with twice the number of pixels in both width and height. Here’s what it is and how to …

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Adobe’s new Substance 3D creative suite revamps its tools in one package

Adobe sees the future of creation being increasingly 3D. Its newest Adobe Substance 3D apps are aiming to be a complete destination for 3D art, sampling and even virtual photography, with uses that could range from video game assets to e-commerce to content for a possible world of VR and AR-compatible 3D assets. But these apps are PC, Mac and …

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Apple M1 Macs get a fast, new version of Adobe Lightroom Classic

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Adobe released on Tuesday its first Lightroom Classic version adapted for Macs powered by the new M1 processor, a boon to photographers who want to get more use out of Apple’s energy efficient hardware. The new software sports a major new feature: the …

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Windows 10 update will completely remove Adobe Flash Player in July

Microsoft finally ended support for Adobe Flash Player back in December. And while a fall Windows 10 update removed Adobe Flash Player from devices before the software reached end of support, Microsoft is taking another step to keep customers secure, removing the Flash component from Windows through another update rolling out in June, the company said in a recent blog post update. …

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Galaxy Note 20 Ultra is superb on a photography adventure

The Galaxy Note 20 Ultra may not be Samsung’s latest, greatest handset — that honor goes to the amazing Galaxy S21 Ultra — but it’s packed with some top tech, a big screen and a brilliant camera. That all makes it a superb handset to capture the glorious, remote landscape of a road trip around the Scottish island of Mull.  Read …

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