Tech Meme

Jennifer Maas / Variety: Disney Q2: Disney+ subscribers were down 2% QoQ to 157.8M, vs. 163.17M est., its second consecutive quarterly drop; ESPN+ rose 2% QoQ to 25.3M, Hulu hit 48.2M  —  On the bright side, the Mouse House also managed to narrow its streaming business losses by $400 million, down 26% year over year. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tracy Wang / CoinDesk: Filings: the US Internal Revenue Service filed claims worth nearly $44B against FTX companies, including a $20.4B claim against Alameda in partnership taxes  —  The largest of the claims includes a $20.4 billion claim against Alameda Research LLC, which details nearly $20 billion in unpaid partnership taxes. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Allison Johnson / The Verge: Google Pixel 7a review: the best midrange Android phone, with wireless charging and good performance, camera, and screen, but a slow fingerprint scanner  —  It’s $50 more than the Pixel 6A, but some key upgrades keep Google’s A-series at the top of the midrange class. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Steve Dent / Engadget: Google launches a dedicated Labs page, where users can sign up to test Google’s early ideas for features and products, including Search and Workspace AI tools  —  It has AI powered search, code tips and more.  —  It’s fair to say that Google was caught flat-footed by Microsoft’s launch … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: Google plans to roll out a redesigned Home app on May 11, with a Favorites tab, new device type support, and an eventual iOS update to support Matter devices  —  A much-needed update brings greater control and customizability.  Plus, Google updates its iOS app to support Matter devices. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: Google announces new features for cars with native Android including YouTube, Waze, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Webex by Cisco, and more video games from Google Play  —  Google announced a slew of new features that will be available to cars with native Android software, including YouTube, Waze … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: YouTube is running a “small experiment” globally that shows a pop-up urging users with ad blockers to allow ads on YouTube or consider subscribing to Premium  —  YouTube is running an experiment asking some users to disable their ad blockers or pay for a premium subscription, or they will not be allowed to watch videos. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: Google unveils Universal Translator, an experimental service that redubs a video into a new language and synchronizes the speaker’s lips to match the new audio  —  Google is testing a powerful new translation service that redubs video in a new language while also synchronizing the speaker’s lips with words they never spoke. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jon Porter / The Verge: Google makes generative AI tools available to Play Store developers for text in English, including for drafting app listings and summarizing users’ app reviews  —  Google is making generative AI tools available to Play Store developers in an attempt to make it easier for them to build out their app listings. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Google launches Project Tailwind, an “AI-first notebook” experiment that pulls information from users’ Google Drive documents, available via a US-only waitlist  —  Google has launched “Project Tailwind,” a new AI-first tool that is effectively a notebook of the future to help you research information as you write about it. Lees verder op Tech Meme