Adobe Adds iPhone 7 Camera Support to Lightroom for iOS
Adobe has updated its Lightroom app for iOS to take advantage of the enhanced cameras on the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus.
The latest version of Lightroom for iPhone, v2.5.2, brings specific lens and sensor profiles for both of Apple’s new devices, featuring specific dual-lens optimizations for the 5.5-inch handset.
The update also brings improved color, noise, and lens profiles for Adobe’s digital negative (DNG) image format when used in conjunction with the iPhone 7 series, allowing photographers to edit images while avoiding the bugbear of visible distortions typically brought about by lossy data compression.
In addition to support for Adobe’s RAW file format, the new iteration of Lightroom supports the DCI-P3 wide color gamut display featured in iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, and first seen in the 9.7-inch iPad Pro. The improved standard offers 25 percent more color than sRGB.
The latest update builds on Adobe’s last, version 2.5, which brought RAW shooting capability to owners of Apple devices equipped with a 12-megapixel camera, including the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, 9.7-inch iPad Pro, and iPhone SE.
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom for iPhone is a free download for iPhone and iPad on the App Store. [Direct Link]
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Melinda Gates’ initiative is about getting more women into tech
Melinda Gates has been supporting the global fight against malaria, tuberculosis and AIDS with her husband since 2000. And she’ll continue to do so, but now she’s also building her own office and dedicating resources to tackle gender inequality in the tech industry. In an interview with Backchannel, Gates said her new initiative’s goal is to get more women working in technology and to get them to stay there. Gates is more than just the Microsoft founder’s wife: she worked in Redmond for a decade after getting her undergrad and MBA in computer science from Duke.
“I care about computer science,” she told Backchannel, lamenting the fact that there were more female computer science graduates back in the ’80s. While more and more women are going into law and medicine, female computer science graduates now only make up 18 percent of the total. It used to be 37 percent back in the ’80s. Gates stressed the importance of women’s presence in tech titans’ development labs to make sure they’re able to address the needs of half of the world’s population. She cited Apple’s Health app, as an example, calling its lack of ability to track menstruation a “blatant error” that might not have happened if there were more women working on its development.
She explained:
“When you look in the labs at who’s working on AI, you can find one woman here, and one woman there. Your’e not even finding three or four in labs together.
The other thing I know from work around the world is that women truly only get empowered when there’s a collective of them. You get one woman down in a village trying to break the system. She can’t do it at the village level unless she’s got women around her. It’s the power of the collective. Then she can go demand her rights.”
Gates is still in the research stage of her new project, and it could take a couple of years to conjure up a course of action. What she knows, however, is that she wants to get to the root of things, starting with getting young girls in grade school interested in the field. One possible way to do that is to highlight women in the industry who can become role models for the younger generation.
If you have an idea you’d like Gates to consider, Backchannel is now compiling comments to write up a letter of advice for the philanthropist.
Via: The Verge
Source: Backchannel
Logitech’s newest webcam is for the livestreamers
With eSports shaping up to be a half-a-billion dollar industry this year, now would be a good time to step up your livestreaming game if you’re hoping to get noticed among the packs of Twitch streamers and YouTubers. Enter Logitech’s latest webcam: the C922 Pro Stream, designed specifically for gamers with 1080p streaming at 30 frames per second and dynamic background replacement to make your face streams really pop.
The C922 is Logitech’s first webcam since the introduction of the HD Pro C920 way back in 2012. While the earlier iteration quickly became the gold standard for professional streamers and video bloggers, the latest version builds on that success with a new 60 fps setting at 720p to keep the stream in sync with gaming’s fast framerates. (Although it’s a step down in resolution.) Logitech also worked directly with XSplit to tune the C922 specifically for its game broadcasting software.
Rounding out the features, the C922 also boasts sharp autofocus and automatic low light correction to compensate for the flashing lights of your computer screen. For audio, the C922 packs two omnidirectional, noise-cancelling microphones. As for that background replacement function, Logitech says the camera uses “intelligent shape recognition” to separate the subject from the background without the need for a green screen – meaning you can place yourself in front of your game stream or at least just block out the view of your gaming den behind you.
The C922 Pro Stream is available on Logitech.com for $99. There’s also a Best Buy exclusive version that comes with a tripod and three-month license to XSplit, or a C922x variation available on Amazon that skips the tripod in favor of a six-month XSplit license.
Source: Logitech Blog
Let Apple create some Memories for you – CNET
I simply can’t keep up with the pace with which I snap photos. I rarely go through and delete bad or redundant photos. Rarer still, I take the time to create an album of a trip or event. I’m long past the point of ever bringing some semblance of organization to my photo library.
I’d wager that you, dear reader, are in a similar predicament. Because we can’t be trusted to keep our photo libraries nice and tidy, Apple has taken it upon itself to bring some structure to our sprawling collections of photos.
