Software & Design
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Adobe’s New AI-Powered Plugin Intelligently Reframes Videos For Screens With Different Shapes
Adapting videos to various screens has been a challenge ever since movies, shot for wide theatre screens, were first broadcast on square TVs. We’ve now got devices like tablets and smartphones added to the mix, so Adobe has created an AI-powered plugin that can automatically prep a video for any screen while ensuring the most…
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Teen Tells DEF CON How He Hacked Millions Of Student Records From Popular Education Software
“Hello from Bill Demirkapi :)“ read the message sent to thousands of parents, students and teachers in his school district after the aforementioned teenager hacked his school’s education software. It was one of many bugs Demirkapi discovered over the last three years — another exposed millions of student records — that he presented on at…
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iTunes Is Dead As We Know It (and All The Rest Of The News About MacOS Catalina)
With Apple Music, Apple TV+ (and other streaming services) making owning gigabytes of MP3 and video files a thing of the past, iTunes, the iOS desktop companion app that’s been around since the iPod first debuted, is finally dead. In its place are a collection of purpose-built apps that might make the next version of…
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Skype’s Latest Feature Will Help You Show Your Parents How To Use Their New Phone
Apps such as VNC or Window’s Remote Desktop Connection have long been an invaluable tool for kids tasked with remotely solving their parents’ computer woes. But Skype might soon be the new secret weapon when it comes to helping baby boomers figure out how to use their new-fangled smartphones, as it’s soon rolling out a…