YouTube’s cheaper subscription is getting background play and downloads

YouTube is adding background playback and offline downloads to YouTube Premium Lite, its $7.99-per-month subscription. With ...

Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show Finally Sent His Best Song to the Top of the Charts

It’s Bad Bunny’s first No. 1 on the all-genre Hot 100 as a lead artist. Prior to this, he’d topped Billboard’s Hot Latin Songs chart numerous times but only ever topped the Hot 100 once as a ...

Ever wanted your own theme song? Google introduces Lyria 3 for Gemini, a free AI music generator.

On Wednesday, Google rolled out a new AI music generator called Lyria 3. It's a fairly big upgrade over earlier versions of the model, as it makes music generation a lot easier for users. Lyria 3 can ...

I replaced 6 subscription-based Android apps with these free open source gems and couldn't be happier

It supports Material You aesthetic, which means it feels like a native part of my Pixel rather than a clunky third-party ...
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YouTube Music lyrics now require a Premium subscription

After testing in recent months, YouTube Music looks to be widely rolling out a Premium paywall for lyrics. Lyrics in YouTube Music now require a YouTube Premium or Music Premium subscription. The ...
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FutureRent launches South Africa’s first dedicated Vehicle Subscription App

FutureRent, South Africa’s pioneering vehicle subscription company, today announces the launch of its mobile app for Android and iOS, becoming the first vehicle subscription brand in the country to ...
MIT Technology Review

The Download: why LLMs are like aliens, and the future of head transplants

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Meet the new biologists treating LLMs like aliens How large is ...
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Tesla's FSD, like almost everything else, is becoming a subscription

Elon Musk's innovation never stops. What if instead of paying for what Tesla calls full self-driving (FSD) in a single go, you must instead rent the service and pay for it every month? The departure ...
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Spotify to raise monthly subscription price to $12.99 in US and other markets

Jan 15 (Reuters) - Spotify (SPOT.N), opens new tab will increase the price of its monthly premium subscription plan by $1 to $12.99 in the United States, Estonia and Latvia markets, the Swedish ...
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Apple debuts ‘Apple Creator Studio’ subscription, here’s what you get

Apple has announced Apple Creator Studio, which it describes as a “groundbreaking collection of powerful creative apps designed to put studio-grade power into the hands of everyone.” Apple Creator ...
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Why You Should Treat Casino Play Like a Subscription

Having a subscription mindset can greatly help casino gamblers. Allocating a certain amount of your budget each month toward casino play is a responsible way to gamble. You probably have a streaming ...