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Disney+ will unhinge its jaw and swallow Hulu in 2026

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-19 08:44:58

It’s almost the end of the road for Hulu as a standalone app. Now that it fully owns Hulu , Disney will entirely integrate the streaming service into Disney+. It will roll out a new, unified app next year. This doesn’t necessarily mean that the price of a Disney+ subscription is going to skyrocket in 2026. A Disney spokesperson told Variety the company will still offer standalone plans for Disney+ and Hulu. Disney CEO Bob Igor said on an earnings call that having Disney+ and Hulu on the same t

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I switched to the Dell 14 Premium for two weeks, and it made my XPS laptop look bad

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-12-19 08:09:00

Dell 14 Premium ZDNET's key takeaways Dell's latest high-performance laptop is currently on sale starting at $1,500. It's superbly designed, with a sleek, modern build and powerful, but accessible, hardware. It runs warm, and requires power management from the user to get the most out of the battery. View now at Dell Dell's laptop rebrand may have resulted in some shuffling around of naming conventions, but the new Dell 14 Premium -- Dell's refreshed high-performance line of laptops -- looks

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Coffee-shop pitch change helped founder unlock traction for laptop campers

news.ycombinator.com Jeroen Coelen 2025-12-19 06:20:21

Julia Vidal, co-founder of Badge, began with a simple problem: remote workers often roam the city searching for a workplace that won’t shoo them away. As coffee shops and cafés are increasingly adopting no-laptop policies, she envisioned a startup. What if partnered cafés allowed the reservation of a laptop spot, but just with a minimum spend, so everybody is happy? Basically, AirBnB, for café-based workspaces with proper WiFi. Quick prototype validates demand on the consumer side To test wh

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Hulu Will Go Global and Fully Merge With Disney Plus

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-19 06:33:46

More than a year after launching its "Hulu on Disney Plus experience" in the US, Disney announced plans Wednesday to integrate Hulu into its Disney Plus streaming service. Additionally, Hulu will become available internationally once the merger happens next year, the company shared in its third-quarter earnings report. The Hulu tile was added to Disney Plus in March 2024, allowing subscribers who have both services to watch Hulu content within the Disney Plus app. The Walt Disney Co. CEO Bob Ig

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Instagram adds a reposts feed and rips off Snap Maps

theverge.com Mia Sato 2025-12-19 08:00:00

Instagram is getting several new features that pull from competitors, and it’s updating a controversial feature that it added earlier this year. Starting today, users will have the ability to repost public Reels and grid posts from other accounts. And similar to TikTok, reposts will be collected in a designated tab on your profile and sprinkled into the feeds of people who follow you. It’s a small but meaningful shift from how Instagram currently operates: until now, the most efficient way to s

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A ‘unified’ Disney Plus could be the end of Hulu’s app

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-12-19 08:16:02

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Disney is planning to fully integrate Hulu with Disney Plus, creating a “unified” app experience that will launch next year, the company announced as part of its earnings results on Wednesday. The new app will put all of Hulu’s content into Disney Plus, calling the future of Hulu’s standalone app into question. With Disney’s deal to purchase all of

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Instagram takes on Snapchat with new ‘Instagram Map’

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-12-19 08:00:00

Instagram is rolling out Instagram Map, a new feature that lets users share their most recent active location with others and discover location-based content. The Meta-owned social network is also launching reposts, and making its “Friends” tab in Reels available globally. With its new map feature, Instagram is copying yet another popular feature from Snapchat, after cloning the app’s core Stories functionality back in 2016. Instagram is coming for Snap Map’s crown, a feature that recently surp

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Apple to announce $100B further commitment for U.S. manufacturing

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2025-12-19 08:30:45

In Brief Apple plans to increase its commitment to U.S. manufacturing, according to a White House official cited and first reported by Reuters. The tech giant is set to announce Wednesday another $100 billion in spending to help boost production of its products here in the U.S., after previously committing to invest $500 billion in the country over the next four years. The $500 billion commitment includes opening a new advanced manufacturing facility in Houston to produce servers that support

