Adobe Lightroom 6 goes to perpetual rest Adobe really, really, really wants your photos in its cloud. So the company released a sadly undercooked version of its Lightroom software that's really a mobile app for the desktop, and branded it Lightroom Creative Cloud (CC), while rebranding the older, more powerful version as Lightroom Classic CC. At the same time, it killed all future updates for the perpetual-license version (you know, the one you don't have to subscribe to), that will remain on sale, 'for an undetermined amount of time.' Facebook's AI chatbots talk themselves out of a job are all the rage these days, though most are simple with rule-based responses; are, of course, the grail.

Training an AI to learn to conduct a natural-feeling conversation is hard, and just like with a human, you never know what kind of lessons an AI will learn from its interactions. Last year, and this year, Facebook's Alice and Bob started learning from each other, which. Not only is that kind of ', but it doesn't help much for teaching to interact with humans. Facebook shut that down fast. Logitech Harmony Link disconnects in 2018 When Logitech announced in September it would be killing its not-very-good and pretty old (a device that let you control your TV via a phone), it wasn't really a surprise. The surprise was the way Logitech handled it, telling people that a device they bought would simply cease to function after March 2018 - i.e., it would be bricked - and offering a puny discount on a better Logitech replacement. A subsequent, at which point - replace them for free.

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(The rest of Logitech's current Harmony remote line hasn't changed, and remains totally supported.). Nikon DL series permanently on the DL A year after it was announced in February 2016 and eight months after they were supposed to ship in June 2016, Nikon stuck a fork in its promising-looking compacts. On February 13, 2017, Nikon basically said that it couldn't ship the cameras at a market-friendly price and still make any money on them. Sony announced the later that year, which had similar specs to the DL24-85, but priced at $300 more than Nikon's $650 estimate, which gives you some idea of how much Nikon would have had to charge to make it worthwhile.

The end of an era for Windows phones In October, Microsoft finally cut its losses and declared that Windows 10 Mobile just wasn't worth it anymore; in marketing-speak, that new features and hardware were 'no longer the focus' and 'the volume of users is too low for most companies to invest,' though the company will continue to support existing products with bug fixes and security updates. Despite some nice hardware, like the budget, Microsoft just couldn't gain the traction in a market where two majors - Google Android and Apple iOS - sucked up the majority of development resources for applications. Phone headphone jacks: On life support? The headphone jack, but increasingly, your connection choices are to buy new wireless headphones or use an annoying dongle. At the moment, the most popular current phone that still has one is the, and LG and OnePlus are also sticking by the ol' 3.5mm jack. But Apple, HTC and Google have already started to move on. If Samsung decides to chuck it from its next phone, it's likely that most of the other manufacturers will follow.

No matter how bitterly people complain, it rarely translates into the dent in profits necessary to make companies reverse course. Apple Mac Mini stuck in limbo Like the, the still-popular Mini hasn't gotten a real update in a while.

Tim Cook assured a fan via email that 'we do plan for Mac Mini to be an important part of our product line going forward.' Normally, I ignore executive statements and look at a company's actions, in which case, I'd usually give this one a snort. But a relatively inexpensive, compact Mac desktop really is essential to Apple's product line, and I bet it's learned a lot of useful lessons from its phone development to make it even smaller. So in this case I think we're just waiting for Apple to decide what that's going to look like, and my gut says we'll see a new one in 2018.