New iPhone camera app bets on pro-level controls, clever interface

Whether you're a skilled photographer or you're shooting just for fun, it always helps to have a great camera app loaded on your phone. One such app is Halide – a brand new and ambitious camera application for iOS.

According to the creators of the app, there are at least two elements that distinguish Halide from the remaining dozens of similar apps in the App Store. These are the specific gesture-based UI with tactile feedback and the design of the app itself. All the manual controls can be managed with simple gestures like swipes or taps, which makes the app easy ...

Chrome To Deprecate ‘PNaCl,’ Embrace New ‘WebAssembly’ Standard

Google announced that Portable Native Client (PNaCl) technology will be deprecated in Chrome in the first quarter of 2018. The company will focus its efforts on supporting the new web standard and PNaCl alternative, called "WebAssembly."

Canceled Microsoft Lumia 960 flagship smartphone makes appearance

It's only been a day since news about Microsoft working on a new smartphone running a different branch of Windows Mobile made headlines, and now it looks like another device that should have been powered by the defunct Windows Phone OS appeared online.

We're talking about the never-revealed Lumia 960, also known as Lumia “Northstar.” Photos of the devices have been leaked online directly from China. Apparently, this is a prototype unit that's still being used by Microsoft for developing Windows 10 Mobile.

It's unclear whether or not the smartphone would have ...

5 of the best MMO games for Android and iOS (2017)

Mobile MMO games have been gaining more and more traction the past few years, and for a good reason. The better hardware introduced in the last 5 years or so has really changed the possibilities for mobile developers, allowing them to create much bigger and far more ambitious projects.

In case you're not familiar with what an MMO is, however, let us explain. The acronym stands for “Massively Multiplayer Online”, and games of the genre share just one common trait – they place a huge number of players in the same shared universe. This means that everyone is playing ...

In-Win Spins Out New Polaris, Mars Fans At Computex

In addition to that crazy-cool Winbot case we looked at earlier, In-Win also launched a pair of new 120mm fans that put a twist (quite literally) on traditional fan design.

The Essential Phone was designed to flop

The tech-obsessed parts of the internet exploded yesterday when Andy Rubin's new company, Essential, debuted its upcoming first smartphone, the Essential Phone, and smart home speaker, the Essential Home. And it's fair to say most people were impressed, if a bit skeptical: even if the devices seem pretty good for a first try, this is, after all, yet another newcomer that tries to reinvent the smartphone in some way.

The first thing one might notice when looking at the Essential Phone is its curious design: the large, bezel-less screen's top is cut ...

Results: the Essential Phone, yay or nay?

So, the Essential Phone was revealed today — a powerful flagship of a smartphone with an all-screen front, a titanium and ceramic body, a magnetic connector for modules on its back. Announced to be designed to serve the user through and through, it's said that it will be fully unlocked and will not have any sort of pre-installed bloat. Additionally, it's supposed to "play nice" with competitor's smartphones, as Mr. Andy Rubin's main drive to found Essential was his discontent with how 21st-century tech is still relatively closed off from communicating with its own ecosystem.

In any case, ...