Amazon this week discontinued the Echo Look after pulling the Alexa-powered camera from store shelves in December 2019, a spokesperson confirmed to VentureBeat via email. As spotted by Voicebot.ai, Echo Look customers began receiving an email yesterday stating that their devices and the companion app will “no longer function” beginning July 2020, as the Echo […]
Signing physical documents is easy — all you need to do is grab a pen — but signing a digital document is a bit trickier. Digital signature apps bypass the tiresome print-sign-scan cycle of signing digital documents. They allow you to quickly and easily put digital pen to digital paper, signing online documents with your […]
Setting limits and keeping your children safe are two important responsibilities of parenting. Controlling what your child does on the internet isn’t always easy, but there are a variety of tools you can use to make the task less difficult. Parental control apps allow you to limit how much time your child spends online, restrict […]
Staying current is key in our fast-paced world. Most people wouldn’t even consider getting a physical morning newspaper anymore, so we depend on digital sources for our news. Finding an app that helps you get the news you want in a timely manner is essential. We’ve evaluated the best news apps, whether you use Android […]
The oversight suggests that state officials and Apple, both of which were responsible for vetting the app before it became available April 7, were asleep at the wheel. Americans are especially wary of location and health data, and privacy violations of any degree will hamper efforts to use smartphones both to trace contact and to […]
A RAW photo offers better image quality than a JPEG, but capturing RAW images was once a feature reserved for only DSLRs and other high-end cameras. But thanks to increasingly capable smartphone cameras and clever developers, it’s now possible to shoot RAW photos on your smartphone. In fact, both iOS and Android support RAW photo […]
Apple and Google have released a software tool that will make it possible for nations to release coronavirus contact-tracing apps that adopt the firms’ privacy-centric model. It offers developers access to added Bluetooth functionality to solve a problem existing apps have of iPhones sometimes failing to detect each other. Android and iOS device owners will […]
Enlarge / Mark Zuckerberg speaks at Facebook’s F8 summit in 2018. JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images Users of numerous popular iPhone apps such as Spotify, Venmo, Tinder, TikTok, DoorDash, and Pinterest experienced persistent app crashes as a result of a bug in Facebook’s SDK this week. The crash reports began coming in around 6:30pm Eastern […]
Evidence has emerged that Huawei may be ready to launch a revised version of its 2019 P30 Pro flagship smartphone. Huawei’s official consumer site in Germany mentions a P30 Pro New Edition in a series of terms and conditions, alongside listings for the P30, P30 Pro, and the P30 Lite New Edition. What’s special about […]
There’s a new Android 11 Developer Preview. This one is Preview 3, and it launched yesterday for Google’s Pixel line. Previous Android 11 previews haven’t had a ton of new additions, but this version has a lot of strange and interesting UI changes for us to discuss and puzzle over. Recent Apps loses the app […]
(Reuters) — A rift has opened up over the design of smartphone apps to trace people in Europe at risk of coronavirus infection, potentially hindering efforts to curb the pandemic and ease crippling travel restrictions. Scientists and researchers from more than 25 countries published an open letter on Monday urging governments not to abuse such […]
(Reuters) — Apps to help contain the spread of the novel coronavirus should not collect user location data, the European Commission said on Thursday, as Apple and Google weighed whether to work with virus apps that use location tracking. The EU executive’s recommendation came as part of a unified European approach for using technology to […]
Enlarge / iOS 13 on an iPhone 11 Pro. Samuel Axon According 9to5Mac’s analysis of an alleged leaked build of iOS 14, the next major release of Apple’s mobile operating system for iPhones, iPads, and iPods will introduce a new API that will let developers offer some functionality of their apps to users who have […]
The fourth-generation Apple TV (left) next to the third-gen model. Andrew Cunningham Second- and third-generation Apple TV streaming boxes will no longer be able to stream content from HBO Go and HBO Now after the end of April, according to a pair of HBO support documents. The documents were uncovered today by MacRumors. The two […]
Being asked to suddenly be a teacher to your kids is hard, even when you have access to reliable internet. Yes, there are lots of resources out there, but they can add up, even if many are offering free trials for a limited time. Just trying to figure out what will work for a four-year-old versus […]