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YouTube Premium Lite set to launch in the US, offering a cheaper ad-free experience

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2025-11-12 06:13:00

Something to look forward to: It's been almost four years since YouTube piloted a more affordable version of its premium subscription service in some European countries, but it was axed in 2023. Now, it seems YouTube is preparing to bring back Premium Lite – including in the US – which will remove ads from most uploaded videos. According to a source familiar with the plans who spoke to Bloomberg, YouTube's Premium Lite tier will be announced soon in the US, Australia, Germany, and Thailand. La

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New Polling Shows Americans Increasingly Disgusted With Elon Musk

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-12 05:52:56

Unelected White House budget slasher and richest man in the world Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency has ripped through the federal government like a bull in a china shop. The billionaire's hodge-podge team of underqualified 20-somethings — and at least one literal teenager — have already ripped up countless government contracts and fired thousands of federal employees — only to rehire those who were in charge of nuclear security and protecting the US from a looming bird

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Game investments and M&A totaled $17.5B across 985 deals in 2024 | DDM

venturebeat.com Dean Takahashi 2025-11-12 09:00:00

As the games industry moves on from “survive til 25,” 2024 games investment and M&A data revealed recovery and improvement, according to market analyst firm Digital Development Management (DDM). In order to properly compare 2024 to 2023, it’s important to remember that in Q4 2023 Microsoft acquired Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion, the largest gaming M&A in history by over 5.4 times its nearest counterpart of Take-Two Interactive’s $12.7 billion acquisition of Zynga. Removing Microsoft’s

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Microsoft's quantum chip Majarona 1 is a few qubits short

zdnet.com Tiernan Ray 2025-11-12 02:08:10

Microsoft says its Majorana 1 contains eight topological qubits and can scale to a million, though the details on how it will scale are scant. Microsoft Quantum Microsoft's quantum computing scientists announced they have finally realized a long-held goal of building a "topological qubit", the equivalent of a transistor for ordinary chips, that may help advance quantum computing. The qubit is the functional element of a quantum chip, called Majorana 1, based on an exotic particle, a hybrid of

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YouTube May Finally Offer a Cheaper Way to Get Rid of Ads

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-11-12 06:30:08

Folk who want to watch their multi-hour-long YouTube documentaries without an ad break every few minutes may finally have a cheaper way to do it. The Alphabet-owned streaming service has long been testing a cheaper ad-less subscription tier called YouTube Premium Lite. If the latest reports can be believed, it may come to fruition in 2025, though it probably won’t offer all the perks of the $14-a-month Premium subscription. The last time we heard about Premium Lite was in October last year. You

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Avatar: Seven Havens‘ Apocalyptic Premise Has Korra Fans Worried Their Hero Is Going to Get Slandered

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-11-12 09:00:23

Yesterday, Nickelodeon and Avatar Studios finally unveiled some concrete details about Avatar: Seven Havens, the new animated spin-off of Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra. While the news came with comforting details like a lengthy episode count and the involvement of series co-creators Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, the plot details of the new show have Korra fans bracing for more slander of their favorite hero. Accompanying Seven Havens‘ announcement was some flavor t

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Dreo 6L Smart Humidifier Just Had Its Biggest Price Cut Ever, Only $72 on Amazon

gizmodo.com Brittany Vincent 2025-11-12 09:20:11

Looking to combat dry air without the hassle of constant refills and confusing controls? Dreo’s latest humidifier is making waves with its powerful 500mL/hr output and smart features that actually work. This 6L beast combines warm and cool mist options with app control, making it a standout choice for keeping your space perfectly humid without turning it into a sauna. Right now, Amazon’s knocked the price down to $72 from its usual $90, saving you $18 (20% off). It’s a solid deal on a feature-p

