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Adobe has had a bit of a monopoly in the editing software space for a while now. With the launch of Creative Cloud and a switch to a subscription model for Adobe apps, many long-time users have complained about pricing and the subscription cancellation process. Now, the US government has decided that enough is enough, with the FTC filing a lawsuit against the company and two of the company's high-ranking executives.

Recently, the Delta emulator for iOS has made headlines, after returning to the App Store immediately upon Apple changing its rules to allow emulators once again. Delta has remained one of the most downloaded apps on iPhone since coming to the App Store, but the developers have now landed in …

When Street Fighter 6 was revealed, many fans were taken back by the game’s new logo. Designed unlike any other Street Fighter game logo, SF6 looks to be taking the franchise in a new direction. That being said, the new logo may also simply be a placeholder, as a stock …

Microsoft has revealed plans to start removing Adobe Flash from Windows 10 this year. Flash officially reached End of Life status on the 31st of December 2020, but remnants of it still remain in Windows to this day. Starting in June, Microsoft will be issuing Windows 10 update KB4577586, which …

We've known for a few years now that Adobe Flash is on its way out, with Adobe planning to end support for at the end of this year. As a send off, Flash got one last update this week, ending an era. The patch began rolling out on the 8th …

Graphic processing units can be very fast when executing specific tasks. However, not every application can harness the power of the GPU, but this week Adobe has announced that it will enable GPU hardware acceleration in a new update, making video encoding on Adobe Premiere Pro up to five times faster. …

The writing has been on the wall for Adobe Flash for years now, with plans for it go offline officially at the end of this year. Many web games were made using Flash throughout the 2000s, which may have been lost at the end of this year if not for …

At CES this week, Nvidia's RTX Studio initiative began to expand once again with the introduction of new laptops and desktop systems from top system builders. To sweeten the deal on the latest round of systems, buyers will be getting a free limited-time Adobe Creative Cloud membership. The latest RTX …

Announced at last year’s Adobe Max conference, Photoshop for iPad was intended to bring desktop-class photo editing to Apple’s tablet. After a year of waiting, version 1.0 is finally here, but first impressions aren’t looking very positive. Adobe says “[t]his is just the beginning of our journey.” The iPad is …

Nowadays, digital software purchases all come with legal terms and conditions specifying that you are buying a revocable license to a product, rather than ownership over an application. Usually, this is easily ignored as companies are unlikely to go after its paying customers. That is not the case for Adobe …

Over the past few months, Adobe’s support forums have been filling up with claims that a bug within the company’s Premiere Pro video editing software has been permanently damaging speakers. Careful not to incriminate itself, Adobe has issued Patch 13.0.3 which is describes should “help address this issue.” Reports began …

The time has come to say goodbye to Flash, Adobe has finally admitted. This week, the company announced that the long-running software will finally go into retirement as of 2020, at which point updates will no longer be released and web browsers will drop support entirely. While Adobe Flash was …

Adobe has announced this week that it will be the latest company to start raising its prices here in the UK, citing the Brexit vote and the subsequent fluctuation of the GBP as the main cause. The company made the announcement in a notice sent out to Creative Cloud subscribers, …

Adobe has managed to increase its annual revenue to near $6 billion, an overall rise of some 22 per cent year on year. Quarterly net income is said to be at record setting levels also, thanks to rapid growth in its digital media segment, and expansion of its Creative Cloud …

Adobe has released statistics on the success of online sales over the Thanksgiving and Black Friday holidays in the U.S., announcing that previous records were broken by quite a margin. It tracked more than $5.27 billion (£4.22 billion) in transactions over the period, a 17.7 per cent increase over the …

This is becoming a very common occurrence. Today, Adobe has issued a new patch for Flash and is urging users to update their version of the software as yet another security flaw has been discovered. The patch fixes “critical vulnerabilities that could potentially allow an attacker to take control of …

Towards the end of last week, an issue with Adobe's Creative Cloud subscription-based software came to light, with some users finding their files being deleted without any authorization. This issue seems to have affected quite a few people but Adobe has announced that they are currently working on a fix …

Companies have been moving away from Adobe Flash for a while now and Google is set to sever yet another tie with the software as the company has announced that it will no longer be accepting adverts made using Flash from the 30th of June onwards. If advertisers get their …

Adobe's Flash Player is continuing its steady demise with another major blow to its usage: Facebook has now killed off all flash videos on its site. With more than eight billion views a day, the switchover to HTML 5 will see the number of flash videos watched every day immediatly decline …

EU citizens' data cannot be so easily sent to the U.S. any more thanks to a ruling on Tuesday which saw a European court shoot down the “Safe Harbour” system, which allows companies to self-certify whether they have enough data protection measures in place when sending customer information overseas. Moving …

If Apple manages to popularize its iPad Pro tablet among professionals, then over time such devices could expand their market presence and compete against various notebooks and 2-in-1s based on microprocessors from Intel Corp. Even though Apple’s iPad Pro introduced this week leverages Apple iOS ecosystem, the new product does …

A US District Judge today approved a $415 million settlement in the no-poaching lawsuit levied at several massive tech companies, including Google, Apple and Intel. The class action lawsuit came about after it was discovered that several massive tech companies agreed to not poach employees from one another, which in …

The slow downfall of Adobe Flash continues, as Amazon announces that from September onwards it will no longer be accepting flash based advertisements on its site. The decision was apparently driven by recent updates to several popular web browsers, including Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. In recent years, Flash has …

Having a child is difficult in any number of different ways, and balancing a new born with work commitments is just one of them. Following on from Netflix's recent announcement that it would take away some of that difficulty by offering parents 12 months of paid leave following the birth of …

Following on from other sites abandoning Flash, streaming site, Twitch, has also revealed that it will be switching from Adobe's solution to HTML 5, just as YouTube did some time ago. Flash Plenty of big name companies have been moving away from Flash recently, including Mozilla and Facebook, whose Chief …

Flash was once a mainstay of the online world, providing us with everything from animations, to games, to vibrating pop-up banners, but no more. With the advent of smartphones that dropped support for the oft-insecure platform, it's fallen by the wayside. It continues to be used in some corners of …

When you imagine the compound that Osama Bin Laden was eventually found in, hidden away in Pakistan, there are likely a lot of things you could conjure up about his stronghold. However having manuals for popular software packages on his bookshelf is unlikely to be one of them, but that's …

You really should disable or uninstall Adobe Flash at this point. If you haven't yet done so however here is another reason, following on from last week's 0-day exploit; there is another critical vulnerability that is being actively exploited in the wild, the only difference this time is that there is …

Adobe is suing clothing store chain, Forever 21, as it turns out that the retail outlet has been pirating Photoshop software, according to the new lawsuit filing. The company is now facing serious fines as a result. The lawsuit was filed yesterday in a California District Court. This wasn't a …

Adobe Flash used to be a key component to watching video on the web, those days have gone and Flash has now become even less relevant as YouTube has officially dropped the standard video format as its default and is moving  over to HTML 5. HTML 5 has been around for …