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Android 12 lets enterprise admins dedicate cell connectivity to Work Profile apps, limit USB for just charging, more

October 8, 2021
With Android 12 going open source on Monday, Google today detailed what’s new in the OS for enterprise admins and end-users. The latter benefits from more privacy controls, while the former can impose more measures to secure corporate data. One particularly interesting capability lets IT admins “slice their 5G network and dedicate connectivity to all apps on a fully-managed device.” This…
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Standalone Apple TV+ app launches on 2016 and 2017 LG smart TVs

October 7, 2021
Apple has been rolling out the Apple TV app to many different platforms, including smart TVs, games consoles, and third-party streaming devices like the Amazon Fire Stick or Roku streaming sticks. In a slight twist, the company is also distributing a ‘Apple TV+’ app for…
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WhatsApp for iOS starts rolling out end-to-end encrypted backups for beta testers

October 7, 2021
Almost a month since Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced WhatsApp would receive end-to-end encrypted backups, it looks like the feature is finally rolling out for some beta testers. As reported by always reliable WABetaInfo, version 2.21.200.14 of WhatsApp released end-to-end encrypted backups for specific beta testers. With that, these users will already take advantage of protecting…
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Samsung Galaxy A13 5G appears in Geekbench listing with Dimensity 700 SoC

October 7, 2021
There’s been talk of a Samsung Galaxy A13 in the works – a budget 5G phone with a 50MP main cam and a 5,000 mAh battery. Now the same device was spotted on Geekbench bearing the SM-A136U model number. Samsung Galaxy A13 5G scorecard The scorecard reveals A13 5G managed 465 single-core points and 1,106 points in the multi-core department. It is powered by the ARM MT6833V aka MediaTek…
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Halide 2.5 update brings macro mode to all iPhones

October 7, 2021
Popular iPhone and iPad camera app Halide today released version 2.5, which come with a major new feature that enables macro mode for all iPhone models. Called Neural Macro, this mode can be accessed in the app through the manual focus mode. Once enabled, the app will…
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Halide update brings the iPhone 13 Pro’s macro photography feature to the iPhone 8 and newer

October 7, 2021
Halide today announced a major update for its award-winning camera app. iPhone users can update to version 2.5, which enables iPhone 13’s Macro Mode to the iPhone 8 or newer. In a blog post, Halide’s Ben Sandofsky explains how great it is to have a macro camera, showing a ton of examples. Sandofsky also explains that this feature was available for a while thanks to third-party lenses, but…
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