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Darkroom photo editor for iPhone and iPad goes subscription, adds watermarking and new icons

February 12, 2020
Darkroom is a popular photo editing app for iPhone and iPad with a suite of powerful features, such as RAW support and Portrait editing. In an update today, Darkroom has added a pair of new features, but also switched its business model. With today’s update, Darkroom for iPhone and iPad is now a subscription-based application. The key thing to note here, however, is that this only affects new…
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Gmail for iOS can now add attachments from native Files app

February 12, 2020
Some iPhone and iPad users unhappy with changes to the Mail app in iOS 13 have turned to third-party clients. Google announced today that Gmail for iOS will soon support the native Files app for browsing and uploading attachments. Tapping the paper clip icon in the…
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Verizon won’t offer the regular Galaxy S20 until Q2 because of its 5G network

February 12, 2020
One of the biggest upgrades Samsung has made to the Galaxy S20 series is that every model supports 5G. In the US, we’re only getting the 5G versions of the Galaxy S20 and, as a result, Verizon won’t see the device for a little while because its network isn’t supported. At launch, the Galaxy S20 series comes with both 5G and LTE-only variants, but in the US we’re not getting those LTE…
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Tim Sweeney: Android is a fake open system, and iOS is worse

February 12, 2020
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney opened the Dice Summit game event in Las Vegas today with a call to make the industry more open and liberate it from the monopolistic practices of platform owners such as Google and Apple. In a talk about his vision for games in the next decade, Sweeney alternated between criticizing all of the big players in the game industry to criticizing specific players with…
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First TV ad of Xiaomi Mi 10 reveals key features

February 12, 2020
Xiaomi will release the Mi 10 and Mi 10 Pro flagships tomorrow in China, and we got to see their first TV ad, posted on YouTube. In the 15-second clip we can see some of the highlights the company is emphasizing – the new MIUI 11, a wide-angle shooter, a big display…
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Recording 8K video with a Galaxy S20 will take a toll on storage, but not as much as you think

February 12, 2020
Samsung’s new flagship trio is capable of recording 8K video at 24fps, an industry first. Naturally, this comes with increased storage requirements, but it’s not as bad as you may have thought. According to Samsung’s official numbers, 1 minute of 8K video results in a 600MB file (using the HEVC codec). That’s less than double the 350MB file you get when you record 1 minute of 4K video with a…
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