Technologies

Disney Plus Lost Subscribers for the First Time

Members fled most in India, but the US and Canada lost accounts too.

Disney Plus lost 2.4 million subscribers in the three months ended Dec. 31, Disney said Wednesday, as the subscriber base of its flagship streaming service fell for the first time since the company launched it in 2019.

Disney‘s deepest streaming-subscriber losses were at its Disney Plus Hotstar service, which is an Indian offering priced way lower than the company’s streaming services elsewhere. There, its member base dropped by 3.8 million accounts.

And Disney Plus also lost 200,000 subscribers in the US and Canada. But growth internationally elsewhere offset some of the declines. Overall, Disney Plus has 161.8 million subscribers as of the end of December.

By comparison, Netflix, the biggest subscription streaming service of its kind, has amassed more than 230 million global subscribers in the decade-plus since it started streaming. But Netflix recorded its deepest subscriber losses in a decade during the first half of last year, a sign that the competition for streaming customers was stretched to a breaking point.

Disney also noted Wednesday that Hulu subscribers grew to 48 million and that ESPN Plus membership rose to 24.9 million, both increases of 2%.

Early on, Disney Plus proved to be the standout success of the so-called streaming wars, a period when seemingly every major media company (and some tech ones) rolled out their own streaming-video services. Disney Plus’ growth has far outstripped that of all the new competitors from Apple, HBO, NBCUniversal, Discovery and others. One media analyst called Disney Plus «one of the greatest product launches of all time.»

Disney has estimated that Disney Plus will have between 215 million and 245 million global subscribers by the time the service is five years old, in late 2024.

Technologies

We’ve Found the Coolest, Most Futuristic Tech at CES 2026. And It’s Only Day 1

We’ve just begun trawling for our favorite cutting-edge technology. But we’ve already found some neat stuff.

We have people all over the show floor — and beyond — at CES, looking for the most interesting, innovative and cutting-edge tech out there. A ton of useful new information is also available, which you can find on our CES 2026 live blog and in our CES hub, but that’s boring.

It’s only the first day, but we’ve already gawked at some of the CES staples, like robots, electronic toys, phones and more. I’ll be back here to top off our amazing finds regularly throughout the show.

Technologies

Nvidia’s Gaming Announcements at CES 2026 Are All About the Software

DLSS 4.5 brings dynamic multiframe generation to GeForce RTX 50-series cards and improved Super Resolution upscaling for the rest of us.

While the Nvidia keynote at CES 2026 on Monday afternoon brought the usual cavalcade of robots, autonomous driving models and massive commercial hardware for AI, its low-key gaming news didn’t get to join the party. Given there’s no new gaming hardware, it’s understandable. But Nvidia did launch version 4.5 of its DLSS upscaling and optimization technology, bringing dynamic multi-frame generation and an upgraded transformer model for its super-resolution upscaling that optimizes for high frame rate 4K gaming, notably the latest crop of 240Hz 4K displays. The company also introduced new capabilities for its RTX Remix modding platform and launched apps for Linux and Amazon Fire TV.

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Nvidia’s multi-frame generation works within DLSS to extrapolate multiple frames from a single rendered frame, and in conjunction with the upscaling, to raise game frame rates and resolution. (Sadly, it works only on RTX 50 series cards.) In 4.5, it goes from generating up to four frames for each rendered frame to six frames for each, and it can dynamically target the refresh rate of your monitor to adjust the render-to-generated ratio on the fly to maintain consistent speed and latency.

The new model for Super Resolution has fewer temporal artifacts — less ghosting, improved antialiasing and better clarity — and works with any RTX graphics card. On the Blackwell cards, it helps with the multi-frame generation image quality as well.

G-Sync-capable monitors also potentially get a new feature, Ambient Adaptive Technology. (It requires a light sensor on the monitor, which is rare on desktop monitors but pretty common on general-purpose laptops.) As the name implies, it can automatically adjust color temperature and brightness based on environmental conditions.

In addition to AAT, Nvidia announced that the G-Sync Pulsar monitors it launched in September 2024 will soon be available. In case you’ve forgotten, Pulsar improves clarity on fast-moving games played on high refresh-rate monitors.

While the company’s RTX Remix platform for modding games with AI-generated assets isn’t for everyone, Nvidia’s added a new capability, Remix Logic, that sounds awfully cool. In essence, it lets a game make decisions about what assets to use — like specific weather or particle behavior — based on things happening within the game.

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Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Tuesday, Jan. 6

Here are the answers for The New York Times Mini Crossword for Jan. 6.

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