Streaming keeps getting more expensive: all the latest price hikes
Streaming keeps getting more expensive: all the latest price hikes

Death. Taxes. All your streaming services getting a little more expensive all the time. These are the new certainties in life, it seems. Netflix has raised the cost of its subscription repeatedly in recent years. Disney Plus, Prime Video, HBO Max, Paramount Plus, Peacock — practically any service you can name — charges more per […]

Netflix is raising prices again
Netflix is raising prices again

Netflix’s prices just went up, with its cheapest, ad-supported tier now reaching $8.99 / month (up from $7.99 / month), according to an updated support page spotted earlier by Android Authority. The standard and premium plans are also getting a hike, going from $17.99 to $19.99 / month and $24.99 to $26.99 / month, respectively. […]

New Netflix show Something Very Bad is Going to Happen was nearly shot like Adolescence — but instead it is the horror version of Uncut Gems

Episode 7 of new Netflix series Something Very Bad is Going to Happen was supposed to have the classic Adolescence one-shot — but instead, we’ve got the Uncut Gems of horror.

HBO Max is now available in the UK — here are 5 great horror movies I recommend

HBO Max is home to plenty of great horror movies, and these are the five I recommend starting with.

The Pitt is finally available to stream in the UK on HBO Max — be ready for the unmissable ‘mass casualty trauma’ you need to catch up with

After an agonizing 14 month wait, The Pitt is finally available to stream in the UK as HBO Max lands in good old Blighty. Frankly, you need to brace yourself for ‘mass casualty trauma’.

Jo Nesbø’s Detective Hole ending is too disturbing for words — but you couldn’t have paid me to reveal the unhinged real-life inspiration behind the Netflix scene

Episode 10 of Detective Hole on Netflix reveals one fate that’s too grim for words — but Jo Nesbø’s real-life story behind it is even more ridiculous than the onscreen scene.

Spotify is letting artists manually approve releases to combat AI fakes
Spotify is letting artists manually approve releases to combat AI fakes

Spotify is beta-testing a new feature called Artist Profile Protection that lets artists review releases before they go live. Sometimes songs end up on the wrong artist pages because of metadata mixups or shared names. But increasingly, artists have been targeted by impostors and AI-generated fakes. Profile Protection offers a buffer against bad actors. Everyone […]

Disney’s big bets on the metaverse and AI slop aren’t going so well
Disney’s big bets on the metaverse and AI slop aren’t going so well

Less than a week into his tenure as Disney’s newly appointed CEO, Josh D’Amaro, is already dealing with two separate crises that have cast a shadow over the company’s future plans. OpenAI is shutting down its Sora image-generation program just months after Disney announced a $1 billion dollar collaboration to bake the tech into Disney […]

Meta and YouTube found negligent in landmark social media addiction case
Meta and YouTube found negligent in landmark social media addiction case

The jury in a landmark trial testing claims about social media addiction against Meta’s Instagram and Google’s YouTube determined that the two companies failed to warn users about the risks of using their products. The jury found the companies’ negligence was a substantial factor in harms like the mental health issues sustained by a now […]