On Thursday, Chinese authorities reported that they had shut down an online gambling ring worth more than $ 1.5 billion. The dark web gambling ring, which made its fortunes by facilitating bets on the World Cup, only accepted payments in cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin or Etherum. The South China Morning Post reports that this was the first major […]
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Nintendo follows up on ‘Mario Kart 8 Deluxe’ by teasing new content
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has been out for more than year. As one of the Switch’s premier launch-window titles, the enhanced port of the Wii U arcade racer was met with critical acclaim. We absolutely loved it, and it seems as if Nintendo will give us reasons to go back in the future. Nintendo head […]
From Apple’s charging mat to Google’s modular phone, these gadgets went MIA
There have been loads of tech products announced over the years, generating various levels of excitement. A few succeed, most fail, and some never even make it across the starting line. We’ve crafted a list of exciting tech products that caught the public imagination with a flurry of press releases, prototypes, or teaser reveals — […]
How Huawei and Leica made a camera phone so good, we ditched our DSLR
Daven Mathies/Digital Trends There’s a truism that’s grown painfully popular since the rise of the smartphone: The best camera is the one that is with you. But when it comes to street and travel photography, there is one phone that makes a strong case for being the best camera even in the presence of larger, […]
A look at Chrome’s new tab design
The new Chrome design. We get new tab shapes, a white tab background, rounded address bar, and more. A single tab window has a white background, and with a white current tab, the tab and tab background blend together. With multiple tabs open, the background changes to gray allowing for some tab separation. Still, background […]
How to calibrate your monitor
Plenty of people stare at computer monitors all day — if you’re reading this, chances are you’re doing just that. But how many people take the time to calibrate their computer monitor? Proper calibration will ensure that your colors and black levels are true, and that your monitor is producing the best results for editing and […]
Photo FOMO: Photography ‘could be a sign of terrorism,’ film-inspired presets
Afraid of missing out on the latest photo industry news while you’re out, well, actually taking pictures? Photo FOMO is all the news you might have missed this week, published on the weekends. Alongside the biggest stories of the week, like Nikon’s crazy new 125x zoom camera, A.I. that can clean up noisy photos, the […]
Adobe plans to bring full version of Photoshop to the iPad next year
Enlarge / The 10.5-inch iPad Pro. Andrew Cunningham Adobe is working on a full version of the popular photo-editing program Photoshop for Apple’s iPad, according to a Bloomberg report. Sources claim the software company plans to announce the new app at its annual MAX conference this October, with the app’s launch scheduled for sometime in […]
PC Shipments Up After Long Slump (But it Won't Last)
For the first time in six years, the PC market experienced some solid growth. During the second quarter, shipments for PCs were up 1.4 percent from the same period last year, according to the research firm Gartner. That may not sound like much, but the PC market hasn’t reported any year-over-year quarterly growth since 2012. […]
Photoshop power in a mobile app? Report suggests full Photoshop coming to iPad
The move to split Lightroom CC and Lightroom Classic gave mobile photographers a majority of Lightroom’s tools on a mobile device — and a new report suggests Adobe could be bringing a fuller version of Photoshop to the iPad. Anonymous sources from inside the company recently told Bloomberg that the software giant is working on […]
PC market appears to have grown for the first time since 2012
Enlarge Thomas Claveirole PC sales were up year-on-year in the second quarter of 2018, the first such increase since the first quarter of 2012. Market research firms Gartner and IDC both reported growth in the market, of 1.4 and 2.7 percent, respectively. The two companies track numbers differently: Gartner includes Windows-based tablets but excludes Chromebooks […]
Apple’s sticky key problem isn’t going away on the 2018 MacBook Pro
Although Apple introduced an updated third-generation butterfly switch keyboard with the latest MacBook Pro refresh on Thursday, July 12, it did not address a major pain from last year’s MacBook models. While the new keyboard will be even quieter when you type compared to the 2017 MacBook Pro, the 2018 model could still suffer the same […]
Apple Photos ditches prints, but third-party extensions could be even better
Apple is calling it quits on the printed photo and leaving prints from the MacOS Photos app up to third-party platforms. A new pop-up message inside Photos says that the app will stop taking print orders on September 30. The Photo Print Products section of the Photos app (previously iPhoto) now warns users with a […]