Shooting 360-degree panoramas may seem like a complex photographic endeavor, but with the Google Street View app on your smartphone, it’s incredibly fun and easy for anyone to accomplish. You don’t need expensive cameras, a complicated rig, or any special photographic expertise to produce a glorious spherical pano. You just ...
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Once mocked as the home of “filthy casuals”, the mobile gaming market has come on in leaps and bounds in the last few years. Games like Hearthstone, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds: Mobile, and Fortnite have shown that the humble smartphone is just as good a place for digital entertainment as the console ...
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Why is there no app where you can follow party animals, concert snobs or conference butterflies for their curated suggestions of events? That’s the next phase of social calendar app IRL that’s launching today on iOS to help you make and discuss plans with friends or discover nearby happenings to ...
Read More »Tapped out? Edit faster with 5 gesture shortcuts in Lightroom CC on mobile
Daven Mathies/Digital Trends With Lightroom CC, photo editing fits right in the palm of your hands — but a keyboard (with its many shortcuts) doesn’t. While Lightroom CC on a mobile device may be missing keyboard shortcuts, the editing app still has several shortcuts built in. The problem? The gesture-based ...
Read More »Amazon Spark, the retailer’s two-year-old Instagram competitor, has shut down
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Julian Chokkattu/Digital Trends Ads appeared on the lock screens of Huawei and Honor smartphones on Thursday, causing public outcry and anger from device owners in online forums and social media. In an initial statement, a Huawei spokesperson said the company was not responsible for placing ads on people’s phones. That’s ...
Read More »Daily Crunch: Telegram faces new attack in China
The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Telegram faces DDoS attack in China… again The popular encrypted messaging service Telegram is once again ...
Read More »Exclusive: This is Mobvoi’s next Wear OS smartwatch, and it (likely) adds 4G LTE
Ticwatch Pro (2018) in Smart Mode with OLED active. Mobvoi’s Ticwatch series are among your best choices for an affordable smartwatch with basic fitness tracking features running Google’s Wear OS platform. The company’s latest smartwatch has just leaked, by none other than Mobvoi itself. Digital Trends spotted a landing page ...
Read More »Every secure messaging app needs a self-destruct button
The growing presence of encrypted communications apps makes a lot of communities safer and stronger. But the possibility of physical device seizure and government coercion is growing as well, which is why every such app should have some kind of self-destruct mode to protect its user and their contacts. End ...
Read More »How to download movies from Netflix for offline viewing
Netflix is great for when you want to spend the night on the couch using the steady Wi-Fi connection provided your awesome new router, but what happens when you’re facing the world’s longest plane ride? The answer is simple: Download all the movies and shows you’ll need for the trip ...
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