Apple News Plus subscribers can now follow publications directly from the News Plus catalog, thanks to the release last week of iOS 12.3 update and MacOS 10.14.5, Apple said Tuesday. If you follow a title, new issues will be automatically downloaded to your device and available offline. You can also manually download individual issues in …
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The Tor Project’s leave-no-traces browser now is available for Android phones. The Tor Browser relies on a network of servers that send network requests over multiple intermediate links to hide who you really are when you visit a website. That can be useful if you don’t want to be tracked — whether you’re an activist trying to avoid government monitoring …
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In this Apple Core roundup we break down the latest rumors about the iPhone 11R, the rumored sequel to Apple’s cheaper iPhone XR, along with production updates regarding the rest of Apple’s 2019 iPhone lineup. Last week Apple also released the last major software updates to iOS, MacOS, WatchOS and TVOS before WWDC. Find out what new features to expect on your …
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Adobe released a slew of Lightroom updates last week. But one thing didn’t change: the awkward split between two versions of the photo editing and cataloging software. Lightroom got its start in 2006 on MacOS and later Windows, storing the photo library right there on your personal computer. But modernizing for smartphones, tablets and cloud computing put Adobe in a pickle. It …
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Adobe’s Lightroom has a new texture-editing tool for photographers trying to get people’s skin to look just right, a rare change to the software’s core tools for fiddling with photos. The texture slider either smooths or amplifies medium-scale details. Moving the slider one way lets you smooth skin without making it look unnaturally plasticky, Adobe said. In my tests, I …
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There’s a massive Statue of Liberty foot on the table in front of me. It’s life-size. I forgot about the scale of it. I live in New Jersey but haven’t visited it for years. For anyone who’s never been to the Statue of Liberty in person, the new Statue of Liberty app could be the perfect augmented reality virtual ticket. …
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There’s nothing worse than a big life transition to throw off your fitness routine and put a wrench in your healthy habits. Whether the recent grad in your life is transitioning from home to college life, or college to the real world, here are a few gift ideas to help them stay fit and keep them off the takeout food …
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Consumer ECG (electrocardiogram) devices, like the Apple Watch Series 4, are one-lead, and can only test for a particular range of heart arrhythmias. But AliveCor’s newest mobile ECG device that just gained FDA clearance could potentially do a lot more. The $150 iOS and Android-compatible KardiaMobile 6L is the only consumer-sold six-lead ECG (other portable devices, like AliveCor’s nearly identical-looking …
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The bird got its bugs. On Monday, Twitter disclosed a privacy bug that collected an account’s location information on iOS devices, even if it didn’t have its precise location tracking feature turned on. The social network was also sharing that location data with an advertising partner, the company said in a statement. The bug affected you if you had more …
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Since the launch of the iPhone XS, XS Max and XR last year, the phone landscape has changed a bit. It’s recently been crowded with much sexier stories: 5G is beginning to rear its head, wild new transforming folding phones are capturing people’s imaginations — even with problems rearing their heads– and there are phones studded with more cameras than you can …
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