TECHNOLOGIES

The Walt Disney Co. is reportedly planning to lay off at least 4,000 current employees in April after CEO Bob Iger announced a plan to cut 7,000 jobs as a cost-saving measure.

Disney retained 94% of subscribers from its old, ad-free Disney+ service after a $3 per month price increase, pushing the subscription to $10.99 per month.

Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc.'s regional sports business Diamond Sports Group filed for bankruptcy after being unable to service debt. The filing comes three years after a 2019 deal to purchase the business from Walt Disney Co.

Morgan Wallen has become one of the most significant new stars across pop music. If 28 songs from his album land on the Hot 100 singles chart, he will set a new record.

Tyler Perry has demonstrated interest in purchasing a majority stake in Black Entertainment Television, BET for short, which is currently controlled by Paramount.

Democratic Senators Blumenthal and Markey wrote a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg requesting that Meta not release a version of the metaverse Horizon Worlds for teenagers.

Samsung's Bixby has released a new feature that allows users to create an AI-generate copy of their voice and tone by recording only a few sentences.

The Microsoft Corporation announced on Wednesday it would introduce its Chatbot AI technology to its Bing and Edge Internet browsers.

The magazine regularly screens submissions for plagiarism and bot-generated stories, but over the past few months, these fraudulent submissions have spiked.

The cuts are part of an effort the company announced late last year to reduce costs by 9 billion Swedish kronor, equivalent to about $861 million, by the end of 2023.

Amazon’s CEO has cited reduced mortgage volume and cryptocurrency trading as factors affecting usage of the company’s AWS cloud service in the recent quarter.

Over a span of 24-hours, there were over 83,000 reports of users experiencing disruptions that affected cellular services according to a website that tracks outages.

A new Apple feature is setting off false 911 calls. Crash detection is intended to call authorities when a user is in an accident, but is triggering even in a simple ski crash.

IBM faces recession worries as a tech company focusing heavily on the cloud. Cloud revenue grew 2% while it took a $1 billion hit from foreign exchange rates.

Netflix told company shareholders in a recent letter that it plans on curbing users from sharing their account passwords by the end of March.

Reed Hastings, who founded Netflix in 1997, announced that he'll step down as co-CEO at the streaming platform and take on a new role as executive chairman.

Amazon has downgraded its Prime tier of Amazon Music to something akin to Pandora internet radio. To use playlists customer most upgrade to the Unlimited tier.

HBO Max has increased its monthly service fee for the first time in the platform's two-year history by one dollar to $15.99 starting this week.

School districts are banning a new artificial intelligence-powered chatbot that can respond to prompts on demand, such as writing complex essays.

Netflix is partnering up with the Screen Actors Guild Awards to bring the star-studded ceremony its platform, the streaming giant announced on Wednesday.