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Experts Say These 6 Vitamins and Minerals Unlock Healthy Aging

cnet.com Lara Vukelich 2025-11-12 06:00:03

Throughout our lives, we get nearly all the vitamins and minerals we need from a balanced diet. However, that can change as we age because we're at an increased risk for low vitamin consumption, partly because our bodies can no longer effectively absorb certain nutrients. So if you're dealing with deficiencies, are on specific medications or have particular health conditions, your doctor may advise you to take certain supplements to make sure your body has all the nutrients it needs. These are

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EV battery manufacturing capacity will rise when 10 plants come online this year

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-12 04:15:45

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy, and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. Ten new electric vehicle battery factories are on track to go online this year in the United States. This includes large plants from global battery giants such as Panasonic, Samsung, and SK On, and automakers such as Ford, Honda, Hyundai, Stellantis, and Toyota. If they all open in 2025, the country’s EV batte

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Google’s cheaper YouTube Premium Lite subscription will drop Music

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-12 09:45:11

YouTube dominates online video, but it's absolutely crammed full of ads these days. A YouTube Premium subscription takes care of that, but ad blockers do exist. Google seems to have gotten the message—a cheaper streaming subscription is on the way that drops YouTube Music from the plan. You may have to give up more than music to get the cheaper rate, though. Google started testing cheaper YouTube subscriptions in a few international markets, including Germany and Australia, over the past year.

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YouTube reportedly launching new ‘premium lite’ tier soon

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-11-12 06:40:11

In Brief YouTube is close to announcing a new lower-priced “premium lite” version of its subscription service, Bloomberg reports. The new tier is expected to launch in the United States, Australia, Germany, and Thailand “soon.” The tier will give users access to YouTube’s library of podcasts and how-to clips without ads, Bloomberg notes. Premium lite will be targeted toward viewers who mainly want to watch videos other than music videos. It’s unknown how much the tier will cost. While the pre

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Joe Rogan Is No Longer the King of Podcasts

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-11-11 17:30:01

Following the 2024 Presidential election, it seemed like there was one big winner who wasn’t on a ballot: Joe Rogan. The podcast host seemingly succeeded in putting his finger on the scale and using his platform to help propel Donald Trump back into the White House. But ever since Trump took office, Rogan’s numbers have been slipping. According to The Daily Beast, he got knocked out of the top spot on the charts by anti-Trump podcast MeidasTouch, and he’s not taking it particularly well. On Twi

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Will quantum computers disrupt critical infrastructure?

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-12 04:40:04

Will quantum computers disrupt critical infrastructure? 3 hours ago Joe Fay Technology Reporter Google Many organisations are developing quantum computers Twenty five years ago computer programmers were racing to fix the millennium bug amidst fears that it would cause banking systems to crash and planes to fall out of the sky. Much to everyone's relief the impact turned out to be minimal. Today, some fear there is a new critical threat to the world’s digital infrastructure. But this time, we

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Google may be close to launching YouTube Premium Lite

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-11-12 02:42:33

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. YouTube is about to officially launch a cheaper, “premium lite” version of its subscription service in the US, Australia, Germany and Thailand, according to Bloomberg. This new tier will “target viewers who primarily want to watch programs other than music videos,” Bloomberg says. The publication didn’t say what the price might be. YouTube piloted a no-ads version of a tier c

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It Kinda Sounds Like NASA Is Gutting Its Plans for a Moon Landing

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-12 02:03:01

NASA's plans to return to the Moon are seemingly on very thin ice. As Reuters reports, NASA has lost four key senior Artemis officials, further stoking concerns that the space agency may ditch its plans to return to the Moon altogether. Whether they'll ever be replaced remains as dubious as ever; both president Donald Trump and SpaceX-CEO-slash-unelected-White-House-hatchet-man Elon Musk have argued that going to Mars should take priority. The outgoing officials, according to Reuters, include

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YouTube Premium Lite is coming to the US for the first time, but there’s a catch for music lovers

