Apple on Wednesday introduced the second generation of its high-end AirPods Pro wireless earbuds, and they come with multiple enhancements. At the same time, the company also made some changes to the entire lineup of AirPods. Read on as we detail what’s new for the AirPods lineup. AirPods Pro 2 First and most obviously, there are AirPods Pro 2. The new generation comes with the same design as the previous version, but this time with hardware improvements....

Popular stylus maker, Adonit has today released its newest stylus, Snap 2 with a range of features focused on creatives and Snapchat and Instagram users that has a built-in camera shutter for selfies and more. Snap 2 blends a Bluetooth camera shutter remote with a fine-point stylus and is available in space gray, peach pop, and parakeet blue. The new stylus is aimed at creatives and social media fans with who like to draw, sketch, annotate, and snap selfies and other shots....

As the first pre-orders begin arriving to customers around the world, AirPods Max are also now available for Apple Store pickup and same-day delivery in select areas. Supply appears to be severely constrained, however, so availability varies wildly by city. Via the Apple Online Store, AirPods Max are backordered well into 2021, with Apple quoting shipping times between 12 and 14 weeks for most color variants. This means in-store pickup is likely the best choice if you’re looking to buy a AirPods Max before the holiday season....

AirPods Pro 2 have been widely praised since their release last month, but there have been a few early bugs. Many AirPods Pro 2 users are now taking to Reddit and other online forums to complain about a pesky audio drifting issue, which occurs even when Apple’s features like Spatial Audio and dynamic head tracking are disabled. Audio drifting is an issue with headphones where the sound shifts between each side of the two earbuds....

The Apple AirTag has been available for just over a week. Since then, we have seen a user rebuilding an AirTag as a thinner card that fits into wallets and also learned that it’s “frighteningly easy” to stalk using the item tracker. Now, a security researcher was able to hack the accessory, modifying its NFC URL for Lost Mode. The German security researcher Stack Smashing tweeted today (via The 8-bit) that he was able to “break into the microcontroller of the AirTag” and modified elements of the item tracker software....

Update 11/17/2020: You no longer need this utility to connect your Outlook.com accounts to modern versions of the Microsoft Office Outlook client. Start by closing Microsoft Outlook and downloading the Connector client. Depending on your install of Outlook, grab either the 32-Bit or 64-Bit version of the connector. If you don’t know, checking which version of Outlook you’re running is simple. Once downloaded, Launch the install by double-clicking it (OutlookConnector....

Adobe today released a new iPad app dubbed Comp CC that offers “rapid creation of layout concepts for mobile, Web and print projects” that can later be used in Photoshop CC, Illustrator CC and InDesign CC. Adobe first previewed the new app last year when it was still an early prototype, but today the app is arriving on the App Store for all. The Adobe Comp CC app is available as a free download on the App Store and requires at least a free Create Cloud membership....

Adobe is currently testing a new presentation app for the iPad similar in purpose to PowerPoint and Keynote, via CNET. The project is currently called Ginger. Although details are sparse, it seems to be focused on the creation of sales pitches and what Adobe calls “explainer videos”. Adobe has said that the app is in the beta stage of development, but is yet to confirm whether the app will ever be publicly released....

Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. earned some less than favorable notices for last year’s third season, but with a new 10pm time slot and a turn to darker thematic territory the series has been widely seen as rebounding for season 4 - particularly thanks to Gabriel Luna’s turn as new semi-regular character Robbie Reyes, a.k.a. the supernatural hero Ghost Rider. Now, with the season’s Winter finale fast approaching, a new teaser shows off the big events leading up to an impending cliffhanger....

But ultimately Apple’s latest privacy step won’t make much difference: there’s already a new way for advertisers to track us, and there’s little Apple can do about it: device fingerprinting. Read on to find out how to test whether your devices can be uniquely identified … Why advertisers, websites and apps want to track us There are two reasons advertisers, websites, and apps want to track us. First, they want to show us personalized ads....

