Suddenly, Intel is a hot topic again — but this time as an investment property. As the company weathers layoffs and a struggling foundry business, both the U.S. government and SoftBank plan to invest. However, it’s not so simple. Intel announced that SoftBank Group Corp., the Japanese investment giant, would put $2 billion at $23 per share into the struggling company, with the stated goal of investing in semiconductor manufacturing in the United States. That would give it about two percent of the company, as the Wall Street Journal noted. The real question is what the United States government is pushing for, and if it will be allowed to: essentially convert the $10.9 billion previously earmarked for Intel as part of the U.S. Chips Act into equity. Though Bloomberg reported the proposed deal on Monday, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick confirmed the government’s intentions publicly on CNBC on Tuesday morning. “We should get an equity stake for our money, so we’ll deliver the money which was already committed under the Biden administration,” Lutnick told CNBC, as quoted by NBC News. “We’ll get equity in return for it,” he added, and “get a good return for the American taxpayer.” Bloomberg has stated that the government’s investment would equate to about a 10 percent equity stake in Intel, though this has not been confirmed. Intel has also not commented on whether it would agree to such a deal. It’s also unclear whether the company would have any say in the matter. The government does not have a sovereign wealth fund for investment, though a May Trump executive order tried to create one. Intel lost $2.9 billion for the second quarter, with flat revenue of $12.9 billion, during which Intel chief executive Lip-Bu Tan said that Intel’s 18A process technology and its Panther Lake chips remained on track to roll out near the end of this year. On the other hand, Intel’s chief financial officer David Zinsner said that the process would “peak” by 2030 or so. Intel also raised the question of whether it would even remain in chip manufacturing, if it couldn’t find a high-volume customer for the next-gen 14A process technology. Meanwhile, AMD continues to gain ground, quarter-over-quarter, especially in desktop CPUs. Intel still holds dominant shares in mobile and in the server space. Read...

At a glanceExpert`s Rating Pros Straightforward setup and mapping Delivered an even, thorough cut from the first mow Obstacle detection is promising (although it still needs work) Cons Somewhat underpowered for its size Rear-wheel drive only Underwhelming performance on slopes Our Verdict The Eufy Lawnbot E18 is a great robot lawn mower for smaller, flatter yards and for people who don’t want to spend a lot of time setting one up. Price When Reviewed This value will show the geolocated pricing text for product undefined Best Pricing Today Best Prices Today: Eufy Lawnbot E18 Retailer Price Price comparison from over 24,000 stores worldwide Product Price Price comparison from Backmarket Best Prices Today: Check today’s prices Research and development efforts aren’t cheap. Outsourcing is one of the ways manufacturers can more affordably expand their product offerings, and some smart home brands—including Anker’s Eufy smart home division—have taken this approach rather than developing their own products in-house. In this case, we’re talking about robot lawn mowers. The Eufy Lawnbot E-series robot lawn mowers that Anker debuted at CES last January are actually rebranded TerraMow models that have been available in Europe since mid-2024. Apart from battery size, the two Lawnbot E-series mowers are identical, with the model E15 capable of handling up to 0.2 acres, while the model E18 reviewed here is suitable for up to 0.3 acres. Specifications Both Lawnbot E-series mowers might seem small compared to much of the competition—suburban and rural American yards tend to be very large—but you don’t need to own an acre or more of turf to appreciate a robot lawn mower. The Eufy Lawnbot E18 will look familiar to European readers, as it’s based on the design of the TerraMow S2100 that came to market in that region in 2023.Ed Oswald/Foundry These are smallish, rear-wheel drive mowers, but don’t let their size fool you: Both machines are packed with smarts. The GPS navigation that so many other modern mowers use, however, is not one of their features. These mowers map your yard using computer vision alone. Moving from unboxing to mowing happened more quickly with the Eufy Lawnbot E18 than any other mower I’ve evaluated to date. The mower maps your yard completely on its own: you only direct it to the portions of the yard you want it to map and then draw pathways between these areas. I had the Lawnbot E18 up and running in my yard in less than 30 minutes. While it’s exciting to see a mower that doesn’t depend on GPS satellites or require a complex installation involving antennas on tripods and the like, I certainly had my doubts about a mower that relies solely on vision, but those have largely dispersed—at least regarding Eufy’s (and TerraMow’s) bots. Setup The Lawnbot E18 will memorize the location of its garage base station and use the pattern printed on its inside back wall for precise docking.  