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-12 06:47:33

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube plans to launch a “Premium Lite” plan. This plan will allow users to watch videos, except for music videos, without ads. Premium Lite will be announced soon for the US, Australia, Germany, and Thailand. Late last year, there were reports of users seeing offers to subscribe to YouTube Premium Lite, a cheaper alternative to Premium that ended in 2023. At the time, a spokesperson for Google told Android Authority that the company was “testing a

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Microsoft Says It's Made a Major Quantum Computing Breakthrough With New Chip

cnet.com Samantha Kelly 2025-11-12 03:43:00

The race to shape the future of computing is heating up among tech companies, with Microsoft saying on Wednesday it has made a major breakthrough in quantum computing, potentially paving the way for the technology to address complex scientific and societal challenges. Scientists at the tech giant have spent 17 years developing a new material and framework for quantum computing to help power its new Majorana 1 processor. Microsoft is calling the advancement the world's first quantum processor po

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Elon Musk Is Shamelessly Firing Government Workers Who Were Investigating His Companies

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-11 11:33:08

In an unnerving press conference last Tuesday, Elon Musk assured skeptical reporters that his DOGE government cost-cutting efforts had nothing to do with his private business interests. "All of our actions are fully public," Musk stammered as his four-year-old son tore up the Oval Office carpet. "So if you see anything, you say like, wait a second, hey Elon, that [seems like], there's a conflict there, it's not like people are going to be shy about saying that." "If there's a conflict, he won'

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This smart humidifier is helping me win the war against winter dryness (and it's on sale)

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-11-12 06:44:00

You'd be hard-pressed to find a better humidifier at this price point. Jack Wallen/ZDNET What's the deal? Amazon is currently offering the Dreo Smart 5L Humidifier for $60, which is 20% off the regular price. Why this deal is ZDNET recommended I went hands-on with this humidifier, and it performed flawlessly in my testing with a slue of easy to use functions that make it a worthwhile investment. ZDNET's key takeaways Regularly priceed at $75, the Dreo Smart 5L Humidifier is on sale on Amaz

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Mercor, an AI recruiting startup founded by 21-year-olds, raises $100M at $2B valuation

techcrunch.com Tage Kene-Okafor 2025-11-12 06:00:00

Mercor, the AI recruiting startup founded by three 21-year-old Thiel Fellows, has raised $100 million in a Series B round, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. Menlo Park-based Felicis led the round, valuing Mercor at $2 billion—eight times its previous valuation, the Wall Street Journal previously reported. Existing investors Benchmark, General Catalyst, and DST Global also participated. General Catalyst had led the company’s $3.6 million seed round in 2023, while Benchmark backed its $32 mil

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Microsoft Majorana 1 chip promises real quantum computing within years, not decades

techspot.com Zo Ahmed 2025-11-12 11:41:00

Forward-looking: Microsoft has unveiled a new quantum chip called "Majorana 1" that claims will make scaled, real-world quantum computing a reality in just years rather than decades. It's palm-sized and has a delightfully retro look yet Microsoft claims it will eventually pack more theoretical computing power than all the world's current classical computers combined. The Majorana 1 comes after nearly two decades of research. The big claims come thanks to Microsoft's unique approach to the quant

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The Download: Microsoft’s quantum chip, and explaining rising energy demand

technologyreview.com Charlotte Jee 2025-11-12 11:10:00

A new Microsoft chip could lead to more stable quantum computers Microsoft has announced that it’s made significant progress in its 20-year quest to make topological quantum bits, or qubits—a special approach to building quantum computers that could make them more stable and easier to scale up. The company says it’s developed a chip containing eight of these qubits, and has also published a Nature paper that describes a fundamental validation of the system. It’s a different approach to competi

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Best Internet Providers in Lima, Ohio

cnet.com Joe Supan 2025-11-12 06:31:00

What is the best internet provider in Lima, Ohio? CNET recommends Spectrum as the best internet provider in Lima, Ohio. This cable internet network covers 92% of the city and offers the most affordable plans in the area, starting at $25 a month for the 50Mbps plan. While the service isn't perfect due to significant price increases after the first year, it remains a straightforward option for fast and reliable internet in Lima. Brightspeed is the fastest internet provider in Lima, followed by T

