After steadily releasing iOS apps as part of its “mobile to desktop to workflows” initiative, Adobe is updating its Android offerings with four new apps. The company also just released “a new stock photo service, a video-focused iOS app and a suite of updates to its Creative Cloud lineup of desktop apps,” explains Mashable. Users will have access to 40 million stock images with the new Stock application, while Creative Cloud users will be able to upload stock images and receive payments when their images are used. “On the mobile side, Adobe’s Brush, Shape Color and Photoshop Mix apps are all available on Android with the same features as their iOS counterparts.”

“Jurassic World” posted $204.6 million in estimated domestic weekend sales, and $511.8 million worldwide. The film, released by Universal Pictures with backing from Legendary Entertainment, landed just behind “Marvel’s The Avengers,” which took in $207.4 million in May 2012. “A slight uptick on Sunday could push ‘Jurassic World’ past ‘The Avengers’ after final weekend sales are tallied, and its worldwide take was also poised to set new performance marks,” reports The New York Times. According to RealD, 3D screens were responsible for about 48 percent of “Jurassic World” domestic sales.

Google announced on Friday that it plans to launch YouTube Gaming this summer. The mobile app and website will take on Amazon powerhouse Twitch and newcomers such as MLG.TV by offering video game videos and live streams. “More than 25,000 games will each have their own page, a single place for all the best videos and live streams about that title,” explains the YouTube Blog. “You’ll also find channels from a wide array of game publishers and YouTbe creators.” YouTube already features a wide range of gaming videos, notes The New York Times, “but creating a stand-alone app puts gaming one click closer and adds another square icon to gamers’ phones.”

Samsung debuted its first mirror and transparent OLED display panels at Retail Asia Expo 2015 last week. The pair of 55-inch displays combines Intel RealSense and Samsung OLED technology. The company envisions applications from signage to virtual changing rooms. “While mirrored and transparent LCD displays have been around for a while now, Samsung says its OLED technology (the first of its kind) offers better contrast and viewing angles,” reports The Verge. According to the press release, the Mirror OLED display panel “delivers at least 50 percent higher reflectance than competitive Mirror LCDs.”

Luke and Marika Neumann have uploaded a two-minute video to YouTube called “Ghost Towns,” the first 8K content to appear on the site. According to the description on YouTube, the video was shot with “the RED Epic Dragon 6K in Portrait orientation and then stitched together in Adobe After Effects.
 Some shots simply scaled up by 125 percent from 6.1K to meet the 7.6K standard.” Google says that 8K has been supported by YouTube since 2010, but the 4320p/8K setting option was only added this year. While this may be an important milestone, there are currently very view consumers with displays that can support such high-resolution content played at a high frame rate.

San Francisco startup HackerOne wants to connect problem-solving hackers with companies that have cybersecurity issues. They hope to convince other hackers to behave responsibly regarding security flaws in the process. Tech companies such as Square, Twitter and Yahoo as well as banks and oil companies are currently working with the service. “HackerOne gets a 20 percent commission on top of each bounty paid through its service,” reports The New York Times. “About 1,500 hackers are on HackerOne’s platform. They have fixed around 9,000 bugs and received more than $3 million in bounties.”

The Federal Trade Commission is going after the company behind “The Doom That Came to Atlantic City” in its first ever enforcement action against a crowdfunded project, reports The Washington Post. The game’s Kickstarter campaign launched in 2012 with illustrator Lee Moyer, game designer Keith Baker, sculptor Paul Komoda and special effects guru H.R. Giger attached, and nearly quadrupled its financial goal. However, Portland, Oregon-based The Forking Path never delivered the game. Now the FTC is alleging that Erik Chevalier, the individual behind The Forking Path, spent the funds on himself, rather than developing the game. The order includes a $111,793.71 judgment against Chevaliar.

