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## Updates from Nabu Casa
Before we dive into this release, we have some news and updates from
[Nabu Casa](https://www.nabucasa.com) to share with you.
### Annual subscriptions now available for the US
The ability to subscribe to the [Home Assistant Cloud](https://www.nabucasa.com)
was one of the most requested features sinds Nabu Casa was founded and was
announced to become available during the [State of the Open Home](/state-of-the-open-home/) in December.
As of today, the annual subscriptions to Home Assistant Cloud are available
for the United States. 🎉
Additionally, in regions where annual subscriptions are available, you be able
to use Apple Pay and Google Pay now.
Annual subscriptions will become available in other countries in the coming
months, including local currency support for Canada, Europe and the United Kingdom.
### Improved infrastructure
Our new payment system is part of our revamped cloud system that we are rolling
out, and this will bring more improvements the Home Assistant Cloud services.
We already improved our remove access infrastructure to make sure it's routing
as close to you as possible. Last week we have rolled out improvements
to the infrastructure that has significantly improved the speed of the
Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa integrations.
### Zack Barett and Mike Degatano join Nabu Casa
We are also happy to announce [Zack Barett](https://github.com/zsarnett) and
[Mike Degatano](https://github.com/mdegat01) will be joining Nabu Casa to work
on Home Assistant.
Zack will be helping out on different aspects of Home Assistant, including the
[Home Assistant YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbX3YkedQunLt7EQAdVxh7w), and the Home Assistant Frontend.
Mike is going to be focussing on extending and improving the Home Assistant
Supervisor and the eco system around it (like its internal plugins and add-ons).
Welcome! We are excited to have you on board! 🎉
## New media player bar, local media...
The media browser, has been renamed to: "Media". Nice, simple, and clean.