Every year, Federico Viticci at MacStories publishes an incredibly in-depth and thorough review of the latest iOS and iPadOS releases. This year is no different, with MacStories having just published its iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 review.
This year, Viticci’s review comes amid a confusing time for the entire world, including Apple. He explains that the context of 2020 is part of what makes iOS and…
OnePlus 8T review: More power, more features
October 14, 2020
OnePlus phones have rarely disappointed us over the past seven years. I was very impressed by the flagship OnePlus 8 Pro when it launched back in April, and it even became my main phone for a while. But for most OnePlus fans, the 8 Pro had a glaring problem: it was an…
OnePlus 8T First Impressions: A really great phone that only has one reason to exist
October 14, 2020
For years, OnePlus phones have delivered exciting new features, affordable prices, and more. For 2020, that’s changed a bit. The OnePlus 8 series was significantly more expensive, but it finally brought some much-needed improvements. Now, we’ve got the OnePlus 8T, a…
Lucid Motors has confirmed the base version of its Air electric sedan at $69,900 with 406 miles of range — beating the Tesla Model S by just four miles.
Earlier this year, Lucid launched the production version of the Air, its first electric car, and unveiled all the different trims except for the base trim.
The company confirmed that it will start “below $80,000” but didn’t elaborate on…
Army to conduct thorough review of aviation fleet in FY23
October 14, 2020
WASHINGTON — As the Army looks to bring on two future helicopters by 2030, the service is planning to review its entire aviation fleet in fiscal 2023, Lt. Gen. James Pasquarette, the Army G-8, told Defense News in an Oct. 8 interview.
Over the past several years, the…
Milla Jovovich and Paul W.S. Anderson, the star and director of the Resident Evil series, are ditching zombies to tackle a different horde of video game-inspired creatures in their Monster Hunter movie. They offered a brief look at what they’ve cooked up in a teaser…
Snapchat will let creators make LiDAR lenses for iPhone 12 Pro
October 14, 2020
Folks who make augmented reality lenses on Snapchat will soon have another powerful tool at their disposal: the LiDAR scanner on iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max. Snap has rolled out a Lens Studio update that offers lens creators a much broader canvas. As such, Snapchat will be one of the first apps to tap into the scanner.
The scanner can capture a metric scale mesh of the environment, which…
How To Take Photos Like Robert Frank
October 14, 2020
Robert Frank was a Swiss photographer and documentary filmmaker whose 1958 book titled The Americans has been heralded as perhaps the most influential photography book of the 20th century. In this 16-minute video, photographer Frederik Trovatten shows you how to mimic…
Prototype Smartphone from Vivo Has a Removable Pop-up Camera
October 14, 2020
Chinese electronics manufacturer Vivo has won a Red Dot Award for its prototype design of a smartphone with a pop-up and removable camera unit. Called the IFEA, the company designed the smartphone in an attempt to glean benefits from separating the camera from the mobile…
Snap uses iPhone 12 Pro’s lidar sensor for AR imagery
October 14, 2020
Snap has launched a new version of its augmented reality studio that allows users to create cool AR effects on Apple’s newest iPhone 12 Pro smartphones, thanks to lidar sensors.
The social chat company said the lidar-powered Snap Lenses will usher in a new generation of AR. LiDAR, or light detection and ranging, uses lasers to illuminate objects and judge how far away they are based on how long…
