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Samsung won’t let me use one of the S23 Ultra’s top camera modes

There’s a problem with Adobe’s Lightroom for Samsung app’s Premium subscription, and it’s not how much it costs or whether it’s simple to use or not. If you’re in the U.K., and possibly other regions too, it’s impossible to sign up in the app to take advantage of the special two-month trial offer. A check of the Galaxy App Store’s reviews confirms this is not an isolated problem, so what’s going on? Andy Boxall/Digital Trends When I reviewed the Galaxy S23 Ultra, I stumbled across the payment issue for the…

This Lenovo laptop with 128GB RAM is over $5500 off today

If you’re looking for one of the most high-end laptop deals around, Lenovo continues to knock things out of the park with a deal on the Lenovo ThinkPad P16 Mobile Workstation. As with all Lenovo laptop deals, it’s been given a fairly hefty estimated value price by Lenovo of $9,649 but given the spec, that could be possible here. Right now, the laptop is discounted by a huge $5,564 so it’s down to $4,085. That’s no impulse buy price but if you’re looking for a supremely powerful laptop, it could be worth the…

Our honest thoughts on the Galaxy S23 Ultra’s 200MP camera

Andy Boxall/Digital Trends The Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra has a whopping 200-megapixel camera on the back, and it’s one of the major differentiators between it and the otherwise fairly similar Galaxy S22 Ultra. But in normal, everyday use, the camera defaults to taking 12MP photographs. Due to its clever pixel-binning technology, this ensures you get great photos that quickly exploit the massive sensor’s true ability, before wrapping the results up in a sensibly sized file. However, you can activate a 200MP photo mode…

Canva’s new AI tools might replace your video editor

Canva — the online design platform used to create logos, presentations, infographics, and more — announced a new suite of AI tools that can do everything from generate new images to automatically edit videos for you. The toolset touches nearly every part of Canva’s design suite. It starts with Magic Design, which will automatically design a graphic for you based on an uploaded image and selected style. Users are free to edit the design after the fact, and they can automatically translate it with Canva’s new…

Adobe Says Its New ‘Firefly’ AI Image Generator Doesn’t Steal Other People’s Art

On Tuesday, Adobe introduced its own generative AI model family called Firefly, claiming—like young people tend to do in the throes of pubescence—it’s not like the other scrappy AI image generators. Instead of using training data dredged up from the internet, Adobe said its crafted its service only using images on its stock image site, openly licensed work, and public domain content.Folks can already request access to the Adobe Firefly beta, though as of reporting time the service seems to be inundated with requests and…

Adobe Firefly brings text-to-image AI to the masses

Adobe Firefly was announced today by Adobe, as the company attempts to capitalize on the surge in interest in generative AI. The text-to-image model is only in beta, but will be coming first to Adobe Express, the company’s simplest and most user-friendly application. The set of tools will function a lot like many of the other popular text-to-image models, such as Stable Diffusion or Midjourney. The difference here, however, is that Firefly is built from the ground up by Adobe to be used within its creative…

Adobe Promises No Layoffs and Opens New Office Tower

Photo: Robert Giroux (Getty Images)Adobe has promised there will be no more layoffs in 2023 as the company opens its fourth office, based in San Jose, California. Standing at 18 stories and 1.25 million square feet, Adobe’s new office tower has the capacity to hold 3,000 employees, all of whom will be given a hybrid or remote working option, Bloomberg first reported.“We’re actually committed to continuing to grow here,” Adobe Chief People Officer Gloria Chen told Bloomberg Television on Wednesday. “We are committed to not

U.S. preparing antitrust suit to block Adobe plan to buy Figma

The U.S. Justice Department is preparing an antitrust lawsuit to block software maker Adobe Inc's $20 billion bid for cloud-based designer platform Figma, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. The lawsuit could come as early as next month, Bloomberg reported. Responding to the report, Adobe said it and Figma were in different product areas, with Figma focusing on interactive designs. "We are engaged in constructive and cooperative discussions with regulators in the US, UK and EU…

Adobe signs chip supplier Qualcomm for marketing tech software

Adobe Inc said on Thursday it had signed a deal with semiconductor Qualcomm Inc as a customer for its cloud-based marketing software. Once best known for tools like Photoshop used to create websites and digital marketing materials, Adobe has expanded its business to include software for managing those materials and tracking how well they work at bringing customers in the door. The subscription-based marketing software helped Adobe become one of the few software companies founded in the 1980s to navigate the transition to…

Online sales rose 3.5%, boosted by discounts

D3sign | Moment | Getty ImagesOnline sales during the holiday season rose 3.5% year over year to $211.7 billion, according to Adobe Analytics, as record-high discounts persuaded shoppers to open up their wallets.That spending marked a new peak for e-commerce sales during the crucial retail season, according to Adobe.Yet markdowns played a key role in moving merchandise. Overall spending got a boost from key shopping holidays that typically bring the deepest discounts. Online sales during Cyber Week, the five-day period…