Huawei credits its triple rear camera on the P20 for boost in smartphone sales

China-based Huawei believes its innovations in the smartphone photography category has helped improve their sales drastically. Kevin Ho, Huawei’s president for its phone business, announced during his keynote speech at CES Asia in Shanghai that the company has shipped six million units of its P20 and P20 Pro worldwide. And that shipment of its phones are up by 81 percent when compared to the same 10 week period in 2017, when the P10 was launched. Shipments in China went up by 63 percent, while those outside the country jumped a significant 150 percent.

Ho attributes this significant gain to the triple rear camera on the P20 Pro. He claims that the innovations they’ve put into that flagship phone’s camera have “pushed up shipments of P20 both at home and abroad.” The P20 Pro features the world’s first triple camera system with a 40-megapixel RGB lens, a 20-megapixel monochrome lens, and an 8-megapixel telephoto lens.

Source: South China Morning Post

Instagram shuts down testing of screenshot notifications in Stories

Earlier this year, Instagram was testing out a feature that would let some users know if someone took a screenshot of their Story. But it seems testing has stopped. Instagram didn’t specify why they stopped it but it has confirmed the news. Now, users can go back to taking screenshots anytime they like without those they’re taking screenshots from being notified of the activity.

Source: The Next Web

Netflix saves ‘Lucifer’ from cancellation

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Lucifer was one of the shows that we’re put on the chopping block after its third season. We say was as Netflix just picked up the show from Fox. Lucifer’s official Twitter account has confirmed the news. While the show wasn’t a major ratings hit for Fox, its fans wouldn’t take the cancellation lying down, especially with a cliffhanger for an ending in its third season. Now, at least we know the show is coming back for a fourth season. We don’t know yet how many episodes or when it’ll air but we’ll keep you updated when we learn more.

Source: io9

Apple inks multi-year content partnership with Oprah Winfrey

Apple is partnering with Oprah Winfrey on a multi-year content partnership which will see Winfrey and Apple  creating original programs that embrace her incomparable ability to connect with audiences around the world. Winfrey’s projects will be released as part of a lineup of original content from Apple. Apple has been ramping up potential programming for its own streaming video play and Oprah adds a lot of potential for future projects.