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Apple this week released the first iOS 15 beta to developers, and away from the brouhaha surrounding its many tentpole features, many notable tweaks...

Newsroom Navigation Outside 26 Federal Plaza, the site of one of New York Citys three immigration courts. Max Siegelbaum for Documented Human Rights Groups Demand End to Digital Surveillance of Immigrants Plus: Californias governor pardons firefighters facing deportation, a loophole may expose Chicago immigrants information, and more. Human rights groups are calling on the Biden administration and Immigration and Customs Enforcement to halt a digital surveillance program that follows cl...

Google Chrome Releases Update on iPhone And iPad; New Widgets, New Features KEY POINTS The three new widgets provide easier access to frequently used Google features ​Users may manually add the widgets on their Chrome-updated iOS and iPadOS devices Google Chrome released an update on iOS and iPadOS that provides iPhone and iPad users easy access to new widgets and features. Google rolled out the Google Chrome update version 90.0.4430.78 on Monday. The first set of Google Chrome home screen wi...

In this week’s edition: House passes Secure and Fair Enforcement (SAFE) Banking Act to protect proceeds from state-legal cannabis businesses from operation of money laundering laws, but has an unclear path in the Senate Senate Majority Leader Schumer and Sens. Booker and Wyden expected to introduce comprehensive cannabis reform legislation over objections from some Democratic colleagues Adult-use cannabis now legal in 17 US states, including, most recently, in New York, New Mexico and Virgini...

FEATURE COLUMN by Richard Roeper WHEN FOOTBALL WAS ELECTRIC Every time I see a story about a cutting-edge video baseball game such as Out of the Park Baseball 22 or MLB the Show 21, I envy the kids (and the adult kids) who can master these and other sports video games, but I also think: "Yeah, but we had Strat-O-Matic and Atari Home Run and Computer Baseball." Not to mention Bas-Ket, Sure Shot Hockey, electric football and lets not forget that little backboard you hung on your bedroom door so y...

There are two ways to make a background transparent in Photoshop: using the "Remove Background" quick action or manually by using selection tools.  The quick action works with a click in just seconds, but it may not work for complex images.   You can also delete the background by carefully selecting the subject, inverting the selection, and then deleting the selection. Making the background transparent – sometimes referred to as "punching out the background" by graphic artists – is a str...