Adobe is bringing Photoshop to Chromebooks for education

Looks like Adobe is open to throwing Google's Chromebooks a bone. Reports that Photoshop will be made available for Chromebooks geared towards education.

As part of Adobe's Creative Cloud software, which will soon be available for Chromebooks for education users who have a paid creative cloud membership.

The initial version of Photoshop will be a "streaming" version of Photoshop. It will be interesting to see how this plays out and whether it will entice more users to consider Chromebooks as a substitute personal computing platform.

Source: The Verge

Nokia's Lumia 830 to be launched next week, coming to Rogers

There's a new midrange Windows Phone model coming to Canada from Nokia. The Lumia 830, which is a Windows 8.1 device expected to come to Rogers, will feature a 5-inch 720p HD display,  7, a 1.2Ghz quad-core Snapdragon processor, 1GB of RAM, 16GB storage and microSD expansion. A more modest 10MP PureView camera with OIS will serve as this device's camera.

Source: WPCentral

Sling launches Slingbox M1 and SlingTV in Canada, now with Chromecast support

Canadians will soon be able to get the Slingbox M1 and new SlingTV in stores. While we await official word from Sling on the new releases, pricing has been set at $179.99 CAD and $329.99 CAD for Slingbox M1 and SlingTV respectively. Find out more about the new TV Anywhere products here. Hit jump to get more info on Chromecast support.

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Consumer Reports debunks 'Bendgate' through a series of tests

While many might doubt Apple's own claims after showing their testing facilities to several journalists, independent and trusted publication Consumer Reports got on the case of the 'Bendgate' claims and tested both the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus as well as a host of other similarly-sized smartphones by applying more than 70 pounds of force to the device's centre.

Their findings? The iPhone 6's aren't as delicate and bendy as some would like you to believe and the iPhone 6 Plus is actually more resilient than the Phone 6.

Other findings, the HTC One M8 was the weakest device found in structural tests being the first to succumb to the torture tests. The Samsung Galaxy Note 3 was the toughest device in this particular test while the iPhone 5s and the LG G3 were tied at second place. So, the new iPhone 6's aren't the weakest phones out there according to Consumer Reports, "It takes a lot of force to bend these new iPhones and any other phones for that matter," end of story.

Check out their video here.

Source: Consumer Reports via 9to5Mac