When “The Walking Dead” returns for its eighth season, you can invite a scary zombie into your viewing party photos with this app. The Walking Dead Encounter app, launching Wednesday on both iOS and Android, lets you drop a zombie (referred to by the show as “walkers”) into your world just like Pokemon in Pokemon …

Now playing: Watch this: Disney cuts the cord with Netflix 1:43 “Moana” and other Disney films currently streaming on Netflix won’t be there after 2018, according to the Walt Disney Company. Disney announced Tuesday that it will launch its own subscription service in 2019 that will become the new home to films from Walt Disney Studios, Pixar and others under …

David Letterman signed off “The Late Show” in 2015, retiring after 33 years of work in late-night television. Now in 2018, he moves to Netflix. The streaming service announced that Letterman will host six hour-long episodes during which he will have a long-form conversation with one guest while also producing field segments away from the studio. The currently untitled show …

Instagram is looking to make live videos a lot more chatty by letting broadcasters add a guest to a livestream. The feature, announced Tuesday, will let people using it add someone by tapping a new icon in the bottom-right corner of the screen and hitting an “Add” button. Anyone who is watching the stream is eligible to be invited on, …

We might finally know one reason why Fitbit purchased the Pebble watch company for $23 million last year: Apps. Fitbit’s next watch is going to launch with its own app platform that would rival those found on the Apple Watch and Android Wear watches, Fitbit CEO James Park said to The Verge. Park said that upon the watch’s launch, Fitbit …

In the leadup to the launch of the Essential company’s first phone, one of its top executives has left for Google. Liron Damir announced this week on LinkedIn that he joined the Google Home team as its head of user experience, leaving behind the same role over at Android founder Andy Rubin’s startup. “Definitely took the scenic route, but super …

Chromebooks may be getting a touch-friendly makeover. Google’s François Beaufort posted a video Thursday showing a touch-based app launcher that is currently being tested in an experimental build of Chrome OS, the operating system Chromebooks run on. The launcher can be found on the bottom of the screen. One swipe up brings up a search box and a list of …

Now playing: Watch this: See Samsung Bixby in action 1:49 The Samsung Galaxy S8‘s missing feature is finally coming to owners of the flagship handset… if they sign up. The Bixby voice assistant, which Samsung also plans to include on its future televisions and refrigerators, is first coming to Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus phones in the form of an …

Traveling to a new place is exciting. But you know what’s not exciting? Sitting in a cramped seat on a long flight to your vacation while staring out the window bored to death. And that movie that airline is showing? You’ve seen it and hated it. But there is a better option. With just a phone, tablet or laptop that …

“Hey Alexis. How’s it going? Wait, why did that just set off my Alexa-powered device?” Amazon on Monday announced a new feature for third-party Alexa devices that might make this type of scenario less common. Its Cloud-Based Wake Word Verification runs an extra check after the assistant starts listening to make sure someone really said Alexa and not Allegra (because …