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Humane wrapped its bet against the iPhone in the cloak of AI and lost

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-11-11 03:22:02

The Ai Pin is officially dead. Parts of Humane have been sold to HP, and the Ai Pin will cease to function in a week. Cause of death? An outdated and undercooked bet against the iPhone made by former Apple engineers that Humane tried to disguise as artificial intelligence hardware. Bloomberg reports that HP has agreed to acquire assets from Humane for $116 million. Humane’s sole product, Ai Pin, won’t become an HP product. Instead, HP will put the parts of Humane that it is acquiring into its A

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Mexico issues legal threat to Google

news.ycombinator.com Kevin Harrish 2025-11-12 06:03:29

John David Mercer-USA TODAY Sports On Jan. 20, United States President Donald Trump signed an executive order renaming the “Gulf of Mexico” to “Gulf of America.” Last week, Google Maps officially changed the name of the gulf on its maps, sparking a flurry of memes and conversation on social media, and Mexico is now threatening legal action if they don’t change it back. In a press conference on Monday, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said that Mexico will sue Google if the company does not

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AI-coding startup Codeium in talks to raise at an almost $3B valuation, sources say

techcrunch.com Marina Temkin 2025-11-12 04:41:15

Codeium, an AI-powered coding startup, is raising a new round of funding at a $2.85 billion valuation, including fresh capital, according to two sources with knowledge of the deal. The round is being led by returning investor Kleiner Perkins, the people said. The new round comes just six months after Silicon Valley-based Codeium announced that it had closed a $150 million Series C at a $1.25 billion post-money valuation led by General Catalyst with participation of Kleiner Perkins and Greenoak

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Microsoft deploys new state of matter in its first quantum computing chip

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-11-12 09:01:00

Microsoft on Wednesday announced Majorana 1, its first quantum computing chip. The achievement comes after the company spent nearly two decades of research in the field, but Microsoft claims that building Majorana 1 required that it create an entirely new state of matter, which it is referring to as a topological state. Microsoft's quantum chip employs eight topological qubits using indium arsenide, which is a semiconductor, and aluminum, which is a superconductor. "The difficulty of developi

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Trump Orders Musk to Get Air Force One Finished Quickly, Even If It Isn't Fully Safe Yet

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-12 08:36:11

What's the worst that could happen? President Donald Trump is running out of patience with Boeing, which was supposed to deliver two new Air Force One planes by the end of his predecessor's term. And guess who he's turning to to speed things up? Elon Musk, who Trump has "empowered" to take measures to get the beleaguered aerospace company to stop dragging its feet, the New York Times reports. Trump's pick for the task isn't surprising, since he's asked the world's richest man to do everything

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US AI Safety Institute will be 'gutted,' Axios reports

zdnet.com Radhika Rajkumar 2025-11-12 05:04:00

Andry Djumantara/Getty Images After reversing a Biden-era executive order on AI regulation and firing staff across several government agencies, the Trump administration is gearing up to make cuts to the US AI Safety Institute (AISI) next. On Wednesday, Axios reported that probationary employees at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), which houses AISI, are "bracing to be fired imminently." Sources told Axios they are preparing for 497 roles to be cut, which they believe w

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Big Tech Hijacked Steve Bannon’s Movement

gizmodo.com Matthew Gault 2025-11-12 06:50:32

Steve Bannon is out and Elon Musk is in. A man who once had an office and a whiteboard in the White House now has a podcast. It’s not nothing, but it’s not an extra-governmental agency that has access to the backend systems that make America run and hum. Banon was once the darling of right-wing media and the world’s preeminent Trump whisperer. Now he’s “Sloppy Steve,” Musk is sitting next to Trump during interviews, and Bannon says he’s ready for war. And while Bannon whines, Musk is opening th

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