Disney Plus grew to 94.9 million subscribers as of Jan. 2, Disney said Thursday. That’s 8 million subscribers added since early November, and more than three times the number of subscribers that Disney Plus had a year earlier.  By comparison, Netflix, the biggest subscription video service in the world, had more than 200 million global subscribers at the …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Facebook and its photo-service Instagram pulled down more than 1 million pieces of content during the last three months of 2020 for containing misinformation about COVID-19 that could lead to “imminent harm.”  This content included fake preventative measures for COVID-19, the respiratory illness …

Microsoft looked into buying image-sharing social media site Pinterest in the last few months, the Financial Times reported Thursday. However, talks about a possible acquisition have apparently stalled. It’s the latest hint that Microsoft wants to acquire a social media platform, after looking at taking over the US side of Chinese video-sharing app TikTok last year. The company already owns …

In a Tuesday post on its Creators account, Instagram advised users not to repost content “that is visibly recycled from other apps” on Reels, its TikTok competitor. The Facebook-owned company added that seeing indicators like logos or watermarks “makes the Reels experience less satisfying,” so it’s making that kind of content harder to discover in the Reels tab.  Instagram launched …

CD Projekt Red, developed of Cyberpunk 2077, revealed Tuesday its network was hacked and shared a ransom note left by the hackers on Twitter. The attackers claimed to have got hold of source code for Cyberpunk, The Witcher 3, an “unreleased version of Witcher 3” and spinoff card game Gwent.  The hackers threatened to release the games’ source code, along with …

Video conferencing app Microsoft Teams is suffering an apparent outage Thursday evening in major cities across the US but particularly on the West Coast. The outage, which appears to have begun around 4:15 p.m. PT, appears to mostly be affecting users Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles, according to DownDetector. Users on the site reported being unable to log into …

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The Surface Pro X is Microsoft’s take on an Arm-powered PC. The latest edition offers better performance (thanks to the upgraded SQ2 processor), longer battery life and a best-in-class keyboard. And right now, Microsoft is discounting the Surface Pro X by up to $200, with the basic model starting at $799.  See it at Microsoft The Arm-based processor has its …

Your Facebook news feed might get a little less political soon, as the social network tests a different approach. It’s temporarily reducing the distribution of political content for some users, it said Wednesday, a move that CEO Mark Zuckerberg hinted at in last month’s earnings call. The test will run in Canada, Brazil and Indonesia this week, with the US …

Ohio State University on Wednesday said it’s extending to the public its Swift Coding and App Development certificate program, which teaches students to code and build apps that are ready for the App Store, all while staying home. The university is also partnering with local businesses to offer a chance for employees to develop new tech skills through its TechCred program. Ohio State …

Amazon Prime may have over 150 million subscribers, but if it lost its magic for you one way or another — including after a free trial — you can cancel your subscription and close out your account. You might even get a prorated refund for the amount of time left on your Prime subscription. Amazon may not make it immediately simple …

If a genie granted me three wishes, my first wish would be for infinite wealth. At one time, my second wish would have been for a notebook that never ran out of pages, but now that I have a Rocketbook, I can change that wish to immortality. Rocketbook makes smart reusable notebooks that are completely erasable when you wipe them …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Instagram on Wednesday took down the account of anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for sharing false claims about the coronavirus, parent company Facebook said. “We removed this account for repeatedly sharing debunked claims about the coronavirus or vaccines,” a Facebook spokesperson said …