Ed Oswald/Foundry The initial setup of the Eufy Lawnbot E18 involves finding a suitable location for the mower’s base station, plugging it in, and then turning your attention to the mower itself. While the mower comes with enough charge to complete setup, we charged it to 100 percent, which took less than half an hour (Eufy says a drained battery should reach a full charge within 90 to 110 minutes). After that, you can start mapping from within the app. Place the E18 anywhere within a grassy area (the app will guide you) and allow it to calibrate. The mower will spin in a circle, utilizing its cameras to determine its location in the world. Watching a robot doing donuts in your yard will seem odd, but that’s how this mower determines its precise location without the assistance of GPS. Once that orientation process is successful, the mower will proceed to map the entire area of grass. I have a complex yard, so I set the Lawnbot E18 free on the easiest patches of grass first. It handled these spectacularly, needing less than 10 minutes to map the 400 square feet. The mower struggled in the sloped portions of my yard, however, often attempting to map areas that were too steep for it to navigate. This required me to set no-go zones and boundaries within the app to prevent it from getting stuck. All-wheel drive would have helped with this, but the E-series mowers only drive their rear wheels. The Eufy Lawnbot E18’s smaller size allows it to more easily navigate narrow pathways in your yard compared to most robot lawn mowers.Ed Oswald/Foundry The mower also insisted on returning to its base station after each zone was mapped, which I found frustrating. When it came to mowing areas far from the base station, this added a considerable amount of time to the mapping process. This behavior might be necessitated by the Lawnbot E18’s reliance on computer vision for navigation. Apart from that, the Lawnbot E18 was surprisingly smooth at mapping, even in areas with view obstructions or obstacles. You won’t spend much time setting up a more basic yard; indeed, moving from unboxing to mowing happened more quickly with the Lawnbot E18 than any other mower I’ve evaluated to date. Performance The Lawnbot E18 is underpowered compared to most of the rear-wheel drive mowers I’ve tested in this price range, and it can climb slopes of only 18 degrees or less. If you have anything more than gradual rises in your yard, you will likely run into trouble with this mower. While the Lawnbot E18 is smaller than most robot lawn mowers I’ve reviewed, its size—and the fact that its cutting blades are quite close to the edge of its deck—gives it at least one important advantage: Bulkier mowers can have difficulty maneuvering around obstacles, leaving unsightly strips of uncut grass behind. Slopes are not the Lawnbot E18’s forté, as its limited to climbing 18-degree grades.Ed Oswald/Foundry That said, the E18’s small cutting radius—8 inches—results in longer mowing times than many other robot mowers. But I’m OK with that, provided the mower does its job. And for the most part, the Lawnbot E18 does its job. While its vision navigation isn’t perfect, the mower performed well overall, and the maps it created became increasingly more precise with each run. This meant the E18 left fewer untouched patches of grass after a few mowing sessions. Another surprise came when I packed the mower away and then re-installed it later for a photoshoot. I put its base station in approximately the same location, but I assumed the mower would need to create an entirely new map; instead, it recognized the yard and adjusted itself accordingly. Some of the most significant navigation issues I experienced were sun blindness and incorrectly identifying tall grass and weeds as obstructions. You can change the direction of its cut by zone; however, there is no option for alternating the direction it mows to prevent its wheels from leaving tracks in your lawn. Segway’s E3-series mowers have this feature, and it’s great. The Lawnbot E18 can’t operate in the dark, either, even though it’s equipped with an LED light that can be turned on while it’s in remote control mode. This means you won’t be able to mow your lawns at night, as you can with some competing mowers. The Eufy app From left to right: the Eufy Lawnbot E18’s in-app scheduling function, live view, and primary screen.Ed Oswald/Foundry Some of the problems I encountered with the Lawnbot E18 can probably be chalked up to software/firmware issues. Until June, the base station had to be placed within a mow zone, or the bot wouldn’t be able to find it. And you could only set the mow direction for your entire yard rather than by zone. Also, an errant firmware update in early June temporarily prevented some Eufy mowers from operating at all. These problems reminded me of what I dealt with during my Mammotion Yuka 1500 review last year. In both cases, things improved over time. Eufy’s Lawnbot app is now much more stable than when I first tested the E18 in May. It also got better at detecting transitions between grass and sidewalk. Walkway stones, on the other hand, continuously tripped up the mower, as it would treat them as a solid sidewalk. If you own other Eufy smart home devices—whether it be security cameras, video doorbells, smart lighting, vacuums, or mops—you’ll use the same app to control the Lawnbot. It will appear under the Clean tab. The app is generally easy to use, although a bug would sometimes cause the mower to occasionally disappear from the app’s Home page. The app’s live-view feature is generally useful, provided you have good Wi-Fi coverage in your yard, but it does take some getting used to. The mower’s movements are somewhat jerky, so it can appear as though the machine is lurching in unexpected directions when it really isn’t. I didn’t thoroughly test the app’s remote-control function, however, as my Wi-Fi router doesn’t blanket my yard with coverage. Should you buy the Eufy Lawnbot E18? That the Eufy Lawnbot E18 is a rebranded TerraMow product doesn’t lessen its appeal—at least for homeowners with smaller lawns. Its reliance on visual navigation is novel, but that feature gets you as close to plug-and-play as you’ll get with a robot lawn mower. It’s a great option for folks who feel overwhelmed by modern technology. And if you own other Eufy smart home products, you won’t even need to download another app. If you have a larger or more complex yard, the Sunseeker Orion X7 AWD will probably be more suitable. Or if you don’t want to wait for a mower to learn the shape of your yard, you might consider the Mowrator S1 4WD, which you control with a gaming console-like remote instead of relying on the mower to navigate. This review is part of TechHive’s in-depth coverage of the best robot lawn mowers. Read...

