Month: October 2023
Verizon bundles Netflix and NFL Plus Premium for $25/month
Verizon has announced an exclusive combo offering Netflix Premium and NFL Plus Premium for $25 per month. Netflix Premium costs $19.99 / month right now (though it could go up soon!), and NFL Plus Premium is $16.99 / month. That sounds like a pretty good deal for Verizon customers if…
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X has to pay $1.1 million in legal fees for ex-Twitter execs
As noted by Bloomberg, Delaware Chancery Court Judge Kathaleen St. J. McCormick ruled in favor of former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, former lead policy officer Vijaya Gadde, and other executives, as Twitter “violated its duties to cover legal expenses generated by their work for the company.” In April, Agrawal and Gadde…
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Your phone’s about to get loud. Here’s how to manage the National Emergency Alert System Test
Don’t be alarmed. The National Emergency Alert System (EAS) is gearing up for its triennial test, and you can expect your phone to ring this Wednesday at around 2:20 PM Eastern Time (ET). Coordinated by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), this test is…
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Meta’s text chat for Horizon Worlds is rolling out to all users
Meta’s text-based chat feature for Horizon Worlds will be available for all users beginning this week, Meta said in a blog post on Tuesday. The text chat, which Meta dubs “world chat,” offers a way to communicate with other people inside a Horizon Worlds experience without using your voice. Meta…
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Double tap shows up in watchOS 10.1 dev beta
For example, say you get a text. If you double-tap, it’ll bring up the ability to reply via voice messages. Double-tapping again will send the message. For a timer, double-tapping once will pause the timer. Doing it again will unpause it. When the timer goes off, pinchy pinching will stop…
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Spotify is giving paid subscribers 15 hours of audiobook listening per month
This is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more. Ariel and Amrita coming to you with another joint issue today. It’s a jam-packed Tuesday, with Spotify debuting its biggest audiobook development yet, an exclusive interview with the writer of the Audible Original Six Sermons, and…
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