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Enlight leaps into the iOS photo editor market, touting extensive but intuitive features

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by on March 12, 2015 at 1:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Product Launches

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By now, most mobile photographers — and practitioners of the highly regarded selfie genre — are familiar with Facetune, the popular iOS photo editing app from Lightricks. Facetune helps make portraits look a lot better than you might expect with tools that improve skin tone and texture, fix up messy hair, apply makeup, sculpt faces into a more pleasing shape and blur out backgrounds. Today, the Facetune developers strike again with Enlight, a new photo editing app that builds on the image processing technologies first implemented in Facetune. It offers a new iPhone photo editor featuring pro-level options but maintains a consumer level ease of use. My first dive…

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The best GIF of 2014 is…from 2012

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by on March 12, 2015 at 12:59 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Images, Shareables

This… …is the Best GIF of 2014 according to the GIFY Awards, which is run by Giphy, one of our favorite GIF aggregators, and voted for by a panel of experts and the internet as a whole. Only, it’s actually three years old. The entertaining image of President Obama gliding on stage is a spoof based on his entrance at the Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul, back in 2012. You can even see the branding in the background. Head here to see the other, perhaps more well deserving GIFs that lost out to this ageing meme. ➤ The GIFYs  Read next: How…

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Cleaning startup Helpling expands to the Middle East and Asia Pacific, acquires competitor Spickify

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by on March 12, 2015 at 11:35 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia, Australia, Helpling, Insider

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Helpling, the Germany-based on-demand household cleaning service, is now launching its service in Singapore, Australia and the UAE. The company opened shop in Berlin only a year ago and has since arrived in 11 more countries. Helpling’s expansion is aided by its acquisition of Singapore-based rival Spickify, whose founder Hoe Yeen Teck will oversee operations in the country. Helpling is already active in Austria, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain and Sweden. Today’s announcement follows the company’s roll-out in Europe and Southern America and a $17 million funding round secured in December. It launched its own mobile apps in August last year…

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Eyefi unveils Mobi Pro camera card with Raw wireless workflow

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by on March 12, 2015 at 11:00 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Product Launches

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Eyefi today launched Eyefi Mobi Pro, a new 32GB Wi-Fi SD card that combines the wireless transfer of photos from your camera with its photo apps and cloud service to offer increased flexibility in image handling. The Mobi Pro builds on the wireless transfer and syncing features available in previous Mobi card versions to feature a new Raw wireless transfer and workflow, automated photo categorization and photo search capabilities. The new wireless Raw and JPEG file transfer function gives photographers additional flexibility: You can send JPEG images to your mobile device for instant preview or edit and share with others, and send Raw files directly to the…

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UK spies were fired for inappropriately accessing personal data, says Intelligence and Security Committee

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by on March 12, 2015 at 10:43 am
Posted In: Around the Web, GCHQ, Insider, Intelligence and Security Committee, Mi5, parliament, UK, UK intelligence agencies

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Employees of the UK’s security and intelligence services – Mi5, Mi6 and GCHQ – have been fired for inappropriately accessing personal data acquired through bulk surveillance operations, according to a new report from Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee. ‘Privacy and Security: A modern and transparent legal framework‘ [PDF link] was released today and is the first comprehensive review of the UK’s surveillance capabilities by MPs. It reveals how the intelligence agencies gather Bulk Personal Datasets – large databases containing personal information about a wide range of people – and how those resources have been apparently been abused by some employees. The report…

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