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Photo: Cath Virginia / The Verge Max has announced a price increase on the streaming service’s ad-free plans. The standard ad-free plan will cost $16.99 / month instead of $15.99, while the 4K ad-free plan will cost $20.99 / month instead of $19.99. The price increase will go into effect today for new subscribers. Existing subscribers can expect to see the increase from their next billing cycle on or after Thursday, July 4th. Max’s price hike also affects the service’s ad-free yearly plans, with the standard ad-free plan going up to $169.99 / year from $149.99 and the 4K ad-free plan going up to $209.99 / year from $199.99. The service’s $9.99 / month (or $99.99 / year) ad-supported subscription will stay the same price. Warner Bros. Discovery raised the price of Max... Continue reading…

Illustration by Laura Normand / The Verge Elon Musk ordered thousands of Nvidia-made AI chips destined for Tesla to be diverted to his social media company X, according to emails from the chipmaker obtained by CNBC. The move has the potential to delay Tesla’s acquisition of $500 million worth of processors by months, the outlet reports. Tesla is supposed to be stocking up on Nvidia’s H100 artificial intelligence chips in order to power its transformation into “a leader in AI and robotics,” according to Musk. In an Tesla earnings call earlier this year, he said the company would increase its acquisition of H100s from 35,000 to 85,000 by the end of this year. And later, in a post on X, Musk said that Tesla would spend $10 billion “in combined training and inference AI, the latter... Continue reading…

A rendering of Climeworks’ Generation 3 direct air capture plant. | Image: Climeworks The next generation of industrial plants to filter CO2 out of the air is on the way, and it’s getting closer to overcoming some of the biggest challenges of using this technology to fight climate change. Climeworks, one of the first startups to develop this tech, unveiled its Generation 3 plant today. It’s supposed to use half as much energy as older designs and slash costs in half, too. It’s supposed to use half as much energy as older designs and slash costs in half If Climeworks makes good on that promise, it could go a long way toward making this technology, called direct air capture (DAC), a viable way to reduce the amount of carbon pollution building up in the atmosphere. Right now, the technology is far too new and expensive to... Continue reading…

It’s the summer of 2024. Almost seven years have passed since the iPhone X introduced the first smartphone with uniformly thin bezels (except for the notch). It was a design that everyone else copied. All smartphones have incredibly thin bezels these days, and they all feature essentially the same design: a hole-punch display takes up almost all of a phone’s front panel. Even still, vendors are still competing to offer the smallest bezels. The iPhone 16 Pro and 16 Pro Max will feature even thinner bezels than last year’s models. That's after the current iPhone 15 Pro models already have even smaller bezels than previous iPhones. This will only pressure Android vendors to go after Apple and further reduce the bezels of future devices. The reaction to the iPhone 16 Pro Max’s purported bezels from a diehard Galaxy fan who happens to be a prominent Samsung leaker is the best proof of that. Some people will want those bezels to shrink down until they eventually disappear. But there is one explanation why Apple’s push is important this year. Continue reading... The post Here’s why a top Samsung insider is already drooling over the iPhone 16 Pro Max appeared first on BGR. Today's Top Deals Today’s deals: $3.25 smart plugs, $79 AirPods, $849 M2 MacBook Air, $329 Sony WH-1000XM5 headphones, more Amazon gift card deals, offers & coupons 2024: Get $355+ free Today’s deals: $399 M1 iPad Air, $136 electric standing desk, $599 HP 17-inch laptop, Shark vacuums, more Best deals: Tech, laptops, TVs, and more sales

China said its lunar spacecraft unfurled the country's red and gold flag for the first time on the far side of the moon before part of the vehicle blasted off early Tuesday with rock and soil samples to bring back to Earth.

Checkpoints and rows of police vehicles lined a major road leading to Beijing's Tiananmen Square on Tuesday as China heightened security on the 35th anniversary of a bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protests.

Parts of California, Nevada, and Arizona are expected to bake this week as the first heat wave of the season arrives with triple-digit temperatures forecast for areas including Phoenix, which last summer saw a record 31 consecutive days of at least 110 degrees Fahrenheit.

Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., a member of the House Democrats' progressive "Squad," is facing a tough primary race because of his support for Hamas, according to The New York Times.

A new poll is showing former President Donald Trump with an edge over President Joe Biden in the race for the White House after Trump's conviction on 34 felony charges in New York City last week.