Screaming is usually associated with frustration or terror, but what if we all just started screaming… for fun?
Scream Go Hero, a free voice-activated gaming app that translates audio input to character movement, encourages players to do just that….
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Apple ad focuses on iPhone’s most marketable feature — privacy
Apple is airing a new ad spot in primetime today. Focused on privacy, the spot is visually cued, with no dialog and a simple tagline: Privacy. That’s iPhone. In a series of humorous vignettes, the message is driven home that sometimes you just want a little privacy. The spot has only one line of text […]
View More Apple ad focuses on iPhone’s most marketable feature — privacyIn a challenge to Twitch and YouTube, Facebook adds ‘Gaming’ to its main navigation
Facebook’s gaming efforts and challenge to Twitch are taking another big leap today, as the social network begins the initial rollout of a dedicated Facebook Gaming tab in the main navigation of Facebook’s app. The goal with the new addition is to help people more easily find games, streamers and gaming groups they follow, as […]
View More In a challenge to Twitch and YouTube, Facebook adds ‘Gaming’ to its main navigationFirework officially launches a short-form video storytelling app, backed by Lightspeed
Facebook usage declined for the first time in a decade, while video-centric apps like TikTok are being touted as the future of social media. Entering this redefined playing field comes Firework, a fast-growing social video app whose clever trick is something it calls “Reveal videos” – a way for creators to take both horizontal and […]
View More Firework officially launches a short-form video storytelling app, backed by LightspeedDaily Crunch: Telegram soars after Facebook outage
The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Telegram gets 3M new signups during Facebook apps’ outage In a message sent to his Telegram channel, founder Pavel Durov wrote, […]
View More Daily Crunch: Telegram soars after Facebook outageFuture Samsung phones could feature selfie camera under the screen
We’re living in a golden era of smartphones. Practically all new phones have screens that stretch edge-to-edge with very thin bezels surrounding them.
But phone screens can still get better. Even the best mobile screens like the OLED display on the i…
Google releases first beta version of Android Q
The next version of Android is here… sorta.
Like clockwork, Google’s released the first beta version of its mobile operating system, Android Q, for developers. The new version of Android is available to download for all Google Pixel owners — that’s for Pixel 1, 2, and 3 — and includes a number of updates ranging from improved security to with the most notable being support for foldable devices.
One of the biggest issues facing foldable devices is how Android will adapt to the various modes when folded and unfolded. Different devices will have have different display configurations and it’s important Android can morph appropriately. Read more…
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View More Google releases first beta version of Android QDaily Crunch: Spotify files complaint against Apple
The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Spotify files a complaint against Apple with the European Commission over ‘Apple tax’ and restrictive rules Spotify is taking off its […]
View More Daily Crunch: Spotify files complaint against AppleYouTube Music and YouTube Premium come to India
YouTube Music is coming to the next critical battlefield for streaming music services: India. The company announced this week it’s launching its ad-supported version of YouTube Music for free in the country, as well as YouTube Music Premium, its subscription that offers background listening, offline downloads and an ad-free experience for ₹99 a month. In […]
View More YouTube Music and YouTube Premium come to IndiaTwitSnap? Twitter launches new camera feature to demote text
Twitter is rolling out the redesign to its camera feature TechCrunch reported on a month ago that’s designed to let you capture photos, videos, and live footage and connect them to global conversations. Starting today when you swipe left from the Twitter timeline, you’ll get the new camera that’s no longer buried in the tweet […]
View More TwitSnap? Twitter launches new camera feature to demote textBlind users can now explore photos by touch with Microsoft’s Seeing AI
Microsoft’s Seeing AI is an app that lets blind and limited-vision folks convert visual data into audio feedback, and it just got a useful new feature. Users can now use touch to explore the objects and people in photos.
View More Blind users can now explore photos by touch with Microsoft’s Seeing AIFormer CEO Zain Jaffer files wrongful termination lawsuit against Vungle
Vungle founder Zain Jaffer filed a lawsuit today accusing the mobile advertising company of wrongfully terminating him from the role of CEO. The lawsuit cites a section of the California labor code that it says “expressly and specifically prohibits discrimination and retaliation by employers based upon an arrest or detention that did not result in […]
View More Former CEO Zain Jaffer files wrongful termination lawsuit against Vungle