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While Crunchyroll’s monthly prices haven’t jumped in five years, Sony is getting ready to change that for subscribers in a handful of countries.

Crunchyroll announced today that the prices for its Mega Fan and Ultimate Fan streaming subscription tiers are going up as a result of “the company’s investment in more anime, additional services like music and



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Want to try the nine games that Netflix now streams from cloud servers directly to your laptop, desktop, or TV? Officially, you’re supposed to wait until the beta rolls out more broadly, but for now, there may be an easier way.

If you fire up a desktop web browser, log in to Netflix, and click these links, you should be able to start playing



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It turns out the lay of today’s AI landscape can be traced back to — what do you know — fear, jealousy and intense capitalist ambition. Emails revealed in the Department of Justice’s antitrust case against Google, first reported by Business Insider, show Microsoft executives expressing alarm and envy over Google’s AI lead. That spurred an urgency that led to the Windows maker’s initial billion



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An ethernet port! | Screenshot: Superdell-TV

Walmart is apparently getting ready to release a new Onn “Pro” Google TV 4K streaming box that’s also a smart speaker. Yesterday, YouTuber Superdell-TV hosted a livestream where he showed off the streaming device, which he said he had bought from the retailer in-store for $50. As 9to5Google noted today, the Onn Pro was already pr



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Mobvoi will reveal its newest smartwatch in a matter of days, and it looks to be a TicWatch Pro refresh. Here's what we know from the brand's cryptic teaser.



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Mint Butterfield is the child of Stewart Butterfield, left, and Caterina Fake, right
Mint Butterfield is the child of Stewart Butterfield, left, and Caterina Fake, right.
  • An arrest warrant has been issued for a second suspect in the Mint Butterfield case.
  • At a hearing Wednesday, the judge ordered the first suspect not to contact the 16-year-old.
  • Butterfield was found after going missing