Month: February 2020
How climate scientists, activists, and NGOs want to spend Jeff Bezos’ money
When Jeff Bezos — Amazon’s CEO and the richest person alive — announced his new $10 billion Bezos Earth Fund on Tuesday, he said he would start doling out that cash to scientists, NGOs, and activists as early as this summer. There aren’t a ton of details yet about what…
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Groupon is abandoning its physical goods store
Groupon will no longer sell physical stuff like toys, beauty products, clothing, electronics, or household items, the company announced on Tuesday. Instead, the deals site will go back to focusing on experiences after another lackluster financial quarter where revenue fell 23 percent. “We believe our plan to exit goods will…
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Adobe celebrates Photoshop’s 30th anniversary with new desktop and mobile features
Adobe’s Photoshop celebrates its 30th birthday today. Over that time, the app has pretty much become synonymous with photo editing and there will surely be plenty of retrospectives. But to look ahead, Adobe also today announced a number of updates to both the desktop and mobile Photoshop experiences. The marquee…
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In honor of Photoshop’s 30th birthday, watch this video of Photoshop version 1
Adobe Photoshop turns 30 today, and to look back on how far the photo-editing software has come, check out what version 1.0 of Photoshop looked like on a 1-bit 1986 Macintosh Plus computer with 8MHz CPU and 4MB RAM. Uploaded by user j0han1, the video is actually sped up two…
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10 Best Subscription Boxes for Kids: Bitsbox, Kiwi Crate, and More
Stressed about shopping for a young’un? Give a gift that keeps on giving. Source
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Kaspersky denies it’s responsible for Windows 10 update fails as blame game commences
Microsoft has pulled a critical Windows 10 update that was causing installation issues, and while the update was supposed to fix a security issue with Kaspersky’s Rescue Disk software, the security company is denying that it is the cause of the update’s problem. Windows 10 KB4524244 was supposed to fix…
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