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Full Photoshop for iOS and Android coming in 2016

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In August, Adobe announced that it would be launching an entirely new Photoshop app for iOS in October. We’re on the heels of the month representative of Autumn and Halloween, yet no news about what Adobe is doing with its niche application suite for mobile. With the launch of the iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, a new need for professional editing apps has emerged or rather, it has been made more urgent. The iPad Pro is created with designers in mind, but at the moment, the number of features and apps that they can access on the tablet is limited. With no official Photoshop for iOS in full version available right now, people are starting to wonder if the tablet truly has a calling.

Turns out it does. Someone close to Adobe’s  mobile development department said in a comment:  “Adobe are porting Photoshop, illustrator, lightroom to iOS.  Initially it was for the iPad but now the pen is out they are going all in.  Full versions. But Plugins won’t work. or will have to be compiled for close.  It’s actually a half on device and half in the cloud.  people will be able to either buy or ‘rent’ cloud plugins if devs design them that way for single document use – very clever . Pay $5 and you can use say Filter forge in that one document only. AND, this is the important part is pass it on to other people with CC and it will still work.  This is going to be in CC2016 across the board for PC’s Macs, iOS and probably android at some point.  Don’t hold out hope for linux though.  Won’t happen. Not enough potential customers.”

Although we can’t verify the identity of the commenter, what they’re saying is quite interesting. Although Adobe promised new Photoshop for iOS for October, the release date for the full app might be delayed to next year, according to the tipster. The new apps are said to go to every major platform on the market, save for Linux, and they will entail full versions of Photoshop, Illustrator and Lightroom, which are currently available in the form of CC apps.

According to Adobe themselves, the new Photoshop for iOS app, alongside the Android version, will introduce entirely new features into the user experience, which are focused on portraits. With these new features, editing facial features and portraits will be made much easier than it is in the full desktop app right now. Although Adobe has not disclosed the exact features and their roles in Photoshop for iOS, we’re expecting to see tools and features designed to be used on touch interfaces and with the Apple Pencil.

Photoshop for iOS is long overdue and people will definitely be excited to try the Photoshop for iOS + iPad Pro + Apple Pencil combination. According to people familiar with the matter, the new editing app will be free to use, but advanced tools will work in an IAP-system, like the commenter above pointed out. We’re curious about the release date, because while Adobe said it was October, our tipster seems to be convinced that development of the app will take longer than that. Whichever the case may be, we’re relieved to hear that Photoshop for iOS is finally coming, and in full at that.

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Pixel 8 Pro runs Google’s generative AI models

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Rick Osterloh, Google’s SVP of devices and services, says the Pixel 8 Pro will be the first hardware to run Google’s generative AI models.

At an event today, Osterloh said the Pixel 8 Pro’s custom-built Tensor G3 chip, which accelerates AI workloads, can run “distilled” versions of Google’s text- and image-generating models to power image editing and other apps.

Osterloh said, “We’ve worked closely with our research teams across Google to take advantage of their most advanced foundation models and distill them into a version efficient enough to run on our flagship Pixel.”

Google improved Magic Eraser, its photo-editing tool, to remove larger objects and people smudge-free using on-device models. Osterloh claims that this improved Magic Eraser creates new pixels to fill in shot gaps, producing a higher-quality image.

Osterloh says a new on-device model will “intelligently” sharpen and enhance photo details, improving zoom.

On-device processing benefits audio recording. The Pixel 8 Pro’s recording app will soon summarize meeting highlights.

Gboard will use a large language model on the Pixel 8 Pro to power smart replies. Osterloh claims that the upgraded Gboard will provide “higher-quality” reply suggestions and better conversational awareness.

Osterloh said an update in December will add on-device generative AI features except for Magic Eraser, which appears on the Pixel 8 Pro at launch.

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Telegram launches a global self-custodial crypto wallet, excluding the US

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Telegram, with 800 million monthly users, is launching a self-custodial crypto wallet. The move will solidify its presence in the vibrant crypto community that has grown from its chat platform and may attract more people to crypto.

Telegram and TON Foundation announced TON Space, a self-custodial wallet, on Wednesday at Singapore’s Token2049 crypto conference, which draws over 10,000 attendees.

Telegram has a complicated blockchain relationship. After the SEC sued Telegram over a massive initial coin offering, the chat app abandoned its Telegram Open Network (TON) blockchain project in 2020. The Open Network Foundation (TON Foundation), founded by open-source developers and blockchain enthusiasts, supports the development of The Open Network (TON), the blockchain powering a growing number of Telegram applications, including the wallet.

The Open Platform (TOP) and TOP Labs, a venture-building division, created the TON-based wallet.

TON Space will be available to Telegram users worldwide without wallet registration in November. The U.S., which has cracked down on the crypto industry and promoted many crypto apps to geofence users, is currently excluded from the feature.

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Google’s massive antitrust trial begins, with bigger implications

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The Justice Department’s landmark antitrust case against Google began in court today, setting off a months-long trial that could upend the tech world.

At issue is Google’s search business. The Justice Department claims that Google has violated antitrust laws to maintain its search title, but the company claims that it does so by providing a superior product.

The Justice Department sued Google for civil antitrust in late 2020 after a year-long investigation.

“If the government does not enforce the antitrust laws to enable competition, we will lose the next wave of innovation,” said then-Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen. “If that happens, Americans may never see the ‘next Google.’”

A large coalition of state attorneys general filed their own parallel suit against Google, but Judge Amit Mehta ruled that the states did not meet the bar to go to trial with their search ranking complaints.

The search business case against Google is separate from a federal antitrust lawsuit filed earlier this year. The Justice Department claims Google used “anticompetitive, exclusionary, and unlawful means” to neutralize threats to its digital advertising empire in that lawsuit.

Justice Department attorney Kenneth Dintzer set the stakes for the first major tech antitrust trial since Microsoft’s late 1990s reckoning on Tuesday. “This case is about the future of the internet, and whether Google’s search engine will ever face meaningful competition,” Dintzer said.

Beginning the trial, the government focused on Google’s deals with phone makers, most notably Apple, that give its search product top billing on new devices. Dintzer claimed that Google maintains and grows its search engine dominance by paying $10 billion annually for those arrangements.

“This feedback loop, this wheel, has been turning for more than 12 years,” he said. “And it always benefits Google.”

Google lawyer John Schmidtlein refuted that claim, hinting at the company’s legal defense in the coming weeks.

“Users today have more search options and more ways to access information online than ever before,” Schmidtlein said. Google will argue that it competes with Amazon, Expedia, and DoorDash, as well as Microsoft’s Bing search engine.

Google planted the seeds for this defense. According to internal research, Google Senior Vice President Prabhakar Raghavan said last year that more young people are using TikTok to search for information than Google Search.

In our studies, almost 40% of young people don’t use Google Maps or Search to find lunch, Raghavan said. “They use TikTok or Instagram.”

Google will be decided by U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta in the coming months. We’re far from that decision, but the company could be fined heavily or ordered to sell parts of its business.

The trial could change Google’s digital empire if the Justice Department wins. Other tech companies that dominated online markets in the last decade are also watching. If the government fails to hold an iconic Silicon Valley giant accountable, big tech will likely continue its aggressive growth trajectory.

If the Justice Department succeeds, the next decade could be different. The industry-wide reckoning could cripple incumbents and allow upstarts to define the next era of the internet, wresting the future from tech titans.

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