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As of April 30, Spotify will be increasing the price of its Premium Family plan across the United States, according to an email sent to customers.

The music-streaming company said that it will be increasing the current cost price of $15, which gives customers 6-person access to the ad-free listening experience, to $16 so it can "bring you new content and features that you can enjoy as a family and as individuals". The email details that Spotify will give all customers on this deal a one-month grace period, which means that the new price of the package will begin in June.

Spotify previously said in its Q2 earnings report that it would be increasing the cost of is Premium Family plan, and while it's never good to see prices of a service go up, the UK has it a lot worse than the US. On April 30, the prices of the Student, Duo, and Family subscriptions in the UK will increase from 5 pounds, 13 pounds and 15 pounds to 6 pounds, 14 pounds and 17 pounds per month, respectively. If you are interested in reading more about this story, check out this link here.

Aledo high school students at Daniel Ninth Grade Campus located in Northern Texas set up a Snapchat group to pretend to sell their black classmates.

Screenshots of the Snapchat group revealed the group's name being changed from "Slave Trade" that showed emojis of a black man, a gun, and a white police officer to "[racial slur] Farm" and then to "[racial slur] Auction". Additionally, the screenshots reveal one person stating they would buy a peer for $100 and a second student saying they would spend $1 to buy a black person.

In other screenshots, it was mentioned that one student was "sold," and according to a report from Star-Telegraph, when Principal Carolyn Ansley found out a problem, she sent out an email mentioning that the Snapchat group was "an incident of cyberbullying and harassment." Parents that received this email voice their concerns over the lack of acknowledgment towards the blatant racism.

CPU-Z now supports Intel's next-gen Alder Lake CPUs within weeks of the release of the 11th Gen Core "Rocket Lake" CPUs, with the new software also having preliminary support for DDR5 memory.

The new CPU-Z 1.96 release provides preliminary support for Intel's next-gen Alder Lake CPUs and their accompanied Z600 series platform, preliminary support for now-being-tested DDR5 memory, AMD's new Ryzen 7 5700G, 5600G and 5300G APUs that were announced just days ago, and the already-released AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT, 6800 (& XT), 6700 XT GPUs.

DDR5 memory between 4800 all the way through to the mind-boggling 8400 MT/s is now supported by CPU-Z, with mere mortals like us not having our hands-on with DDR5 memory. Intel's new Alder Lake platform will be the first to support DDR5 to mainstream users, gamers, and everyone in between -- while AMD will debut DDR5 support with their new Zen 4-based Ryzen 6000 series CPUs in 2022.

The very latest version of Core Temp is here with version 1.17 being the first update of the software in close to 10 months, and the very first update of 2021.

Core Temp 1.17 has support for AMD's Zen 2 and Zen 3 APUs (Lucienne and Cezanne), and Intel's new Rocket Lake processors in the new 11th Gen Core range of processors. Core Temp not only supports Intel's just-released Rocket Lake family of CPUs but the upcoming Alder Lake and even Meteor Lake CPUs coming in the next couple of years from Intel.

There's also a bunch of fixes and a few tweaks here and there with the new version of Core Temp, which you can download here. The full changelog for Core Temp v1.17:

Have you ever wondered who is funding politicians? Well, now you can find out, and it's all thanks to this 18-year-old entrepreneur.

18-year-old Nick Rubin has created a free browser plugin application that allows citizens to find out how much funding members of Congress are receiving, who they received it from, how that money influences elections, and how the Congress member made. The plugin is titled Greenhouse and is currently supported by Google Chrome, Firefox, and Safari.

Once the application is installed and you are looking at an article with a politician's name, the app will showcase that politician's top ten monetary influences. Rubin stated to Vice, "Greenhouse allows people to see the money story behind the news story." One of the app's sources of data is OpenSecrets.org, which is the official website for The Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan and nonprofit research group in Washington, D.C. who tracks where the money used in politics is coming from.

We'd prefer HDR 4K and 8K videos for the extremely realistic visual experience. But without exception, many of us are deterred away by the large file size. This is not only a big challenge for our computers and smartphones, but also for online sharing and even for post video editing.

For example, a 5-min 4K 30fps video shot by iPhone takes up 1.75GB (850MB). Obviously, it is impossible to share this video via Facebook Massager or emails like Outlook, Gmail, and Yahoo Mail as it's much larger than the maximum supported size, 25MB. What's worse, with many large videos on your iPhone or laptop, you cannot download one more app and face annoying issues like quit, crash, and freeze.

And that's why we come to solve your problems with VideoProc, an all-in-one desktop program. But in the first place, I think you should know what factors are affecting the video file size.

With the advancement in cloud services, many people and businesses are now using Dropbox and Google Drive because they help them organize work, save or store, and then share data with their work teams.

When you are sharing the data with your team members that have different cloud accounts, you need a platform that could perform this function without losing any data. Well, we have just the app for this problem; it is called Wondershare InClowdz, and it can help you transfer Dropbox to Google Drive, transfer Google Drive to Dropbox, and sync Dropbox to Google Drive in just a few steps.

Step 1: The first and foremost thing you have to do is download and install the Wondershare InClowdz software on your desktop or PC. After that, log in to your account or create one.

If you've managed to find a new Big Navi-based Radeon RX 6000 series graphics card, and were hoiping to overclock it with MSI Afterburner -- you were out of luck. Until now.

The newest version of the infamous overclocking tool packs support for the Radeon RX 6000 series, which includes the Radeon RX 6800, Radeon RX 6800 XT, and the flagship Radeon RX 6900 XT. MSI Afterburner 4.63 Beta 5 will not let you overclock your RDNA 2-powered Big Navi card if you don't have Radeon Software set to "Manual" mode to overclock your graphics card.

After that, MSI Afterburner will take care of the overclocking of your Radeon RX 6000 series graphics card. There's even a new Big Navi themed skin for MSI Afterburner, which looks awesome.

Western Digital hard drives are a vital component for anyone who needs to deal with extensive data storage requirements. It helps in keeping all the files safe while also not overloading your devices with them. But despite being a reliable brand, you may still suffer from data loss with your hard drive. This can happen due to several reasons. In all cases, you will need to learn more about WD My Passport data recovery.

We will explore here the most secure method to perform hard drive data recovery. Therefore, you won't have to stress about any loss and its consequences.

Before moving on to data recovery, you should first understand everything about your WD hard drive. Let's begin with some of its features:

It might only be a few state right now, but drone race betting is now a real thing -- and legal. Drone Racing League has teamed with DraftKings to make it happen.

There's only a few states where it is legal right now, but after future regulatory approvla it shouldn't be too long until other states take on drone race betting. If you didn't know what drone racing is, well operators will use drones and control them through first-person view (FPV) and race other operators.

As for the Drone Racing League, they're a pro-tier international league for drone pilots with super high-end custom high-speed UAVs that speed through courses in particular locations. DraftKings on the other hand is a sports betting operator that lets you place bets on sporting events.