[ad_1] YouTube is raising subscription prices for YouTube Premium and YouTube Music in the U.S., the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Friday. The YouTube Premium individual plan is increasing from $13.99 to $15.99 per month, while the family plan is increasing from $22.99 to $26.99 per month. YouTube Premium Lite, which offers ad-free viewing for …
[ad_1] Pay with your wallet or your attention Unlike with most streaming services, those who can’t stomach YouTube’s latest price increase have an option. Free users can browse and stream as many YouTube videos as they want, but they’ll have to contend with ads. After earning more than $40 billion in ad revenue in 2025, …
[ad_1] A feature is deployed, and the database queries run well. The team is happy with the results. However, six months later, the main table has grown from 50,000 rows to 5 million, and the same query now takes eight seconds. Then, someone adds an index, and read latency drops to milliseconds, which seems like …
[ad_1] It was at Uber that I met one of the single best engineers I’ve had the fortune to work with; let’s call them “Sam” for this article. As engineers, we briefly worked together, and when I became a manager, Sam’s name regularly came up during performance calibrations as being among the company’s top 10% …
[ad_1] We saw a host of excellent Bose discounts during Amazon’s so-called Big Spring Sale last month; however, none of them were quite as steep as the current price drop we’re seeing on the latest Bose Soundlink Flex. Right now, the portable speaker is on sale at Amazon in select colors starting at $109 ($50 …
[ad_1] The past few weeks, it feels like procrastination is everywhere. It might just be the frequency illusion — but it’s on my mind, so I need to write about it. Not too long ago, I finished a video on my channel, a couple of days after filming. Even though my regular schedule would require …
[ad_1] Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Want to make AI go better? Figure out how to measure it:…One simple policy intervention that works well…Jacob Steinhardt, an AI researcher, has written a nice blog laying …
[ad_1] Mixing corn starch and water in appropriate amounts produces a slurry that is liquid when stirred slowly but hardens when you punch it—a substance colorfully dubbed “oobleck.” (The name derives from a 1949 Dr. Seuss children’s book, Bartholomew and the Oobleck.) High-speed imaging and force measurements have revealed another surprising property of oobleck drops …
[ad_1] France is trying to move on from Microsoft Windows. The country said it plans to move some of its government computers currently running Windows to the open source operating system Linux to further reduce its reliance on U.S. technology. Linux is an open source operating system that is free to download and use, with …
[ad_1] A warrantless wiretapping authority that has facilitated surveillance for decades is up for renewal in Congress. Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), last reauthorized in 2024, is set to expire on April 20th. A bipartisan coalition of progressive Democrats and members of the hard-right Freedom Caucus say it’s long overdue for …
