When the new Warner Bros. Discovery conglomerate sent its almost-finished Batgirl project into the vault forever, it also yanked other projects intended for straight-to-HBO Max debuts from the schedule.
One of those movies was House Party 3, which is now scheduled for a theatrical release in 2023. You can watch the trailer below (or with less editing on YouTube) and decide how good of an idea that is.
If your plans for Friday included a quick Nintendo Switch Sports session, we have some bad news — the servers are offline due to a bug in the latest update that caused a crash in the loading screen.
Welcome to our new Netflix With Ads era.
After thinking it over, while a $6.99 option that maxes out at 720p and doesn’t allow downloads isn’t enough for me to consider it, I can see how having that option could work for some.
Especially if all they want is an option to keep in rotation with Disney, HBO, and whatever other packages they enjoy. Anyone plan on signing up next month?
If you have a YouTube channel name / tag that you absolutely have to have (or are in a hurry to squat) then check your email. As announced earlier this week, reservation emails are starting to go out, and if the name you want is particularly special, then you’ll need to be first in line to get it.
Every YouTube user will have a unique handle that applies across the platform, from channel pages to Shorts, YouTube’s TikTok competitor. Users can use a handle to mention others in comments, video descriptions, titles, and more, which YouTube says will make it easier for creators to reach audiences and increase visibility.
This week we’ve already seen Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse ambitions, Microsoft’s plans for Windows after 10 years of Surface products (that include dropping “Office”), and reviewed the new Pixel watch / phone combo from Google.
What’s next? Apparently, Google feeling confident enough about its Project Starline 3D video chat booth to start letting people try it out.
DynamicSpot was already ahead of Apple by letting paying users choose tap vs. hold (in Nilay’s review of the iPhone 14 Pro, he said Apple locks users into a setup that works in the opposite of what you’d expect), and the latest update widens the gap more.
In addition to selecting which apps can use the notification, dynamicSpot now lets you choose which ones automatically expand the island when it’s triggered.
Tom Warren visited Microsoft to get a first impression of the new Surface Pro 9, Surface Laptop 8, and Surface Studio 2 Plus. Panos Panay also answered a few questions about everything that went into the design of these latest products and what to expect after ten years of the Surface brand.