One of the most frustrating things about new tech these days is that so many smartphones, tablets, and other devices come without a power adapter (or charger block). But that’s not a problem if you have your own high-performance charger, like this Baseus 65W 3-port option. Normally $50 for two, you can now grab double for just $30. With 65W of total output, this charger is fast enough to get your phone back to 100% in no time. It’s a 3-port charger, too, with two USB-C ports and a USB-A port, so you can simultaneously charge up to 3 devices. Note that when multiple ports are in use, the top USB-C maxes out at 45W while the other USB-C and USB-A max out at 15W combined. But when used solo, each USB-C maxes out at 65W while the USB-A maxes out at 60W—so no worries there! What makes this charger so good is that it’s built with GaN technology. GaN chargers are faster, smaller, and safer, offering better temperature control and protection against short circuits. It’s why this charger can be so compact yet high performance, and it even has foldable prongs so it’s ultra-portable and perfect for traveling. A USB-C charger like this usually costs about $25 to $30 for a single one, so this is an excellent deal for two. What are you waiting for? Snag it while you can because who knows how long this price will last? Save 40% on a pair of fast-charging 3-port USB-C power adaptersBuy now at Amazon Read...

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Nvidia’s GeForce Now service is offering its Ultimate tier subscribers an enormous upgrade today: GeForce RTX 5080 servers, cinematic visual upgrades, and a new “install to play” service that will “download” new games directly to the cloud, making them instantly ready to play. Nvidia is leaving the price of the GeForce Now Ultimate tier unchanged at $19.99 per month, and $99.99 for six months, Nvidia said at the Gamescom show. Nvidia is also adding an annual GeForce Now Ultimate subscription for $199.99. A GeForce Now Ultimate daily membership will be available at launch, Nvidia said, presumably for the current price of $7.99. Session lengths will remain at eight hours for Ultimate subscribers. The point of Nvidia’s GeForce Now service has always been to deliver a cloud gaming experience that’s as close as possible to what a gamer would experience on a PC. The price of graphics cards, of course, has climbed to astronomical heights, making GeForce Now a way of partially offsetting the hundreds of dollars a gamer would need to shell out for the latest RTX 4000 or 5000 series cards. Of course, playing a game in the cloud has traditionally meant forcing certain restrictions upon the subscriber: a limited resolution and image quality to minimize the amount of data sent back and forth over a broadband connection, and some level of latency or delay between a user’s input and a corresponding response from the game running on the server. Nvidia’s GeForce Now upgrades attack all of those angles to improve the experience. Nvidia’s new GeForce Now upgrade offers an RTX 5080 performance upgrade, but only on some games. Naturally, the most high-profile upgrade is the jump from the current RTX 4080 servers to the new RTX 5080 servers powered by Nvidia’s “Blackwell” architecture. Those come with all the bells and whistles you might expect from an RTX 5080 card, including DLSS 4 multi-frame generation that enables 5K resolution at 120 fps, and Nvidia Reflex technology with support for 360 fps at 1080p resolutions. Nvidia’s saying that if you’re in a GeForce Now-supported region, the “majority” of gamers will experience sub-30-millisecond latency. There’s a catch, however. Nvidia isn’t saying that all of its games will be playable on its Nvidia 5080 “Blackwell” servers, just that “you’ll be able to play select games with RTX 5080 performance.” Additional 5080-supported games will roll out weekly, Nvidia said. Nvidia isn’t saying exactly which CPUs will be used to power its new GeForce Now servers, but did say that they’ll be driven by AMD’s “Zen 5 CPUs” and Nvidia’s own ConnectX-7 SmartNICs. Currently, the Ultimate tier offers 16 virtual CPUs, and presumably that will remain the same. All told, there are 62 teraflops of gaming performance and 48GB of frame buffer available, with up to 100Mbps of data streamed down to your PC. That will boost performance on the Steam Deck from 60 to 90 fps, Nvidia said, and to 120 fps on the Lenovo Legion Go S. LG TVs will be able to game at 5120×2880 when connected to Windows or a macOS device — yes, macOS. The GeForce Now client on macOS will receive the same upgrades as the Windows app, finally turning Cupertino’s hardware into a gaming machine. Nvidia is also thinking about how games will actually look on your screen, too. If you game on a laptop, Nvidia will auto-detect what resolution it can game at, and will deliver you the best visual quality it thinks you can stand. GeForce Now will use YUV color with 4:4:4 chroma sampling to make games look great, tapping