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Pixelmator gives sneak peek at upgraded iPhone app, new color picker on Mac, Split View on iPad, more

March 12, 2020
Pixelmator makes great image software for Mac and iOS and a round of major updates are coming to Pixelmator Pro, Pixelmator Photo, and Pixelmator for iOS. The company teased some of the new features that will be arriving soon including a new color picker on Mac, Split View support on iPad, and a new Files-based document browser for iPhone/iPad. Pixelmator shared the news in a blog post…
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Should you be concerned about juice jacking as an iPhone user?

March 12, 2020
Juice jacking has become more prevalent in the news over the last year. The term refers to hackers setting up malicious code in free public USB chargers at malls, hotels, airports, etc. to read and steal data from mobile devices. But is juice jacking something iPhone owners…
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OxygenOS Open Beta 1 for OnePlus 7T/7T Pro adds Live Captions, February patch, more

March 12, 2020
After a little over a five-month wait, the OxygenOS Open Beta 1 for the OnePlus 7T and 7T Pro is now available to download, bringing with it some added new features. If you’re not familiar with the OxygenOS Open Beta program, it essentially allows you to install early builds of the OS. You’ll often get some new features long ahead of “stable” builds, but you do so by giving up some…
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OnePlus commits $30 million to 5G development

March 12, 2020
OnePlus is committing $30 million to “scale up and upgrade” its 5G research and development efforts. The announcement comes in the same week as the Chinese smartphone maker confirmed that it would be going all-in on 5G with its next flagship smartphone lineup. “5G is a top priority in our product strategy,” OnePlus cofounder and CEO Pete Lau said in a press release. OnePlus has built a…
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Google blocks its Android TV partners from also using Amazon’s Fire TV

March 11, 2020
For a long, long time Google has had a restriction in place for Android manufacturers that they can’t fork the Android platform for risking support for the Play Store and other Google Services. What you might not have known, though, is that Google also places that restriction on its Android TV partners, barring them from also producing models with Amazon’s Fire TV. In the current landscape…
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