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A ROUND-UP OF THE LATEST NEWS IN THE DIGITAL WORLD
GOOGLE PIXEL 4
GOOGLE has not been shy when talking about its next Pixel phone.
We’ll know even more on October 15 – there is to be a special event in New York at which Google is expected to reveal the phones, above, officially, and launch several other new products such as new laptops and Google Home speakers.
One of the features slated for the new phone is the addition of face recognition for unlocking, as well as an updated camera unit.
A new Pixelbook laptop is also expected after the failure of Google’s tablet, the Pixel Slate, released this time last year. Google has revealed it will not be making more tablets and so is expected to improve its laptop lineup instead.
DISNEY BOB STEPS DOWN FROM APPLE
IT might seem like a falling out, but there’s a logical reason for Disney’s CEO Bob Iger, right, to be stepping down from the board of Apple.
Both companies are scheduled to launch their own TV streaming service in the coming months and, despite recently suggesting he would stay with the iPhone maker, Iger decided this week the conflict would be too strong and walked away. Both sides were equally as effusive about each other on the break-up, though.
The relationship between Apple and Disney goes back a long way – Iger was instrumental in the deal which saw Disney buy animation studio Pixar, in which Apple CEO Steve Jobs was the majority shareholder. Iger joined Apple’s board in 2011.
AN END TO SOCIAL VIDEO NIGHTMARES?
CREATIVE software maker Adobe has hatched a cunning plan to help video-makers save a lot of time and energy when recutting videos for social media platforms.
As it stands, if you want to publish the same video across different platforms, you need to edit each one for the different formats each platforms uses – portrait video for Instagram Stories, widescreen for YouTube, and so on.
A new feature in Adobe’s video editing software Premiere will do all that hard work automatically – using machine learning and artificial intelligence to keep the interesting bits of your video in shot and even repositioning captions and other on-screen text so it remains visible.