Plex announces borderline offensive Lifetime Pass price hike
…Monthly and annual rates are not changing. To get the most out of personal media streaming platform Plex, you’ll want to subscribe to the service’s Plex Pass offering that enables…
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YouTube Premium price hike: Will you pay up or finally cancel?
…However, because this increase arrived without a formal press release or public warning, the “sticker shock” in the community is palpable. On platforms like Reddit, the conversation has quickly shifted from surprise…
That 300TB Spotify scrape just turned into a $300 million bill
…Anna’s Archive, the shadow library that claimed late last year to have scraped almost all of Spotify, has now been ordered to pay $322 million in damages to the streaming platform…
Survey shows something bigger than sideloading is bothering Android users
…By • March 23, 2026 • • • Add AndroidAuthority on Google Google announced changes to Android’s sideloading flow last week, and it didn’t take long for opinions to start pouring in. The new…
Google TV is in trouble, and the latest update only makes it worse
…The Google TV Streamer is a fine piece of hardware, but Google TV as a platform has rampant issues with bloatware, advertising, and sponsored content that desperately need to be fixed. Since…
Google embraces the future, mandates 64-bit apps for Wear OS
…It seems like 2026 is the year that Google’s other platforms will embrace the 64-bit era. Android TV and Google TV will require 64-bit app versions from August, and…
YouTube is testing more AI on the home screen, and we hate it already
…Back in August last year, Google introduced sweeping changes to its Discover feed, replacing original post titles with AI-generated summaries . If you use Discover frequently, you must have already noticed how…
Samsung Wallet catches up to Google and Apple with digital passport support
…Starting today, you can add your US passport to Samsung’s digital wallet — though the digital passport feature comes with the same restrictions as on other platforms. Samsung announced the change today…
Google Home is finally cleaning up its act ahead of wider Gemini rollout
…The future of Google Home depends on these changes All of these changes come at a crucial time for Google’s smart home strategy. The company has already made it clear that…
Hearing ads on Spotify Premium today? It's not just you
…Spotify’s issue tracker now lists this problem as fixed, and the platform recommends logging out and back in again on affected devices. This has become a fairly regular occurrence this year…