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Netflix is ringing in the new year with two big pieces of news. First, in the fourth quarter of 2024, subscriber count crossed the 300 million mark and revenue growth wildly exceeded expectations. Second, despite this apparent success, the wildly popular streaming video service is looking for even more money and will be bumping up prices across all of its subscription tiers, including its first-ever price hike on its ad-supported plan. These increases, which will affect the U.S., Canada, Portugal, and Argentina, according to The Verge, run anywhere from an additional $1 to $2.50 per month go into effect during…

Blue Origin has just released a video recap (above) of last week’s successful maiden launch of its heavy-lift rocket, the New Glenn. The footage shows some dramatic close-ups of the 98-meter-tall rocket leaving the launchpad, with its seven BE-4 engines creating nearly 4 million pounds of thrust as it headed toward orbit from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida last Thursday. Please enable Javascript to view this content The New Glenn’s upper stage successfully completed two burns of its BE-3U engines to carry the Blue Ring Pathfinder payload into orbit while remaining attached to the upper stage. The Blue…

Table of Contents Table of Contents Wearing the band Nomad’s coolest glow yet Worth buying? Since my Apple Watch Series 10 arrived I’ve worn it with Apple’s Milanese Loop band, which is easily one of the best you can buy, but when Nomad announced a new glow-in-the-dark Sport Band, I thought it was time for a change. Turns out, getting it to glow was a bit of a challenge, and while it looks as outrageous as you’d expect, I found I like it for a different reason. Wearing the band I’ll come to the glow in the dark bit next,…

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Planets outside our solar system can be wild, weird places. Astronomers have discovered exoplanets shaped like a rugby ball, or where it rains gems, or which have one hemisphere covered in lava. And now there’s a new oddity to add to the catalog: a planet with winds that are faster than the speed of sound. WASP-127b is a huge, puffy sphere which is one of the least dense planets ever discovered. It is larger than Jupiter, but has less than a fifth of Jupiter’s mass, making it unlike anything in our solar system. And its oddity has made it a…

It seems Apple is finally ready for a design refresh after recycling the same aesthetics that it introduced with the iPhone 11 series. Interestingly, it won’t be a flagship phone that sets the ball rolling, but a highly-anticipated mid-tier phone that could kickstart a whole new design language for Apple smartphones. Leakster MajinBu, who has had a mixed track record with Apple leaks, has shared what appears to be the unibody chassis for the iPhone 17 series Air. The standout element is the large pill-shaped camera bar at the top, which looks suspiciously similar to the Pixel 9 series phones.…

A virtual private network, or VPN, is a necessity these days to protect your online privacy. A VPN lets you take advantage of high-performance servers that are set up around the world that serve as middlemen while you browse the internet. Whenever you access a website, the data that you send will not have your own address but rather that of the VPN’s, making your location difficult to track, shielding you from surveillance and preventing hackers from intercepting your information. When logging on to a VPN, you choose one of the servers that the service provides. If you choose a…

Samsung is scheduled to host its Galaxy Unpacked 2025 event on Wednesday, and the South Korean tech giant has confirmed that it will unveil its latest Galaxy S series of smartphones. These are expected to be the Samsung Galaxy S25, Galaxy S25+ and Galaxy S25 Ultra. The handsets are expected to run on the firm’s One UI 7 skin, which is based on Android 15, out-of-the-box. The company has now officially announced the rollout timeline of the stable version of its One UI 7 software update for eligible smartphones.Samsung to Release One UI 7 Update by MarchSamsung confirmed in a press…

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