Google today said it plans to retire Picasa, which has long served as its online photo management service, in favor of the newer Google Photos product. Google hopes to accomplish the transition over the next few months and said it is taking pains to ensure users’ photos and memories are preserved. Picasa users will be […]
Twitter is debuting a change to how its timeline works that will include more “best” Tweets at the top of users’ feeds. The idea is similar to the “while you were away” function that Twitter added to the service last year, but it includes a broader array of Tweets displayed in reverse chronological order. Twitter […]
Adobe announced that three of its web and image management programs had all received significant updates: Animate — formerly known as Flash Professional, but now more of an HTML5 design program — has been bumped up to Animate CC, a full member of the Creative Cloud family of apps, with many new changes. The company’s […]
In part because of the pressure exerted by browser developers, Java curator Oracle has announced that it is going to deprecate the Java browser plug-in. The initiative will start with the forthcoming JDK 9, with removal from the Oracle JDK and Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in future releases. The company notes in the announcement heralding […]
Nvidia has just released its 361.75 drivers, bringing optimizations just in time for Rise of the Tomb Raider and the beta for Tom Clancy’s The Division. Most interesting though, is the new beta support for Thunderbolt 3 external graphics connectors. External docks for your graphics cards have been something of a trend recently, mainly if […]
Microsoft has released a new technical preview of Windows 10 for PCs, but not for mobile devices. The company hasn’t provided an update to Windows 10 Mobile in some time, so it took the opportunity to reassure consumers that new bits are on the way. Microsoft said it is “still on track to release Windows […]
Microsoft today said it is adding new features to Cortana that will help people better manage their schedules. To start, Cortana will be more proactive with respect to reminders. Microsoft says people often make promises or commitments to one another via email, but then fail to follow through for various reasons (most often forgetfulness). Using […]
Google is about to make its Chrome browser much faster. The company is ready to use a new compression algorithm called Brotli, according to Google engineer Ilya Grigorik. Brotli can compress web sites in a way that makes them up to 26% smaller than Chrome’s current algorithm, called Zopfli. Smaller web sites take less time […]
With the VR revolution seemingly just around the corner, Nvidia released a new Game Ready driver featuring GameWorks VR 1.1 and VR SLI support for OpenGL applications, in addition to the latest Oculus SDK. The new driver (version 361.43) features the “GL_NVX_linked_gpu_multicast” extension and is available for all Geforce and Quadro graphics cards. With the […]
Futuremark gives Steam owners of 3DMark early access to an entertainment-only version of VRMark in the Holiday Beta. Today, 3DMark made a rather cool announcement – it opened up the beta for the 2016 3DMark update. It may be called the “Holiday Beta,” but it will be open until the update comes out. The best […]
