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Aaron Leong - Tue, Apr 01, 2025
Oura's LLM-based AI Oura Advisor has exited beta and is now available to Oura subscribers, specifically owners of the Oura Ring Gen 3 and Oura Ring 4. By chatting with Oura Advisor, users will receive actionable and personalized guidance...
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Alan Velasco - Thu, Mar 20, 2025
It looks like 2025 it will be a year of big changes for Plex, which is one of the top choices for those looking to host and stream their own media. Just last month the company announced that it’s going to be removing its incredibly popular...
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Alan Velasco - Thu, Dec 19, 2024
Apple is abandoning a hardware subscription service that it had been working on, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The idea was spawned as the company was looking for ways to tempt customers into owning more of its flagship iPhone...
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Alan Velasco - Wed, Aug 28, 2024
Amazon appears to be readying the launch of a paid subscription service for its smart assistant Alexa in October, according to a report in The Washington Post. While Alexa has been free to use for several years, Amazon has been hard at...
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Alan Velasco - Thu, Aug 08, 2024
Apple isn’t just banking on its upcoming Apple Intelligence to spur hardware sales, it’s also hoping to monetize it as a service to bolster revenue once users are hooked. According to some analysts, the price Apple could charge for these...
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Alan Velasco - Tue, Jul 30, 2024
During an interview on the Decoder podcast, Logitech CEO Hanneke Faber envisions a future where the company sells a “forever mouse.” A mouse that a customer can keep for much longer than mice sold today, and perhaps one that can be...
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Tim Sweezy - Fri, Jun 28, 2024
YouTube has announced that its Premium subscribers are getting more perks, along with a tease about more plan options coming soon that could shake up the value proposition (depending on what the new plans offer and how much they...
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Ryan Whitwam - Tue, Jun 25, 2024
Watching shows like Tulsa King and Star Trek is about to get more expensive. For a brief, shining moment, content owners almost defeated piracy. Instead of bringing the content to where people were streaming, popular movies and TV series...
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Tim Sweezy - Tue, May 28, 2024
Over the weekend at the BLAST R6 Manchester Major, Ubisoft announced its upcoming R6 Membership, which elicited a round of boos from those in attendance. Ubisoft unveiled the new membership plan during the company’s reveal of the roadmap...
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Tim Sweezy - Thu, Feb 22, 2024
Late last year, Google introduced the world to its most capable AI offering ever, Gemini. Since then, Gemini has strengthened with new features, as well as most recently providing an upgrade to Google Assistant. What some may not be aware...
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Tim Sweezy - Thu, Jan 25, 2024
While Netflix is enjoying skyrocketing revenue, the company says it will be doing away with its cheapest ad-free plan. The streaming giant says it will begin its plan to remove the Netflix Basic subscription tier in the UK and Canada...
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Aaron Leong - Fri, Sep 08, 2023
We can breathe a small sigh of relieve as BMW announces that it is nixing its controversial heated seat subscription for its cars. It's a small concession, but unfortunately, paywalled in-car features, services, and functions are not going...
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Tim Sweezy - Fri, Apr 14, 2023
Ubisoft's premium subscription service finally hits Xbox consoles after being announced more than a year ago. Ubisoft+ Multi Access will give Xbox gamers access to titles such as Far Cry 6 and Assassin's Creed Valhalla.
Ubisoft+ is a...
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Tim Sweezy - Fri, Mar 24, 2023
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has proposed a new rule that would make canceling a recurring subscription and/or membership as easy as signing up. The "click to cancel" provision is one of several updates the FTC is suggesting in...
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Tim Sweezy - Fri, Aug 05, 2022
If you have ever wished you could zoom into a YouTube video to see something closer up, you may be in luck. A new pinch-to-zoom feature has been made available to YouTube Premium members and works in landscape mode too.
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Tim Sweezy - Wed, Jun 01, 2022
Netflix has been testing a new type of subscription in three Latin American countries. The aim is to crack down on sharing subscriptions of the video streaming service with those outside a household.
Early testing by the streaming giant...
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Tim Sweezy - Fri, Mar 25, 2022
Apple is said to be looking into creating a hardware subscription service for its iPhone and other devices, much like paying a monthly subscription for an app. It would come at a time when the cost of smartphones and other electronic...
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Shane McGlaun - Thu, Jul 02, 2020
Few things are nicer on cold winter mornings than sliding into a car equipped with heated seats. Heated seats also make leather seating more attractive to those who live in particularly cold areas. In fact, we'd wager that heated seats...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Oct 28, 2014
Which do you despise more, advertisements or paying for a service when you've grown accustomed to it being free? Don't feel obligated to answer now, though you should put some thought into the question in case YouTube decides to charge a subscription fee for ad-free access to its streaming...
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Joel Hruska - Fri, Apr 26, 2013
This is an announcement that's been a long time coming. Steam has added support for subscription-based games, including conventional MMOs, and has debuted the function with the recently launched Darkfall Unholy Wars. DUW is a...
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Joel Hruska - Mon, Jul 16, 2012
In early 2011, Robert Murdoch's News Corp took the wraps off The Daily, a new, iPad-centric newspaper that was supposed to revolutionize the digital news business. Murdoch himself described the paper as "unique mix of text, photography...
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Joel Hruska - Mon, Mar 19, 2012
Last year, multiple news companies began hopping on the digital subscription bandwagon courtesy of the iPad. The hope was that Apple's 9.7" behemoth would drive a new wave of people to sign up for tablet versions of their favorite news...
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