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HBO Max Changes to Max Next Month With New Features, New Plan
The revamped streaming service will add Discovery Plus titles but keep its $10 and $16 price tiers. WarnerMedia and Discovery completed their merger in April 2022, and with that came a promise to introduce a revamped streaming service by summer 2023. Warner Bros. Discovery unveiled it as Max, a rebranded platform that combines content from HBO Max and Discovery Plus. Company CEO David Zaslav ann ... Read more
2023-04-20 20:56:13
Legacy Blue Checkmarks Are Now Gone From Twitter
If you want to reach more people, you'll have to pay for Twitter Blue. Here's how to subscribe. The last Twitter users who retained blue checkmarks from the company's previous method of verification had their badges stripped away Thursday. If you want one of the blue badges, you'll have to pay for the social media company's Twitter Blue subscription service. Twitter announced that it would start ... Read more
2023-04-20 20:52:46
Is It Time to Upgrade to the iPhone 14? How to Decide
The answer will depend on which iPhone you currently own. The iPhone 14 lineup might sound like a tempting upgrade, especially if you're eyeballing the iPhone 14 Pro for its sharper camera and always-on display. But depending on which phone you have, it might be a good idea to wait before upgrading. If you have a recent model, such as the iPhone 13 or maybe even 12, it would be wise to hang ont ... Read more
2023-04-19 20:52:58
14 Hidden iPhone Features That Unlock iOS 16's Full Potential
Level up your iPhone game with these lesser-known features and settings. Apple released iOS 16 over half a year ago, and in the months since, we've seen smaller point updates, the most recent being iOS 16.4 (and iOS 16.4.1). All these updates bring new features and settings to your iPhone, like the ability to unsend text messages and emails and cut objects out of your photos, but there might be a ... Read more
2023-04-19 20:51:46
Snapchat's AI Bot Is Rolling Out to Everyone. Here's How It Works
The bot will eventually communicate in pictures. Snap's also making generative AI lenses, too. Generative AI is everywhere now, and Snap, the parent company of social media network Snapchat, is the latest to fold it into its ecosystem plans. The company's own ChatGPT-based AI tool, called My AI, launched earlier this year as a feature of Snapchat Plus, its service for paying subscribers, but is r ... Read more
2023-04-19 20:50:14
Galaxy Watch 5 Update Makes It Easier to Track Your Menstrual Cycle
The update to Samsung's Galaxy Watch 5 and Watch 5 Pro models aims to help make fertility tracking a little simpler. Samsung's planned upgrade to its temperature sensor for menstrual cycle tracking has arrived for the Galaxy Watch 5 and Watch 5 Pro. The cycle tracking feature is being released as an update starting now in the US, Korea and 30 regions in Europe, the company said Wednesday. Samsun ... Read more
2023-04-19 20:49:25
Facebook owner Meta sees latest layoffs begin
Facebook owner Meta has started notifying staff who are losing jobs in the wave of 10,000 job cuts the social media company announced last month. Boss Mark Zuckerberg had said the layoffs are key to to making the company more efficient. Meta, which also owns Instagram and WhatsApp, has been under pressure since a sharp slowdown in its ads business last year. It had already let go 13% of its sta ... Read more
2023-04-19 20:47:08
Still Haven't Filed Your Taxes? Watch Out for These Scams
Income taxes are due today and cybercriminals are looking to prey on procrastinators. Today is the deadline to file your 2022 income taxes and security experts say procrastinators especially need to be on guard for tax-related scams and other attempts to steal their refunds and personal information. Like last year, this year's federal income tax deadline is three days later than usual, thanks to ... Read more
2023-04-18 21:30:38
Netflix's New Password-Sharing Fees to Hit US Customers by Summer
You can either pay more to share or persuade friends and family to get their own accounts. Netflix hasn't said what it'll charge. After testing account-sharing fees in Latin America last year, Netflix implemented its new policy in February in four regions, including Canada and Spain. Now, for many subscribers in the US, it's the moment they have not been waiting for. Password-sharing fees are off ... Read more
2023-04-18 21:30:05
Galaxy S22 Deals: Save at Samsung, T-Mobile and More
The Samsung Galaxy S22 may not be the company's flagship device anymore, but it's still a great phone and these deals make it ultra-affordable. Samsung's latest flagship, the Galaxy S23 series, arrived earlier this year and there are plenty of deals out there if you want to pick up one of Samsung's newest devices. But with a new generation on shelves now, that also means there are some excellent ... Read more
2023-04-18 21:29:40