into AI where necessary to smooth graphical overlays. You’re going to like Nvidia’s new “install to play” One of the most exciting upgrades, however, is a not-so-obvious one: install-to-play. The legacy GeForce Now service required you to own a game, then “load” it onto one of Nvidia’s cloud servers. After you finished playing, however, those server resources would be reassigned to other users, instead of maintaining a persistent server dedicated to your gameplay alone. That meant a small delay while your game once again “loaded” onto a GeForce Now server. Now, that’s changed. Nvidia is assigning 100GB of dedicated cloud storage to each GeForce Now Ultimate subscriber, meaning that one or a few games will always be instantly available to play, including saved data. You’ll also be able to buy additional storage for 200GB for $2.99 per month, 500GB for $4.99 per month, and 1TB for $7.99 per month. Users who subscribe to the cheaper performance tier will also receive the install-to-play storage options, too. All told, the upgrade adds about 2,200 install-to-play games to the existing GeForce Now streaming library, for a total of about 4,500 or slightly more. They will include games like Obsidian’s The Outer Worlds 2, the Paradox sequel Vampire: The Masquerade — Bloodlines 2, or Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 from Activision. Nvidia believes that you’ll get better performance streaming its games than with a PlayStation 5 Pro. Finally, Nvidia is offering more click-to-play options to try out GeForce Now. For example, if your buddy wants you to drop in and play Fortnite, they’ll be able to drop a “link” right in Discord. As long as you have an Epic gamertag set up, you’ll be able to jump right in — even if you’re on your ancient office desktop without a GPU installed. Nvidia also said that it’s “lightening” its Project G-Assist AI app, allowing it to be played on all RTX-equipped PCs with more than 6GB of VRAM. Read...

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At a glanceExpert`s Rating Pros Optional solar panel is effective at keeping the battery topped up Pre-recording option ensures you don’t miss the start of any motion events Responsive and quick to load videos, thanks in part to its 5GHz Wi-Fi 6 support Cons No infrared night vision Only 2K resolution (although the images look good) Confusing and poorly organized app Our Verdict Price When Reviewed This value will show the geolocated pricing text for product undefined Best Pricing Today Best Prices Today: Reolink Altas Retailer Price Check Price comparison from over 24,000 stores worldwide Product Price Price comparison from Backmarket Best Prices Today: Check today’s prices To clarify from the start: The Reolink Altas is an entirely new security camera, even though there is already another Altas-branded product in existence; namely, the Altas PT Ultra (and it is “Altas,” by the way. We haven’t misspelled “Atlas.”) Anyway, while that other Altas is a chunky pan/tilt/zoom camera, this Altas is a bullet-style camera with a fixed lens. Thanks to its 20,000mAh battery and the 6-watt solar panel bundled with this SKU, Reolink says one hour of direct sunlight daily can power 24/7 continuous recording without the battery ever draining completely. You can also buy the camera without the panel for about $50 less ($149.99 vs. $199.99). In many ways, the Altas is the svelte, simpler younger sibling of the Altas PT Ultra we reviewed in Septenber 2024, ditching the pan/tilt motor and some of its other luxe features to make for a simpler and more affordable product. Credit to Reolink for taking a hard look at their industrial design with this camera, as the company is not known for always having the most forward-looking hardware. This one, measuring about 5 x 3 x 2.5 inches in size, is only slightly bigger than the palm of my hand, leaving only the oversized antenna to draw attention to itself. Battery life one of the Reolink Altas’ major selling points. The 20,000 mAh cell can be charged via a standard USB-C cable or the rugged 6-watt solar panel. Most people will use the provided ball-and-socket mount to attach the camera to a wall or ceiling, but the pole/tree-strap system included with the PT Ultra is also present here; and again, it’s too short to be useful for strapping the camera to anything more than a few inches in diameter. Specifications Reolink sent its 6-watt Solan Panel 2 with the Altas for this review. It costs $39.99 if purchased separately.Christopher Null/Foundry The Altas is rated IP66 (better than the IP65 rating on the PT Ultra) for weatherproofing, which our guide to IP codes tells us means it can withstand exposure to powerful jets of water. And like its sibling, it’s impervious to the ingress of particulate matter. It has a dual-band Wi-Fi 6 adapter onboard, along with a mic and speaker for two-way audio, an integrated siren, and both black-and-white and color night vision, thanks to Reolink’s ColorX technology. The camera