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Here’s how India tariffs could affect Apple and iPhone production

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-19 12:12:32

Shifting final assembly of Apple products like iPhone from China to India has helped Apple avoid costly tariffs in the United States. But what happens when the US imposes similar tariffs in India to those seen in China? While the risk is present, analyst Gene Munster doesn’t see it as catastrophic for the cost of the iPhone. Munster set the stage this week for the situation as it develops: This morning on Squawk Box, President Trump suggested tariffs on India may be going up soon. He commented

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Trump says Apple will invest a further $100B in US production

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-12-19 12:49:18

A report says that Trump will shortly make an announcement from the White House claiming that Apple will spend a further $100 billion on US manufacturing over the next four years. Apple has so far not confirmed the announcement, which would bring its total domestic spending promise to $600 billion … Bloomberg reports on what appears to be advance sight of a White House press release. President Donald Trump will announce that Apple Inc. will commit to spend another $100 billion on domestic man

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National Bank of Canada online systems down due to 'technical issue'

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-19 12:19:16

National Bank of Canada (Banque Nationale du Canada), the sixth largest commercial bank of Canada is currently experiencing a widespread service outage affecting its online banking and mobile app platforms. Social media reports suggest that the issues began earlier this morning, with customers encountering a "maintenance" message when attempting to access their accounts via online banking on web and banking app. Headquartered in Montreal, NBC (BNC) serves more than 2.4 million personal banking

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The iPhone 17 Air Could Hint at Apple's Foldable Future

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-19 11:00:09

Anticipation is high for the launch of the next iPhone, and so are expectations. Rumors have been swirling for months about the upcoming lineup, which most notably may include a thinner model dubbed the iPhone 17 Air. But speculation isn't stopping there; what Apple reveals this fall could hint at what it has in store for next year, too. Thin phones are undoubtedly having a moment, with companies like Samsung, Huawei, Honor and Oppo debuting slimmer devices in the name of novelty -- and slappi

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The Best Apps for Managing Your Travel Expenses and Receipts

wired.com Reece Rogers 2025-12-19 12:00:00

Work trips can be exhausting and full of small expenses that quickly add up. Between the Ubers to and from the airport, the snacks to keep up the energy, and the long dinners with clients, spending can quickly sprawl out of control. The last thing you want upon returning is to search through a voluminous pile of crumpled receipts only to find they’re not all there. WIRED and Condé Nast Traveler are here to help. Bringing together our expertise on software and travel, we picked a few of our favo

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Photo-sharing app Locket is banking on a new celebrity-focused feature to fuel its growth

techcrunch.com Lauren Forristal 2025-12-19 12:00:00

Locket, the photo-sharing app that allows users to share images with friends that are then displayed on their home screens as widgets, wants to stay on your radar, and it’s enlisting the help of celebrities. Locket emerged as a competitor to BeReal when it launched in 2022, offering a more authentic way to connect with others. The app places a widget on iPhone home screens that updates with the latest pictures added by friends. Users can select up to 20 close friends, creating an intimate space

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The smallest change in the latest iOS 26 beta should be a guiding principle for Apple

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-12-19 16:15:53

We yesterday highlighted what is quite possibly the smallest user-facing change in the latest iOS 26 beta: the ability to revert the camera app slider to its previous direction. While this is in itself a very tiny change, I do think it ought to be a guiding principle for Apple’s approach to user interfaces … To me, there are two different ways in which you can judge a user interface. The first is how intuitive it is. In other words, can you immediately see how to perform a function even if yo

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Disney announces plans to phase out standalone Hulu app

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-19 17:56:48

The Hulu app isn’t long for this world, according to Disney. While the standalone app is being phased out, however, the brand that Disney now owns in full is set for international expansion. Hulu started in 2007 as a joint venture between FOX and NBC before attracting more stakeholders including Disney (which owns ABC). As of this year, however, Hulu is entirely owned by Disney. As part of its quarterly earnings results announcement today, Disney shared plans to phase out the standalone versio

