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. …
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The big promise of Windows Mixed Reality headsets was to bring augmented and virtual reality and anything in between to people at more reasonable prices and with an easier setup than competitors. By the time they rolled out late last year, though, it was mostly just the latter that came true: Once the headsets were bundled with controllers the WMR …
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Who wants to read an entire long-form article on a tiny phone screen? Windows 10 Fall Creators Update adds a new Phone section to the Settings app that lets you connect your phone to your PC. Once you make the connection, you can then send articles — long or short — from your phone to your PC to finish reading …
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For all sorts of products we’ve irremediably blurred the lines between renting vs. owning, local vs. cloud — but are we ready to do the same for the PC? Blade thinks so, and over the past few years has been slowly rolling out its Shadow desktop-as-a-service subscription. It has about 5,000 subscribers in France, and at CES 2018 it announced …
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While it doesn’t always garner the major headlines and once-a-year buzz of new big-screen televisions, the annual CES trade show is also big for the computer industry, with dozens of new laptops, desktops, tablets and 2-in-1 hybrids announced. Brands such as Dell, Lenovo, Acer, Asus, HP and others use CES to launch new products, and we sometimes even get to …
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Does your laptop have you singing the short-battery-life blues? If you’ve updated to Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, then you’ve got a new tool to help extend your laptop’s running time. I’ll cover this new tool along with some tried-and-true battery-saving tips. Turn down display brightness Powering all of those pixels in the display is the single greatest drain on …
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Windows 10 has found its way onto 600 million active devices, says CEO Satya Nadella. Nadella made the comment at the company’s annual shareholders meeting on Wednesday, according to GeekWire. Microsoft wasn’t immediately available to confirm the comment. The company has high hopes for the broad adoption of Windows 10, which helped usher in Microsoft’s transition from purely a software …
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CNET’s Cheapskate scours the web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. Find more great buys on the CNET Deals page and follow the Cheapskate on Facebook and Twitter! It’s a new Bluetooth speaker, right? Nope, it’s an entire PC — and a speaker! Sarah Tew/CNET Whew! …
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Like other retailers, Walmart wants you to know that it’s got plenty of good deals lined up for you on Cyber Monday — Monday, Nov. 27, the day you return to work after Thanksgiving break. And like other retailers’ sales, the vast majority of those so-called Cyber Monday deals are really just the Black Friday deals with a new name, …
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Have you read about Dolby Atmos and like the sound of bringing 3D surround sound — spatial sound, they’re calling it — to your home theater but have yet to invest in a new receiver and speaker system? If you are curious to try Dolby Atmos — or Microsoft’s equivalent spatial sound technology — you can check it out with …
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