MobileNews

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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GamingNews

Epic Games acquires facial animation technology maker Cubic Motion

March 12, 2020
Epic Games has acquired Cubic Motion, a provider of automated performance-driven facial animation technology for video games, film, broadcast, and immersive experiences such as virtual reality. Cubic Motion has helped Epic on its quest to create graphically realistic virtual humans, which look and behave like real people. Cubic Motion’s part of that has been to capture the facial animation and…
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MobileNews

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…
AI & RoboticsNews

How the coronavirus may reshape AI research conferences

March 12, 2020
COVID-19 officially became a global pandemic on Wednesday. As public health officials and governments respond; businesses brace for losses; and events like trade shows, SXSW, and Google’s I/O shutter around the world, the disease is also impacting scientific conferences. Ironically, a coronavirus conference got canceled this week, and on Tuesday the International Conference on Learning…
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MobileNews

Rear iPhone 3D camera system ‘in the design,’ exciting photo feature possible

March 12, 2020
We’ve been hearing reports about a new iPhone 3D camera system since 2017, with a Ming-Chi Kuo report last year saying the tech would be arriving this year. A new report today corroborates that, stating that the depth-sensing feature for rear cameras is ‘in the design’ for at least one of this year’s iPhone 12 models. Similar in principle to the TrueDepth sensors used for Face ID, it would…
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