Eighty percent of HBO Max subscribers subscribe to Netflix, Sarandos tells Senate. There is concern that subscribers might be negatively affected if Netflix acquires Warner Bros. Discovery’s (WBD’s) streaming and movie studios businesses. One of the biggest fears is that the merger would lead to higher prices due to…
Switch 2 has already beaten the Wii U and is on its way to overtaking GameCube. Although it was finally replaced last year by the new Switch 2, the orginal switch isn’t done just yet. Many recent Switch games (and a handful of major updates, like the one for…
Sony has made streaming anime pricier since buying Crunchyroll. Crunchyroll is one of the most popular streaming platforms for anime viewers. Over the past six years, the service has raised prices for fans, and today, it announced that it’s increasing monthly subscription prices by up to 25 percent. Sony…
The more RAM the Pi board has, the more its price is increasing. The ongoing AI-fueled shortages of memory and storage chips has hit RAM kits and SSDs for PC builders the fastest and hardest, meaning it’s likely that, for other products that use these chips, we’ll be seeing…
Intel manages big boosts to CPU and GPU speed without blowing up battery life. Intel’s Core Ultra lineup of desktop and laptop processors has been frustrating to review. None of them has been across-the-board awful or totally without redeeming qualities. But Intel has struggled mightily this decade to produce…
With virtually no content and limited benefits, 8K TVs were doomed. Technology companies spent part of the 2010s trying to convince us that we would want an 8K display one day. In 2012, Sharp brought the first 8K TV prototype to the CES trade show in Las Vegas. In…
“Selfishly a little bit, we built Shield for ourselves.” It took Android devicemakers a very long time to commit to long-term update support. Samsung and Google have only recently decided to offer seven years of updates for their flagship Android devices, but a decade ago, you were lucky to…
Windows 11 clears a milestone as Windows 10 continues its slow fade. Complaining about Windows 11 is a popular sport among tech enthusiasts on the Internet, whether you’re publicly switching to Linux, publishing guides about the dozens of things you need to do to make the OS less annoying,…
For the Mac versions of pro apps, things aren’t actually changing much (yet). Apple’s new Creator Studio subscription bundle officially launches today, offering access to a wide range of updated professional apps for an all-or-nothing price of $12.99 a month or $129 a year. Teachers and students can get…
The Auto Browse agent is available to AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers, but there are some limits. Google began stuffing Gemini into its dominant Chrome browser several months ago, and today the AI is expanding its capabilities considerably. Google says the chatbot will be easier to access and…
