The UK proposes new rules requiring tech firms to remove nonconsensual abusive content within 48 hours or risk blocking and fines of up to 10% of global revenue (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/f
AI video startup Luma launches Innovative Dreams, a production company, in partnership with Wonder Project, a religious film and TV streamer on Amazon Prime (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/16/luma-laun…
MPA: Japan's premium VOD sector hit a revenue of $7.2B in 2025, up 15% YoY; Netflix leads with 22% of revenue; Prime Video has the most subscribers at 19.3M (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/japan-streaming-market-7-billion-123666…
Amazon Prime Video plans to raise the price of its ad-free plan, Ultra, to $4.99 per month, and add support for up to five simultaneous streams, from April 10 (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/894466/amazon-prime-video-ultra-ad-free-price-hi…
Donald Trump has launched another attack on British Prime Minister Keir Starmer as it emerged the UK will not be involved in his plan to blockade the Strait of Hormuz.
The hapless US president announced on Sunday that America and “other countries” will stop ships coming in and out of the vital waterway
Amazon Prime Video plans to raise the price of its ad-free plan, Ultra, to $4.99 per month, and add support for up to five simultaneous streams, from April 10 (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/894466/amazon-prime-video-ultra-ad-free-price-hi…
The Epstein Files Are Coming for Britain's Prime Minister (Moya Lothian-McLean/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/opinion/epstein-mandelson-starmer-britain.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260210/p6#a260210p6
Tropical cities face a solar challenge: thunderstorms create wild swings in electricity generation that strain the grid.
The solution might be parked EVs. New research shows electric vehicles can store excess solar energy during sunny periods and feed it back during cloudy spells—acting as distributed batteries that smooth out fluctuations without costly infrastructure upgrades.
UK prime minister Keir Starmer
and French president Emmanuel Macron
will co-host a summit in Paris on Friday
focused on efforts to reopen the strait of Hormuz, Downing Street said.
A spokesperson said: “The summit will advance work towards a coordinated, independent, multinational plan
to safeguard international shipping once the conflict ends.”
Macron has previously said the countries participating in the initiative would work on a
“strictly defensiv…
Ampere expects global sports streaming spend to hit $14.2B in 2026, with Prime Video contributing 27%, DAZN 22%, YouTube TV 14%, Paramount 8%, and Netflix 5% (Jesse Whittock/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/02/prime-video-top-streaming-sports-righ…