Nick Barclay / The Verge Disney’s password-sharing crackdown will officially begin this summer. During an earnings call on Wednesday, Disney chief financial officer Hugh Johnston said Disney Plus accounts “suspected of improper sharing” will see an option to sign up for their own subscription.Disney will also start letting account holders add people outside their household for an “additional fee” — but it didn’t say how much that will cost. “We want to reach as large an audience as possible with our outstanding content,” Johnston said. “We’re looking forward to rolling out this new functionality to improve the overall customer experience and grow our subscriber base.”This year, both Disney Plus and Hulu have updated their terms of service to ban users from... Continue reading…

A swap file is a form of virtual memory, similar to random access memory (RAM) and cache on a processor in which a file swap can be used to store temporary data. It's the slowest form of memory, located on an HDD or SSD, and is reserved by the Linux system for use when the OS runs out of RAM. By configuring your Linux installation to use a swap file, you can technically use more RAM than your PC has physically installed.

It’s just as fast, the magnet is just as strong, but it costs half as much as those proprietary Apple mounts. Continue reading…

Apple Music, TV, and Devices have been in preview on Windows for just over a year now. If you're a fan of using these Apple-based apps, but you don't want to keep swapping between Windows and macOS, then we have good news for you. The aforementioned apps are now coming out of preview, and are available for everybody to download right now.

All the best iPhones have tons of great features that draw you into grabbing them 24/7. However, if you paid attention to how much time you actually spend on your smartphone, it would be shocking. That’s why people nowadays are taking steps to cut down on their screen time by doing things like setting daily usage limits.

There's a reason why so many iPads are consistently landing on lists as some of the best tablets that you can buy. Not only do you get amazing power thanks to Apple's custom hardware, but you're also getting fantastic support with power software and an expansive app ecosystem.

The central processing unit (CPU) is responsible for handling instructions and the more powerful the chip, the higher the number of instructions that can be processed each cycle. The drawback to this increase in power is heat generation. This is where the best CPU coolers come into play and are physically attached to the CPU to transfer heat from its thermal plate. It's possible to use air coolers or solutions with liquid, and we've rounded up our favorites that you should use with AMD and/or Intel processors.

Microsoft developed its CCleaner alternative in the form of an app called PC Manager back in 2022 to help users free up system resources. But believe it or not, it's taken the company two more years since then to finally make the app available for all via the Microsoft Store.

Illustration: The Verge Danish privacy regulator Datatilsysnet has ruled that cities in Denmark need considerably more assurances about privacy to use Google service that may expose children’s data, reports BleepingComputer. The agency found (translated) that Google uses student data from Chromebooks and Google Workplace for Education “for its own purposes,” which isn’t allowed under European privacy law.Municipalities will need to explain by March 1st how they plan to comply with the order to stop transferring data to Google, and won’t be able to do so at all starting August 1st, which could mean phasing out Chromebooks entirely.The regulator ruled that municipalities aren’t allowed to send Google data unless the laws change or Google provides a way to... Continue reading…

Sharing files across devices should be easy, but in 2024, it isn't. It's slightly easier this year, because Google and Samsung have consolidated Nearby Share and Quick Share into one, unified service. Quick Share is the surviving name, and it's Google's equivalent to Apple's AirDrop, allowing users to transfer files and other content seamlessly between Android devices and even Windows laptops and desktops. However, unlike AirDrop, Quick Share is not available on Macs. This means that transferring files from your Android phone to your Mac can be a tedious experience. But this is where NearDrop comes in.

Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Meta and TikTok are challenging fees they must pay EU regulators tasked with enforcing tough new content moderation rules required by the Digital Services Act (DSA), both companies have confirmed to The Verge. Although the fee is capped at 0.05 percent of a company’s profits, Meta isn’t happy that loss-making companies won’t have to pay while it’s on the hook for a reported €11 million, while TikTok is also taking issue with how its user numbers have been calculated to work out its reported €3.9 million fee.“We disagree with the methodology used to calculate these fees,” Meta’s EMEA policy comms spokesperson Ben Walters tells The Verge. “Currently, companies that record a loss don’t have to pay, even if they have a large user base or... Continue reading…

Photo by Buda Mendes/TAS23/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management Disney has won the streaming competition for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour film. This afternoon the company announced that Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour (Taylor’s Version) will be available exclusively on the service starting March 15th. This is being billed as “the concert film in its entirety for the first time,” since this version will include “Cardigan” and four additional acoustic songs that weren’t part of the theatrical film or the video-on-demand rental, which itself tacked on several bonus tracks. The Eras Tour film grossed over $260 million worldwide at the box office, enough to make it the top-selling concert film of all time. It was released for digital rental in December, and now is finally making the move to a streaming... Continue reading…