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  • Snap lets you play as your Bitmoji in third-party games

    Snap is announcing at its Snap Partner Summit that the first games that will take advantage of Bitmoji will roll out soon. The feature was announced last year, and it looks like developers can finally take advantage of that SDK. You’ll be able to play a game with you More

    Snap lets you play as your Bitmoji in third-party games
  • Imaging startup Light is exiting the smartphone business

    Light’s push into smartphones was an inevitability. Sure, the startup turned heads with its pricey L16 camera, but these days mobile photography is almost exclusively the domain of the handset. Early last year, the answer arrived in the form of the trypophobia-inducing Nokia 9 PureView. In a category where manufacturers More

    Imaging startup Light is exiting the smartphone business
  • This Week in Apps: Protests impact app stores, FTC fines

    Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all.The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 204 billion downloads and $120 billion in consumer spending in 2019. People are now spending three More

    This Week in Apps: Protests impact app stores, FTC fines app developer, kids app trends
  • PhotoRoom automagically removes background from your photo

    Meet PhotoRoom, a French startup that has been working on a utility photography mobile app. The concept is extremely simple, which is probably the reason why it has attracted a ton of downloads over the past few months.After selecting a photo, PhotoRoom removes the background from that photo and lets More

    PhotoRoom automagically removes background from your photo