Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen passes away at 65

Paul Allen, founder of Microsoft and technology innovator, philantrophist and sports team owner passed away today at age 65 from non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Allen co-founded Microsoft in 1975 with Bill Gates and is credited for having named the company. Hel later left Microsoft because of serious illness but recovered. Allen went on to become a billionaire investor, famously owning teams like the Portland Trailblazers, the Seatle Seahawks, The Seattle Sounders FC. He also made significant cultural investments and founded the Museum of Pop Culture. Allen has granted over $2 billion to philantrophic causes.

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Review: Google Pixel 3 XL

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Google's vision of what a perfect smartphone should be is simple. They want each user to have 'their own personal Google,' which makes the Google Pixel 3, the boldest attempt at harnessing the computational power of Google in a mobile device you carry in your pocket Hit jump for our full review.

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The iPad is finally getting a proper version of Photoshop in 2019

Apple's iPad and iPad Pro are becoming more powerful and there are a lot of compelling applications for consumers and professionals but there hasn't been an anser for Photoshop on the iPad, until now.

Adobe just announced Adobe Photoshop will be coming to the iPad in 2019. This puts Apple's powerful hardware to good use in photo editing situations. The iPad Pro already does a great job with editing 4K video so it has the processing chops, creating Photoshop for iPad changes the game for mobile content creators.

“Photoshop has stopped being a desktop product and has become a system,“ says Scott Belsky, Adobe’s chief product officer. Photoshop is an all-in-one platform, an industry standard that’s used by professionals and internet memesters alike.

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Adobe Premiere Rush CC is a desktop and mobile video editing solution for YouTubers

Adobe is flexing its creative muscle with the new Premiere Rush CC application which works on desktops and mobile devices and is geared towards content creators and YouTubers. Consider it the next step up from an application like iMovie on the Mac but which integrates cross-platform, cross device functionality.

Rush CC, which is offered as part of Creative Cloud or which can be accessed individually for a monthly fee, takes the core parts of Adobe’s suite of video and audio editing tools and combines them in a single mobile and desktop experience. That means you get a set of Motion Graphics templates, for example, that were specifically designed to give Rush users easy access to customizable titles.

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