Macworld In a world dominated by subscriptions, Microsoft 365’s recent price hike has left many looking for a more cost-effective alternative. Instead of shelling out dollars monthly, get lifetime access to all the essential Microsoft apps—Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, and Teams for just $69.97 (reg. $219.99) with Microsoft Office Home & Business for Mac. This one-time purchase ensures you’ll worry less about rising software fees and more about what you can do with that software. Unlike subscription models, this lifetime license grants you full access to the software without monthly charges or renewals. It’s ideal for professionals, students, and anyone who needs reliable tools for work, school, or personal projects. Whether you need offline access while traveling or want the confidence of having all your documents stored directly on your device, this Office suite has you covered. With no internet required for use, you can stay productive anywhere. REUTERS/Maxim Zmeyev The convenience of owning your software outright means you can focus on your work, not on future pricing changes. Take advantage of this limited-time offer and make a smart investment in your productivity. Don’t miss out — this price won’t last forever. Grab Microsoft Office Home & Business for Mac 2021 at $69.97 (reg. $219.99), available only until June 1 at 11:59 PM PST. Microsoft Office Home & Business for Mac 2021: Lifetime LicenseSee Deal StackSocial prices subject to change.

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Capcom seemingly teased the next Resident Evil in a celebration video for Resident Evil 4 remake but has yet to confirm a reveal date or launch. According to known leaker AestheticGamer, aka Dusk Golem, on Twitter, the survival horror title is still set to be revealed this year. They doubt it will be delayed further, but it’s unknown if it will be unveiled at the upcoming Summer Game Fest showcase in June or The Game Awards in December. It’s still allegedly launching next year, though once again, whether within the current fiscal year ending March 31st, 2026, or in late 2026 is unknown. Time will tell, so stay tuned for updates. Aside from Resident Evil 7: biohazard director Kosha Nakanishi leading the sequel, very little is officially known about it. AestheticGamer previously reported that it would try new things and “100 percent” star Leon S. Kennedy as the protagonist. Jill Valentine was allegedly slated to have a “prominent role,” but plans seemingly changed. It's almost 100% for sure being revealed this year and releasing next year. Doubt they'll delay more. The question comes if its being revealed this summer or at TGA for example this year, & if its releasing this fiscal year (ending March 31st, 2026) or next fiscal year late 2026. https://t.co/NO9FOtoZ7Z— AestheticGamer aka Dusk Golem (@AestheticGamer1) May 13, 2025

El Tatio is a geothermal field with many geysers located in the Andes Mountains of northern Chile at 4,320 metres (14,170 ft) above mean sea level. It is the third-largest geyser field in the world and the largest in the Southern Hemisphere. The geothermal field has many geysers, hot springs, and associated sinter deposits. These hot springs eventually form the Rio Salado, a major tributary of the Rio Loa, and are a major source of arsenic pollution in the river. The vents are sites of populations of extremophile microorganisms such as hyperthermophiles, and El Tatio has been studied as an analogue for the early Earth and possible past life on Mars. Photograph credit: Diego Delso Recently featured: Short-beaked echidna Margaret Hamilton Kiwifruit Archive More featured pictures

May 18: Haitian Flag Day in Haiti (1803); Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Crimean Tatar Genocide in Ukraine The Bath School after the explosions 1302 – Armed insurrectionists massacred the occupying French garrison in Bruges, Flanders, killing approximately 2,000 people. 1695 – An earthquake measuring Ms7.8 struck Shanxi Province in northern China, resulting in at least 52,600 deaths. 1927 – Disgruntled school board treasurer Andrew Kehoe set off explosives with timers and a rifle (aftermath pictured), causing the Bath School disaster in the Bath Consolidated School in Michigan, killing 44 people in the deadliest mass murder in a school in United States history. 2009 – The Sri Lanka Army killed Velupillai Prabhakaran, the leader and founder of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, to bring an end to the 26-year Sri Lankan civil war. Thomas Midgley Jr. (b. 1889)Ester Boserup (b. 1910)Jean-François Théodore (d. 2015) More anniversaries: May 17 May 18 May 19 Archive By email List of days of the year About

