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here, a Paramount+ and Maxand your favorite sports network, and pretty soon you're paying $100 or more every month. And that's not counting the never-ending "Can you top that?" competition as the streaming services ratchet prices up ever higher.Also: The best VPNs for streaming your favorite shows and sportsWhat's a smart streamer to do?That was me a few years ago. Today my total cost of video services is half what it was then, and I never run out of entertaining stuff to watch. In this post, I'll show you how I did…

After its 2023 was subsumed by the shadow of Jonathan Majors and his legal drama, Marvel Studios likely hoped to keep any casting woes away from the spotlight heading into 2024. Unfortunately, just days into the year, the MCU has been hit once again by a shock exit from a major A-list actor. Thanks to the actors and writers’ strikes, Marvel’s 2024 release slate is a lot sparser than planned, with July’s Deadpool 3 the only movie from the studio coming out over the next 12 months. One of several films delayed into 2025…

Early this week, a Mahindra Scorpio-N accident and its aftermath caught the attention of car enthusiasts in India. According to the owner who was driving the SUV- who lost his right leg below the knee – the accident was caused by the right front wheel of the Scorpio-N coming off. Days after the accident took place, the company has released a statement. The statement addresses “the unverified claims circulating on social media platforms”. The customer alleged that there were mechanical failures in the vehicles and…

Pedestrians carrying Nike and Allbirds shopping bags in the SoHo neighborhood of New York on Oct. 24, 2021.Nina Westervelt | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesAfter years of unbridled consumer spending on everything from home improvement to dream vacations, some companies are now finding the limits of their pricing power.Shipping giant FedEx last week said customers have shied away from speedier, pricier shipping options. Airlines including Southwest discounted off-peak fares in the fall. The likes of Target and Cheerios maker…

It might be unusual to find Mickey Mouse and “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” mentioned in the same breath. But you can chalk up their momentary fellowship to America’s copyright laws, under which both are entering the public domain on Jan. 1.That’s because both Mickey and Mellors, the Chatterley estate gamekeeper, made their first published appearance in 1928. The applicable law afforded them copyright protection for 95 years, a term expiring with the arrival of 2024. Thousands of other works — literary, dramatic and musical —…

Silicon Valley and other tech hubs are losing the tech talent war.Metro areas that consistently attracted huge numbers of tech workers have hit a turning point, according to fresh data from labor-market analytics firm Lightcast, crunched by D.C. think tank Brookings. The share of the nation’s tech workers who work in places such as Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Boston, New York, Los Angeles and the greater Washington, D.C. area is actually shrinking. Copyright ©2023Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.…

Apple said on Monday that it would pause sales of its flagship smartwatches online starting Thursday and at retail locations on Christmas Eve.Two months ago, Apple lost a patent case over the technology its smartwatches use to detect people's pulse rate. The company was ordered to stop selling the Apple Watch Series 9 and Watch Ultra 2 after Christmas, which could set off a run on sales of the watches in the final week of holiday shopping.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering…

The US saw record gains in fuel efficiency last year, but it still falls short of what’s needed to meet fast-approaching deadlines. Thanks to their love of large vehicles, American automakers have fallen behind their competitors when it comes to getting more miles per gallon of gas.Real-world fuel economy in model year 2022 rose slightly to 26 miles per gallon, according to the EPA’s latest Automotive Trends Report. That’s a 0.6mpg increase from the year before, which is apparently “more than double the annual rate of…

Screenshot: NetflixWhen Netflix first announced it was bringing the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender to live-action, it was doing so with the help of the people who helped shape it in the first place: Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino. Then, two years later, they suddenly weren’t. And for remaining showrunner Albert Kim, that lead to some tough decisions.Netflix Passwords, ChatGPT Can’t Detect AI, and No More CoTweets | Editor Picks “You’d have to be an idiot not to be intimidated a little bit,” Kim told…

Masimo, a leading medical technology company, and tech giant Apple have been entangled in a series of legal disputes for several years, primarily revolving around allegations that Apple Watch's blood oxygen sensor technology infringes on multiple Masimo patents. Image Credit: Firstpost | Mehul Reuben Das…