Aladdin’s producer was surprised by the backlash surrounding Will Smith’s Genie. As the most recent entry in Disney’s ongoing quest to adapt their animated classics into live-action films, Aladdin was a sensitive subject for many fans of the original 1992 film. While resistance to reboots and remakes is really not all that of an uncommon concept among diehard fans, objections over the recent Aladdin adaptation had more to do with the role of the film’s Genie....

It is no secret that Apple’s latest line of MacBook Airs are shipping without Adobe’s Flash Player due to battery and performance concerns and Adobe’s CEO has shed light as to why these issues may occur. According to Engadget Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen announced at the Web 2.0 summit that Apple did not provide them with a pre-release MacBook Air for testing and because of this they didn’t have time to launch an optimized version of Flash Player....

Adobe Photoshop Sketch for iOS is already one of my favorite iPad Pro apps to use with Apple Pencil, and the latest update adds new features that makes it even better for illustrating. Sketch also added iPhone support earlier this year, and the new version includes 3D Touch features for iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus. Sketch 3.4 adds layer support for stacking illustrations — this makes virtual tracing as easy as the real thing....

[This is a review of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 4, episode 9. There will be SPOILERS.] – When Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. returned for the show’s fourth season, its arrival was marked by certain notable changes, not the least of which being the series’ later time slot allowing for more violence. That time slot was put to good use when the season 4 premiere additionally introduced Robbie Reyes aka Ghost Rider (Gabriel Luna), who was seeking vengeance on a number of criminals in Los Angeles when he crossed paths with Daisy Johnson....

Agents of SHIELD has revealed that Sarge actually is the real Phil Coulson… sort of. When it was announced that ABC and Marvel TV were bringing back the series for a sixth season, one of the biggest questions fans had was whether or not Clark Gregg would be involved. The season 5 finale showed a clear end for his longtime role as Coulson, but it was also difficult to imagine the series without him....

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0ZHtNGrhIA] Photoshop maker Adobe, Inc. today announced in a blog post general availability of its Aperture competitor Lightroom. A free beta of Photoshop Lightroom 4 was posted two months ago and today the software is available for education customers on both Mac OS X and Windows platforms. The company’s Vice President of Products and Creative Media Solutions Winston Hendrickson billed Lightroom 4 “a stunning new release that will enhance photography workflows and help photographs stand out from the crowd....

When there are a lot of apps and services catering to the same needs, it may create confusion for the power users. Different applications have separate features and pricing. It is up to the users to decide what exact work they are going to do with the app.? Also, whether with their budget they can afford the app or not.? There are other factors such as platform dependency. So, based on all these, in this guide let us compare between UI design tools Adobe, Figma, and Adobe XD....

[SPOILERS for those not caught up on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. ahead.] - In more ways than one, season 4 of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has been wildly different from its previous three. Moved to a later time slot, the series has been able to go to much darker places than it ever has before, and the show’s creative team haven’t wasted the opportunities either. Starting off with the addition of Gabriel Luna’s Robbie Reyes/Ghost Rider, the series introduced a character who was literally the spirit of vengeance and who could force the series’ main characters to question their own morality, while simultaneously adding a previously non-existent element of magic and mysticism to the series that wasn’t there before....

In this methodology, development and testing activities are concurrent, unlike other software development methodologies. It also encourages teamwork and face-to-face communication. Business, stakeholders, and developers and clients must work together to develop a product. Difference between Agile and Scrum Methodology Following is a difference of Agile vs Scrum: -Business people and developers will work daily throughout the project. -Attention to technical excellence and right design enhances agility -Agile team, work on to become more effective, for that they adjust its behavior according to the project....

VW plans to globally deploy Mobileye’s crowd-sourced mapping data to improve features like lane-keeping assistance, making it the first automaker to globally apply the innovative “swarm data” for mapping. Ford, meanwhile, is deepening its strategic partnership with Mobileye in a number of ways. Among other things, the auto company plans to use Mobileye technology to deploy hands-free driving features in future cars. Zeekr plans to offer an all-electric self-driving car powered by Mobileye Drive by 2024....

