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In January, Netflix announced that it would be raising prices in the US for all three of its plans. Well that price increase is now starting to take effect. As of March 30, all users will see the price increase. Netflix is not grandfathering anyone into the older prices. If you’ve changed your plan since the announcement, then you are already on the new pricing structure.Netflix is raising prices to $9.99 for the Basic plan, $15.49 for the Standard plan and $19.99 for the Premium plan. That means that now, even with the standard plan, it is more expensive than…

Android has had a screen saver functionality since the Android 4.2 Jellybean days back in 2012. But ten years on, screen savers don’t serve any useful purpose. The feature has hardly received notable enhancements all these years. That could change with the next major Android release though. Google recently released the Android 13 Developer Preview 2 and it contained a lot of screen saver-related code. This suggests significant changes are coming to an otherwise forgotten feature.Before we go ahead, let us remind you that Google initially called screen savers “daydreams”. The company renamed the feature with the release of Android…

Krafton (the creator of PUBG) is following through on its goal to get into blockchain and NFT gaming, announcing today that it has secured a partnership with Solana Labs. The PUBG creator says it will work with Solana Labs to design a host of NFT and blockchain-based games and services.Krafton’s deal with Solana Labs aims to foster long-term working relationship. Which suggests that Krafton plans to be in this for the long haul and make NFT and blockchain-based games and services a regular part of its offerings.Krafton says that together with Solana Labs, it will “cooperate in the marketing and…

Being able to listen to music while you’re driving is nice, but not getting into a car accident is nicer. This is why Spotify introduced its “Car Mode” a while back. Now, after discontinuing it for several months, Spotify is testing a new Car Mode, and some customers will be able to use it.There are ways to listen to Spotify while on the road. Aside from the software-based Car Mode, there’s a hardware solution: the Spotify Car Thing. This is a device that you attach to your dashboard. It looks like a standalone GPS device that you use to control…

Earlier this week, SteelSeries announced its new Stratus+ mobile controller, and today NVIDIA is bringing support for that controller to GeForce NOW. This is hardly a surprise though.SteelSeries confirmed in its announcement that the Stratus+ was recommended for GeForce NOW. So players likely assumed support was already there or that it would be arriving at some point. And arrive it has. A mere two days after the controller was released.In addition to the controller support, NVIDIA is also releasing a few more games for GeForce NOW today. Because, it’s Thursday and NVIDIA commits to new games on Thursdays every single…

Google News has now officially been blocked in Russia, following a long string of similar actions by Russian governing bodies. That’s according to recent reports citing Russian state news agency Interfax.According to the source, Russian telecom regulator Roskomnadzor is responsible for the block.Why was Google News blocked in Russia and what’s the impact?Roskomnadzor reportedly blames publications related to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine for the move. More directly, it points to reports containing “inauthentic and publicly important information” about the ongoing invasion. Which it refers to as a “special military operation on the territory of Ukraine.” For clarity, Google News is…

PUBG Mobile has secured a partnership with Sony’s Xperia smartphone brand, making Xperia devices the official phone of PUBG Mobile. What does this mean for players of the game? Well, not much in terms of your everyday player. But it does have some benefits for pro players.The Sony partnership will see pro teams obtain “state-of-the-art” Xperia devices for use during competitions. It’s not clear if pro team players will be given these phones only for the duration of the competition. But at the very least, the partnership ensures that they will be using Xperia devices during matches.It also helps ensure…

PNY has stocked some RTX 3060 Ti GPUs and has made them available as of today through its Amazon store. If you act fast, you might be able to score one yourself. That is, if you’re lucky enough to place one in your cart and can finalize the purchase.Graphics cards like the PNY XLR8 Dual Fan RTX 3060 Ti GPU have been extremely hard to get a hold of. It’s now been close to a year and a half since NVIDIA announced and released its first 30-series cards. And it’s just as hard to find and purchase one today as…

Google is now actively seeking FDA approval in the US for a new Fitbit wearable feature to track atrial fibrillation. That’s based on recent reports which also detail a 2020 Fitbit study that ultimately led to the request for FDA approval.If approved, the new feature would passively track heart rhythms in the background. Specifically, to check for irregular heart rhythms. That’s as compared to Fitbit’s current heart tracking feature. As it currently stands, the feature only takes a reading when users choose to. If the new feature spots atrial fibrillation, it alerts the user to the potential cause for concern.For…

Netflix today has announced its acquisition of mobile game development studio Boss Fight Entertainment. The streaming company has been making moves to broaden its output of content over the past year. Announcing in 2021 that it was going to be offering mobile games through the Netflix app on Android and iOS devices.It then purchased the game studio behind Oxenfree, Night School, back in September of 2021. A short few months after it began testing mobile games on its platform. And just this month, it purchased Next Games, the studio responsible for the development of a puzzle game based on Netflix’s…

Google is reportedly working on a brand new gadget for its Nest “Hub” lineup, aimed at delivering a more portable, tablet-like format and experience. And it will allegedly launch this year.Now, the new gadget in question isn’t actually purported to be a Nest-branded smart home tablet. Instead, it would bring the more familiar “detachable” form factor often seen in laptops to the Nest smart home space. Meaning it would be a tablet that attaches to a speaker-style dock or that can be taken around with the user.In effect, that would allow users to access features found on the Google Nest…

After months of testing, WhatsApp is finally rolling out the multi-device support feature in the stable version of the app. Notably, iOS users get the feature in March, for some reason, whereas Android users have to wait until April to use it.The multi-device support feature was tested by WhatsApp developers for the last eight months. Using this feature, WhatsApp users can log in to four devices simultaneously.Moreover, they do not need to keep the internet connection active on the primary phone in order for the WhatsApp app to work on other devices. The report by 91Mobiles states that all connected devices…

When you want to look up a doctor or a clinic, you would call and set up appointments. However, Google seems to think that’s too much work, as it has a new feature. The company announced today that, when you look up a doctor, it will show you the available appointment slots in the search results.Google gives you a metric ton of information nowadays compared to the olden days. When you search up certain items, you get snippets of information pulled from multiple sources along with images and videos. Searching up animals will give you an animated 3D model. Searching…

It seems like our assumptions were accurate, at least according to some information from Jon Prosser. He tweeted out some information about Google’s upcoming products, saying that the Pixel 6a will be announced at Google I/O.The Pixel 6a will be announced at Google I/O, the Pixel Watch will notThat’s not the only product he mentioned, though. The Pixel Watch was also in the mix. Jon Prosser said that Google will tease the Pixel Watch during Google I/O, but won’t announce it. That announcement will follow in October, in other words, it will launch alongside the Pixel 7 and 7 Pro.That’s…

People who want to exit the Android beta program were met with a tough choice. They could either stick with the buggy beta software or revert to a stable version of Android; minus their data. This is something that annoyed a lot of users. While it’s neat being at the forefront of all the new goodies coming to Android, people eventually want to use stable software. Well, thanks to a new update from Google, people will be able to exit the beta program without needing to clear their data.This is an unusual year for Google in terms of software for…

Patient Pixel 6 users are finally getting their update with the newest March feature drop. While the user experience has been strengthened, it seems that the haptics have been weakened. Pixel 6 owners are reporting weaker haptics after installing the latest QPR. Older Pixel phones were able to get the latest feature drop before the Pixel 6 phones. It’s not because Google doesn’t like that phone anymore; it’s most likely because of the Tensor chip. Now, the update is hitting Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro handsets, and people are reporting generally positive experiences. The March update brought weaker haptics…