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Spotify Connect: what is it? How can you get it?

Home Advice (Image credit: Spotify) With over 300 million active users worldwide (almost half of which are paying subscribers), Spotify is the world’s largest and most popular music streaming service. But thanks to Spotify Connect – arguably the streaming world’s most important feature – you’re no longer restricted to listening to the catalogue solely through… Read more

Spotify now hosts audiobook recordings from YouTuber David Dobrik and actress Hilary Swank

Spotify isn’t limiting its audio ambitions to podcasts and music. Today the company announced it’s furthering its audiobook experiments with the release of nine new audiobooks available exclusively in the app. As first reported by The Hollywood Reporter, among the works, which are all part of the public domain, are David Dobrik narrating Mary Shelley’s… Read more

AMC Theatres staves off bankruptcy just in time for studios to delay their films all over again

AMC Theatres has raised nearly $1 billion in funding since December 14th, staving off bankruptcy for several more months, the company announced today. The announcement comes just days after several major studios, including Paramount, Sony, and Disney’s Fox, all delayed many of their films to the latter half of the year. In total, AMC raised… Read more

Microsoft backtracks on Xbox Live Gold price hike

Microsoft has reversed its controversial Xbox Live price increase. The company announced a price hike on Friday that would have doubled the cost of a yearly subscription to the service, which is required to play games online on Xbox consoles, to $120 for many users. Now, though, Microsoft says the price will stay the same…. Read more

GameStop stock halts trading after Reddit drama

Trading in stock of video game retailer GameStop (GME) was halted briefly Friday, as it soared more than 70 percent, due partly to the enthusiastic support of a group of Reddit day traders. The stock is up more than 250 percent year to date, rising sharply last week after GameStop announced Chewy CEO Ryan Cohen… Read more

GeForce RTX 3000 for notebooks: Max-Q disappears, but in reality it's still there

There is a little confusion about which versions of GeForce RTX GPUs are 1859, including standard and Max-Q, which will debut in new gaming notebooks. Let’s try to understand what is the approach taken now by NVIDIA of Paolo Corsini published 22 January 2021 , at 12: 01 in the Video Cards channel Max-Q NVIDIA… Read more

IBM: Loss of profit causes share price to fall

IBM suffered a surprisingly significant loss of business at the end of the year. In the final quarter, sales fell year-on-year by a good six percent to 20, 4 billion US dollars, about 16, 8 billion euros, as IBM announced on Thursday after the US market closed. Net income fell 42 percent to $ 1.3… Read more

Possible violation of specification: UHD Blu-rays should have regional codes

One of the great advances brought about by the introduction of the Ultra HD Blu-ray was, in addition to the higher resolution and the expanded contrast range, that these discs no longer have a so-called regional code. As a reminder: For video DVD and Blu-ray Disc, it was specified at the time that discs could… Read more

Brain stimulation for obsessive-compulsive disorder

Customized electrical stimuli sent to the brain without surgery can alleviate obsessive-compulsive disorder for up to three months. This is what US researchers from Boston University write in the journal Nature Medicine. People with obsessive-compulsive disorder suffer from recurring, anxiety-inducing thoughts and compulsions. For example, they have to count, clean, or check items over and… Read more

Microsoft Edge 88: Colorful themes, password generator and more

Microsoft has started the extensive rollout of the new Edge version 88 . The update brings with it some innovations, including an integrated password manager, but also more colorful themes. In a video, Microsoft presents some designs that can be downloaded from the company’s website. In addition to abstract colors and classic motifs, such as… Read more

VW ID.3 Pure: basic model for 21,925 euros

It didn’t quite work out, but the cause is likely to be primarily from politics: The basic model of the VW ID.3 should, as the group announced at the launch, be less than 30. 000 Cost euros. Now are 31.495 Euros, of which, however, a manufacturer’s share of 3570 euros and 6000 euros from the… Read more

View 40: Honor shows first smartphone after separation from Huawei

The Chinese smartphone manufacturer Honor has presented its first smartphone after separating from Huawei. The View 40 has so far only been announced for the Chinese market, but could also come onto the market in Europe at a later date. Huawei had deported its former subsidiary brand Honor last November. The Chinese tech giant justified… Read more

Archive uploads could be dangerous for Drupal websites

A library that uses the Drupal CMS is faulty and endangers websites with certain configurations. Security updates are available. Admins can also use a workaround to protect pages against such attacks. In a warning message from the developer as ” critical “classified gap (CVE – 2020 – 36193) can be found in the pear-Archive_Tar library…. Read more

How Brexit will affect data protection

It was a kind of Christmas miracle, the agreement between the European Union and the United Kingdom, which took place on 24. December 2020 and thus a few days before the deadline on 31. December was closed. The trade agreement made it possible to avoid the hard Brexit at the last minute. The contract concerns… Read more

Honor announces its first post-Huawei phone

Honor has announced the new V40 5G flagship phone, its first since Huawei sold the company off to a Shenzhen-based consortium of Chinese partners. The phone is exclusive to China for now, but Honor’s V-series usually makes its way to the rest of the world under “View” branding. The V40 has a 6.72-inch OLED screen… Read more