A hot potato: The launch of a streaming service with over 10 million customers was always likely to have some problems, and Disney+ was no exception. In addition to the technical problems it experienced, there were also reports of thousands of accounts being hacked and stolen, but the company insists it never suffered a breach.

On launch day, Twitter and Reddit were swamped with users reporting that their passwords had been changed and they’d been logged out of all devices. Account credentials appeared on the dark web’

Why it matters: US companies have previously warned of the economic consequences of halting trade with companies like Huawei, who is one of their biggest clients for electronic components and software services. In a positive turn of events, it looks like the US will now allow several of these companies to continue their business with Huawei, which should bring some stability back to the tech industry.

Earlier this month, news broke that hundreds of companies have sent requests to US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to allow them to restart their relationships with Huawei

What just happened? Following Google’s announcement that Duplex, its artificial intelligence that's used for booking tasks, was coming to the web, the company is officially launching the feature today so users can book movie tickets through Assistant.

As noted by 9to5Google , The process starts with telling Assistant that you want seats for a certain movie or searching for showtimes using the Google app. Once a movie time is selected, just hit one of the “Buy tickets” buttons that appear next to each ticket

Something to look forward to: Every year sees smartphones adopt new trends. From non-removable batteries to slim bezels to notches, it’s often the case that once one company adds a feature, others follow. Now, it seems high refresh rate displays are becoming all the rage, with the Galaxy S11 likely to have a 120Hz screen.

The news comes from prolific leaker Ice universe, who tweeted that an unknown user had found a setting in the beta of Samsung’s One UI

In brief: If you're a fan of Google's handy machine-learning powered 'Smart Compose' feature (used for auto-completing words and phrases in Gmail) you may be pleased to hear that it's making its way to Google Docs in the near future.

Indeed, the AI-powered feature is already available to test if you're a "domain administrator." You can sign up for the beta on Google's official Test Application page , though it's limited to

The big picture: Facebook is adopting Visual Studio Code for all of its software engineers, and is currently in the process of finishing the migration from its mix of Nuclide and Emacs for internal development. As part of the partnership with Microsoft, the company will also help improve remote development extensions, which is ultimately going to benefit many more developers around the world.

Facebook has a long history of partnering with Microsoft on different projects, such as a recent one focused on deepfake detection algorithms that could help big social platforms prepare for

Artificial intelligence is used in almost every major industry nowadays, at least in some capacity -- social media giants use it to manage their platforms, and car companies use it to improve their autonomous driving systems. All of these use cases are relatively obvious, and it isn't hard to see why companies are taking advantage of machine learning to boost their operations.

However, AI is also being used in some places you might not expect. To name one, Asus is using the tech to improve the effectiveness of its