Mercedes-Benz reveals E-Class cabriolet at the Geneva Motor Show

Mercedes-Benz is giving drivers a reason to go topless with a freshly minted E-Class Cabriolet revealed at the Geneva Auto Show. The cabriolet is being marketed not as s frivolous Summer car but as a flexible year-round road car. It has 4Matic and all-wheel drive, engines include a 2.2-litre four cylinder and E350d (3.0 V6) diesels to the E200 (2.0 four) and E400 (3.5 V6), a nine speed automatic transmission is also standard. With this new cabriolet, Mercedes-Benz is hoping to refresh the spirit of open air motoring but while also maintaining the space, practicality and performance of a sports coupe.

As Google Play Store turns 5, Google looks back at most popular downloads

The Google Play Store turns 5 today and Google is having a bit of a retrospective by listing down the most popular downloads the service has enjoyed. Hit jump for a look back down Android memory lane.

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Adobe Lightroom now features HDR RAW capture on iOS and a handful of Android phones

Lightroom Mobile now has a new raw HDR capture mode that lets you achieve a dynamic range on your mobile device that was previously only possible shooting with an DSLR or mirrorless camera.

The new HDR mode works by automatically scanning the scene to determine the correct exposure range and then capturing three DNG files which are then automatically aligned, merged, deghosted, and tonemapped in the app. You get a 16-bit floating point DNG, with all of the benefits of both an HDR and a raw photo, which is processed by the same algorithms with the same quality as the HDR technology built into Adobe Camera Raw and Lightroom.

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Fitbit's new Alta HR is the slimmest tracker with heart rate tracking

Fitbit just announced the Fitbit Alta HR as well as new features on the Fitbit app, Sleep Stages and Sleep Insights, giving you actionable insights and guidance to make more informed decisions about your health and stay motivated in style.

“Alta HR and these powerful new sleep features demonstrate our continued focus on evolving our innovative technology to deliver deeper, more actionable insights to help our users improve their health,” said James Park, co-founder and CEO of Fitbit. “The miniaturization of our PurePulse heart rate technology opens up exciting opportunities for future generations of devices and new form factors. Our advances in sleep will provide millions of users around the globe accessibility to invaluable insights that previously could be obtained only through expensive lab tests.”

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