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Meta introduces new tools to help identify scam messages on WhatsApp

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-12-20 04:46:31

It seems scarcely a week goes by now without receiving at least one job scam message on either iMessage or WhatsApp. Meta has now introduced two new tools to help you identify scams, whether they arrive as individual messages or as posts to group chats … Scams are big business Scamming is big business these days, and it’s common for messages to originate from organized criminal gangs using huge banks of smartphones to send hundreds of thousands of messages per day. Meta has teams of people t

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Trend Micro warns of Apex One zero-day exploited in attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-20 03:06:01

Trend Micro has warned customers to immediately secure their systems against an actively exploited remote code execution vulnerability in its Apex One endpoint security platform. Apex One is an endpoint security platform designed to automatically detect and respond to threats, including malicious tools, malware, and vulnerabilities. This critical security flaw (tracked as CVE-2025-54948 and CVE-2025-54987 depending on the CPU architecture) is due to a command injection weakness in the Apex One

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WhatsApp adds new security feature to protect against scams

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-20 03:53:35

WhatsApp is introducing a new security feature that will help users spot potential scams when they are being added to a group chat by someone not in their contact list. This feature displays a "safety overview" context card that includes information about the group's creation date, the number of members, potential scam attempts, and instructions on how to control who can add you to WhatsApp groups. "It will include key information about the group and tips to stay safe. From there, you can exit

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Should you upgrade from M1 to M4 MacBook Pro? I did, and it was totally worth it

zdnet.com Kerry Wan 2025-12-20 00:00:18

On Amazon, every single M4 MacBook Pro configuration is on sale. You can buy Apple's latest flagship laptop for as low as $1,299. I've been using the M4 MacBook Pro for a few months now, and it's the most boringly awesome device in my daily arsenal. Without making my 14-inch M1 MacBook Pro jealous, the latest model is Apple's most polished and complete laptop yet, to the point where the base M4 configuration may just be good enough for 90% of users. Most people will be delighted by the M4 MacB

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You can now uv run a GitHub gist

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-20 02:45:47

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This Bird App Has Grounded Me in the Present More Than My Meditation Apps

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-20 00:14:03

Being mindful of our current thoughts, feelings and surroundings can be a challenge, especially in modern times. I, personally, find it difficult to ground myself in the present and have often tried using meditation apps to help. However, the app that has given me the most success when it comes to being mindful and present isn't one for breathing exercises or mental health but one for identifying the birds around me. Since 2014, Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Merlin Bird ID was launched to help p

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Here's How to Add a Background to Your Text Chats in iOS 26

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-20 03:00:03

The iOS 26 beta brings chat backgrounds to Messages, giving a visual identifier for each chat so you can easily tell if you're messaging the right person or group. It's a nice quality-of-life update that can help you distinguish whether you're texting your family chat or your family chat minus your one uncle you don't get along with. Apple released the first public beta of iOS 26 on July 24, and that beta brought a new Liquid Glass design and other new features to the iPhones of developers and

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The history behind the QR code

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-12-19 02:24:56

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The AirPods Pro 2 have dropped to a new low price - here's why they're still legit in 2025

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2025-12-20 05:00:18

Jada Jones/ZDNET During Apple's September hardware event last year, the company announced the iPhone 16 lineup, new AirPods, and an upgraded Apple Watch. I was most happy to see the AirPods 4 model, which introduced noise cancellation to the lineup for the first time and upgraded software features -- but I was secretly hoping for the AirPods Pro 3. Also: 4 headphones I swear by (and how I use each pair differently) Unfortunately, a new AirPods Pro model didn't appear. Instead, Apple announced

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Murena’s Pixel Tablet is helping to wean me off Google

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-19 17:01:04

A lot of people are overly reliant on Google. They put all of their important messages, appointments, musings, contacts, and spreadsheets into Google products. Many are aware that Google, like many tech firms, is likely to prioritize its own interests over user privacy. But signing data away for technological conveniences is a common occurrence. Murena's Pixel Tablet takes a stance against that norm. It's Google’s Pixel Tablet hardware running an Android fork but without any Google tracking or

