Apple is giving Final Cut Pro an update to help its video software adapt to the ever-changing needs of social media and working from home and has dubbed this new version Final Cut Pro X. The free update, labeled 10.4.9, adds support for new proxy workflows in either ProRes Proxy or H.264 to make libraries …
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Microsoft’s Word writing tool will soon be able to record and transcribe audio, marking an evolution long requested by everyone from students to reporters to Microsoft executives. However, it has strikingly limited features when compared with competitors. The new transcription technology, which will be made available for free to Microsoft 365 subscribers writing with Word via a web browser, allows …
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Amazon has made its augmented-reality shopping tools more powerful, now letting you create full rooms of AR furniture when planning out what to buy. The e-retailer in 2017 started offering AR shopping features with “AR view,” which allows people to see 3D images of furniture in their homes by using their phone cameras. But you could only look at one …
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I love two-in-one charging stations that can accommodate both your Apple Watch and iPhone on one sleek little pad. The Anker 2-in-1 Wireless Charging Station is just that sort of gadget; you can lay your wireless-charging iPhone on the one side and loop your Apple Watch on the other. Usually $30, right now you can get the Anker 2-in-1 Wireless …
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Apple and Epic met over Zoom in a digital version of court Monday, following nearly two weeks of public squabbling over an increasingly dramatic legal battle between the companies over payments and power in the App Store. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, who oversaw the hearing with a virtual backdrop of a courtroom, was deciding whether to force Apple to allow the …
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Bose has a new CEO. Former Pitney Bowes exec Lila Snyder will take the helm on Sept. 1, becoming the first woman in the CEO post at the audio stalwart. She’s filling a position that had been vacant since Phil Hess stepped down as CEO early this year. While the company has yet to make a formal announcement, Bose Chairman …
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Apple’s South Korean branch has offered 100 billion won ($84.02 million) to support small businesses, in an effort to alleviate antitrust concerns, as previously reported by Reuters. The Korea Fair Trade Commission has been investigating allegations that Apple has been making carriers pay for advertising iPhones mobile devices and provide free repair services. The company has apparently agreed to address those …
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When it comes to gadgets, I look for the right tool for the job. My household includes Android phones, iPhones, MacBooks, a Chromebook and a couple of Windows PCs. I have an old Android tablet around, but it’s now relegated to being a glorified weather station. It happens to be the second-generation Google Nexus 7 from 2013. Back when I bought it, …
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Epic Games escalated its Fortnite legal battle with Apple over the weekend, accusing the iPhone maker of posing an unfair threat to game developers community. The charge, appearing in a filing submitted Sunday in a Northern California federal court, centers on Apple’s threat to ban the Unreal Engine code it offers to outside game developers to help them make apps …
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A group of WeChat users filed a lawsuit late Friday against the Trump administration’s executive order barring the popular app, calling the prohibition unconstitutional. The lawsuit, filed in US District Court in San Francisco, was brought by the US WeChat Alliance Group, a nonprofit group not affiliated with the app’s owner. President Donald Trump signed an executive order earlier this …
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