Month: October 2024
Adobe powers up Photoshop with some clever new AI tools
This year’s Adobe Max event has seen the company greatly expand its AI offerings, with loads of new tools hitting Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign – all powered by Firefly. Top tools coming to our current pick for the best photo editor around include an upgrade Remove tool, a space for…
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Rare boss Craig Duncan promoted to Xbox Game Studios chief
Today I am sharing news regarding leadership changes within our team. After more than 30 years at Microsoft, Alan Hartman is retiring at the end of November. Alan’s career has been marked by innovation, dedication, and an unwavering passion for gaming. Starting as a contractor at Microsoft in the fledgling…
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Adobe Max 2024: All the major announcements around design and AI
The latest version of Frame.io, Adobe’s review and collaboration platform for Video and photography, is rolling today, making it easier to manage sprawling creative projects in a single app. Available for all users on web, iPhone, and iPad, Frame.io V4 is the biggest update to the platform since it was…
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Fujifilm’s X-M5 is its first sub-$1,000 camera in years
Fujifilm has released its first sub-$1,000 camera in a long while and resurrected the 11-year old “M” branding with the $799 X-M5. With that price, it’s primarily aimed at photographers on a budget or vloggers looking to step up from a smartphone. Fujifilm film cut a few features like a…
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Fujifilm’s new X-M5 is a feature-rich beginner mirrorless camera that lacks one key thing
Fujifilm has unveiled a new video-focused beginner mirrorless camera, the X-M5. It’s positively tiny and very powerful, being Fujifilm’s smallest and lightest X-series camera (in its current lineup), while packing video features ranging from 6K video in color-rich 10-bit to an all-new 9:16 vertical video mode. As with the X-T50,…
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Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn wants you addicted to learning
Today, I’m talking with Luis von Ahn, the cofounder and CEO of Duolingo, the popular app that teaches languages. It’s an interesting time to be in the language business: if there’s anything the current state of AI tech can do, it’s babble away in different languages with people who aren’t…
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