
The future of Affinity Designer, Photo and Publisher, subscription-free alternatives to Adobe Creative Cloud, was uncertain after the apps’ developer Serif was acquired by Canva in 2024. Now, over a year later, the changes Canva has introduced are big, but not necessarily unwelcome. The newly relaunched Affinity by Canva combines all three apps into a…

Samsung’s Galaxy Buds 3 Pro received a decent price drop during Amazon’s October Prime Day sale, but if you held off on picking them up, your patience has been rewarded. Right now, the noise-canceling earbuds are available for around $165 ($85 off) at Amazon and Best Buy, which is the lowest price we’ve seen in…

Despite being a vast repository of personal information, smartphones used to have little by way of security. That has thankfully changed, but companies like Cellebrite offer law enforcement tools that can bypass security on some devices. The company keeps the specifics quiet, but an anonymous individual recently logged in to a Cellebrite briefing and came…

Canva debuted an updated visual suite on Thursday, with integrated AI across the platform as well as a new video editor. Canva’s calling this its “Creative Operating System,” though it’s nothing of the sort — just a creative suite tied together with AI. Canva said that its new design model can generate layout and content…
Disney+ is making its first foray into HDR10+ content, but access to this content will be limited at the start. About 1,000 shows from Hulu will be available with this HDR standard, although other programming under the Disney umbrella will add support at an unspecified later date. Samsung, which is a major player behind this…

Samsung has introduced its P9 Express to contend with the best microSD Express cards available for the Nintendo Switch 2. They are priced at $54.99 for the 256GB model and $99.99 for the 512GB variant. Samsung has already released a Nintendo-licensed Super Mario Edition microSD Express 256GB card, coinciding with the launch of the Switch…

Star Trek fans and hackers have a lot of overlap, to the surprise of no one. In fact, Star Trek has been inspiring everyone from tech tinkerers to real-life astronauts since it debuted in the 1960s. Here’s an excellent example: One Hackaday Superconference attendee 3D-printed a badge cover that makes it look like a Starfleet…

Picking out a laptop for college doesn’t have to be annoyingly complicated. Whether you’re stuck in lectures all day or pulling an all-nighter to finish a last minute paper, having a reliable laptop will make things a heck of a lot easier. The trick? Figuring out what really matters in a laptop so you don’t…

Intel’s former CEO, Pat Gelsinger, has praised the news that Nvidia’s latest Blackwell GPUs are now being produced at its Arizona facility. It’s important, he said, for the most cutting-edge silicon supply chains to be resilient, and that such moves would also help Nvidia develop and iterate faster and bigger into the future. This comes…

Samsung is bringing its mobile web browser to bigger screens. It’s launching a beta version of its Samsung Internet on PC with support for cross-device syncing, which should make it easier to access all your browsing data if you’ve never switched to a different default browser on your Samsung device. The desktop browser is only…