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Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
Adobe’s ‘computational photography’ camera app is now available for the iPad.

After adding support for the iPhone 17 and its square sensor selfie camera last November, Adobe has updated its Project Indigo camera app to support the iPhone 17e and iPads with at least 6GB of RAM. But Adobe warns that “Project Indigo is not yet tuned for iPad operation” and suggests sticking with an iPhone for an “optimal experience.”

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Professor Layton is coming to PC and PlayStation for the first time.

Arriving later this year, Professor Layton and the New World of Steam will be available on PlayStation 5 and Steam in addition to the Nintendo Switch and Switch 2. There’s still no firm release date for this puzzle-filled title just yet, but you can check out the latest trailer below.

Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
France’s government is switching to Linux.

France’s Interministerial Directorate for Digital Affairs (DINUM) has announced its “exit from Windows in favor of workstations running on the Linux operating system,” as XDA reports. It’s part of a broader shift away from non-European tech — in January, France’s government also launched its own videoconferencing platform to replace Teams, Zoom, and Google Meet.

Why your Whoop might tell you to up your testosterone

Whoop and Oura are health tech trendsetters. But hurtling toward innovation can have some unintended ripple effects.

Victoria Song
Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Prime Video’s pricier “Ultra” plan goes live today.

Going ad-free on Prime Video now costs $4.99 per month, instead of $2.99. It also comes with “exclusive” access to 4K streams.

Interior design at 25,000 mph

How the Artemis II spacecraft was designed with (relative) comfort in mind.

Georgina Torbet
Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Gmail’s end-to-end encryption is now available on its mobile app.

Starting this week, enterprise users will be able to send encrypted messages from Gmail’s Android and iOS apps if their organization has the feature enabled. Gmail’s version of E2EE, which uses client-side encryption, has been available since last year, but is still limited to users with enterprise accounts.

Fear and loathing at OpenAIFear and loathing at OpenAI
David Pierce
Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Huawei’s next flagship phones are going big on gradients.

The Pura 90 series will launch in China on April 20th, and the phones will be decked out in a series of colorful gradient finishes. GizmoChina has images of the full line of Pura 90 Pro and Pro Max colors, but I’m a fan of this sunset Pro Max Huawei has teased on Weibo.

Screenshot showing Huawei Pura 90 Pro Max in the colors of a sunset on water
Gradients aren’t new for Huawei — its P20 and P30 phones had similar finishes.
Screenshot: Huawei Weibo account