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Archives for December 2024

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Max added 7.2 million subscribers following its rollout in more countries.

The service now has 110.5 million subscribers, marking “the strongest quarterly gain since the platform’s launch,” according to Warner Bros. Discovery’s Q3 earnings release.

Max launched in Latin America and Europe earlier this year and will roll out in Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, and Taiwan later this month.

Tom Warren
Tom Warren
Death Stranding is now available on Xbox Series S / X.

Kojima Productions and 505 Games are surprise launching Death Stranding Director’s Cut on Xbox Series S / X consoles today.

Sony originally published Death Stranding for PS4 in November 2019, before it arrived on PC in July 2020. The release on Xbox is only $19.99, thanks to a 50 percent limited time discount.

Thomas Ricker
Thomas Ricker
Australia to ban TikTok, Instagram, and X for under 16s.

“Social media is doing harm to our kids and I’m calling time on it,” Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said. “The onus will be on social media platforms to demonstrate they are taking reasonable steps to prevent access. The onus won’t be on parents or young people. There’ll be no penalties for users.”

Legislation will be introduced this month and would come into force 12 months after ratification.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Mickey 17 has been delayed again.

The next movie from Parasite director Bong Joon Ho is now coming out on April 18th, Deadline reports. It had been set to debut on January 31st — and originally, it had been scheduled to come out sometime this year.

If you haven’t seen film’s trailer yet, you should, it’s great.

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
TikTok’s Canadian arm has been ordered to shut down by the government.

Industry minister François-Philippe Champagne says the government is acting “to address the specific national security risks related to ByteDance Ltd.’s operations in Canada.”

However, Canada is not attempting to ban or control the TikTok app:

The government is not blocking Canadians’ access to the TikTok application or their ability to create content. The decision to use a social media application or platform is a personal choice.

TikTok has responded, saying it would challenge the order in court.

Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
Dockcase’s stick-on MagSafe SSD with screen is my favorite new portable storage gadget.

Magnetic SD readers are one thing — but there’s also a new wave of MagSafe SSDs with passthrough charging! My early fav is this Dockcase because the screen keeps track of temps, speeds and more; I’m also testing the smaller Genki SavePoint and not-inherently-magnetic Sharge Disk Plus.

Fair warning, they’re all crowdfunded. Dockcase’s Kickstarter ends this week.