Apple offered key AirTag anti-stalking measures when it first launched its tracking devices, and has since offered two rounds of improvements. AirTags unequivocally offer better protection against misuse by stalkers and thieves than any other device on the market – and that’s something we’ve continually stressed. However, it’s equally undeniable that AirTags have brought a whole new level of awareness to the very existence of small and affordable trackers, and that awareness has increased the risk....

When Apple Airtags came out, I bet a lot of you were thinking, “this will be a great way to track my pet if it gets lost.” While adding a $29 AirTag is better than nothing, and AirTag collars already exist, they only work if an Apple device is nearby. That’s why Apple doesn’t recommend using AirTags for pets (or kids!) The same goes for Tile trackers, which rely on the app on people’s phones nearby....

Adobe is adding a new feature to its Premiere Pro desktop video editing app to make creating content for multiple formats easier. Called Auto Reframe, the tool is powered by Adobe Sensei and will launch later this year. Last October at Adobe MAX, Adobe gave a sneak peak of a video tool called “Project Smooth Operator.” Out of the early demo came Auto Reframe, now being shown at IBC 2019 in Amsterdam....

Users of Adobe’s just launched Director 12, which introduced the ability to publish iOS games, weren’t too happy in January about the company’s decision to collect a 10 percent royalty on earnings above an initial 20K for paid iOS apps. Following the feedback from users, Adobe has now reversed its decision and will no longer require any royalty fees or registration for iOS titles published with the platform. Adobe provided us with the following comment:...

Starting today, Adobe is rolling out a new version of its Creative Cloud desktop app for macOS and Windows with an updated design and totally new organization. Adobe hopes the new app will be a more intuitive way to launch and update apps and access your Creative Cloud files. Adobe’s previous Creative Cloud desktop app was always a bit of an outlier on macOS. The app behaved like a menu bar utility — always running and accessible with a click — but looked and felt more like a web app or port than a native Mac tool....

Competition appears to be heating up in the voice-based intelligent speaker market, with Samsung the latest company said to be planning its own version. A WSJ report seemingly confirms earlier rumors. The timing is far from determined, the people said. The English-language version of Bixby has been delayed and they said many of the speaker’s features and other specifications are yet to be decided. But the project—internally code-named “Vega”—has been going on for more than a year, several of the people said....

WARNING: This article contains spoilers from Thor: Ragnarok - Given the film’s title, Thor: Ragnarok was always going to end with some major destruction. And, sadly for Asgard, it was the main target; the third Thor movie saw the mythical kingdom decimated in the final act by the fire demon Surtur, allowing him to fulfill the Ragnarok prophecy and at the same time take out Hela, who drew her power from the home of the Gods....

[SPOILERS for those not caught up on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. ahead.] - Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. pressed on with its Framework arc this week in an episode that saw Daisy and Simmons continue to pursue their friends and escape the virtual reality; Coulson geek out at the prospect of having a robotic arm; and Fitz loyally serve HYDRA and its leader, A.I.D.A., now known as Madame Hydra. The episode also saw the debut of the Framework version of Jeffrey Mace, better known as The Patriot....

[SPOILERS for those not caught up on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. ahead.] – At the very end of season 3 of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Dr. Radcliffe teased the secret project he had been working on, and it was a callback to a major comic idea. Season 4 has seen Radcliffe and Fitz fully create and perfect to a certain degree Life Model Decoys. While the usage of the first LMD Aida (Mallory Jansen) was a subplot at first in Ghost Rider’s story in S....

Warner Bros.’ live-action Akira movie has received a big tax incentive to film in California. The original Akira manga was written by Katsuhiro Otomo in the 1980s and has gone on to become one of the more influential sci-fi Japanese comic book series of all time. Both the manga and 1988 anime film adaptation (which Otomo also directed and co-wrote) take place in a futuristic cyberpunk setting known as Neo-Tokyo. There, the young leader of a biker gang, Shōtarō Kaneda, struggles to save his childhood friend, Tetsuo Shima, after he begins to develop increasingly dangerous telekinetic abilities as part of a government experiment....