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YouTube is expanding its pilot of a new Premium Lite subscription plan to the United States, the company announced today. Priced at $7.99 per month compared to the $13.99 charge for regular YouTube Premium, the cheaper tier offers “most” videos without ads — including “gaming, fashion, beauty, news, and more.” The major exception is music. For ad-free music videos, you’ll still need to step up to the standard Premium plan, which also gives you offline downloads and background playback.Premium Lite doesn’t include those perks: it’s really just about removing ads from your YouTube experience. And as someone who let his…
All Elite Wrestling and Amazon’s Prime Video today announced a multi-year deal that will see the streaming service carry AEW’s pay-per-view events in the US, Canada, and the UK. Their partnership will start this coming weekend with AEW Revolution, which airs Sunday night.Unlike Thursday Night Football and other sports content that comes included with a Prime subscription, you’ll still very much have to pay for each individual AEW event. (Revolution costs $49.99, if you were wondering.) This simply just gives fans another avenue for where to watch.AEW has so far refrained from allowing any streamer to offer its live, marquee…
The AI-ification of Google Search continues to accelerate: the company announced on Wednesday that it will start showing AI Overviews for even more kinds of queries, and that users around the world, even those who are logged out of Google, will start seeing them too.There’s an even more ambitious AI search tool coming to Google, too. It’s called AI Mode, and it brings a search-centric chatbot right to the core Google experience. It is, more or less, Google’s take on Perplexity or ChatGPT Search. For now, AI Mode is just a test — it’s only available to users paying for…
Delta Airlines is backing a startup that wants to design more fuel efficient, blended-wing-body aircraft, in the hopes of reducing its carbon footprint and making air travel more sustainable. The airline said today that it will help support the development of startup JetZero’s blended-wing-body (BWB) demonstrator aircraft that aims to cut fuel consumption, emissions, and noise. Delta isn’t providing any capital investment in the company, but rather operational support to help make its dream of a blended-wing aircraft a reality. JetZero will join Delta’s Sustainable Skies Lab incubator, where it will receive “operational expertise” from the airline’s engineers in the…
It was a cold Thursday afternoon in Las Vegas, and I was running late for my last appointment of the show. There was no telling how long an Uber might take, now that thousands upon thousands of CES 2025 attendees were leaving town and competing for space on the roads.“No problem,” I told myself. “I’m wearing my exoskeleton.”I reached down to its single button, switched it to hyper mode, and began taking the longest strides possible. I power walked a mile without breaking a sweat — and made it with time to spare.Exoskeletons — robotic external attachments for your body…
Up until now, Apple’s M4 Mac mini refresh has been widely regarded as the best value Mac. At $599/£599 you get all of Apple’s latest computing power with M4. But you don’t get any peripherals. Now, the MacBook Air has been refreshed with M4, and as a laptop, it’s the complete package The M4 chip brings a 10-core CPU, an up to 10-core GPU, and support for up to 32GB of unified memory. Apple reckons it’s up to twice as fast as the M1 model. That’s not the best comparison, since we have an M3 Air already. But if you’re…
Victoria Song is a senior reviewer at The Verge who mostly focuses on health tech and wearables and who, she says, occasionally has “existential crises over silly gadgets I bought on TikTok against my better judgment.” One of her favorite gadgets is the Logitech MX Vertical wireless mouse.When did you get the Logitech MX Vertical?I got this mouse in March 2022, so just about three years ago now. But I’ve been a vertical mouse enthusiast since I reviewed the Evoluent VerticalMouse C for PCMag in 2016. I’d been using Anker’s wireless vertical mouse for about three and a half years.…
Nvidia’s dominance over the latest generation of graphics cards ends today. AMD might have surrendered the high end of the GPU market, but its new $549 Radeon RX 9070 and $599 RX 9070 XT look set to bring Nvidia back to reality, at least in the midrange. After a disappointing $549 RTX 5070, a $749 RTX 5070 Ti that’s near impossible to buy for anything less than $899, and a $1,999 RTX 5090 whose only competition is other Nvidia cards, AMD’s next-gen GPUs look perfectly timed and deliver on performance and price. The RX 9070 is around 17 percent faster…
Apple has just unleashed the new Mac Studio – my favourite desktop Mac. It’s incredibly powerful, now packing the M4 Max and M3 Ultra chips, but I can’t help feeling like I expected more. Where is the M4 Ultra chip? This desktop is aimed squarely at pros who need ridiculous amounts of power, and it seems Apple could have offered more. The M4 Max version of the Mac Studio comes with a 16-core CPU, a 40-core GPU, and support for up to 128GB of unified memory. Apple is claiming performance boosts of up to 3.5 times over the M1 Max…
Introduction I only needed to spend a few minutes with the Phone 3a to know Nothing’s reputation as a cheap phone specialist is staying very much intact in 2025. This $379/£329 bargain brings back everything fans have come to expect from the brand – unique looks, fun features like glyph lights, and performance you’d expect from the class above. It also adds a new twist on AI, using tech to organise your captured content into something more easily digestible. The Phone 3a Pro it launches alongside does throw up some questions, though. That phone gains an even more potent zoom…
The consumer version of the Supersonic r will be available in two new color options — ceramic pink and jasper plum — and will sell for $569.99, the same price as the original, according to Yahoo. Dyson will also continue to offer a professional version of the hair dryer with a longer power cable and a new copper and violet color option coming in the summer.Dyson originally launched its Supersonic hairdryer in 2016, and aside from new color options, it went largely unchanged until the Supersonic r debuted in 2024. Featuring a design that’s 30 percent smaller and 20 percent…
Chatbots can’t think, and increasingly I am wondering whether their makers are capable of thought as well.In mid-February OpenAI released a document called a model spec laying out how ChatGPT is supposed to “think,” particularly about ethics. A couple of weeks later, people discovered xAI’s Grok suggesting its owner Elon Musk and titular President Donald Trump deserved the death penalty. xAI’s head of engineering had to step in and fix it, substituting a response that it’s “not allowed to make that choice.” It was unusual, in that someone working on AI made the right call for a change. I doubt…