Apple updates Clips app on iOS with retro effects and a new camcorder feature

Apple has just updated the Clips app on iOS. The slick and easy to use video creation app is ideal for creating shareable short videos and effects. The latet version can simulate a vintage camcorder, there are also 8 new posters, various retro-style banners and 3D effects plus the ability to create original songs in GarageBand and sync them with your newly created videos. Clips is available in the App Store now.

Netflix confirms season 2 of ‘The Umbrella Academy’

We’ve heard about this a few days ago but now Netflix has confirmed that The Umbrella Academy is getting a second season. The main cast—which includes Ellen Page, Tom Hopper, David Castañeda, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Robert Sheehan, Aidan Gallagher, and Justin Min—are all coming back to reprise their roles. It’ll be a 10 one-hour episode season, but we don’t know yet when the new episodes will drop. However, production will begin this summer. Steve Blackman will be returing as showrunner and executive producer. My Chemical Romance’s Gerard Way, who is the creator of the comic series the show is based on, will be coming back as co-executive producer.

The Umbrella Academy just got confirmed for Season 2, and if anything happens to Five we riot. pic.twitter.com/zoMkmsNwK2

— NX (@NXOnNetflix) April 2, 2019

Source: Engadget

Audi teases AI:me self-driving city car concept

Volkswagen isn’t the only one with a self-driving concept that will be debuted at the Shanghai Motor Show. Audi will be showing off the AI:me. The car maker teased a sketch of the car and describes it as a “vision of an automated driving compact car for the megacities of tomorrow.”

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Nokia launches hole-punch display-toting X71

Nokia is taking on the hole-punch display trend with its newest Android One phone. The brand’s licensee HMD Global just launched in Taiwan the X71. Aside from the new 6.39-inch display, the X71 is a camera-centric phone with a Zeiss-branded triple-camera system. It has a 48-megapixel main sensor, 8-megapixel wide sensor, and 5-megapixel depth sensor. The hole-punch houses a 16-megapixel selfie shooter. It runs on a Snapdragon 660 processor, 6GB of RAM, 128GB of expandable storage, and a 3,500mAh battery.

It’s priced at around US$385 (around CA$510) and pits it against the $490 Huawei Nova 4 and $203 Redmi Note 7 Pro, which both carry the same Sony 48-megapixel sensor. It’s rumoured to be getting a global release under the name Nokia 8.1 Plus.

Source: Engadget