MobileNews

FoodNoms for iOS offers robust food, calorie, macros tracking with an Apple-like UI

November 12, 2019
A new food, calorie, and macros tracking app for iPhone and iPad has arrived with a compelling design, great Apple integration, and more. FoodNoms is available now and customers can even try it out for free without signing up. FoodNoms includes rich features like HealthKit support, iCloud syncing, intermittent fasting tracking, Siri and Siri Shortcuts support, and much more (h/t Kyle Seth…
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MobileNews

Feature Request: A ‘camera in use’ indicator in iOS for foreground apps

November 12, 2019
All Macs have a clear and unmistakable ‘camera in use’ indicator in the form of a green LED next to the camera. Indeed, on Macs released from 2008 onward, there is a hardware interlock between the camera and LED which makes it physically impossible for an app to switch on the camera without the light also coming on to alert you. Yet there is no equivalent on iPhones or iPads – which, as we…
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GamingNews

'Sonic the Hedgehog' movie tries again with a new trailer

November 12, 2019
Paramount’s original trailer for the upcoming Sonic the Hedgehog movie was… really something, wasn’t it? The under-stylized body, the odd soundtrack choice, the teeth. Such was the Sonic fandom’s collective horror that director Jeff Fowler…
MobileNews

iOS Facebook app ‘secretly using camera’ while scrolling feed; likely a bug

November 12, 2019
Web designer Joshua Maddux has found the iOS Facebook activating the iPhone camera while scrolling his feed. He found the same issue on five separate devices, with others able to replicate. The same issue does not appear to be present in the Android app. Maddux posted a video (below) showing the behavior … He tweeted that the issue came to light due to an apparent bug in the app which allowed…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Blaize emerges from stealth with $87 million for its custom-designed AI chips

November 12, 2019
There’s booming demand for silicon custom-designed to accelerate AI workloads, as the gobs of cash raised by startups like Hailo Technologies, Graphcore, and Untether AI demonstrates. The fierce competition isn’t deterring Blaize (formerly Thinci), which hopes to stand out from the crowd with a novel graph streaming architecture. The nine-year-old startup’s claimed system-on-chip performance…
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