How memories are made
With MacOS Sierra (and iOS 10), the updated Photos app features a new tab called Memories. It serves up a handful of auto-generated albums each day, based on a place, people or time period. So far, my memories have featured place-based albums from a specific location (Edgecomb, Maine), a vacation that spanned multiple locations (Philadelphia to Cobbs Creek, Pennsylvania) and theme-based places (“On the Water” and “On the Mountain”). People-based albums have featured one individual as well as an album titled “Together” that features photos of my wife and daughter. Time-period albums feature photos from a single day or an entire year (“Best of the Year 2015”).
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When you open an album from the Memories tab, you’ll see a pleasingly irregular grid of photos, which Apple determined are the highlights. You can click the Show All link to see all of the photos Apple has included in the album. You can also hit the play button at the top of the Photos window to play a slideshow of a Memory just as you can with any other album, complete with an animation theme (Ken Burns, Origami and so on) and music (either a theme from the Photos app or a song from your iTunes library).
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What’s in a memory
If you scroll to the bottom of a Memory album, you’ll see the people included in the memory, a map of where the photos (and videos) were taken and related memories. At the very bottom are two buttons: Add to Favorite Memories and Delete Memory.
The related memories are useful because you’ll find albums here that you won’t necessarily see on the main page of the Memories tab. That is, the Photos app has more memories than it shows you up front. And you can create your own album of your favorite memories by clicking the Add to Favorite Memories button at the bottom of any Memory album; you’ll find a Favorite Memories album in the Albums view of the Photos app.
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If you like the layout of the Memory album — with its title photo, irregular layout and people and map info — you can give any album the Memory treatment. When viewing an album that you created, click the Show as Memory button in the upper-right corner. While viewing an album in the Memory layout, scroll to the bottom and click Add to Memories to add it to the main page of the Memories tab. You can then go into the album again and click Add to Favorite Memories to add it to the Favorite Memories album.
Sync via iCloud Photo Library
If you have enabled iCloud Photo Library on your Mac and iOS devices, then you can see the same Memories across all of your devices.
On a Mac, open the Photos app, go to Photos > Preferences and click on the iCloud tab. Check the box for iCloud Photo Library to upload your library to iCloud (it can take a while to complete; it’s best to run this overnight if you have a large library).
On an iOS device, go to Settings > iCloud > Photos and toggle on the switch for iCloud Photo Library.
For more, read our full review of MacOS Sierra and learn how to use Sierra’s new features.
Nintendo’s Famicom Mini is Japan’s NES Classic
Nintendo fans in its home country are getting their own teensy retro console, as well. Today, Mario’s creator has revealed the mini Famicom, a shrunken version of the original NES the company released in Japan. Just like the mini NES for the west, the Famicom mini fits in the palm of your hand and plugs into your TV via HDMI. It comes with two wired controllers instead of one, but the bad news is that it follows in the footsteps of the New 3DS — it doesn’t have a bundled AC adapter. You’ll have to buy that one separately.
It will also be preloaded with 30 games, some of which like Final Fantasy III aren’t on the mini NES. They are, however, in Japanese, so you may want to brush up on your Nihongo before grabbing the console. It also looks like you can have four saves per game, which is a huge plus if you live with another Nintendo fan. The mini Famicom will be available on November 10th, a day before the mini NES comes out in west, for $59. You’ll have to shell out an extra $10 more for the AC adapter, though, not to mention the shipping fee if you’re importing it from another country.
Here’s the tiny console’s full game list (we updated to reflect that it has two Downtown games):
- Donkey Kong
- Pac-Man
- Excitebike
- Balloon Fight
- Ice Climber
- Galaga
- Yie Ar Kung-Fu
- Super Mario Bros
- The Legend of Zelda
- Atlantis no Nazo
- Gradius
- Makai Village
- Solomon’s Key
- Metroid
- Castlevania
- Adventure of Link
- Bumping Sumo
- Super Mario Bros. 3
- Ninja Gaiden
- Mega Man 2
- River City Ransom
- Double Dragon Ⅱ The Revenge
- Super Tamashito Luo
- Final Fantasy Ⅲ
- Dr. Mario
- Downtown Nekketsu Monogatari
- Downtown Soreyuke Daiundoukai
- Mario Open Golf
- Super Mario USA
- Kirby’s Adventure
Via: IGN
Source: Nintendo (1), (2)
Sony shows off everything inside the PS VR core bundle box
We’re a couple of weeks away from the debut of the PlayStation VR, but you can prepare with this new unboxing video from Sony. The hardware inside the $400 core bundle box (headset, processing unit, headphones and demo disc — but not the Move controllers and required-for-use PlayStation camera) is all ready and accounted for, but the real trick may be getting your hands on one quickly if you haven’t already preordered. We got a closer look at some of the new experiences during the recent Tokyo Game Show, but everyone else will have to wait until it arrives October 13th.
Source: PlayStation Blog
Android Wear 2.0: What’s new in the major software update for watches?
Android Wear is due to get a major overhaul.
