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Adobe goes AI with Firefly
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Tuesday, 21 March 2023 19:36

Adobe goes AI with Firefly


A new family of creative generative AI suite

AI is pushing hard and Adobe is obviously not going to be left behind, and today, it has unveiled Firefly, a new family of creative generative AI tools focused on the generation of images and text effects.

Adobe's move to dump Pantone from creative cloud bites
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You need to spend more money

Designers using Adobe's expensive Creative Cloud tools will have to fork out more cash if they depend on Pantone Color books.

Adobe's Figma has Wall Street unimpressed
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Wednesday, 21 September 2022 11:31

Adobe's Figma has Wall Street unimpressed


Shares plummet 

The cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street have rubbished Adobe's plans to buy online collaboration tool Figma for $20 billion.

Adobe founder dies
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Tuesday, 20 April 2021 11:27

Adobe founder dies


Pioneer of desktop publishing and inventor of PDF


Charles 'Chuck' Geschke, the co-founder of Adobe, who was the pioneer of “What you see is what you get" (or WYSIWYG) desktop publishing has died. He was 81.

Adobe's Super Resolution is rather good
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Tuesday, 16 March 2021 09:30

Adobe's Super Resolution is rather good


 AI photo enhancement 

Among Adobe's latest software updates via the Creative Cloud is a new feature in Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) called "Super Resolution" which is rather good. 

Adobe announces final update to Flash Player
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Thursday, 10 December 2020 10:48

Adobe announces final update to Flash Player


Last one before retirement

Adobe has released the final scheduled update to its Flash Player plugin, weeks before Flash's official retirement.

Microsoft kills Flash early
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Thursday, 29 October 2020 11:02

Microsoft kills Flash early


No point waiting for Christmas

Microsoft has released a Windows update that removes Adobe's Flash Player before it reaches end of support on December 31, 2020.

Flash will not see 2021
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Monday, 22 June 2020 11:18

Flash will not see 2021


Execution date set

Three years ago, long after the rise (and fall) of Flash, Adobe announced that its once-ubiquitous multimedia platform was finally going away. But Adobe never provided a specific date for when Flash would reach its end-of-life. Now it seems that its time on death row will be over on December 31, 2020.

3D Subscription software driving move to open source
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Could this lead to Linux on the desktop?

3D software makers' move to subscription models is pushing people to use open-source software because users are fed up with the price and neurotic terms and conditions.

Adobe turns off customers in Venezuela
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Tuesday, 08 October 2019 10:21

Adobe turns off customers in Venezuela


As if their lives were not bad enough

Adobe is shutting down service for users in Venezuela in order to comply with a US executive order issued in August that prohibits trade with the country.