While the first iOS 17.5 beta is slim on new features, there is one fun addition for Apple News+ subscribers: a daily word game called Quartiles. Quartiles tasks you with combining tiles to form words and earn points. Each puzzle starts with a grid of 20 tiles, and words can be formed with one to […]
Read MoreToday Spotify has announced that it’s rolling out music videos into its app in 11 markets: the UK, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Brazil, Colombia, Philippines, Indonesia, and Kenya. The feature will be in beta initially, and it will have a limited catalog of videos for the time being – but hits from global […]
Read MoreIf you’ve always wanted to create long(er) form content on X (formerly Twitter), well, now you can. We’re not sure why you’d want to do that on a platform like this that can take it down whenever it wants to (or gets bored with the feature it’s just introduced), but to each their own. Perhaps […]
Read MoreNetflix subscribers who still pay their monthly fees through the App Store in-app purchase system will soon need to add a new payment method to keep their accounts active, Netflix is telling customers. Though Netflix stopped allowing customers to subscribe to its streaming service on iOS devices way back in 2018, it has allowed customers […]
Read MoreGoogle CEO Sundar Pichai has announced that Google One now has more than 100 million subscribers, and the company will be focusing on “building on that momentum” with the freshly launched AI Premium Plan offering features powered by Google’s recently announced Gemini AI model. We just crossed 100M Google One subscribers! Looking forward to building […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know The second season of Halo The Series is set to premiere on Feb. 8, 2024, exclusively on Paramount+. From now through April 7, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers can claim one free month of Paramount+. After being claimed, the offer can be redeemed through May 10, 2024. The offer is […]
Read MoreT-Mobile today announced that all of its customers have “Magenta Status,” allowing them to access “one-of-a-kind” benefits from premium brands and services. T-Mobile says that customers can get discounts from “the biggest brands” like Hilton and Hertz. Some of the deals include 15 percent off Hilton hotel brands, no fuel refills at drop off at […]
Read MoreGoogle has announced that YouTube Premium and YouTube Music Premium now have more than a hundred million subscribers (including subscribers using the two paid services on a trial basis). According to the company, it gained over 20 million subscribers in just over a year. In 2021, the two platforms had 50 million subscribers combined, which […]
Read MoreWhen the Vision Pro launches, it will not feature some popular apps like Netflix, YouTube, or Spotify, with users instead relegated to accessing these services through the Safari web browser on the device. In an interview with Stratechery, Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters explained earlier this week that Netflix does not plan to develop a Vision […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know A week after Microsoft unveiled its new paid subscription for Microsoft Copilot, several users raised concerns on social media, citing performance issues and slow load times. Microsoft’s Windows lead, Mikhail Parakhin, ruled out the possibility of the issue being Server-related and pointed fingers at Microsoft’s Edge’s Efficiency Mode. Another user […]
Read MoreOver the past few months, some users have been unable to sync their Apple Music library between their iPhone and Mac, seemingly due to a bug. Affected users receive the following error message in the Music app on the Mac: Genius results can’t be updated right now. An unknown error occurred (18004). There are complaints […]
Read MoreT-Mobile today announced that people who subscribe to the Go5G Next plan will have free access to ad-supported Hulu content starting on January 24. Hulu is a perk that joins the existing Apple TV+ and Netflix subscriptions that T-Mobile Go5G Next users have access to. T-Mobile says that free Netflix, Hulu, Apple TV+, and MLB.TV […]
Read MoreDisney today announced that customers who subscribe to its Hulu and Disney+ bundle can access Hulu content through a new “Hulu on Disney+” beta that aims to combine the two apps into a single app. [embedded content] The beta is available to bundle subscribers as of now, with Disney planning to test the combined service […]
Read MoreShortly after YouTube announced its crackdown on ad blockers, the platform shared plans on improving its paid Premium service to incentivize people to start paying for YouTube. So, in a way, not only do you skip the ads, but you also gain access to some cool features. Playables is supposedly one of those features and […]
Read MoreIn May this year, Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) transformed HBO Max into Max in the US. Back then, the company said that people who had subscribed to HBO Max’s ad-free plan (which was priced at $15.99/month) would be able to enjoy streaming videos at 4K resolution on Max for the next six months without upgrading […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know Xbox Game Pass is Microsoft’s Netflix-like all-you-can-eat gaming service. The last official update we got on the membership base pegged it at 25 million users. Today, a LinkedIn profile may have given us a hint that it has officially crossed the 30 million mark. Depending on how Microsoft tallies Xbox […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know Xbox Game Pass is Microsoft’s Netflix-like all-you-can-eat gaming service. The last official update we got on the membership based pegged it at 25 million users. Today, a LinkedIn profile may have given us a hint that it has officially crossed the 30 million mark. Depending on how Microsoft tallies Xbox […]
Read MoreNetflix increased its revenue, profit, and number of paying subscribers, according to the company’s latest quarterly report. All the numbers are higher than the forecasts, beating all expectations by analysts. The streaming platform began with “paid sharing” (the official name of the crackdown on account sharing) in the United States and brought 5.8 million new […]
Read MoreNetflix earlier this year began cracking down on password sharing in the United States and other countries, and the effort has been successful, the company said today. Netflix gained 5.9 million new global subscribers in the second quarter of 2023, including more than one million in the U.S. and Canada, according to its most recent […]
Read MoreSpotify will no longer allow customers who previously subscribed to the Spotify streaming music service through the App Store to continue to pay using Apple’s platform, reports Variety. Spotify has started sending emails to subscribers who pay using an App Store subscription to let them know that they’ll need to make changes. Spotify has not […]
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