Technology

  Adobe’s Creative Cloud apps are top-rated for their powerful capabilities, but their high price, subscription-only model, and complex user interfaces leave a lot of users cold. For those who want to leverage Adobe’s technology in a more-approachable way, the company continues to pack features into its Elements Suite. The …

  When Microsoft first dove into the portable computer market with the Surface Pro, the company claimed it was all in the service of showing OEMs what they could create within the Windows ecosphere. But with each new generation of Surface products, it’s increasingly clear Microsoft simply wants a piece …

  Microsoft has made a lot of changes to its business model since Satya Nadella took over as CEO from Steve Ballmer. The company has become far friendlier to open source and Linux, going so far as to ship a Linux kernel in Windows and to publish its exFAT specification. …

  For the past few years, Samsung has reliably demonstrated enormous televisions at shows like CES. These screens haven’t been based on OLEDs — instead, they’ve featured a new display technology called MicroLED. Now the Korean manufacturer has announced it’s put the Wall family of displays into production (actual model …

  NZXT’s BLD Start PCs are designed to be cost effective gaming desktops that are built entirely from aftermarket components. In other words, you could build this entire system by yourself with the exact same parts. Typically, building a gaming computer of your own will net you more bang for …

  Intel has an upcoming refresh for its High End DeskTop (HEDT) product family, based on its Cascade Lake X series of processors. Cascade Lake-X is the latest iteration of the company’s 14nm product line, with technologies like Intel DLBoost for accelerating AI workloads and some additional new features we’ll …

  When Microsoft launched Windows 10 back in 2015, it offered the option to use an online account instead of a local computer account. Four years later, it’s clear the company wishes it had never done this. For nearly half a decade, Microsoft has made a variety of changes to …

  Microsoft is set to unveil a new round of Surface computers tomorrow, but there won’t be many surprises after the latest leak. Serial leaker Evan “@evleaks” Blass has posted images (in a protected account) and basic details of three new Microsoft devices, one of which is an ARM-powered version …

  Google’s ATAP group is responsible for some of the company’s most forward-looking technologies, like the touch-sensitive fabric known as Project Jacquard. Google partnered with Levi’s two years ago to launch a custom denim jacket with Project Jacquard fibers in the sleeve, and now there are two more outerwear options. …

  When AMD launched Epyc, it made it clear that the server CPU would face a slow and cautious ramp into market rather than a full-on sprint. Prior to the launch of its 7nm Epyc CPUs, AMD’s total server market share had edged upwards to ~3.4 percent. Now that 7nm …