AI-powered Prisma photo editing app now works offline for most filters
Prisma first launched on iOS back in July, bringing AI-powered artistic photo filters to the iPhone. We were impressed with the quality and variety of filters, noting the server-side machine learning aspect that made these filters possible, but Prisma’s popularity was often too much for those servers and resulted in slow filter previews. Today Prisma seems to have solved that problem by making most of its filters available offline.
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Report: iPhone 6/Plus units w/ unresponsive displays & gray flickering now widespread
Pinterest is the new owner of read-it-later service Instapaper
Pinterest has purchased the popular read-it-later service Instapaper and plans to maintain the app and service for users. The purchase comes three years after Betaworks, the firm behind Digg, bought Instapaper from creator Marco Arment who currently developes the popular podcast player Overcast.
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9to5Toys Lunch Break: 12″ iPad Pro + Cell $680, Fitbit Aria Scale $67, Huawei Smartwatch $275 off + $100 gift card, more
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TODAY’S CAN’T MISS DEALS:
Get Apple’s tricked out 12″ iPad Pro 128GB Wi-Fi + Cellular (refurb) for $680
Get the Fitbit Aria Digital Smart Scale (New-open box) for only $67 shipped (Reg. $106)
B&H is discounting Huawei Smartwatches by up to $275 and throwing in a $100 gift card (Tax in NY only)
Why buy iPad mini 2 when you can grab this iPad mini 4 deal for only $30 more?
Apple’s latest 13-inch 256GB MacBook Air and 128GB Retina Pro are on sale right now, save up to $269
Save nearly $200 on Apple’s latest 13-inch MacBook Air, ideal for students: $800 (Reg. $999)
Nomad’s solid aluminum Apple Watch Stand is a nice complement to your Mac: $30 Prime shipped (Reg. $40)
Save up to $200 on Apple Watch in Best Buy’s 50th Anniversary Celebration Sale, priced from $249
App Store Free App of the Week: Pixel Cup Soccer 16 goes free for the first time (Reg. $3)
Galaxy Trucker for iOS & Android now matching its lowest price yet: $1 (Reg. $3)
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MORE NEW GEAR FROM TODAY:
LG 49-inch 4K Smart Ultra HDTV $479, Canon Maxify All-in-One Printer w/ AirPrint $70, more
- Blue Yeti Blackout Mic w/ $40 Dell Gift Card $110 or Samson Recording Kit $50
- Willnorn SoundPlus Waterproof Bluetooth Speaker $28 Prime shipped (Reg. $40), more
- This 11-inch ASUS Chromebook w/ 4GB of RAM: $159 shipped (Reg. $200)
- Games/Apps: Xbox One S Wireless Controller $44, iOS freebies, more
- Office Supplies: 24-Pack Ballpoint pens $6, 24-Pack Binder Clips $2, more
- SwissGear Backpack for 15-inch MacBooks: $42 shipped (Reg. $60)
- Gap, J.Crew &Banana Republic sales, save up to 40% on new styles and more
MORE DEALS STILL LIVE:
Get a free $50 Gift Card when you buy a Philips Hue Starter Kit (2nd gen) for $180
Pad & Quill iPhone/iPad accessory sale: wooden cases $17, leather covers from $33, more + 20% off DODOcase
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Kanex portable Apple Watch battery w/ integrated charger now available for $99
Previously shown off during CES, Kanex is today launching its new portable Apple Watch battery, which includes a built-in magnetic charging connector making it one of the first official cordless accessories of its kind.
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Comment: One-time codes are the Apple Pay secret weapon that’s just a little too secret
Much has been written about the convenience of Apple Pay, especially on an Apple Watch. Instead of reaching into your pocket or bag for your wallet, and extracting the card you want to use, you can simply double-click the side button on the Watch and hold out your wrist.
But there’s one aspect of Apple Pay that I’ve always felt fails to get the full attention it deserves: the fact that it never hands over your card details to retailers. Even on Apple’s own microsite, the feature is buried in a paragraph whose heading is about the use of fingerprints.
Yet the list of major chains who have seen customer card details compromised is virtually a Who’s Who of retailing and the hotel trade. Acer, Carphone Warehouse, CVS Photo, Eddie Bauer, Hilton, Home Depot, K-Mart, Marriott Hotels, Michaels, Neiman Marcus, P.F. Chang’s, Staples, Starwood Hotels, SuperValu, Target, Trump Hotels and Wendy’s. That’s even before we get into the Oracle hack that may have exposed almost every US credit card …
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Readdle releases PDF Expert 2 for Mac w/ improved editing capabilities and password support
Less than a year after it first brought the best-selling app to the Mac, Readdle today has launched PDF Expert 2 for the Mac. The company says that the update adds “even more power to the app,” which competes directly with other PDF apps like Adobe’s Acrobat.
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Pokémon Go fever breaking as app analytics show that usage is on the decline
If you’re one of the people who’ve been watching in bemusement as half the planet seemed to be devoting their lives to catching fictitious characters on their iPhones (even Siri getting in on the action), relief is at hand. New data from an investment company shows that Peak Pokémon Go appears to be behind us as four separate app metrics show the popularity of the game in decline.
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Facebook testing autoplay videos with sound in iOS and Android apps
Facebook has confirmed to Mashable that it is testing a new version of autoplay videos in its iOS and Android apps – one that automatically plays the audio also as you scroll through your newsfeed. This contrasts with the normal behaviour, which autoplays the video in silent mode, a tap required to switch on the audio …
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Amazon reportedly set to do what Apple wasn’t able to (for non-students): launch a $5/mo streaming music service
Re/code reports that Amazon may be about to do something Apple tried hard to do but wasn’t able: launch a true streaming music service for $5/month (Apple was able to secure the $5/month pricing for students). There is, though, rather a big catch for Amazon: the service will only work on the company’s own Amazon Echo speaker.
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