Amazon Luna is now part of the Samsung Gaming Hub. | Image: Samsung Amazon’s game streaming service, Luna, is launching on Samsung’s 2022 smart TVs and monitors today. Luna will be part of the Samsung Gaming Hub, which includes services like Google Stadia, Xbox Cloud Gaming, and Nvidia’s GeForce Now. Samsung launched the gaming hub…
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The logo for Google Duo, Meet Original, and Meet (from left to right). | Image: Google In June, Google announced that it’s bringing the features of Meet into the Duo app — and that transformation begins today. Google isn’t technically getting rid of either app; Duo’s getting rebranded as Meet with the features from both…
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The OnePlus 10T in green and black. | Image: OnePlus After not releasing a OnePlus 9T last year, OnePlus’ T-series is making a return in 2022 with the OnePlus 10T, which sees its official launch today. Many of the device’s details have already been made public, so today’s news is about pricing and availability. Head…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. (credit: Facebook) Meta and Apple are entering a period of “very deep, philosophical competition” that will define the future of the Internet, according to comments by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg obtained by The Verge. Both Apple and Meta are planning to invest heavily in mixed reality over the next decade, but…
Dating may be stuck in real life, for now. Pexels Operating at a $10 million loss has Tinder rethinking its burgeoning relationship with the metaverse. As The Verge and elsewhere report, the dating app’s parent company, Match Group, recently announced a dramatic reversal from its previously announced plans for an expanded “Tinderverse.” The digital space…
Although the mobile app boom driven by pandemic lockdowns has long since passed, consumers’ mobile usage is still growing. According to new data released today by app intelligence firm data.ai (previously App Annie), consumers in more than a dozen worldwide markets are now spending four to five hours per day in apps. While the daily…
I tell you what, folks. The roundtable discussions at TechCrunch Disrupt — coming to you live and in person on October 18-20 in San Francisco with an online day October 21 — will be off the hook. We asked you to weigh in on our roundtable poll and vote for the topics you want at…
In June, Google told us that it would start merging its Duo video chat service for consumers with Meet, its Zoom competitor for business users. The next phase of this merger starts today. Merging two apps was always going to be a complicated process. Add to that the overall confusion around Google’s messaging strategy and…