Tech Digest day by day roundup: Apple TV+ costs up, WhatsApp down
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Apple TV+, the critically acclaimed streaming TV service from Apple, will value you extra – beginning at this time – within the UK (in addition to in a number of different nations). The worth hike, based on Apple, is as a result of service’s rising content material library. On the identical time, Apple can be elevating the costs of its Apple Music subscription service, as effectively Apple One – its on-line companies bundle. With this value rise, Apple is becoming a member of different streaming companies that modified their pricing in latest months, together with Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+ (solely within the US, for now) and even Sky, with its Sky Glass plans that now value extra. Since its launch, Apple TV+ was £4.99/month within the UK. Beginning at this time, Apple TV+ is now £6.99/month, although some customers can get prolonged free trials (see beneath). CordPlus
Toyota (7203.T) is contemplating a reboot of its electric-car technique to raised compete in a booming promote it has been sluggish to enter, and has halted some work on current EV initiatives, 4 folks with information of the still-developing plans stated. The proposals underneath evaluation, if adopted, would quantity to a dramatic shift for Toyota and rewrite the $38-billion EV rollout plan the Japanese automaker introduced final yr to raised compete with the likes of Tesla….Within the meantime, Toyota has suspended work on a few of the 30 EV initiatives introduced in December, which based on the sources and a doc reviewed by Reuters embrace the Toyota Compact Cruiser crossover and the battery-electric Crown. Reuters
WhatsApp has gone down for customers throughout the UK, with tens of hundreds of individuals reporting being unable to ship or obtain messages. Downdetector, which tracks outages, stated greater than 57,600 experiences of issues had been submitted at 8.41am, with points first detected simply earlier than 8am. Nevertheless, the variety of customers experiencing points might be a lot greater as a result of manner the web site collects information. WhatsApp customers from all over the world have taken to social media platforms, equivalent to Twitter, to complain that the app will not be working. Sky Information
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Large tech corporations ought to face more durable penalties for abusing their market energy, a committee of MPs has stated. The Enterprise, Power and Industrial Technique (BEIS) Committee has urged the federal government to publish laws that would permit corporations to be fined as much as 10% of worldwide annual revenue for abuses. MPs say the draft Digital Markets Invoice, introduced within the Queen’s Speech in Could, must be printed “at once”. Till this laws is handed, shoppers are in danger, they are saying. The committee argues that current fines have been seen as simply “a small enterprise value” by the massive know-how companies. BBC
Prime Gaming’s free video games for November 2022 have apparently leaked early. In line with the leak, Amazon Prime subscribers will be capable to declare seven video games in November, together with Fallout: New Vegas Final Version, WRC 9, and Indiana Jones and The Final Campaign. Contemplating that this leak got here from Dealabs poster billbil-kun–the particular person behind the always-accurate PlayStation Plus freebie leaks–it appears possible that the checklist is right. We anticipate for Prime Gaming to make an official announcement masking November’s lineup later this week. Gamespot
