Tag: application software

October 15, 2018

Adobe didn’t waste any time giving attendees of its Adobe MAX conference something to cheer about on Monday, as the software company announced that Photoshop CC is finally coming to iPad. This isn’t a scaled-down version of the app, but […]

October 12, 2018

It’s almost 2019, if you can believe it, and more than fall leaves or pumpkin spice lattes, tech fans like myself relish the smell of a freshly unboxed smartphone (thanks to Apple’s annual September unveiling). But it’s not just consumers […]

October 12, 2018

First announced at the F8 conference in May, the feature gives a standard 2D picture a semi-3D effect that changes perspectives when you tilt and move your phone, or view it from within a VR headset—similar to panning around a […]

October 11, 2018

Increasingly, developers rely on a microservices architecture to build an application as a suite of fine-grained, narrowly focused, and independent services, each of which is developed and deployed independently. Despite the agility fostered by the microservices approach, it also brings […]

October 11, 2018

Fitness trackers and smartwatches have become so advanced that we now expect them to give us detailed information on our heart rate by default. The optical heart-rate sensor was once a unique feature that commanded a premium, but now even […]

October 11, 2018

Shopping carts are a utilitarian asset meant to help haul goods you intend to purchase to the checkout lanes. Walmart, it seems, believes carts should be capable of far more. The big box retailer filed a patent earlier this year […]

October 10, 2018

If you remember last year’s massive Equifax breach, you may also recall DoNotPay, a “robot lawyer.” The AI started as an easy way for people to dispute parking tickets and other minor annoyances, but it quickly expanded to offer more […]

October 9, 2018

Building distributed systems is hard. When you’re working with applications that span a planet, the speed of light is a brake on what you want to do, complicating data replication among servers and services. Someone buys a widget in Hong […]

October 5, 2018

The Wall Street Journal reports that in Thursday’s speech given to the Hudson Institute, Pence warned that the search engine, codenamed Project Dragonfly, would “strengthen Communist Party censorship and compromise the privacy of Chinese customers.” The VP called on Google […]

October 5, 2018

While Facebook’s reputation has been tarnished following the fake news, hacking, and privacy controversies, Instagram, which is owned by the social network, has mostly come out unscathed. But that may change after the photo- and video-sharing app was found to […]