Government data surveillance will likely cost cloud computing and tech companies more than originally projected two years ago. According to The Wall Street Journal, “the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation estimated that the revelations of widespread government surveillance by former defense contractor Edward Snowden could cost as much as $35 billion in lost sales and other expenses by 2016, as companies and governments opted not to buy IT products from U.S. companies.” The ITIF now predicts the amount will be much higher since data centers will need to be constructed in local jurisdictions in order to comply with international data sovereignty laws.

Yesterday we reported that Facebook was scrapping its plan to build a satellite for providing affordable Internet access to developing countries. Quartz points out that Google backed out of its own similar plan earlier this year. Google had hired satellite entrepreneur Greg Wyler, who believes that constellations comprised of numerous small satellites could solve the problems involving cost and slow data speeds common with other satellite Internet services. The article notes that Wyler has left Google and is pursuing satellite efforts with backing from Qualcomm and Virgin Galactic. Meanwhile, Elon Musk’s SpaceX is also developing a constellation of small communications satellites.

Facebook Messenger allows users to make video calls and share photos, audio, text and GIFs. “Doodle Draw” is now available in the Messenger app list, making it the first true game available for the new messaging platform. While Facebook has so far emphasized apps involving content creation and curated content for Messenger, the social network has been “interested in eventually expanding it to a broader set of experiences, including utilities and games if test data looked good,” according to TechCrunch. With “Doodle Draw” for iOS and Android, users share their drawings with friends in order to initiate a guessing game regarding what has been drawn.

Showtime plans to make its standalone Internet video service available on Roku and PlayStation devices when it launches early next month. The CBS-owned cable network originally announced that its OTT offering would initially be available through an exclusive distribution deal with Apple. The $10.99 per month service is the latest to target cord-nevers and cord-cutters who do not have traditional pay TV plans. Variety reports: “Showtime — similar to its arrangements with cable and satellite TV affiliates — will provide a recurring share of the monthly subscription fee to Apple, Roku, Sony and future OTT distributors, Showtime chairman and CEO Matt Blank said.”

Netflix announced this week that it has acquired distribution rights to “War Machine,” with Brad Pitt attached to star and David Michod to write and direct. In the $30 million range, the deal marks the biggest investment the company has made in a feature film so far. It is also the first time that Netflix has secured a deal with a global A-list star of Pitt’s stature. According to Deadline, “War Machine” is a satirical comedy based on the bestselling book about the war in Afghanistan by journalist Michael Hastings. It is slated for release in a small number of theaters late next year, but its primary home will be Netflix where it can be streamed to an international audience.

Facebook has reportedly scrapped its plan to build a satellite that would have been used to provide cheap Internet access to developing nations. Due to the prohibitive cost (an estimated $500 million), the social giant has abandoned a plan that was never formally announced. However, if it decides to move forward, leasing a satellite from another provider could be an option. “Facebook has been exploring ways [to expand] Internet access — and along with it, access to its products — in emerging markets,” reports Business Insider. “One of the key ways is Internet.org, a Facebook-led initiative involving multiple companies to subsidize data costs in certain countries.”

An army of Internet trolls based in St. Petersburg, Russia has reportedly been coordinating complex disinformation campaigns, spreading hoaxes via social media, and wreaking havoc around the Internet. The so-called Internet Research Agency has “become known for employing hundreds of Russians to post pro-Kremlin propaganda online under fake identities, including on Twitter, in order to create the illusion of a massive army of supporters; it has often been called a ‘troll farm,’” reports The New York Times. The agency has used its information warfare against political opponents in Russia and abroad. Sources indicate there are numerous troll farms secretly operating by order of government authorities on multiple levels.

The latest free update to Plex promises to make your home media server more secure. “Plex has teamed up with DigiCert to provide free SSL certificates for its media servers, meaning that your Plex server will now use ‘top-grade encryption,’” explains Digital Trends. “Not only does this mean it will be difficult to snoop on your streams, but your Plex box is now less of a target for hackers as well.” Secure connection support is being pushed automatically to the Plex Home Theater, Web apps, the Android and Windows apps and the preview Roku app. Secure connection support will later be available for iOS, game consoles and smart TVs.