Tech Rumors

At Meta Connect 2022, the tech giant announced a three-year partnership with NBCUniversal to bring Peacock to the Meta Quest VR headset. Meta Quest 2 and Pro devices now have the streaming app. Peacock, available in the Meta Store, lets subscribers stream 90,000 hours of VR movies and TV shows, …

On Wednesday, LinkedIn announced new identity and work verification methods. LinkedIn’s new verification doesn’t require paid subscriptions or blue checkmarks like Twitter and Meta. LinkedIn US users are verified by CLEAR, a secure identity platform. Starting this month, users can display CLEAR identity verification on their profiles. You’ll need a …

Instagram announced today that it is extending API access to its creator marketplace to make it easier for brands to discover and work with creators on their third-party creator marketing platform. Brand agencies will also have creator marketplace access. Last July, Facebook launched its creator marketplace to help brands find …

Today YouTube begins NFL Sunday Ticket presales. The season-long add-on costs $249 for YouTube TV Base subscribers. NFL Sunday Ticket and NFL RedZone bundles are $289 for the season during presales. The streaming company will raise both packages by $100 after the presale period ends on June 6. All local, …

Lucasfilm revealed at Star Wars Celebration London that Disney+ will air a third and final season of “Star Wars: The Bad Batch” in 2024. No release date was given. The story follows Clone Force 99, often known as the Bad Batch, a cadre of elite clones after Order 66 and …

14 new free, ad-supported channels with TV episodes and movies from the Warner Bros. content collection have been introduced to the Roku Channel. Warner Bros. Discovery said earlier this year that it has agreed to license 2,000 hours of programming to Roku and Tubi. The material is currently accessible on …

Virgin Orbit, a troubled space corporation, announced it was unable to get extra finance to keep it solvent, so it is firing about 85% of its workers in an effort to further cut costs. The information was reported to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday, exactly two weeks …

The parent firm of TikTok, ByteDance, is pushing one of its social platforms into the Top Charts of the U.S. App Store as U.S. politicians advance with their plans for a ban or forced sale of the app. The Instagram competitor Lemon8, which is owned by ByteDance and bills itself …

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew revealed in a TikTok video that the video app now has more than 150 million users in the US, up from 100 million in 2020, before his appearance before Congress on Thursday. Also, he claimed that more than 5 million businesses in the nation host …

Craig Mazin, co-creator of HBO’s “The Last of Us,” remarked in the official podcast for the video game adaptation series, “Nobody does creature work the way Wt does. You would probably agree with him if you had seen the bloated incident from episode five. It’s understandable why HBO asked Wt. …