is a 2K model with resolution of 2560 x 1440 pixels and a 110-degree diagonal viewing angle. Images looked surprisingly good in my testing, and I was able to pick out relatively far-off details, even though its actual resolution is a big step down from the PT Ultra’s 4K resolution. As with the PT Ultra, battery life is a major selling point. The 20,000 mAh cell can be charged via a standard USB-C cable or the rugged solar panel. The system is so power-conscious that Reolink says it can record continuously for 336 hours (that’s 14 days) without a recharge, or record 5 minutes per day for 540 days. The Reolink Altas captures video in 2K resolution, which is a step back from the 4K Altas PT Ultra, but the image quality was more than adequate for my purposes, especially at this price.Christopher Null/Foundry Those claims didn’t exactly pan out in my testing: I got only about 5 days of uninterrupted recording (without the solar panel, that is) before the battery petered out. Again, Reolink says that even modest sunlight hitting the solar panel will keep it running indefinitely, and that indeed was accurate. With the panel connected I rarely saw the battery at anything below 99 percent. The Reolink Alta can record to an internal microSD card—capacities up to 512GB are supported—although none is included (Amazon was bundling a 128GB card and a solar panel with the camera at the time of this review). Your other alternative for local storage is to buy a Reolink Home Hub, a $100 mass storage device that you connect to your home network. It supports up to eight Reolink cameras, and it comes with a 64GB microSD card, with slots for two more cards with capacities up to 512GB each. You can read our positive review at the preceding link. The terms of the optional Reolink Cloud service have not changed, except for support for more cameras and increased storage at the topmost tier. Pricing for the cloud service is $7/month (30 days, 5 cameras, 30GB storage), $11/month (30 days, 10 cameras, 80GB storage), or $16/month (60 days, 30 cameras, 250GB storage). As with the PT Ultra, onboard storage will be perfectly fine for most users, unless you absolutely need the only significant bonus feature the service includes: thumbnail photos delivered with push notifications when motion is detected. Installation and setup Reolink has paid less attention to set-up and app-based management. Initial configuration requires scanning a QR code and lots of waiting while loud verbal instructions in multiple languages erupt from the camera’s speaker. The process failed twice when I first tried to set it up, which is frustrating. Certain features in the Reolink app remain obtuse or, at best, horribly translated. Again, “Clear” is the app’s term high-resolution video. “Fluent” is the option for low-res recording. The Reolink could use a rethink in terms of its layout. All the features you’ll need are there, they can just a bit difficult to find.Christopher Null/Foundry As before, continuously recorded video is saved in 5-minute chunks, one right after another, on Reolink’s playback timeline. This is easy to scrub through, and if you’re only recording based on motion detection, the job is even easier thanks to the chronological thumbnails. The Altas also includes a new prerecording option that lets you capture 2 to 10 seconds of video before motion triggers a clip, though this is captured at a user-specified framerate of 1, 3 or 5 frames per second. It’s essentially a low-speed continuous recording system, though Reolink notes that using it will impact the battery considerably if you don’t have a steady sun source (up to 2 extra hours per day). The prerecording system worked perfectly in my testing, capturing the time just before a person entered the frame, exactly as specified. You won’t notice the lower frame rate for the prerecording because nothing is moving. The spotlights ringing the front of the camera are brighter than I expected, though their luminosity is not specified. I was able to light up the area for at least 30 feet at full brightness with the spotlights on, and to record in full color. That’s a good thing, because you’ll probably need the lights: Like the PT Ultra, there is no infrared night vision mode on the Altas, and in conditions of true darkness, the image was garbled and unusable, based on my testing with the spotlights turned off. Reolink’s pre-recording feature captures subjects that trigger the camera’s motion sensor before the camera actually starts to record.Christopher Null/Foundry The only way to get any workable image at night is with the spotlights turned on. Fortunately, their brightness is adjustable (and they can adjust automatically), so you don’t blast out the neighborhood. In my testing, clips lasted as long as motion occurred, with no cooldown between clips. Five minutes appears to be the maximum clip length. Clip thumbnails are also accurately tagged with a type of motion detected in them: person, animal, vehicle, or “others.” All told, the camera works really well, with the lack of infrared night vision the only major downside. Should you buy the Reolink Altas? If you don’t need pan/tilt features, the Reolink Altas is an excellent alternative to the Altas PT Ultra, which is bulky and awkward. This camera keeps most of the other features of the PT Ultra and trims about $80 off its suggested retail price. You’ll find cheaper outdoor cameras on the market—including ones bundled with solar panels—but the overall performance of the Reolink Altas might sway you to shell out a few extra bucks for it. If you are shopping for even less expensive, we’ll tell you which key security camera features you shouldn’t give up in the name of price. This review is part of TechHive’s in-depth coverage of the best home security cameras. Read...

At a glanceExpert`s Rating Pros Editing is faster with AI and automation Easy-to-use wizards Cons Limited control in some AI-generated graphics Our Verdict The new AI in CyberLink Photo Director 365 helps achieve results faster, with tools and wizards supporting design drafts. Price When Reviewed This value will show the geolocated pricing text for product undefined Best Pricing Today Best Prices Today: Cyberlink PhotoDirector 365 Retailer Price PhotoDirector 365 Free Trial Free View Deal Price comparison from over 24,000 stores worldwide Product Price Price comparison from Backmarket Best Prices Today: Check today’s prices CyberLink‘s photo editing software has already impressed users in the past with its ease of use and strong results. The manufacturer offers many wizards, straightforward functions, and the option to edit images manually in an editor. Various special functions and templates support the user in their work. The development team has now added extensive artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to the feature list. To access these, you must choose the subscription version of the program, as several functions are not available in the free version. One advantage of the subscription is that new features are added on a fairly regular basis. CyberLink Photo Director 365: Faster, easier editing with AI Various AI functions make it easier to customize and enhance images. Expanding image content, removing people or objects, and optimizing photos are much easier with the current Photo Director 365. Image analysis and built-in suggestions for improvement assist with editing and speed up workflow. This is where users clearly benefit from the new technology. AI also supports editing of all types of portrait shots. The software uses a portrait as its base and can automatically add office attire to the subject. This means you can easily prepare your own photos for job applications or online profiles. The Business Outfit function works in a similar way, generating professional-looking photos of people in suits or elegant dresses. The CyberLink program offers numerous tools for editing portraits and creating professional business photos.Cyberlink Photo Director 365 can also add a suitable background or setting, making the images ideal for company websites or brochures, for example. For print products, the photos can be scaled up with AI to maintain the best possible quality, with the user guided through every step of the process. The built-in image tips are also very useful: the program shows examples of ideal results, along with motifs or elements that should be avoided. These innovations further extend the capabilities of classic image editing. CyberLink Photo Director 365: Creative designs that produce great results The GenAI Studio offers many options for creating a wide variety of documents and designs. Many ideas can be brought to life quickly by using its features. These include style transfer of all kinds–for example, creatively converting an image into manga-style graphics or generating templates with the help of AI prompts. The layout function, which lets you define the result with just a few clicks, is another strong point. The AI feature helps with complex designs, ensuring that objects, people, and animals appear correctly in their designated areas. The mood of a landscape shot can be changed in just a few steps with Remodel Scenes, which offers options such as sunrise or winter. The AI in Photo Director 365 enables creative landscape editing with style presets.Cyberlink CyberLink Photo Director 365: Where it falls short The results are often surprisingly good, but sometimes the software overshoots the mark, leaving images looking overly manipulated. There’s no option to adjust the balance between the original and the edited version. This also applies to the templates for creating videos with stylized collectible figures. All control is handed over to the AI, allowing users to choose captions, colors, and themes would help produce better clips. The templates for special occasions or holidays are impressive, making it easy to create digital greetings cards right on the screen. Read...