Credit: Tech Team / Android Authority Spotify is reportedly increasing subscription prices in the UK, Australia, Pakistan, and two other countries by the end of April. A price hike is also expected to hit the US later this year. The streaming service will also introduce a “basic” plan that costs as much as the current
Read MoreRecently, a company by former SpaceX employee Ben Nowack – called Reflect Orbital – announced that it is now ready to put gigantic mirrors in space to reflect sunshine at ground-based solar farms. This is an idea that’s been around for a hundred years already, both for purposes of defeating the night through reflecting sunshine
Read MoreNow you can customize these bad boys. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Google is rolling out a new ChromeOS update (M123) to its stable channel yesterday that brought features like the ability to customize keyboard shortcuts and mouse buttons and enabled hotspot connections on cellular Chromebooks. The company’s April updates also
Read MoreIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge For many years, Spotify held strong at its monthly subscription of $9.99, but that changed last July when Premium jumped up to $10.99. Now it appears that the leading subscription music service is planning another price hike — and not waiting nearly as long this time. Bloomberg reports
Read Morevik writes: According to this BBC article Tennessee just passed a bill banning the dispersion of chemicals in the air that affect weather and temperature. Sponsored by the chemtrail and anti-geoengineering crowds, if signed into law it seems it would ban atmospheric CO2 emissions:The bill forbids “intentional injection, release, or dispersion” of chemicals into the
Read MorePhoto by Matt McClain / The Washington Post via Getty Images The Federal Communications Commission will vote on April 25th on a proposal to restore net neutrality rules, the agency announced on Wednesday. If the five-member panel votes to restore the rules, internet service providers (ISP) will be reclassified from information services to common carriers,
Read MoreStudies show that consumers associated Tesla with Musk, which might be damaging the EV brand’s bottom line. | Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Elon Musk’s controversial behavior in recent years is “very likely” to be a contributing factor in Tesla’s declining sales, according to corporate reputation tracking firm Caliber. Survey data
Read MoreReports suggest AWS will cut hundreds of staff from its sales, marketing and global services division, along with the division that works on retail tech, but it is unclear how many Irish jobs will be impacted. Read more: Irish jobs at risk as AWS reportedly plans hundreds of job cuts
Read MoreAs of April 3, 2024, the annual percentage yield for Apple Savings account users is 4.4%, down from its previous high of 4.5% set in January. Apple Savings users get a notification that their interest rate has been cut As predicted, the interest on Apple Savings has seen its first-ever cut. The move, while small,
Read MoreCredit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Welcome to Wallpaper Wednesday! In this weekly roundup, we’ll give you a handful of Android wallpapers you can download and use on your phone, tablet, or even your laptop/PC. The images will come from folks here at Android Authority as well as our readers. All are free to use
Read MoreCredit: ESA Samsung has teamed up with the European Space Agency (ESA) to launch the Galaxy Time watch face. The watch face shows the local time on each planet in our solar system, along with other metrics and facts. The watch face is available for free via the Google Play Store. There are some great
Read MoreThe Apple Vision Pro has been used in a surgical operation once again, this time, as an assist to a shoulder joint replacement. Apple Vision Pro used in shoulder surgery [eXeX] Apple has a vision for the Vision Pro headset to be used in healthcare, including helping surgeons perform procedures on patients. In another instance
Read MoreThe thwarted XZ Utils supply chain attack was years in the making. Now, clues suggest nation-state hackers were behind the persona that inserted the malicious code.
Read MoreIf you ever find yourself short on ports between your chargers, Chromebook, monitor, and so on, this deal will be right up your street. The Anker 6-in-1 USB-C Hub just plunged 45% on Amazon to only $29.99, which is its best price in many months and within $2 of its all-time low price. Anker 6-in-1
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority OnePlus unveils its new AI Eraser feature, allowing users to remove unwanted elements from their photos easily. The feature is powered by OnePlus’s own proprietary large language model and will be followed by more OnePlus AI features. OnePlus joins the growing trend of AI photo editing, following in the
Read MoreNothing has begun teasing the launch of its next product. This could be the Nothing Ear 3, though some cryptic teasers indicate that another product could be on the cards. Nothing will share more details on April 18, 2024. Riding on the wave of success from the Nothing Phone 2 and the Nothing Phone 2a,
Read MoreThe Motorola Moto G 5G (2023) is, in our opinion, one of the best cheap phones on the market. We thought that at the full $250 retail price, so this 40% price drop on Amazon makes the handset superb value for bargain shoppers. Motorola Moto G 5G (2023) for $149.99 ($100 off)
Read MoreWhile EU users wait for the launch of new third-party app stores for the iPhone, the developer behind AltStore has demonstrated how they will all work. AltStore’s forthcoming third-party app store While not all the details or ramifications are yet worked out, Apple does now have to allow third-party companies to launch their own App
Read MoreThe Federal Communications Commission will be holding a new vote on April 25 that will likely reinstate net neutrality, bringing back protections affecting broadband internet usage in the United States. FCC seal Net Neutrality is the principle that internet providers should handle web traffic equally regardless of what kind of applications or sources were being
Read MoreThe company founded in September last year said that is already has interest from nearly 100 lenders across Europe with a total demand of more than €1bn. Read more: Stockholm-based Scayl raises €100m European fintech lenders
Read MoreMacworld At a glance Expert’s Rating Pros Handsome dock and NVMe (up to 4TB) modules1GBps transfersAffordable when discounted Cons Limited to 10Gbps on Macs Our Verdict If you like the concept of storing projects and backups on discrete media, it doesn’t get any better-looking or convenient than the Sandisk Pro-Blade Transport dock and NVMe storage
Read MoreAn issue preventing some external drives from mounting onto a Mac running macOS Sonoma has plagued users for months, and it probably was caused by changes Apple made to drive handling. A LaCie external drive Hardware support is a common source of problems for operating system updates, and macOS is no exception. Updates to operating
Read MoreOne in five businesses polled by Skillnet Ireland said they were experiencing difficulties in sourcing people with climate action and sustainability skills. Read more: Skillnet data: Irish businesses need climate skills, as well as tech
Read MoreA new report claims Microsoft has a corporate culture that ‘deprioritised’ enterprise security and that its failures caused the massive hack of government emails last year. Read more: Report slams Microsoft for a ‘cascade’ of cybersecurity failures
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Games could be coming to LinkedIn in the near future, according to an Android Authority app teardown. The teardown reveals the names of several games, leaderboard functionality, and other related features. LinkedIn is the world’s foremost professional networking website, offering everything from social networking and industry news to job
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