Apple now makes it easier to stream rented movies across different devices

Apple is employing a “rent once, watch anywhere” approach to movie rentals in the iTunes Store. The latest iTunes 12.6 update for the desktop will no longer restrict you to watch a movie you rented on the iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, or PC you rented it on. This feature will be available to work on devices with iOS 10.3 or tvOS 10.2. These haven’t been officially released to the public yet but with this update, we won’t be surprised if the rollout is soon.

Source: The Verge

Create fun short videos with Apple’s Clips app

App developers are making it easy for us to make fun videos on the internet to share with friends and family (and fans, for the more popular set). Apple is joining in on the fun with a new app. Called Clips, you can create short videos on your iPhone or iPad that combine videos, photos, and music that you can share on popular social media sites. Inside the app, there’s what Apple calls the Live Titles feature, which lets you add animated captions and titles to videos with just your voice. The app will automatically generate the captions as you speak. It supports up to 36 different languages at the moment.

There are different filters available in the app including speech bubbles, shapes, comic book filters, and full-screen animated posters. You can opt to shoot the videos or photos on the spot or get the clips and photos from your camera roll. It lets you create multi-clip videos without timelines, tracks, or editing tools that could confuse the typical user. The app will be available for free starting next month. It works for iPhone 5s or later, new 9.7-inch iPad, all iPad Air, and iPad Pro models, iPad mini 2, and later. Your device need to run iOS 10.3 for it to work.

Source: Ubergizmo

You can now save Instagram live videos

When being able to save live streams was first omitted from the service, Instagram’s product head Kevin Weil says this was to take away pressure from users to live stream since it won’t be kept permanently. Now, it seems Instagram is backtracking and is following in the footsteps of Facebook’s own Live feature and Twitter’s Periscope. Users can now save their live videos. You just need to tap on Save in the upper right corner of the window to save the video. It won’t save anything interaction you’ve had while you were live, though. When your done saving it’ll be saved in your gallery or camera roll but won’t be in the app anymore. The update is coming to version 10.12 of the app on iOS and Android.

Source: The Verge

Sony debuts new mid-range Xperia L1

Sony has unveiled a new mid-range device that takes design cues from its predecessors. There’s nothing out of the ordinary here. It comes with a 5.5-inch HD display and runs on a MediaTek MT6737T processor, 2GB of RAM, 16GB internal storage with expansion of up to 256GB via microSD, Android 7.0 Nougat, and a 2,620mAh battery. You get a 13-megapixel rear shooter with f/2.2 aperture and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera.

Sony includes its Xperia Actions engine into this device, which changes the settings and functionality of the phone depending on your environment. An example is it’ll set the device to “Do not disturb” and lower the display brightness when it’s nighttime. The L1 comes in black, white, and pink for select markets. It’s supposedly coming to some markets in North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia and Latin America by late April. No word on pricing at the moment.

Source: Android Authority