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Disney Plus is a service built primarily around the company’s core brands of Marvel, Star Wars, and Disney — and that hasn’t changed much this year. 2023’s new releases were still dominated by superheroes and Jedi, but there were some Na’vi and Time Lords thrown in for good measure. In fact, this year the service’s … Read more
Monitors display Coinbase signage during the company’s initial public offering at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York on April 14, 2021. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images For crypto bulls, the most lucrative bets in 2023 were in the stock market. While bitcoin rallied over 150% for the year, shares of Coinbase, MicroStrategy and … Read more
The gifting is done. Some were successful, others less so – the wrong color, size, redundant, too impulsive, not suitable for re-gifting. US consumers return about 20% of all online purchases and the post-holiday period is when the massive, but often unseen, returns logistics industry – the reverse supply chain – goes into overdrive. According … Read more
Autonomous vehicles could be on UK roads as soon as 2026, the transport secretary has said, as ministers seeks to capture as much as £42bn of the international self-driving market within the coming decade. “This technology exists, it works, and what we’re doing is putting in place the proper legislation so that people can have … Read more
(NewsNation) — A Tesla engineer was allegedly attacked by a robot at a factory near Austin, according to media reports. The 2021 injury report claims the robot, which was designed to move aluminum car parts, dug its metal claws into the engineer’s back and arm, leaving a “trail of blood,” according to witnesses who spoke with … Read more
Apple Inc. MacBook Pro and Air laptops at the new Apple Inc. store inside the Starfield mall during its opening in Hanam, South Korea, on Saturday, Dec. 9, 2023. SeongJoon Cho | Bloomberg | Getty Images The slump in personal computer sales is likely to end next year as consumers appear set to buy newer … Read more
Americans spent notably more money during the holiday shopping season as the U.S. economy powered through high inflation and interest rates. Retail sales in the U.S. excluding autos rose 3.1 percent from last year, according to data released by Mastercard SpendingPulse Tuesday. “This holiday season, the consumer showed up, spending in a deliberate manner,” Michelle … Read more
Apple can no longer sell its latest Apple Watch models in the U.S. after losing a patent dispute before the International Trade Commission (ITC). The ban follows a yearslong legal battle between Apple and the medical technology company Maismo. Here’s what to know about the ban and what happens next. Why Apple is set to … Read more
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Earlier this year, Amazon announced plans to start incorporating ads into movies and TV shows streamed from its Prime Video service, and now the company has revealed a specific date when you’ll start seeing them: it’s January 29th. “This will allow us to continue investing in compelling content and keep increasing that investment over a … Read more
Apple appealed the U.S. International Trade Commission’s (ITC) decision to bar imports of certain Apple Watches on Tuesday, after the Biden administration declined to veto the ban. The tech giant also filed an emergency motion for an immediate interim stay, arguing it will suffer “irreparable harm” if the ITC’s orders are left in place while … Read more
