The death of Flash could come quicker than we thought

While many onlookers have been pretty sure the death of Adobe's Flash Player is all but inevitable, a new report suggests that day could come a little sooner than expected

Flash, once ubiquitous in browsers, is on "life support" and will all but disappear in the next two years, predicts a new report from encoding.com. The prediction follows the report's findings that use of Flash decreased by 15% in 2015, compared with the previous year

While it hasn't disappeared entirely, the report notes that the technology is now primarily used in banner ads and older browsers. Read more...