Updating database records is a very common process that any typical ASP web application would include. In this tutorial, we will take a look at some sample ADO/ASP codes that can be used to update records in the database. SQL UPDATE Statement Structured Query Language also known as ‘SQL‘ is the standard language used with most modern database applications. SQL provides us with a mechanism to select, insert, update and modify records in a database....

Hi Adobe. I know I’ve said some critical things about Flash, and I sure do miss the days when you and Macromedia seemed more focused on creative applications, but I do like this demonstration of a version of Photoshop running on an iPad. Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch tool some time to show this new tool to Cnet recently. In the image above he’s mixing paings using the iPad as a palette, the iPad’s attached to a computer running Photoshop....

Researchers at PwC found that, while AI will automate some jobs out of existence, “any job losses from automation are likely to be broadly offset in the long run by new jobs created as a result of the larger and wealthier economy made possible by these new technologies.” In the Future of Jobs Report 2020, the World Economic Forum estimates 85 million jobs will be displaced, yet AI will create 97 million new jobs by 2025....

During the coronavirus pandemic, college football teams are faced with the interesting scenario of trying to get their players in peak physical shape for the fall season…remotely. A new report from The Athletic (paywall) details how Alabama has issued Apple Watch to all of its players before the college was shut down to keep the training of its players going and check in on their sleep and heart rate data, all while walking a tricky line of not breaking SEC rules....

Adobe’s Julieanne Kost has created three videos which detail 25 new minor refinements in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 that could impact your workflow, these clips are available here. Writing on the Lightroom blog, developer Tom Hogarty said, “We’ve come a long way since our very first public beta on January 9th 2006 at Macworld.(We didn’t even have a crop tool in the first release!) For this latest release we went back to the drawing board and revisited what we believe are the fundamental priorities of our customers: Performance and Image Quality....

[This is a review of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 3, episode 11. There will be SPOILERS.] - Prior to its midseason break, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 3 tackled the global consequences of Inhumans undergoing Terrigenesis, further setting up the dispute that will take center stage in Captain America: Civil War later this year. Additionally, Daisy Johnson (Chloe Bennet) led a campaign within S.H.I.E.L.D. to assemble her team of Inhumans – the Secret Warriors – that was realized in the midseason finale consisting of herself, Lincoln (Luke Mitchell), and Joey (Juan Pablo Raba)....

[This is a review of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 3, episode 18. There will be SPOILERS.] – Throughout much of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 3, especially since the show returned from its winter hiatus, the series has had a number of balls in the air – Hydra, Hive, the Secret Warriors, The ATCU/S.H.I.E.L.D., the public’s reaction to Inhumans, the dynamic of Coulson’s team – and largely managed to balance the many moving pieces....

Of all the various properties that comprise the Marvel Cinematic Universe – that’s 12 movies, five short films, and four television series at present – few have proven to be as central to the shared universe’s overarching storyline as Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. The inaugural Marvel TV show just finished the first half of its third season two nights ago, capping off a 10-episode run that has done much to help set the stage for next year’s Captain America: Civil War (the first entry in Phase 3) and all the films beyond, going all the way up to 2019’s The Inhumans (Phase 4’s first installment)....

[SPOILERS for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 4, episode 15 ‘Self Control’ ahead.] – Despite already having a midseason finale at the end of last year, last night’s episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. presented one of the show’s most intriguing and multilayered cliffhangers yet. The events of “Self Control” brought many of the season’s stories to a head, while setting up the final chunk of episodes for when the show returns in April....

Funny and relatable life situations, death metal music and adorably drawn animals with human characteristics. What more could you want in an anime? The comedy anime Aggretsuko includes all of those things. This anime is about Retsuko, a 25-year-old red panda who has a crummy job and releases her anger by singing death metal songs. There is so much to know about the main characters, but because each episode is around 15 minutes long it can be hard to pay attention to every detail about each one....