Adobe releases new mobile apps, updates desktop offerings at MAX

Adobe's unloaded some well-timed mobile apps as well as updates to desktop offerings at their yearly Adobe MAX creative pow-wow. Photoshop Fix and Capture CC, first demoed at last month's iPad Pro launch event, are now available as are updates to the entire suite of Creative Cloud applications.

Several of Adobe's apps, including the popular Photoshop CC, Lightroom CC, Illustrator CC, InDesign CC, and Premiere Pro CC are being updated with new Touch functionality usable on Windows tablets and Apple trackpad devices. Adobe Fuse CC is being added to existing Creative Cloud plans. You can find out more here.

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Video: See some Dyson-designed cardboard carts raced through a torture test track

Some of the most inventive minds working at Dyson are put to the test as part of Challenge Dyson, a yearly event/contest that brings out the most innovative solutions to varous fun challenges.

This year’s challenge Dyson was called the Card Kart Challenge. It involved engineers making a kart out of cardboard and racing against others on a challenging obstacle course. On the course, the karts encountered fire, water, wind and sand.

16 teams took part, and the event involved over 200 Dyson engineers globally, including those who designed and built the course from scratch. Over 800 Dyson people came out to view the event in Malmesbury.

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Review: Sennheiser Momentum On Ear Headphones

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Improving an already iconic line of on-ear headphones with a smaller profile, deeper sounds and optimum noise isolation, the Momenum On-Ear, is a strong and contemporary follow-up to one of Sennheiser’s most beloved headphones.

I reviewed the original Momentum series four years ago and somehow it remained my point of reference for what a great set of over the ear headphones could offer. Like that original line, the smaller On-Ear continues the trend by using high quality materials like soft alcantara leather, brushed stainless steel, and woven cloth accents that don’t just stand up to time but which also continue to delight the user the more the headphones are used.

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Top Score Baseball brings "Moneyball" to amateur teams

With Major League Baseball postseason fever in full effect, the mobile app Score More Baseball has been officially rebranded to Top Score Baseball to better reflect its main value prop. Top Score Baseball simplifies the scoring of baseball games and brings the power of “Moneyball” to amateur, rec, and youth baseball teams, using the same performance-based approach now used by over a dozen Major League Baseball teams.

Season one of Score More Baseball saw over 8,500 downloads, with over 2,000 coaches signing up and registering their teams. The big surprise? For all the talk of which smartphones are the true app platforms, BlackBerry users led the way, accounting for over two thirds of application downloads. Android was second, and iOS was a distant third.

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