Google announced at Google I/O 2016 in May that its wearables OS would get a massive update, in the form of Android Wear 2.0, sometime this autumn, but the company later pushed that release date to sometime in early 2017. The delay is likely related to the fact that no big Android Wear partners, such as LG, Lenovo, and Huawei, reportedly plan to launch new smartwatches in 2016.
With no new watches to run or even demo the new software, Google likely thought a delay was best. But to soften the blow, it revealed Android Wear 2.0 will include Google Play Store integration when it launches for consumers.
Here’s what you need to know about the feature, including everything else that’s new in Android Wear 2.0.
Android Wear 2.0: What is it?
Android Wear 2.0 is an upcoming software update for Android wearables. It will bring a Material Design-themed overhaul, standalone apps, improvements to watch faces, messaging, and fitness, and more. Google has released three major updates to Android Wear since it launched two years ago, but this version brings a number jump that can only mean big changes are coming.
Android Wear 2.0: What’s new in the update?
Standalone apps
Thanks to Android Wear 2.0, one of the biggest new changes coming to Android Wear is standalone apps.
With support for standalone apps, you will longer need your phone nearby to use apps on your Android Wear device, because instead of requiring a tethered connection to your phone, it will communicate through Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, or cellular and be able to do more. Not only is this beneficial for Android Wear users but also iPhone owners, as they’ll be able to download apps directly to their watches.
Google said this will result in a “faster, richer on-watch experience.” Keep in mind early Android Wear watches don’t have Wi-Fi or cellular connectivity, but newer watches will have the fortune of being less dependent on phones.
Google Play Store
Google recently revealed that the third developer preview of Android Wear 2.0 includes a standalone Google Play Store.
That means the final software will let you download apps directly to your watch instead of queuing them on your phone. With this integration, you’ll be able to download paid titles and beta tests, browse recommended apps, and search for specific apps. You’ll download apps without having to send them to your phone, too, as developers can now develop apps that live just on the watch.
Material design
Android’s design language developed in 2014 is coming to Android Wear, but this version will be specifically optimised for Android Wear watches. You’ll see a redesign of the app launcher that works with round screens, and there’s new ways to interact with the app launcher. For instance, instead of a left or right swipe, you’ll push the side button to see apps displayed in an arc.
Material design will also add an action drawer to the bottom of the display.
Complications
A new Complications API will now let third-party developers include data from other apps on their watch faces.
You’ll be able to tweak these watch faces, too, and choose which data you want to show. Google said any watch face will be able to show data from any app. They can show, for instance, your calories burned, steps taken, incoming messages, or whatever. Also, tapping on individual complications will launch the full watch app for more information.
Sounds a lot like Apple Watch complications, right?
The way you can select and change watch faces will change as well, and according to Google, it’ll be “fast and fun”.
Notifications
Card notifications in Android Wear tend to cover watch faces and and make the software feel cluttered, but Android Wear 2.0 will change all that.
When you see a card notification, the watch face will show smaller icons instead of massive space-hogging messages. When you raise your watch to activate it, it will pull up a card notification, then hide it, and you can swipe up from the bottom to go sift through notifications. A progress bar will appear at the bottom, revealing how many cards are left in the stack.
The cards have also been redesigned. You’ll see light text on a black background instead of dark text on a white background.
Messaging
Android Wear 2.0 adds two new input methods: a swipe-style keyboard and handwriting recognition.
The handwriting mode will let you draw out letters on your watch’s screen in order to write messages. Previously, sending messages was much more limiting. Google said it will offer its own native keyboard, but it’s also allowing third-party keyboard apps for you to choose from. You’ll even have access to new Smart Replies, which Gmail users should be very familiar with…
It gives you the option of three possible responses to quickly reply to a contact. These smart replies will be generated on the watches themselves. And finally, responding messages no longer means you have to swipe to another screen, because with Android Wear 2.0, you’ll be able to tap on the message and view more data before deciding on sending a smart reply or whatever.
Fitness
Google has improved fitness in Android Wear 2.0. It is getting automatic activity recognition and a Google Fit API so data can sync with like a running app. Google’s also expanding the ways you can listen to music.
Not only will apps will be able to now detect when you begin walking, running, or biking, but because apps can now be installed right on the phone, Android Wear watches with built-in LTE support can start Spotify and stream music from the cloud right to your Bluetooth headset without you having to be tethered to a phone. Also, third-party apps can now exchange data through Google Fit.
That means your Strava cycling data can show up in your Fitbit companion app.
Android Wear 2.0: Which devices are compatible?
Android 2.0 won’t be available for every Android Wear smartwatch. Older devices like the original Moto 360 and the LG G Watch aren’t compatible. We should know more when the software’s launch date approaches.
Android Wear 2.0: When will it be available?
Google said it will roll out Android Wear 2.0 to watches sometime in early 2017.
Want to know more?
Check out Pocket-lint’s Android Wear hub for all the latest. We also have this round-up of features from what Google announced at I/O 2016.
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