html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd" Adobe is to end its Creative Cloud All Apps subscriptions for users in North America.By default, All Apps subscribers will be switched to a more expensive new subscription plan, Creative Cloud Pro, which provides more generative AI features. Existing users can also choose to switch to a less expensive plan, Creative Cloud Standard, at the cost of reduced access to premium features in Adobe’s web and mobile apps. The changes come into effect for users in the US, Canada and Mexico on 17 June 2025. What services do you currently get with an All Apps subscription? Creative Cloud All Apps subscriptions currently provide access to over 20 of Adobe’s software applications, including After Effects, Photoshop and Premiere Pro. Users also get access to Adobe Fonts, online portfolio service Behance, and 100GB of cloud storage. In addition, All Apps subscriptions come with 1,000 ‘generative credits‘ per month, for use with generative AI services powered by Adobe Firefly: either via the web app, or Firefly-powered tools built into Adobe software. All Apps subscriptions cost $89.99/month or $659.88/year. How are Creative Cloud All Apps subscriptions changing? In North America – the US, Canada and Mexico – Adobe is ending sales of new All Apps subscriptions on 17 June 2025.They will be replaced by a new, more expensive subscription plan, Creative Cloud Pro, which provides more generative credits and extra generative AI features. By default, existing All Apps subscribers will be transferred to this plan. However, existing subscribers can also choose to switch manually to Creative Cloud Standard, a less expensive – but less fully featured – new subscription plan. New users will only be able to take out Creative Cloud Pro subscriptions. How do Creative Cloud Pro subscriptions compare to All Apps subscriptions? Creative Cloud Pro subscriptions provide access to the same software as All Apps subscriptions, and to the same cloud services.Where they differ is in the generative AI features: subscribers get unlimited credits for ‘standard’ generative features, like Generative Fill in Photoshop. They also get 4,000 credits per month for ‘premium‘ generative AI features such as the text-to-image and text-to-video features from the new Firefly Video Model. That translates to 40 five-second AI-generated videos per month, or up to 14 minutes per month of AI-translated audio or video. Creative Cloud Pro subscribers can also generate multiple mood boards with Firefly Boards, Adobe’s new AI-based moodboarding service, which is currently in beta, and choose to use non-Adobe generative AI models in Firefly. Creative Cloud Pro subscriptions cost $104.99/month or $779.99/year: an increase of $15/month or just over $120/year compared to All Apps. How do Creative Cloud Standard subscriptions compare to All Apps subscriptions? Creative Cloud Standard subscriptions provide access to the same desktop software as All Apps subscriptions, and to the same cloud services.However, they provide fewer generative credits – 25 per month rather than 1,000 per month – and only for the standard generative features. They also limit access to the mobile and web editions of applications. Creative Cloud Standard subscribers get access to the full mobile and web edition of Acrobat, but only to the free mobile and web versions of Adobe Express, Fresco, Illustrator, Lightroom and Photoshop, which have a much more limited feature set. Creative Cloud Standard subscriptions cost $82.49/month or $599.88/year: a decrease of $7.50/month or $60/year compared to All Apps. What about students and teachers? Students and teachers can’t opt to switch to Creative Cloud Standard subscriptions, but there is educational pricing for Creative Cloud Pro subscriptions.Are Adobe users outside North America affected? There are no changes to All Apps subscriptions outside North America “at this time“, although it’s hard to imagine that Adobe won’t eventually roll out the new Creative Cloud Pro and Standard subscription plans to the rest of the world.Are any other Creative Cloud subscription plans changing? Although the changes mainly affect All Apps subscriptions, Adobe is also cutting the number of generative credits included free with some other Creative Cloud subscriptions.From 17 June 2025, new subscribers of Photography and Single App subscription plans will get 25 credits per month, down from 500 for Photography and Photoshop subscriptions. Read Adobe’s FAQs about the changes to Creative Cloud All Apps subscriptions Have your say on this story by following CG Channel on Facebook, Instagram and X (formerly Twitter). As well as being able to comment on stories, followers of our social media accounts can see videos we don’t post on the site itself, including making-ofs for the latest VFX movies, animations, games cinematics and motion graphics projects.

