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It's been a blockbuster week for Sky Q and Sky Glass customers with the satellite TV firm announcing a swathe of changes including the launch of Parmount+. This new streaming service is now available right from the home screen and offers users the chance to watch blockbuster movies such as Mission Impossible and exclusive TV shows including Yellowjackets, which was an exclusive for Showtime in the United States.Parmount+ usually costs £6.99 (you can also sign up for a free trial here) but Sky has announced that anyone…

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Courier, which provides tools to send and build notifications across multiple channels including email, web, text, and mobile, raised a $35M Series B led by GV — App notifications, well intentioned or no, have become a part of daily life. A 2018 study out of Duke University estimated that … Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Courier, which provides tools to send and build notifications across multiple channels including email, web, text, and mobile, raised a $35M…

Millions of Freeview users will soon find some of their favourite channels have suddenly moved. Big changes are taking place next week which has forced the service to make some radical changes with eight popular channels switching position and some even disappearing for good. The update is all do with one of the signals used by Freeview to pump content into homes being switched off to make way for 5G mobile technology.Any services that currently use this COM7 signal are now being moved or ditched from the TV planner with…

Refurbishing old hardware is always an admirable way to preserve technology of the past but sprucing it up with a Raspberry Pi is arguably one of the most fun ways to breathe some life into vintage electronics. Today we’re showcasing a brilliant Raspberry Pi-powered TV simulator created by maker and developer Rodrigo Feliciano who does just that.This Raspberry Pi TV simulator is housed inside of an old tube TV and features an interface very reminiscent of vintage television. Instead of using a remote, users change the…

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Telegram surpasses 700M MAUs and unveils Telegram Premium, which will let users follow up to 1,000 channels, send files up to 4GB, and more for ~$5/month — Telegram has amassed 700 million monthly active users and is rolling out a premium tier with additional features as the instant messaging platform makes … Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Telegram surpasses 700M MAUs and unveils Telegram Premium, which will let users follow up to 1,000 channels, send files up to…

Janko Roettgers / Protocol: Roku raises its revenue share for ad-supported streaming channels from 40% to 45% and forces linear channels to use its ad insertion technology and CDN services — In recent weeks, Roku began to send notices to many of its content partners, informing them that it would change a key distribution agreement. Janko Roettgers / Protocol: Roku raises its revenue share for ad-supported streaming channels from 40% to 45% and forces linear channels to use its ad insertion…

YouTube TV is Google’s own streaming live TV service. And it offers over 85 channels, live.This product was designed for those that are looking to cut the cord from cable and be able to still watch cable channels. Without being tethered to their cable box, and be able to watch it anywhere.YouTube TV is heralded as one of the best streaming live TV services on the market right now, despite the pretty regular price increases it has seen. It now costs $64.99 per month, after costing just $35 a few years ago. It’s the only…

Kourtney Kardashian’s son, Reign Disick, looks like his stepdad in his new hairdo. The reality star recently took to Instagram and showed off the 7-year-old’s spiked mohawk, which was a striking departure from the shortcut he had at Kardashian and Travis Barker’s wedding in Italy last month. The black-and-white pics featured a shirtless Reign, shortly after getting the hair cut, showing off his new ‘do and the freshly shaved sides of his head. The look was very similar to the mohawk Reign’s stepdad rocked back in 2006.…

When Tachyum unveiled the concept of its Prodigy Universal Processor at Hot Chips 18, it made quite a splash with a chip designed to run any code using a dynamic binary translator. It demonstrated high performance when executing both native and translated code. It took the company a while to design the actual hardware, taking pre-orders on evaluation kits (opens in new tab); the company also discloses the exact specifications of its Prodigy. They certainly look impressive, but they are also scary with a 950W thermal…

The South African (SA) cricket team is in India to play five-match T20 series against the Men in Blue. Top guns, including Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma, have been rested for this series. The Indian cricket team will be led by KL Rahul, who was in phenomenal form in the recently concluded TATA IPL season. Temba Bavuma will be captain of the Proteas side. The series will be played in front of the crowd in five different stadiums across the country. The India vs SA T20 series will also be live streamed online and on TV. In…