HTML has supported multimedia elements—images, video, audio—for many decades, but the latter two required browser plugins ...

Adobe has finally acknowledged what the rest of us have known for years: Flash needs to die. The software giant plans to stop supporting and updating Flash Player by 2020, according to a statement ...

Our new print issue features “How YouTube Ate TV,” an oral history of the video-sharing site’s impact on entertainment, culture, and business as told by dozens of eyewitnesses past and present. As we ...

Why and when will Adobe Flash Player become outdated? The open standards HTML5, WebGL and WebAssembly provide much more features than Flash Player and also have much better protection against viruses ...

Journalism is often considered the first draft of history, but what happens when that draft is written on a software program that becomes obsolete? That means what was once an interactive explainer of ...

Following the depositions of former Apple head of software engineering Scott Forstall in the Epic vs. Apple case, we’ve come to learn some interesting details about the early days of the iPhone and ...

The death of Adobe Flash was a long time coming. While the 25-year-old technology was instrumental in bringing animation, games, and interactive content to the web when it was still young, it was ...

I have something that I’d like to admit. If you’ve ever FaceTimed me in the past seven or so years and I’ve answered on my computer, I’ve almost certainly been playing the online computer game ...

(CNN) — Adobe has officially killed off Flash Player, the buggy, hated, security vulnerability of a web browser plug-in that was once widely used for viewing rich content like games, videos and other ...

Adobe in 2017 announced plans to end support for its Flash browser plug-in at the end of 2020. Now that it's officially 2021, support for the software has ended, and Adobe will begin blocking content ...

After more than a decade, the original FarmVille game that put developer Zynga on the map is shutting down for good. The reason? It is an Adobe Flash-based title, and with Adobe officially ending ...

is executive editor who has obsessed over headlines and internet speeds since 2011. He previously worked as an advocate for the National Park System. Adobe scheduled the end of support for its famous ...