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Spotify premium subscriber count increases 21 percent to 158 million

Spotify now boasts 158 million premium subscribers and 356 million monthly active users, according to its latest earnings report released today. That’s a 21 percent and 24 percent year-over-year increase, respectively. It’s up from 155 million premium subscribers and 345 million monthly active users last quarter. The streaming service has continued to focus on podcasts… Read more

Apple fined $12M by Russian regulator over App Store monopoly abuse

Russia’s antitrust regulator, the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS), has fined Apple $12 million over complaints it unfairly cracked down on third-party parental control apps, the regulator has announced. The FAS started its investigation after receiving a complaint from Kaspersky Lab in March 2019, which claimed Apple had forced it to limit the functionality of its… Read more

Tesla Model S Limited Edition with matching iPhone 12 Pro

Caviar has designed an ultra-luxurious gold Tesla Model S (Plaid) concept car, with two perfectly matching iPhone 12 Pro Limited Edition smartphones. Caviar Luxury Atelier is known for manufacturing luxury and exclusive smartphones and accessories. The latest Apple iPhone and Samsung Galaxy models are usually used as a basis for their exclusive creations. This time… Read more

Sony has sold 7.8 million PS5 consoles

Sony has sold 7.8 million PlayStation 5 consoles as of March 31st, the company says in its latest earnings report. The number of PlayStation Plus subscribers is now 47.6 million, a 14.7 percent increase year on year. The fourth-quarter figures bring the overall PlayStation business to a total operating profit of 342.2 billion yen ($3.14… Read more

Behind the controversy at Basecamp

Basecamp announced it would ban “societal and political discussions” at work. But the hardest conversations at work were about the company itself. I. The controversy that embroiled enterprise software maker Basecamp this week began more than a decade ago, with a simple list of customers. Around 2009, Basecamp customer service representatives began keeping a list… Read more

AMD Smashes Records Again, Data Center Revenue up 286%, Consumer Up 46%

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) AMD crushed expectations with its first quarter 2021 financial results today with a record quarterly revenue of $3.45B, an increase of 93% year over year (YoY). AMD grew in every segment of its businesses despite constant product shortages for its consumer CPUs and GPUs at retail, a byproduct of… Read more

Sailor Moon’s newest movie is hitting Netflix on June 3

The newest movie in the hugely popular Sailor Moon franchise, Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal The Movie (which was originally released in two parts), is hitting Netflix on June 3. The movie’s arrival on Netflix marks its premiere for the first time outside of Japan, where Part 1 debuted in January. You can watch a… Read more

Google banks big in Alphabet’s post-pandemic-peak Q1 2021 earnings

During the height of the pandemic last year, Google was the rare tech giant that actually saw a revenue decline — the first in the company’s history — but only by 2 percent. To say Google has now recovered would be the understatement of the week: Alphabet’s just-released Q1 2021 earnings show it raking in… Read more

Microsoft reports strong Surface, Xbox, and cloud growth for Q3 2021

Microsoft posted the third quarter of its 2021 financial results today, reporting revenue of $41.7 billion and a net income of $15.5 billion. Revenue is up 19 percent, and net income has increased by 44 percent. Once again, Microsoft has seen strong growth for Surface, Xbox, and cloud-related services. The PC market isn’t slowing down,… Read more

SpaceX wins approval for lower Starlink orbits, overcoming rival objections

The Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday granted SpaceX approval to operate 2,814 Starlink satellites in lower orbits than originally planned, handing a win to Elon Musk’s satellite internet project. The decision delivered a partial defeat over its competitors, like Amazon and OneWeb, which sought to thwart the tweak over concerns it would create harmful frequency… Read more

Acer is slapping its logo on SSDs and RAM made by a company called Biwin

Acer announced in a blog post that it’s getting into the flash storage and memory business with help from a Chinese manufacturer called Biwin. Acer’s brand will be slapped onto each of these SSDs, but it’ll be another company that’s responsible for building them. Even though you’ll see an Acer logo on this storage, it’s… Read more

Asus teaser reveals punch hole in Zenfone 8 display

We have our first look at the upcoming Zenfone 8 from Asus and it seems the device will skip the flip up camera of its predecessors. The short teaser video posted on the brand’s official Twitter handles details a screen with a punch hole cutout in the top left corner. The top and bottom bezels… Read more

The Redmi K40 Gaming Edition is here with Dimensity 1200, 12GB of RAM

Redmi’s first foray into gaming phones is here and it’s called the Redmi K40 Gaming Edition (or Gaming Enhanced Edition, depending on which version of the machine translation you want to believe). The K40 Gaming Edition covers all the basics to be considered a serious gaming smartphone – you have a 120Hz display with 480Hz… Read more

Nikkei: Apple is starting mass production of the M2 chips this month using TSMC’s N5P process

Last week at the Spring Loaded event Apple expanded its portfolio of M1-powered devices with the new iPad Pros and the new iMacs. The next major event is WWDC, which starts on June 7, and is expected to bring larger MacBook Pro models (14″ and 16″). More important than their size will be their brains…. Read more

vivo V21 series unveiled with 44MP selfie camera with OIS and LED flash

The vivo V21 trio may have the best selfie camera we’ve seen in recent years, perhaps apart from phones that can use the main cam for the job (those pricey foldables and phones with a second screen on the back). But this is a mid-ranger – actually, three mid-rangers. Meet the vivo V21, V21 5G… Read more