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Twitch makes it easier for first-time streamers to get started

Twitch wants to make streamer easier for newbies. Launching today, the Twitch Studio is a new streaming app designed to help gamers go live for the first time with minimal fuss or to up their game if they’re still new to the scene. Features include a guided setup, where mics, webcams, monitor resolution and bitrates are detected automatically for the best sound and display, and customizable…
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Twitch Studio’s streamlined streaming suite

Twitch Studio is going into open beta today with the goal of enabling anyone to become a livestreamer. The aim from Amazon’s Twitch division is to get new streamers to learn how to stream quickly. Twitch Studio has livestream production features such as a guided stream…
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The best smartwatch to buy for your iPhone.

If you have an iPhone and want a smartwatch, there’s only one choice to make: how much do you want to spend on an Apple Watch? That’s because the competition in the smartwatch space is not very good right now. Although there are a few different smartwatch and fitness…
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The best smartwatch to buy if you have an Android phone

There’s no slam-dunk best smartwatch for Android users. From one perspective, that’s a great thing because it means that there’s real competition among a bunch of companies on an equal playing field. From another, though, it’s a bummer because no smartwatch on Android is quite as good as the Apple Watch is for iPhone users. (And no, getting an Apple Watch if you have an Android phone is…
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'Minecraft Earth' early access arrives in the US

It took ages, but Minecraft Earth is finally available on Microsoft’s home soil. The early access version of the augmented reality game has launched in the US for Android and iOS. While it’s still not the full-fledged version Microsoft and Mojang have been…
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FoodNoms for iOS offers robust food, calorie, macros tracking with an Apple-like UI

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

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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