From CNET: Epic Games is shutting down its video chat service, Houseparty, the company said Thursday. Epic acquired the app back in 2019.

"Since joining Epic, the Houseparty team's social vision and core technology have already contributed to new features used by hundreds of millions of people in...

From Corsair Press Release: CORSAIR today announced the launch of a new Gen4 PCIe x4 NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive – the MP600 PRO XT. Available in capacities up to an immense 4TB, the MP600 PRO XT stores massive amounts of data in a convenient form-factor that neatly fits nearly any PC build. For...

From The Verge: Amazon’s Luna cloud gaming service didn’t exactly impress us when it debuted in early access last October, but the company’s still expanding its test. On Thursday, it’s bringing its limited catalog of games to Chromebooks and Amazon Fire tablets, and opening up some new ways to try...

From PC Mag: Twitter is testing a new way for like-minded users to connect. Currently in beta for iOS and the web, Communities are created by and for people who share interests and want to have relevant conversations about them.

Join a Community to tweet directly to that group rather than the wider...

From CNET: Google is showing off a video preview of its upcoming phone, the Pixel 6. In a teaser posted Thursday, Google asks the question, "What if a smartphones weren't just smart?"

Images of the phone show a two-toned back with a band near the top around the camera, a design unveiled in August...

From The Verge: Logitech is announcing a new all-in-one dock that’s designed for the new realities of a post-pandemic hybrid workforce. “When the pandemic hit, we spent an incredible amount of time with our end users to understand their needs and pain points in a work-from-home world. The result was...

From PC Mag: WhatsApp users may soon have more control over their privacy settings. The messaging platform is testing the ability to adjust your "Last Seen" status visibility on a contact-by-contact basis.

Currently, folks have to dig in their settings to disable the feature, which shows other...

From CNET: HBO Max will launch in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Spain and Andorra on Oct. 26, widening the streaming service into Europe after it launched in the US last year and then expanded into Latin America earlier this year. HBO Max -- which is owned WarnerMedia, for now a part of AT&T --...

From CNET: Don't get too excited, but we may have a guess for the iPhone 13 release date. After sorting through all the clues and rumors, we expect Apple's next iPhone, said to be called the iPhone 13, to arrive soon for the tech giant's fall event alongside the Apple Watch 7 and AirPods 3. But...

From The Verge: TikTok’s users now spend more time each month watching content than YouTube users, according to a report from app analytics firm App Annie. In the US, ByteDance’s app first overtook YouTube in August last year, and as of June 2021 its users watched over 24 hours of content per month...