Back in May, Disney CEO Bob Iger announced that the company’s streaming service would be getting a price hike later in the year. Now, we know when: during Disney’s quarterly earnings call, Iger announced that the ad-free Disney+ premium tier would be raised to $13.99 on October 12. It’s the streaming service’s second $3 price increase in the last year — the current $10.99 subscription price was set in December. Hulu’s ad-free plan is also getting the $3 bump, raising it to $17.99/month for a standalone subscription. It’s a big price increase, but Disney is offering some relief for customers…
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It’s not just me – NVMe SSD prices have gotten absolutely wild recently, right? Today we spotted a deal on the 2TB Samsung 970 Evo Plus, formerly one of the very fastest SSDs on the market. It normally retails for $100, but today it’s down to an even more incredible $74 at Amazon – not bad for a drive that originally retailed at $500 and cost $100 more in January!
As Verizon updates and rebrands its unlimited plans every year or two, legacy customers who stick with the old plans get hit with fun surprise price hikes. The latest “Plan Rate Adjustment” is coming for subscribers who are still on Verizon’s Mix and Match plans from 2018. The bizarrely-named Go Unlimited, Beyond Unlimited, Above Unlimited, and 5G Start plans are all increasing by $3 a month per line starting on August 29, 2023. Tech. Entertainment. Science. Your inbox. Sign up for the most interesting tech & entertainment news out there. By signing up, I agree to the Terms of Use…
Left: schematic illustration of the solid state battery. Right: 3D representations showing the inhomogeneity of the percentage abundance of the 6Li isotope. Credit: HZB Lithium-based solid-state batteries have some advantages, such as being less flammable. But they are also much less powerful. This is because the lithium ions in this type of battery have to diffuse through a solid electrolyte, which is a cumbersome process. Using a clever trick, a team led by Dr. Ingo Manke and Dr. Robert Bradbury from HZB and several collaborators has now succeeded in observing this transport of lithium ions through the electrolyte in real…
Tabit, a pioneer of the Buy Now, Pay Later payment methods for businesses, and Jifiti, a multinational embedded lending company, announced today a new partnership to support businesses in Canada. The partnership, powered by Jifiti’s lending platform, enables merchants to: Access the Tabit plugin from ecommerce platform marketplaces, including Shopify and BigCommerce Customize user experiences based on their needs Immediately start offering installment loans and net terms to business buyers Jifiti’s platform supports B2B and B2C point-of-sale financing options, including loans, lines of credit, net terms and split payments. With its white-labeled platform, merchants retain full customer ownership. Tabit was…
But it’s how they think about watches that reflects the modern shift—and huge growth—in the pre-owned market, a growth exemplified by Richemont buying UK-based Watchfinder, founded in 2002, for an undisclosed sum in 2018 (though a figure of £250 million, or $317.6 million, was widely shared within the industry at the time), the same year Subdial was founded. Even Rolex now has an official pre-owned scheme, launched last year in Europe and now active in the US.“They think in terms of the collection rather than in terms of an individual watch,” Crane says. “Ownership is at the core. It’s not…
Urian B., Tech Times 09 August 2023, 02:08 am It’s hard to think of what you could do with very little RAM or storage on your phone. However, it’s a practical choice for companies making entry-level smartphones usually intended for average buyers. Like what HTC did, the company launched its new Wildfire E Star model with basic specifications. HTC Wildfire E Star With Basic Specs Launched According to GSM Arena, HTC recently announced a simple entry-level device, the Wildfire E Star. It was described as an entry-level device due to its simple specs. While some people may not see the usefulness of…
Sony has now shipped 41.7m PlayStation 5 consoles worldwide, according to the firm’s latest financial results. That figure is accurate to the end of June this year, and includes 3.3m consoles shifted between April and June – a figure that’s up by almost 1m on the same period in 2022. Revenue from PlayStation’s Network Services – essentially, PlayStation Plus subscriptions – is also up. Sony raked in roughly £685k over the past three months, the most of any quarter in the past year. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settings Newscast: Our…
Google today announced the launch of Project IDX, its foray into offering an AI-enabled browser-based development environment for building full-stack web and multiplatform apps. It currently supports frameworks like Angular, Flutter, Next.js, React, Svelte and Vue, and languages like JavaScript and Dart, with support for Python, Go and others in the works. Google did not build a new IDE (integrated development environment) when it created IDX. Instead, it is using Visual Studio Code — Open Source as the basis of its project. This surely allowed the team to focus on the integration with Codey, Google’s PaLM 2–based foundation model for…
Why it matters: Companies such as Epic Games and even the Biden administration have criticized Apple for maintaining a walled garden and not allowing sideloading in iOS. However, one solid reason for keeping the gates closed is one of Google’s most persistent problems – versioning. Using dynamic code loading, hackers can supply apps vetted through the app store with malicious updates via a third-party server, and there is little the store can do about it. The Google Cybersecurity Action Team (GCAT) notes in this month’s Threat Horizons report that Google Play continues to have a known malware problem. Malicious app…