Hands-on with the Microsoft Surface
Melissa Perenson gets to play with Microsoft's Surface tablet at its launch event in LA. Here are her thoughts.
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Microsoft announces 'Surface' iPad-rival
As many had speculated, Microsoft has announced a new tablet PC at an event in Los Angeles.
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Canon to launch augmented-reality platform based on head-mounted displays
Canon said Monday it will launch a new augmented-reality platform that uses head-mounted displays to realistically project virtual images onto real backgrounds.
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4 alternatives to Arduino
Creative hacking is one of 2012's top design trends, but Arduino isn't the only game in town – here are four rivals.
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MacBook Pro Retina display ruins web, Google fixing Chrome browser
Due to bandwidth constraints, webpages traditionally feature low-res images and vectors. It seems that, just as HDTVs have highlighted the imperfections of actors, the high-def MacBook Pro could make websites look fuzzy.
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Shan Jiang on keeping work fresh and leaving I Love Dust
We catch up with London based illustrator Shan Jiang on leaving I Love Dust, illustration tips, and keeping personal work fresh.
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Why iOS 6 is still behind Android and Windows 8 in some areas.
Apple's iOS 6 will continue leapfrogging with the competition by adding long-requested features as well as new surprises. But if you were hoping for big changes to the iPhone's operating system, you'll have to keep waiting.
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Behind the scenes on Prometheus' VFX
VFX houses including London-based MPC and Sydney's Fuel VFX detail their work on Ridley Scott's Alien prequel
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Apple updates Final Cut Pro X, Aperture, for new MacBook Pro's Retina display
Apple has updated its pro apps in order to ready them for the new MacBook Pro’s Retina display.
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Purpose rebrands Market Research Society using animated infographics based on live data
The graphics will change and animate to reflect movements in the underlying data.
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Gelaskins releases iPad stickers featuring art by eBoy, Camilla d'Errico, EMEK, Jeff Soto, Andy Gilmore & more
New iPad and iPad 2 stickers featuring artwork and wallpaper by artists and illustrators.
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Apple launches iOS 6 for iPad and iPhone at WWDC, to be release in the autumn
Apple reveals iOS 6 with Flyover Maps, turn-by-turn navigation; Facebook integration, improved Siri service, iCloud enhancements, car integration, photo sharing, and a new app called Passbook.
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Adobe patches critical Flash bugs, ships sandboxed plug-in for Firefox
Adobe today patched seven critical vulnerabilities in Flash Player -- the fifth security update so far in 2012 -- and released a sandboxed plug-in for Mozilla's Firefox.
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Adobe Photoshop won't be updated for new MacBook Pro's Retina Display til later this year
Adobe is working to build support for the new Macbook Pro's Retina Display into Photoshop, but you're going to have a bit of a wait.
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Apple to release Mac OS X Mountain Lion in July, upgrades cost $19.99
Apple has revealed the final build of Mac OS X Mountain Lion, and that it will likely cost less than £13 to upgrade
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Foursquare's app redesign revealed
Foursquare on Thursday launched a major redesign of its app for the iPhone and Android devices, incorporating features from social discovery and local search applications, as well as the "like" feature made famous by Facebook.
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HP launches next-generation mobile workstations
Also, a small entry-level workstation, the Z220.
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The 25th birthday of the Mac that led to the creative tools you use every day
Twenty-five years ago, Apple released the Macintosh II, a powerful, expandable desktop computer that represented a profound ideological design shift in the Macintosh line.
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Adobe releases security updates for Photoshop and Illustrator CS5 and CS5.1
Adobe released several security updates on Monday, including fixing vulnerabilities that affect Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator CS5 and CS5.5 for Windows and Mac OS X.
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Microsoft posts previews of new Visual Studio IDE and .Net
Microsoft has posted a release candidate of its next version of the Visual Studio IDE (integrated development environment), as well as release candidates of the .Net framework and the Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 source-control software.