If you’ve been thinking about subscribing to The New York Times, this could be the moment to do it, since The Times just announced a special offer that also..
If you’ve been thinking about subscribing to The New York Times, this could be the moment to do it, since The Times just announced a special offer that also includes free access to Spotify Premium.
The offer applies specifically to The Times’ All Access subscription, which includes unlimited reading on The Times website and apps, as well as behind-the-scenes content. You’ll have to sign up to All Access for a year at a cost of $5 per week.
These two services might not seem like the most obvious combination, but NYT Chief Revenue Officer Meredith Kopit Levien told Bloomberg , “If you think about the places where people spend their time in media, they spend a lot on music and a lot on news.”
The Times recently announced that during the last three months of 2016, it added 276,000 new digital subscribers — the most since 2011.

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No surprise, really, that connected home sales experienced a surge last year. Between the seemingly exponential number of new players and driving pushes from..
No surprise, really, that connected home sales experienced a surge last year. Between the seemingly exponential number of new players and driving pushes from major companies like Apple, Google and Amazon, the market’s been pretty tough to avoid.
In a new study released this week , NPD is offering some insight into the phenomenon, noting that the home automation market saw a 57-percent year over year growth last year in the US.
The category is currently led by networked video cameras, a component of around one-third of smart homes, according to the group, with an impressive 129-percent dollar growth over 2015. And NPD only expects that number to continue trending upward,
Smart doorbells have seen a bump, as well, with ownership increasing two percentage points.
Voice control is unsurprisingly widespread in connected home ecosystems, as well, at 48-percent, and while Siri is the leader in sheer usage, Amazon’s Alexa is quite common, at double the use in connected homes as non. Given the Echo’s continued growth and aggressive pushes from the likes of Apple and Google, the numbers seemed poised to only continue growing.

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Ford saw some significant year-over-year growth in its plug-in hybrid sales in 2016, despite gas prices that on average saw historic lows throughout the..
Ford saw some significant year-over-year growth in its plug-in hybrid sales in 2016, despite gas prices that on average saw historic lows throughout the year. The total number of hybrids sold by Ford numbered 23,895 – which doesn’t seem like a lot, but in relative terms it’s a large jump, and Ford’s hybrid lineup is still relatively modest and focused on only a few market segments for now, while the company has big plans to expand its offerings between now and 2020.
Ford’s current lineup includes the Fusion Hybrid, C-MAX Hybrid, C-MAX Energy and Focus Electric, as well as the Fusion Energy, which saw its highest ever growth in sales during 2016 with a 63 percent increase over its sales in 2015, helping drive Ford to its record 18 percent ownership of the total electrified vehicle market during the most recent sales year.
Not surprisingly, the coasts are hot spots for sales of Ford’s hybrid lineup, including the Energi, which saw sales double in the New York area, and continues to see strong sales in both LA and California. Ford’s also emphasizing that this uptick in sales is especially noteworthy not just because consumers have typically shown decreased interested in electrified vehicles when fuel prices go down, but also because car sales overall saw a big dip in the year vs. SUV and crossovers, which are seeing significant growth.
All of which suggests Ford will remain committed to its goal of offering a range of 13 electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles by 2020, including a fully electric SUV with a max range of at least 300 miles per EPA rating standards. The category may still be very young, and small in relative terms to overall vehicle sales, but growth like this bodes well for long-term trends.

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The Continuous Delivery Tools for Visual Studio extension sets up an automated build, test, and release pipeline
Microsoft is adding continuous delivery capabilities to its Visual Studio 2017 IDE.
The Continuous Delivery Tools for Visual Studio extension , announced this week, lets developers set up an automated build, test, and release pipeline on the Visual Studio Team Services cloud ALM platform. It works with ASP. Net 4 and ASP. Net Core applications targeting the Azure App Services and Azure Container Services. Developers can monitor their pipeline with notifications in the IDE that alert them of any build failures in a continuous integration run.
The intent is to enable developers to automate and stay up to date with their devops pipeline. Developers can click on a build failure notification for information on build quality via the Visual Studio Team Services dashboard.
“The Configure Continuous Delivery dialog lets you pick a branch from the repository to deploy to a target App service,” said Ahmed Metwally, senior program manager for Visual Studio at Microsoft. “The extension creates build and release definitions on Team Services… and then kicks off the first build and deployment automatically. From this point onward, Team Services will trigger a new build and deployment whenever you push changes up to the repository. “
The currently downloadable version of the extension only works with Visual Studio 2017 Release Candidate 3 or above, while the IDE upgrade itself is still in a release candidate phase. A previous version of the extension was automatically installed with the. Net Core preview workload in RC2. A commenter on a Microsoft blog asked if the extension would work with the popular Jenkins CD/CI platform , but the bulletin states it requires Visual Studio Team Services.
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European consumers will be able to make use of digital subscriptions as they travel around the 28-Member State bloc in future, after EU negotiators agreed a..
European consumers will be able to make use of digital subscriptions as they travel around the 28-Member State bloc in future, after EU negotiators agreed a deal on service portability.
The agreement is part of the European Commission’s Digital Single Market (DSM) strategy , which seeks to break down barriers to ecommerce across the region.
The new portability rules will change how EU consumers traveling within the region can consume digital content such as online subscriptions to films, sports events, e-books, video games and music services — enabling them to make full use of their digital subscriptions when they are traveling in the EU, rather than being geoblocked from accessing online services they pay for in their home country.
It’s not clear whether any ‘fair usage’ restrictions apply with the new rules, i.e. if there’s a limit on the number of ‘roaming days’ a Netflix subscriber, for example, would be able to make full use of their subscription when away from home. We’ve asked for more details and will update this article with any response.
In a press release announcing today’s agreement, the EC writes:
The new rules are set to come into force across the region by the beginning of 2018, though the regulation still needs to be formally confirmed by the Council of the EU and the European Parliament.
It’s the first agreement reached by negotiators of the European Parliament, the Member States and the European Commission related to the latter’s proposal to modernise EU copyright rules .
A wider reform of the EU copyright framework, remains in train — though a draft proposal published last September was criticized as regressive and a missed opportunity for proper modernization of the rules.
Another long sought for component of Commission’s DSM strategy — an end to mobile roaming fees — was finally agreed earlier this month , and is due to come into effect across Europe in mid June.

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They did it for Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. Now they’ve cooked something up for Valentine’s Day.
The Pokémon GO craze seems to have tapered off hard in much of the world… but Niantic knows it can use special Holiday events to bring (some) people back for now while it figures out what — if anything — will bring them back long term.
They did it for Halloween , Thanksgiving , and Christmas. Now they’ve cooked something up for Valentine’s Day.
Here’s what’s happening:
That last one is a clever test to run — particularly if Niantic wants to see if they can get people to play together again. Lures are premium, one-time use items placed on Pokéstops to encourage Pokémon to spawn for everyone nearby. They also tend to lure hopeful people to a location, especially if a bunch of closely clustered stops are all lured at once. Now that one lure lasts all night, I’d expect at least some of those once super-popular Pokemon Go spots to light back up — if only for a few days.
Niantic tells me this event will run globally from this morning at 11:00 A. M. PST to February 15th at 11:00 A. M. PST.

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