The big story: Goodbye, Periscope It’s official: Twitter-owned live-streaming app Periscope is shutting down by March of next year. That’s not hugely surprising, both because Jane Manchun Wong spotted some app code suggesting that a shutdown could be coming and also because … when was the last time you thought about Periscope? In an open letter, Periscope said that its current operations are “unsustainable,” and that “leaving it in its current state isn’t doing right by the current and former Periscope community or by Twitter.” The tech giants 2021 holds even more Samsung foldables — Whether that means an additional device or something more meaningful remains to be seen.