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After training an AI system on a billion photos, Adobe has reworked a fundamental part of digital photography for a 30 percent increase in image quality in its Lightroom software. The improvement comes in new Lightroom releases Tuesday with an option called “enhance details” that can break past ordinary image-quality limits in areas with lots …

It looks like there’s a trailer out for Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 and its full of flying chips and melting ice. Technical Fellow Alex Kipman, creator of the original HoloLens and head of Microsoft’s mixed-reality efforts, on Monday tweeted a video that appears to tease the next version of the AR headset. The video, which was spotted earlier by TechCrunch, is cryptic …

Chipmaker Nvidia announced at CES 2019 that new gaming laptops running mobile versions of its RTX 2060, 2070 and 2080 graphics cards would start shipping by the end of January. The good news is they have. The better news is the prices are starting to come down on older laptops with Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 10-series GPUs, which are still generally …

Apple has removed Safari support for a technology called Do Not Track because, perversely, it could actually be used to track your online behavior. The Do Not Track setting in browsers was designed to tell web publishers and advertisers not to track your online behavior. But the effort fizzled as websites largely ignored the setting. And now the mere presence …

Now you don’t have to clean up before making Skype calls. Microsoft has added a background-blurring feature to its video calling service in its latest update. “With a simple toggle, right-click, or even through your Skype settings, your background will be instantly and subtly blurred, leaving just you as the only focal point,” the Skype team wrote Wednesday. It’s similar …

Apple’s retail chief, Angela Ahrendts, will be leaving in April after five years at the tech giant. The move came as a surprise for many Apple watchers. Ahrendts has been the company’s highest-ranking and highest-profile female executive since she joined the company in 2014. Some considered her as a potential candidate to eventually succeed Tim Cook as the company’s CEO, though she told …

It’s widely expected we’ll see Samsung’s first foldable phone — rumored to be called the Galaxy X, Galaxy F, Galaxy Flex or Galaxy Fold — on Feb. 20 when the company launches its much-anticipated Galaxy S10. Whatever it’ll eventually be called, turning the concept of a folding phone into a real, working device that people actually want will challenge Samsung on every …

The Super Bowl is live now, and even after halftime, it’s still anyone’s game. It’s a rematch of 2002’s Super Bowl 36, which started the Tom Brady and Bill Belichick dynasty, when the underdog Patriots knocked off the then-St. Louis Rams to win the first Super Bowl in franchise history. Now, Brady and Belichick are seeking their sixth Super Bowl ring. Led …

Microsoft is helping you battle fake news on your phone: Its Edge browser now tells you how reliable sites are. The company started installing the NewsGuard plug-in — which you previously had to download manually — on all mobile versions of the browser, as reported by The Guardian. After turning on news rating in Edge’s settings menu, you can see …

There’s a streaming movie service called Movies Anywhere, and if you’re used to having to navigate multiple apps to get to the content you own, it’s almost too good to be true. It not only puts most of your purchased online movies in one place, it puts them everyplace.  And now that its predecessor UltraViolet is shutting down, it’s more …