Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images Nearly half of US teens are “almost constantly” online, though the platforms they spend their time on vary significantly, according to a new Pew survey. Despite some variety in their overall online habits, virtually all teenagers use YouTube. Of the 1,391 teenagers polled by the Pew Research Center, 90 percent said they use the site, a slight decrease from 95 percent in 2022. And 73 percent of them go on YouTube every day, making it by far the most popular platform for teenage users. The second-most popular app is TikTok, which 63 percent of teens say they use. Pew Research Center Almost all teenagers polled by Pew use YouTube, but very few are on Threads. But there’s a gender divide, especially among teenagers who say they “almost constantly” use either app: 19 percent of girls say they use TikTok that often, while the same share of boys are constantly on YouTube. And even this extremely online demographic isn’t using all websites equally. Just 6 percent of teenagers polled said they use Threads, Meta’s microblogging app, and only 32 percent use Facebook — down from 71 percent a decade ago. The only Meta product a majority of teenagers use is Instagram, whose popularity has increased since 2014. There seems to be a preference for image- and video-based platforms among the teenagers polled: X and Reddit were also much less popular, with 17 percent and 14 percent of teens saying they use them, respectively. And teens’ X usage has declined significantly over the past decade: a decade ago, when it was still called Twitter, 33 percent of US teens used it. But teens’ use of some image-based apps — including Snapchat — is on the decline as well. In fact, the only app that has experienced a rise in popularity is WhatsApp, which is now used by 23 percent of teenagers.

The last thing I expected to happen this month was seeing Samsung and Google announce the XR devices they teased together with Qualcomm nearly two years ago. That device, which is supposed to compete against the Apple Vision Pro, was expected to be a "one more thing" type of announcement at the Galaxy S25 event next month. However, Google confirmed earlier this week that Project Astra AR and AI experiences are coming soon to smart glasses. That was part of the big Gemini 2.0 announcement that dropped right in the middle of OpenAI's "12 Days" ChatGPT event and Apple's iOS 18.2 release. That's the iPhone update that brings ChatGPT integration to iOS. In that context, it's unsurprising to see Samsung and Google announce Project Moohan (Korean for "infinity") seemingly out of the blue on an otherwise quiet Thursday in December. Project Moohan (dare I call it Galaxy Infinity) will launch in 2025 to compete against the Vision Pro. But the XR device, which can be seen in the image above, will have a big advantage over Apple's spatial computer: Built-in Galaxy AI and Gemini. That's not the only twist, as Google also confirmed XR smart glasses are coming soon. That's a product that Apple has yet to make. Continue reading... The post Samsung’s Vision Pro rival is official: Meet the Project Moohan XR headset appeared first on BGR. Today's Top Deals Today’s deals: $279 iPad 10, 20% off gift cards, huge Sonos sale, ultimate DEWALT power tool set, more Amazon is giving out free money for Black Friday 2024 Cyber Monday blowout: Free AirPods 4, $374 PlayStation 5, Apple sale, $297 Nectar mattress, $60 Keurig, more Best Echo Dot deals for December 2024

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