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VSCO is launching its own camera app.
The new iOS app is called Capture and is coming first to test markets such as Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand, Bloomberg reports. It’s set to become available in the US later this summer.
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Google explains Thursday’s massive Cloud outage.
Yesterday, a global outage on the Google Cloud platform knocked out Google Home, Spotify, Snapchat, and even some Cloudflare features, and today the company released a mini incident report as it continues to investigate.
For Cloudflare’s part, its report says the Google failure took out a central data store for one of its services.
From our initial analysis, the issue occurred due to an invalid automated quota update to our API management system which was distributed globally, causing external API requests to be rejected. To recover we bypassed the offending quota check, which allowed recovery in most regions within 2 hours. However, the quota policy database in us-central1 became overloaded, resulting in much longer recovery in that region.
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The Nook app has started linking to outside purchases on iOS, too.
Barnes & Noble’s Nook app has joined Kindle and Spotify in making it easier to buy e-books and audiobooks on the iPhone. A recent update has added a new “buy on BN.com” option to the iOS app, as spotted earlier by Good e-Reader.
The change comes after a judge ordered Apple to lift restrictions on web links and outside payment options, a decision that a higher court upheld earlier this month.
Barnes & Noble NOOK APP for iOS can buy books in the app
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Plus, in this week’s Installer: The Switch 2 is here, a Broadway show coming to TV, the next John Wick, and much more.
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Adobe brings Photoshop to Android.
After launching Photoshop for iPhone in February, a beta Android app is now available to download via Google Play. Much like its iOS counterpart, Photoshop for Android includes many features from the desktop version, including layers, masks, brushes, and Firefly generative AI tools, but with a UI optimized for mobile devices.
Adobe says all features are free to use while the app is in beta, and that more are “coming soon.”
Jess Weatherbed
iPhone users can finally copy chunks of WhatsApp messages.
The WhatsApp for iOS 25.16.81 update that’s rolling out over the coming weeks allows users to hold down on a message to select and copy specific sections, instead of being forced to copy the entire message text. Android users are still stuck with this limitation for now, but WABetaInfo reports that a similar update is in the works.
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The Nintendo Music app has added a sleep timer.
Following updates to the Nintendo Switch App and the Nintendo Today app, the Nintendo Music app has also been updated and now features a new sleep timer for those wanting to drift off to their favorite soundtrack.
A small crescent moon icon appearing in the lower right corner of the app’s interface while playing a track or playlist can be tapped to open a menu with timer options ranging from 5 minutes to 60 minutes.
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