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HBO Max will launch internationally in June

The Verge

The Latin America rollout is just the first phase of HBO Max’s international debut. As with the (somewhat messy) launch in the US, WarnerMedia will phase out the HBO Go app and service entirely and replace it with a new HBO Max app that should look virtually identical to the US app. Kitts and Nevis, St.

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John McAfee has been arrested in Spain and is facing extradition

The Verge

McAfee was also the focus of a 2016 Showtime documentary that suggested he paid a hitman to kill a neighbor while he lived in Belize in November 2012. And Intel, which briefly owned the McAfee cybersecurity company, said it would phase out the McAfee brand because of the associations with John McAfee in 2014.

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Security software company McAfee acquired for $14 billion

The Verge

In 2014, Intel announced it was phasing out the McAfee brand name for the security software and rebranding it as “Intel Security.”. John McAfee had led a troubled life after departing the company; in 2012, he fled to Guatemala as authorities in Belize sought to question him in connection with a neighbor’s murder.