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Adobe recently announced over 100 new features across its suite of Creative Cloud apps, doubling down on AI as a tool and creative aid across many of its core applications including Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Lightroom and more. Adobe’s AI image generator, Firefly, which launched in March this year, has been updated with three new generative models for images, vectors and designs – users have collectively generated over three billion images using the software since its launch. The company has also added new pro-level features and functionality to Adobe Express, its free cloud-based media creation application, reinforcing the company’s desire to democratize access to design tools in order “to change the world through personalized digital experiences”, with a focus on web-based and on-the-go c...

Luxury audio maker Bang & Olufsen was founded in the tiny Danish town of Struer a little under a 100 years ago, a quiet corner of Denmark’s Midtjylland region that the brand has called home since 1925. Struer is where you’ll still find the brand’s main global headquarters today, a sprawling campus of sound that includes Factory 5, one of its still operating on-site factories at which it has experimented with and perfected the use of aluminium over the past seven decades. Factory 5 is also where Bang & Olufsen’s audio artisans craft bespoke pieces, like its Atelier range, and hand-finish other products including the brand’s newest speaker – the Beosound A5 Spaced Aluminium, announced today, the latest iteration the Beoplay A5 speaker that debuted earlier this year in Nordic Weave an...

41 US states and Washington, D.C. are suing Meta for allegedly making its social media platforms intentionally addictive to children — harming their mental health as a consequence.According to AP, the suit stems from an investigation by a bipartisan coalition of attorneys general from California, Florida, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Jersey, Tennessee and Vermont, and was filed by 33 states in federal courts in California plus nine attorney generals who filed the suit in their states. It accuses Meta of violating federal law by regularly collecting data on children aged 13 and under without the consent of their parents; companies like Meta prohibit children under 13 years old to join its social media platforms, however kids have been able to work around the ban with and without p...

While the world still remains in a collective iPhone 15 haze, Apple has already readied its newest offering for iPad users. The entry-level Apple Pencil comes at a more affordable retail price, while still boasting pixel-perfect accuracy, low latency and tilt sensitivity.Crafted with a matte finish and a flat side that magnetically attaches to the side of the iPad for storage, the new Apple Pencil boasts a discreet USB-C charging port on the side; hidden by a sliding cap, the USB-C charging feature makes the new Pencil compatible with all iPad models that allow USB-C charging, including the iPad Pro, iPad Air and iPad mini. When magnetically attached to the iPad, the Pencil enters into a sleep state to preserve the battery.“Apple Pencil has revolutionized note-taking, sketching, and illust...

ChatGPT will now be using internet browsing to provide more accurate responses. The feature, simply titled Browsing, was launched in beta just a few weeks ago.OpenAI has officially brought internet searches to the chatbot. The capabilities hinge on the integration with Bing, the Google competitor owned by ChatGPT’s corporate partner Microsoft.Previously, ChatGPT left some users frustrated by its out-of-date information. The chatbot was prone to providing answers containing inaccurate details of misinformation, meaning it could never compete with a full-on search engine such as Google.“ChatGPT can now browse the internet to provide you with current and authoritative information, complete with direct links to sources. It is no longer limited to data before September 2021,” OpenAI wrote on X....