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The Discovery+ ad-free plan now costs an extra $2 per month
Discovery+ is increasing prices for the first time in the US and Canada.
Facebook’s News tab is going away in the UK, France and Germany
Meta will kill off Facebook’s News tab in the UK, France and Germany in early December. Unlike in Canada, publishers can still share news on the platform in those countries.
YouTubers can take training courses to remove warnings from their permanent record
YouTube is updating its enforcement policies to give creators who break its rules a chance to wipe the slate clean. . As long as they complete a training course and avoid violating the same policy within a 90-day period, YouTube will remove a warning from their account.
Dropbox ditches unlimited storage in its Advanced plan because of crypto goons
Dropbox is killing off unlimited storage in its business-focused Advanced plan following a surge in shady activity. It wrote in a blog post that as other services made similar changes to limit storage capacity, it has seen an increase in people using Advanced plans "not to run a business or organization, but instead for purposes like crypto and Chia mining, unrelated individuals pooling storage for personal use cases or even instances of reselling storage."
Amazon's virtual healthcare service is now available in every state
Amazon's digital healthcare service, Clinic, is now available nationwide in the US.
‘My Netflix’ puts your downloads and in-progress shows first
Netflix has unveiled a new tab that helps you find the shows you actually want to watch.
Reddit takes control of popular subreddit that protested API changes
As it promised, Reddit has been taking over control of subreddits that shut down to protest changes to the platform's API. The admin account u/ModCodeofConduct has taken sole charge of r/malefashionadvice, a community with more than 5.4 million subscribers.
Xbox Game Pass Core replaces Live Gold on September 14th
Microsoft is replacing Xbox Live Gold with Game Pass Core in September, and you'll get a collection of free games in the bargain.
You can now move your Netflix profile to an existing account
Starting today, all Netflix users can transfer a profile to an existing account. Until now, users have needed to set up a new account to hang onto their recommendations, watchlist and other data and settings.
Twitch is finally adding Stories and a feed for discovering new streamers to watch
It’s probably safe to say no one could have predicted that LinkedIn would add Stories before Twitch, but here we are.
Twitter threatens to sue Meta over the new Threads app
Twitter has threatened legal action against Meta over the new Threads app. Twitter accused Meta of poaching employees and "systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property.”
Twitter quietly backtracks on requiring users to log in to see tweets
Several days after Twitter stopped showing tweets to logged-out users, that basic functionality seems to be returning.
Twitter says it couldn't tell people about rate limiting in advance
Twitter has been even more of a mess than usual the last few days, in part because it limited the number of tweets each users could read each day. The move came as a surprise to many, but the company said it was unable to give folks a heads up.
Spotify reportedly wants to add full-length music videos to its app
Spotify is considering adding full-length music videos to its streaming service.
Twitter isn't showing tweets unless you're logged in
It seems Twitter is no longer letting people who aren't signed in see any tweets. It's unclear whether this was an intentional decision by Twitter or another technical error.
DoorDash will start offering couriers an hourly rate while they're fulfilling orders
DoorDash says it will offer couriers a guaranteed hourly rate for "active delivery time" as part of a raft of changes to its platform. For each delivery, they can choose between this Earn by Time option or stick with a per-order payment.
Amazon will use small businesses to help deliver packages in the US
Amazon will use bodegas and other small businesses to deliver your packages in the US.
‘Star Trek: Prodigy’ will be pulled from Paramount+ next week
Paramount+ has cancelled "Star Trek: Prodigy" and plans to remove the series starting next week.
Netflix shares teaser for World War II drama ‘All The Light We Cannot See’
The series adapts Anthony Doerr’s excellent 2014 novel of the same name.
Twitch will give smaller streamers a bigger cut of subscriptions
Twitch is launching a program that gives streamers a larger 70 percent cut of their subscriptions.
