A top-end iPhone 7 Plus, with its fancy new dual-camera setup, costs nearly $1,000. Now photo-sharing site 500px wants to help you make some of that money back with its new camera app. 500px on Thursday launched its first camera app, called Raw. It lets you take photos, upload them to 500px, and if you …
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If you’re not convinced smartwatches are worth buying, you’re not alone. But you might change your mind by 2020, when sales are expected to surge, according to analyst firm IDC. From 2015 to 2016, smartwatch shipments worldwide will rise a mere 3.9 percent from 19.4 million to 20.1 million, IDC said Thursday. But by 2020 it should grow to a …
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Good news, photographers: Adobe Systems just unlocked a new level of photo quality for those with recent iPhones and iPads. With the release of Adobe Lightroom 2.5 for iOS on Tuesday, you’ll be able to shoot photos in the raw format that many professionals like to use. Raw photos, with data taken straight from the camera’s image sensor, offer more …
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“This is cool.” With those three words from my 11-year-old son, I knew Apple had a hit on its hands with Swift Playgrounds, its iPad app for learning the company’s Swift programming language. We didn’t exactly have to pry him away, but he had reached that just-one-more-level-before-dinner type of self-motivation that warms an educator’s heart. The app is free. So …
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You won’t see an “Intel Inside” sticker on your new iPhone 7 the way you do on Windows laptops, but it appears Apple picked the company to supply an important chip for its newest phone. Some models of the Apple’s iPhone 7 and 7 Plus will use an Intel modem, a critical chip that handles the radio communications linking phones …
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The good news is that iPhones with foolishly small 16GB amounts of storage are mostly vanishing from the market. The bad news is that it won’t be long before 32GB is the new 16GB. When Apple began selling the first iPhone in 2007, it came with what now seems a laughably inadequate 4GB supply of flash memory. That’s where you …
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If you own an Apple Watch, your gadget is going to get faster and better at communicating on Sept. 13 with the release of WatchOS 3. Apple announced the smartwatch’s new software version at its iPhone 7 launch event in San Francisco on Wednesday, while touting new features for communications and health. “There are so many features in WatchOS 3, …
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You may have moved on from Firefox, and its maker wants to do something about that. A decade ago, Mozilla attracted millions of users when Firefox showed the world what a cutting-edge browser could do. A lot has changed since then, including the balance of power among browser makers. Now Mozilla has begun shipping technology called Electrolysis to win you …
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Feeling guilty that Brave blocks ads on websites you actually might want to support? A new version of the web browser lets you contribute money directly. Brave 0.11.6 lets you contribute monthly to sites you visit with a feature called Brave Payments now in beta testing. About $5 a month is about enough to replace lost revenue from advertising, said …
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Apple’s App Store has hundreds of thousands of apps, but the company says it’s time to get rid of some duds. Two categories will be scrubbed from the store, the company told developers, according to a message seen by TechCrunch. First to go will be old apps that aren’t compatible with modern iPhones and iPads, or that don’t abide by …
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