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Your Netflix sub is about to get cheaper, but there’s a big catch

We're all more familiar with Netflix getting more costly, but for once your subscription could actually see its price get lower — so long as you're willing to watch an ad or four. We'd already heard rumblings that Netflix was getting ready to introduce a new ad-supported tier, but now the cat is very much out of the bag after Co-Chief Exec Ted Sarandos confirmed the company is speaking with multiple partners in an attempt to get its ad business off the ground. The WSJ reports that Sarandos made the comments on Thursday,…

A huge 16TB SSD is coming soon, but there’s a catch

There’s been a lot of excitement surrounding what would likely be the first 2.5-inch, 16TB SATA enterprise solid-state drive (SSD), but some manufacturing-related problems have been causing a delay in bringing the product to market. As reported by TechRadar, Sabrent has confirmed that it has overcome these issues and a launch for its first 16TB SATA enterprise SSD should arrive in the coming months. Bdavid32/Shutterstock When the SSD was announced in December 2020, Phison uncovered problems related to the controller…

AB InBev Is Trying to Catch Up With Inflation in Some Countries, CFO Says

Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV says some of its beverages are going to get pricier and come in variable sizes as the maker of Corona and Bud Light looks to catch up with inflation in the U.S. and elsewhere.Leuven, Belgium-based AB InBev found that despite regular updates to its pricing, the company is lagging on cost increases in certain markets, including the U.S. and Brazil, as inflation accelerated since the beginning of the year. “Overall, I feel inflation is a little bit higher than our view,” AB InBev Chief Financial…

T-Mobile Provides Gas Discounts, More International Data, But There’s A Catch!

T-Mobile held its latest Uncarrier event this morning, which was really just an eleven-minute YouTube video announcing a slew of new things for customers. This includes gas discounts, more international data, and better in-flight WiFi. But, as always with T-Mobile there are some catches here. Primarily tied to your plan. Most of these perks only apply to Magenta MAX and Business Unlimited Ultimate plans – their most expensive plans.Let’s start with the gas discount. Gas prices have been rising pretty crazily over the…

10 movies to catch at big SF LGBTQ film fest

The narrative road most LGBTQ-themed movies used to travel went something like this: A sheltered, often shy person experiences a sexual awakening and finds tentative passion/love and and begins the never-easy journey towards coming out. No more. The shift in queer cinema is reflected in the robust lineup at the 46th annual Frameline LGBTQ film festival, which runs June 16-26. An encore online program is available June 24-30. The collection of 125 narrative features, documentaries and shorts often defy, dare and challenge,…

Adobe wants to make Photoshop free – but there’s a huge catch

Adobe has begun testing a free version of its Photoshop image editor, but there's a big catch — it's the web-based version and it's only available in Canada right now. The company is now testing a freemium model for the web-based Photoshop for anyone in Canada so long as they have a free Adobe account. The plan seems to be to put some features behind a subscription at some point, however, with The Verge noting that Adobe itself uses the "freemium" name. However, it also notes that Adobe will be making enough of the core…

How to catch Ditto in Pokémon Go June 2022

Source: iMore/ Rene Ritchie Ditto is a Pokémon who can transform into other Pokémon. It can take on the appearance, attributes, and attacks of any other Pokémon it sees. Although Ditto was missing from the original launch of Pokémon Go, Ditto eventually found its way into the world, hiding as Pidgey, Rattata, Zubat, and Magikarp. With each subsequent generation, Ditto has learned to transform into new species and sometimes, it will stop showing up as certain species. Forutnately, we here at iMore know everything you need…

100 vehicles catch fire in Delhi’s EV charging station

Yesterday, a massive fire broke out in Delhi’s Jamia Nagar electric vehicle parking station. A total of seven fire tenders reached the spot to douse the raging fire. Delhi Fire Service said that the situation is under control now. The authorities are yet to conclude the reason for the fire. However, it could have happened because of a short circuit. As per reports, nearly 100 vehicles parked caught fire in the accident. But no one got injured. Also read: Modified Royal Enfield Thunderbird 500 motorcycle from Eimor…

U.S. Kids Are Falling behind Global Competition, but Brain Science Shows How to Catch Up

On vital measures that predict later success in school and life, small children in the U.S. do worse than kids in comparable countries. This distressing information comes from an Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) study of five-year-olds. For years the OECD has been examining the academic achievement of 15-year-old students from around the world, and recently it extended this work to the younger group. On average, American children had lower literacy and numeracy scores, poorer self-regulation…

Apple’s new-look MacBook Air is a sign of confidence. But there’s a catch

MacBook Pro 13-inch (M2, 2022) Image: AppleAfter all that, the announcement of an M2 upgrade for the 13-inch MacBook Pro seemed almost like an afterthought, and since this shares the same M2 processor as the MacBook Air it's not entirely clear what now differentiates these two laptops.  For the record, here are the specs for the new MacBook Pro 13 compared to its M1 predecessor, which is now no longer available on Apple's website.  MacBook Pro 13-inch (M2, 2022)MacBook Pro 13-inch (M1, 2020)System on ChipApple