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Fri. 12/11 - Disney+ Is About to Get a Bit More Expensive
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Disney+ is about to get a bit more expensive, but you’re also gonna get a lot more stuff to watch. Are we in a tech IPO bubble? X64 emulation comes to Windows. Apple whispers that it will likely be dropping Qualcomm like it dropped Intel. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Disney Plus is increasing its price to $8 a month starting in March 2021 (The Verge)
‘Star Wars,’ ‘Pinocchio’ and More as Disney Leans Sharply Into Streaming (NYTimes)
Airbnb skyrockets 112% in public market debut, giving it a market cap of $86.5 billion (CNBC)
x64 emulation has come to Windows on ARM (The Verge)
Apple Starts Work on Its Own Cellular Modem, Chip Chief Says (Bloomberg)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
Social Strikes Back (A16Z)
“A damn stupid thing to do”—the origins of C (Ars Technica)
7 Rejections (Brian Chesky)
Facebook Sees WhatsApp As Its Future, Antitrust Suit or Not (Bloomberg Businessweek)
Who’s Behind the Fight Between Warner Bros. and Hollywood? It’s AT&T (NYTimes)
Inside the Human Science of Spotify’s New Music Friday Playlist (Variety)
How eBird Changed Birding Forever (Outside)