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Yesterday, Reuters ran a story with the headline “Weeks after Amazon’s Alexa+ AI launch, a mystery: where are the users?,” in which it detailed its difficulty locating first-hand accounts of the AI-upgraded assistants’ use online. The Verge asked Amazon about the story, and the company has responded to say that the idea that Alexa Plus isn’t available is “simply wrong.”Here’s the company’s full — and rather strongly-worded! — statement on the matter, provided by Amazon spokesperson Eric Sveum via email to The Verge:It’s simply wrong to say that Alexa+ isn’t available to customers—that assertion is false. Hundreds of thousands of customers have access to Alexa+ and we’re constantly inviting more customers that have requested Early Access.Sveum also shared the below screenshot of what the email invite should look like.Image: AmazonAlexa Plus is Amazon’s generative AI-updated version of Alexa, which it announced in February is free to Amazon Prime subscribers or $19.99 a month otherwise.While Reuters doesn’t say Alexa Plus isn’t available to customers yet, it does quote an analyst who said, “There seems to be no one who actually has it.”The outlet also reported that its efforts to find any real-world Alexa Plus users came up empty, writing that it had “searched dozens of news sites, YouTube, TikTok, X, BlueSky and Meta’s Instagram and Facebook, as well as Amazon’s Twitch and reviews of Echo voice-assistant devices on Amazon.com.” It added that it spoke with two people who’d posted on Reddit claiming to have used Alexa Plus, but that they “did not provide Reuters with hard evidence and their identities could not be corroborated.”Still, Engadget reported today that a wave of emails had gone out on Friday, inviting Amazon Alexa users to try out Alexa Plus. The outlet also reported that an Amazon spokesperson had told it “hundreds of thousands” of customers have tried the assistant.Amazon started rolling out its early access program to a few customers at the end of March. At the time, it was missing features like the ability to order takeout from Grubhub using conversational context, or identify family members and remind them about chores. A page on Amazon’s website notes that some features are still “coming soon,” like being able to access Alexa Plus in a web browser or on a Fire TV or Amazon tablet. The company has said it’s prioritizing those who own certain Echo Show devices above others.See More:

Unreal Engine 5.6 Preview Released / News / May 17, 2025 / Unreal A few weeks ahead of the State of Unreal at Unreal Fest 2025 Epic Games have released a new version of Unreal Engine, Unreal Engine 5.6 Preview. This release finally adds MetaHuman integration, a host of animation improvements, an updated UI, performance improvements and more. Sadly the much anticipated new game templates didn’t make this release. There are also SpaceNova and StarNova Unreal Engine bundles running right now for Unreal Engine on Gumroad (use code SN70 and SN40 for massive discounts). There is also the 5K World Building Assets for Unreal Engine bundle over on Humble Bundle(learn more). Highlights of the Unreal Engine 5.6 release: Vast, high-fidelity open worlds with maximum performance, and consistent 60hz frame rates. The biggest and most powerful update yet to the animation authoring toolset. MetaHuman Creator is now available in-engine including blending and sculpting of MetaHuman bodies plus improved visual fidelity and new realtime workflows for MetaHuman Animator. Faster creation with Content browser 2.0 and the new Viewport toolbar layout. The ability to build expansive, high-fidelity worlds faster than ever with powerful procedural workflows Key Links Unreal Engine 5.6 Release Details Unreal Public Roadmap Level Up 5K World Building GameDev Assets Humble Bundle SpaceNova Bundle (Use Code SN70)  StarNova Bundle (Use Code SN40) You can learn more about the Unreal Engine 5.6 Preview in the video below.