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November 4, 2019, 12:16 PM

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Imran Hussain / Wccftech:
Photoshop for iPad is now available in the App Store, with full PSD editing, layers, context-aware tools, and more, for $9.99 per month and a 30-day free trial  —  Adobe has finally released the first version of Photoshop for iPad.  The update is available as a 30-day trial …
Apple:
Apple announces a $2.5B plan to combat the housing availability and affordability crisis in California  —  Cupertino, California — Apple today announced a comprehensive $2.5 billion plan to help address the housing availability and affordability crisis in California.
Antonio Lucio / Facebook:
Facebook debuts logo with text that has context-dependent coloring, says it's to further distinguish the company from the Facebook app, which keeps its branding  —  Facebook started as a single app.  Now, 15 years later, we offer a suite of products that help people connect to their friends and family …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft unveils a new Office app for iOS and Android, combining Word, Excel, and PowerPoint into a single download and with a new logo  —  Its new mobile app is a central hub for all things Office  —  Microsoft is unveiling a new Office app for iOS and Android today.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft unveils a new logo for Edge Chromium, ahead of the release of the final version of the browser  —  The new icon is a wave surfing the web  —  Microsoft is refreshing the logo for its Chromium-based Edge browser.  The software giant originally unveiled its Edge icon more than four years ago …
Klint Finley / Wired:
Wikipedia partners with The Internet Archive to turn book citations into links to two-page previews, using Archive's scanned-in books as sources for ~130K links  —  The operator of the Wayback Machine allows Wikipedia's users to check citations from books as well as the web.

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