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Cyanogen 12 with Lollipop is here, lands on the OnePlus One first

Apr14
by on April 14, 2015 at 1:58 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Insider

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That’s right, the Lollipop release of Cyanogen is here and it’s coming to the OnePlus One before anyone else. The update — Cyanogen 12 — begins rolling out for “all” OnePlus One users beginning today, with other devices to follow in the future. Cyanogen 12 brings Android 5.0 to the devices along with the full Material Design language across the tweaked OS. It also brings a new App Themer feature that allows you to change the style system-wide, including in third-party apps. This new build of Cyanogen also includes the company’s new email service provided as part of a partnership with Boxer. The…

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Here’s our first look at Apple’s new Music app in iOS 8.4

Apr13
by on April 13, 2015 at 10:29 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

Apple today made available a preview of its new Music app as part of a beta build released to developers of iOS 8.4. Abdel Ibrahim has posted a number of images on Twitter. Below, you can see the new “now playing” display in the updated app. pic.twitter.com/m7KOHtmEW2 — Abdel Ibrahim (@abdophoto) April 13, 2015 The preview build of iOS 8.4 doesn’t appear to include Apple’s rumored relaunch of Beats Music. Here’s Apple’s notes about the new build of iOS, as grabbed by 9to5Mac: Preview the new Music app The iOS 8.4 Beta includes an early preview of the the all-new…

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R.I.P. blogging, killed by screenshorts

Apr13
by on April 13, 2015 at 10:22 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Opinion

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Late last year, Mat Honan wrote for Buzzfeed about “screenshorts”, a rising phenomenon on Twitter where people share their favorite quote of an article in a screenshot to avoid Twitter’s character count. What’s most interesting about the rise of these screenshots on Twitter and other social media is that they’re actually killing traditional blogging in its entirety. The easiest place to look for this phenomenon is celebrities. Almost every celebrity under 40 that you can possibly think of has probably made a screenshort blog post. pic.twitter.com/fHdHg6II9g — P!nk (@Pink) April 13, 2015 Researching this for just an hour reveals a staggering amount…

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UNICEF is using Snapchat to highlight children missing out on their childhood in Nigeria

Apr13
by on April 13, 2015 at 8:36 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is using Snapchat for the first time to highlight the lives of 800,000 children who have been forced to flee their homes in northeast Nigeria due to conflict between Boko Haram and military forces. The campaign is using Snapchat’s disappearing image service to share images from “leading Snapchat artists” based on drawings by children in Nigeria, Chad, Niger and Cameroon. The Snapchat Stories will highlight what children miss about home and what they’ve endured in the region. UNICEF is inviting the public to send snaps to the account showing what they’d miss if they were forced…

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