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WhatsApp deletes over 6.8m accounts linked to scams, Meta says

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-12-20 04:45:06

WhatsApp deletes over 6.8m accounts linked to scams, Meta says The crackdown targets an increasingly common tactic in which criminals hijack WhatsApp accounts or add users to group chats promoting fake investment schemes and other scams. Meta made the announcement as WhatsApp rolled out new anti-scam measures to alert users to potential fraudulent activity, such as a user being added to a group chat by someone not in their contacts list. Many were tied to scam centres run by organised crimina

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You’re not going crazy: YouTube’s playback speed controls are broken on Android

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-20 06:02:26

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube’s playback controls are broken on the Android app. Playback speed controls are still functioning properly on the YouTube website and the iOS app. On Android, you can tap and hold for 2x speed, but you can’t change the speed settings from the gear icon. The YouTube app for Android appears to be experiencing a glitch that has effectively broken the playback speed controls. Currently, attempting to change the playback speed of a video doesn’t wo

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Apple rolls out limited AI chatbot test in its Support app

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-20 04:10:31

A few weeks ago, a few strings of code in the Apple Support app showed that it could soon get a “Support Assistant,” based on generative models. The assistant is now live, as a limited experiment. As first spotted by MacRumors reader Gatlyn, Apple has rolled out an early preview of the Support Assistant through a “Chat” tab that is being made available for select users within the Apple Support app. Upon tapping it, the user is greeted with a splash screen with the following instructions, and t

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The Apple Watch Series 11 rumors I'm most excited about (including a big one for health tracking)

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-12-20 04:13:19

Kerry Wan/ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Apple is slated to announce new hardware next month. Notable Apple Watch updates could be coming, according to rumors. Blood pressure monitoring and sleep scores could be on the way. We're a month away from Apple's annual September hardware event, where the tech giant announces its latest releases, from iPhones and iPads to AirPods and, my favorite, Apple Watches. Rumors are swirling about what's to come on the next generation Apple Watch, the Apple Wa

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Disney+ will unhinge its jaw and swallow Hulu in 2026

I switched to the Dell 14 Premium for two weeks, and it made my XPS laptop look bad

Coffee-shop pitch change helped founder unlock traction for laptop campers

Hulu Will Go Global and Fully Merge With Disney Plus

Instagram adds a reposts feed and rips off Snap Maps

A ‘unified’ Disney Plus could be the end of Hulu’s app

Instagram takes on Snapchat with new ‘Instagram Map’

Apple to announce $100B further commitment for U.S. manufacturing

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Trump says Apple will invest a further $100B in US production

National Bank of Canada online systems down due to 'technical issue'

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The Best Apps for Managing Your Travel Expenses and Receipts

Photo-sharing app Locket is banking on a new celebrity-focused feature to fuel its growth

The smallest change in the latest iOS 26 beta should be a guiding principle for Apple

Disney announces plans to phase out standalone Hulu app

Meta introduces new tools to help identify scam messages on WhatsApp

Trend Micro warns of Apex One zero-day exploited in attacks

WhatsApp adds new security feature to protect against scams

Should you upgrade from M1 to M4 MacBook Pro? I did, and it was totally worth it

You can now uv run a GitHub gist

This Bird App Has Grounded Me in the Present More Than My Meditation Apps

Here's How to Add a Background to Your Text Chats in iOS 26

The history behind the QR code

The AirPods Pro 2 have dropped to a new low price - here's why they're still legit in 2025

Murena’s Pixel Tablet is helping to wean me off Google

WhatsApp deletes over 6.8m accounts linked to scams, Meta says

You’re not going crazy: YouTube’s playback speed controls are broken on Android

Apple rolls out limited AI chatbot test in its Support app

The Apple Watch Series 11 rumors I'm most excited about (including a big one for health tracking)

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