The company is blaming this increase on “ongoing market conditions.” Sony has raised prices of the PS Plus subscription service. A one-month subscription to the Essential tier now costs $11 per month, an increase of $1. Additionally, a three-month subscription just…
Sony is hiking the starting price of one-month and three-month PlayStation Plus subscriptions in “select regions,” blaming “ongoing market conditions.” Beginning May 20th, 1-month subscriptions will start at $10.99 USD / €9.99 EUR / £7.99 GBP, while 3-month subscriptions will…
Grafana Labs, the maker of its eponymous popular open source web visualization software, confirmed it had been hacked but that it refused to pay the hackers who had threatened to release the company’s codebase. In a series of posts on…
Anyone who has had chickenpox shares one distinct memory: the relentless, all-consuming itch. Ciara DiVita was only 3 years old when she caught the virus, but she remembers it well—along with the oven mitts she was made to wear to…
Quantum computers are strange-looking machines ROBERT GHEMENT/EPA/Shutterstock Picture a quantum computer. Are you imagining an ordinary computer, but somehow just better? If so, that would be a mistake, because quantum computers are fundamentally different. They rely on exotic quantum phenomena…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Most sharks have five gill slits on either side. But Hexanchus griseus, a giant and mysterious shark species, has an even six gill slits….
Scientists have developed a surprising new way to power materials that normally cannot conduct electricity, opening the door to a new generation of ultra pure near infrared LEDs for medical imaging, communications technology, and advanced sensors. The breakthrough relies on…
Tada Images/Shutterstock Amazon Customer Service might not be able to help for this type of refund. The online retail giant was hit with a class action lawsuit, as first reported by Reuters, where customers…
Microsoft launched Teams’ Together Mode during the pandemic to give the illusion of a bunch of people sitting in a conference room together, even if they were really sitting at home without pants on. But times have changed, and it’s…
Privacy will be a major theme when Apple unveils a new version of Siri at the Worldwide Developers Conference in June, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The Siri relaunch is widely seen as Apple’s big chance to reestablish its relevance…
Former first lady Jill Biden said former President Joseph R. Biden was showing signs of “getting older” before dropping his bid for a second presidential term. But Mrs. Biden, who has given several interviews to promote her new memoir, “View…
For the second time this year, Joe La Sorsa will trigger an upward mobility clause in his minor league deal with the Pirates. 7 News’ Ari Alexander reports that La Sorsa will exercise the clause tomorrow, and the Pirates will…
When Warren Buffett builds a position in a company, Wall Street pays attention. His firm, Berkshire Hathaway, doesn’t typically accumulate an 8.3% stake in a business unless it believes deeply in what that company does and where it’s headed. That’s…
