Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: YouTube raises YouTube TV’s price by $8 to $72.99/month, citing a rise in “content costs”, effective for new users on March 16 and existing users on April 18 — YouTube has announced that it’s raising the price of its YouTube TV subscription to $72.99 per month.
Read MoreValve’s Steam Deck portable gaming PC. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge It’s been just over a year since Valve launched its Steam Deck portable gaming PC — and it’s just now going on sale. Until March 23rd at 10AM PT, you can get a Steam Deck for 10 percent off — in
Read MoreCredit: Joe Hindy / Android Authority TikTok claims the US government is threatening a ban if it doesn’t divest itself from its China-based owners. US officials believe the app presents a national security risk, which TikTok denies. The app has already been banned on government devices in 30 states. The fight over TikTok‘s presence in
Read MoreImage: VW Volkswagen unveiled its affordable, mass-market electric vehicle in the form of a concept called the ID. 2all. With a starting price of 25,000 euros ($26,600) and an estimated range of 450 kilometers (279 miles), the Golf-looking electric hatchback is intended to be that most elusive thing: a plug-in vehicle for the people. VW
Read MoreTikTok will be banned from UK government phones as security concerns over the Chinese-owned app continue to swirl.
Read MoreWhile gaming in the Apple ecosystem has long been a complicated matter, GeForce NOW provides simple access to PC gaming with high-performance hardware.
Read MoreA study has found that an Apple Watch can be used to help predict pain in sickle cell disease suffers.
Read MoreIn a leak from a blog, it looks like there could be a new version of Sony’s wireless noise-canceling earbuds. There are pictures of the case and of the buds.
Read MoreTECNO isn’t a new brand face in the Android phone landscape by any measure, selling low-cost smartphones in Africa and several other emerging markets for roughly a decade now. The Chinese company has been trying to break into higher price bands for the last few years, and now the firm is aiming as high as
Read MoreMicrosoft: A live stream of Microsoft’s The Future of Work with AI event, where the company is expected to demo adding OpenAI’s tech to its 365 and Office apps — Humans are hard-wired to dream, to create, to innovate. But today, we spend too much time consumed by the drudgery of work, on tasks that
Read MoreMicrosoft’s new Copolit is an AI assistant for Office apps. | Image: Microsoft Microsoft is announcing a new AI-powered Copilot for its Microsoft 365 apps and services today, designed to assist people with generating documents, emails, presentations, and much more. The Copilot, powered by GPT-4 from OpenAI, will sit alongside Microsoft 365 apps much like
Read MoreClear the crud from your AirPods with cleaning liquids, gels and brushes from Belkin.
Read MoreBloomberg: Microsoft plans to bring OpenAI’s GPT-4 to Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Word, and its other apps in the coming months, calling the feature Microsoft 365 Copilot — Microsoft Corp.’s effort to overhaul its entire lineup with OpenAI technology has spread to one of the company’s oldest and best-known products: its Office apps.
Read MoreThe artwork itself may not be for everyone, but Ikea sells easy drop-in, drop-out alternates. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Maybe Ikea is feeling buoyed by the hype around the new Sonos Era 100 and 300 speakers, especially now that the speakers are up for preorder; the flat-pack furniture maker has dropped
Read MoreMargaux Nijkerk / CoinDesk: Ethereum developers set a target date of around April 12 for the long-awaited Shanghai hard fork, delayed from its initial March target — Developers agreed to April 12 for the long-awaited upgrade that will enable staked ETH withdrawals. — Join the most important conversation in crypto …
Read MoreThe amateur astronomy world got a tremendous boost during the 1960s when John Dobson invented what is now called the Dobsonian telescope. Made from commonly-sourced materials and mechanically much simpler than what was otherwise available at the time, the telescope dramatically reduced the barrier to entry for larger telescopes and also made them much more
Read MoreTaylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: Twitch CEO Emmett Shear plans to step down after 16 years at the company, replaced by president Dan Clancy; Shear is one of the original founders of Justin.tv — After serving as its chief executive for more than a decade, Twitch CEO Emmett Shear will take a step back at the
Read MoreImage: Lawrence Sumulong/Getty Images Twitch CEO Emmett Shear is resigning, effective immediately, he announced in a blog post on Thursday. Shear has been at Twitch since before it was Twitch. He was a co-founder of Justin.tv, the platform where Justin Kan streamed his life 24/7. That became Twitch in 2011 to focus on popular gaming
Read MoreWe analyzed an algorithm that evaluates people claiming welfare benefits and found shocking discrimination.
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Fairmatic, which helps companies manage vehicle insurance by monitoring their fleets, raised $46M led by Battery Ventures, bringing its total funding to $88M — With inflation sparking an increase in the cost of repairs, labor and claims, fees for insurance are similarly spiking across the board.
Read MoreMicrosoft Business Chat | Image: Microsoft One of the new Copilot AI features coming to Microsoft 365 apps and services is dubbed Business Chat. It’s a chatbot experience that’s able to summarize information pulled from meeting transcripts, recent contacts with customers, entries in your calendar, and more that you can plug into emails for the
Read MoreCredit: eBay There’s a Google Pixel 7a prototype for sale on eBay. The phone only boots into fastboot mode and is missing its SIM tray. As of publishing, the winning bid is at $2,550. We expect Google to launch the next phone in its budget-minded A-series on May 10 during the Google I/O 2023 keynote.
Read MoreTechCrunch: NYC-based Via plans to acquire London-based Citymapper, which has ~50M users and raised ~$60M; sources say investors are mostly not making their money back — Last month, when transportation startup Via raised $110 million at a $3.5 billion valuation, CEO Daniel Ramot said it planned …
Read MoreLeaked images of what could be the Sony WF-1000XM5 earbuds. | Image: The Walkman Blog Sony could be on the cusp of announcing a successor to the excellent WF-1000XM4 true wireless earbuds, if a series of leaked images published by The Walkman Blog are any indication. The new earbuds will reportedly be called the WF-1000XM5,
Read MoreIf we told you that a C preprocessor hack dated back to 1968, you’d be within your rights to remind us that C didn’t exist in 1968. However, assemblers with preprocessors did, and where there is a preprocessor, there is an opportunity to do clever things. One of those things is the so-called X macro,
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