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How to see who else is using your streaming service subscriptions
/ Do you know how many people are signed in to your accounts? a:hover]:text-black [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-e9 dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray-63 [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-13 dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63″>Netflix lets you view and sign out of any active devices. On the web: Log in to your account, hover the cursor over your profile avatar (top right), then pick Account. In the Security & Privacy section, click on Manage access and devices. You’ll see a list of devices recently logged in to your Netflix account, together with the profile of the person who was streaming video. Click Sign out on any of the entries in the list to do just that: you’ll be remotely signed out of the selected device, and your p...
Master & Dynamic and Automobili Lamborghini Reunite for Audio Collection
For its latest collaboration, Master & Dynamic has come together with Automobili Lamborghini once again for a new range of co-branded range of headphones and earphones. The third collection between the New York-based premium audio brand and Italian automotive name blends high-tech sound tools with the signature design elements of Lamborghini.Comprised of the MW75 Active Noise-Cancelling Wireless Headphones, MG20 Wireless Gaming Headphones, and MW08 Sport True Wireless Earphones, the collection reflects the bold, high-contrast design language of Automobili Lamborghini. The custom designs on the MW75 Active Noise-Cancelling Wireless Headphones and MW08 Sport True Wireless Earphones draw from the iconic pattern on Lamborghini's glass faceplates. While the MG20 Wireless Gaming Headphones e...
Montana Banned TikTok and Elon Musk Founded an AI Company in This Week’s Tech Roundup
This week, the tech industry saw a development in the ongoing debate of whether to ban TikTok in the U.S. with Montana becoming the first state to pass legislation that bars residents from accessing the app. Elsewhere in apps, Twitter expanded the maximum character limit for tweets to 10,000 characters, but only for Twitter Blue subscribers.As for the latest on Elon Musk, the Twitter CEO has reportedly founded his own AI company, despite his recent criticisms over the rapid advancement of AI.Elon Musk Founded an AI Company, "X.AI Corp."Elon Musk has founded his own AI company, according to reports. The news comes as somewhat of a surprise, given that Musk has criticized the rapid progression of AI and even signed an open letter asking labs to pause their development of new AI. Now it seems...
SpaceX Starship countdown: all of the news on its first flight to orbit
Elon Musk’s stated goal of putting humans on Mars relies heavily on the development of a next-generation reusable spacecraft, and now Starship (formerly known as Big Falcon Rocket or BFR) is ready for its first orbital test flight. It’s not the “six months” goal Musk projected in 2019, but after a number of suborbital tests that included some terrific successes and fantastic, fiery failures, the big day is finally almost here. Now that the FAA has signed off, SpaceX says that its first window for a test launch from its Boca Chica, Texas, “Starbase” will open at 7AM CT (8AM ET). SpaceX says it’s targeting sometime around 9AM ET on Monday morning for its test launch, with verification that the craft is “go for propellant loading” scheduled to begin two hours before that. If all goes accordin...
Netflix’s Love is Blind live reunion special was a disaster
/ After a successful Chris Rock live special in March, Netflix completely fumbled Sunday’s Love is Blind reunion. Delays led the company to film it for on-demand streaming instead.
Ultra-long YouTube highlight videos are ruining sports — and I’m fine with that
/ Highlight culture has threatened sports for decades but never made me stop watching games. But if you’re going to show me the best 16 minutes of a 90-minute game, why would I watch anything else?
Elon Musk Founds AI Company, “X.AI Corp.”
According to reports, despite being critical of the progression of artificial intelligence, Elon Musk has now founded his own AI company. State filings from last month reveal that the tech magnate has founded a new company called "X.AI Corp."Musk incorporated X.AI Corp. in Nevada last month and currently, Musk serves as the sole director, while Jared Birchall, the director of his family’s offices, stands as the secretary. Recently Elon Musk has advocated for the regulation of AI, signing an open letter that urged tech leaders to put a six-month pause on the development of AI. The CEO and Chief Engineer of SpaceX, CEO and Product Architect of Tesla, and the new Owner and CEO of Twitter shared thoughts of ChatGPT being politically biased, highlighting the "danger of training AI to be woke."R...
Elon Musk Founds AI Company, “X.AI Corp.”
According to reports, despite being critical of the progression of artificial intelligence, Elon Musk has now founded his own AI company. State filings from last month reveal that the tech magnate has founded a new company called "X.AI Corp."Musk incorporated X.AI Corp. in Nevada last month and currently, Musk serves as the sole director, while Jared Birchall, the director of his family’s offices, stands as the secretary. Recently Elon Musk has advocated for the regulation of AI, signing an open letter that urged tech leaders to put a six-month pause on the development of AI. The CEO and Chief Engineer of SpaceX, CEO and Product Architect of Tesla, and the new Owner and CEO of Twitter shared thoughts of ChatGPT being politically biased, highlighting the "danger of training AI to be woke."R...
What’s it like to use a $300 Windows laptop for a day?
I spent many hours using HP’s 14, a $289 Windows laptop. You’re all welcome. The year is 2023, and my tireless quest to find a Windows laptop under $500 that isn’t a flaming pile of trash continues. While I’ve long maintained that people constrained to that category should just get Chromebooks, I understand that this recommendation makes quite a few people very, very angry. So I’m coming to you today from the HP 14, a 14-inch silver laptop that we purchased from Amazon for $289. It has an 11th Gen Core i3 processor (yes, it’s an older chip, but that’s why it’s so cheap — such is life), 4GB of RAM, and 256GB of storage. This is just about as cheap as a Windows laptop can get. (HP’s listed MSRP for this model is $469.99, but you can get it for far less without much effort.) And to see if it’...
What’s it like to use a $300 Windows laptop for a day?
I spent many hours using HP’s 14, a $289 Windows laptop. You’re all welcome. The year is 2023, and my tireless quest to find a Windows laptop under $500 that isn’t a flaming pile of trash continues. While I’ve long maintained that people constrained to that category should just get Chromebooks, I understand that this recommendation makes quite a few people very, very angry. So I’m coming to you today from the HP 14, a 14-inch silver laptop that we purchased from Amazon for $289. It has an 11th Gen Core i3 processor (yes, it’s an older chip, but that’s why it’s so cheap — such is life), 4GB of RAM, and 256GB of storage. This is just about as cheap as a Windows laptop can get. (HP’s listed MSRP for this model is $469.99, but you can get it for far less without much effort.) And to see if it’...
Twitter Blue Now Allows Tweets of Up to 10,000 Characters
Twitter will now allow Twitter Blue subscribers to post tweets of up to 10,000 characters. Just two months ago, the platform had expanded the maximum character count – again, for Blue subscribers only – to 4,000 characters, a drastic jump from the previous 280 allowed.Along with the increase in character count, Twitter has also rolled out bold and italics formatting. All of these changes arrive amid Elon Musk’s bid to get users to pen longer tweets rather than breaking down content into threads.Seemingly, Twitter is readying up to compete with newsletter platforms such as Substack. Just last week, Twitter began to prohibit Substack users from embedding tweets in their newsletters. On its own platform, meanwhile, tweets containing Substack links weren’t functioning as intended, due to Twitt...
Montana Passes Bill to Block TikTok Downloads
2023 has been a bumpy ride for TikTok and its ownership company ByteDance. Following the application's ban from devices issued by the United States House of Representatives, the White House declared that all government agencies needed to remove the application from all federal devices. In March, the United States took things a step further with a demand to ByteDance that it needs to sell TikTok or prepare for a ban. Afterwards, it faced the ever-growing issue of AI-generated content -- taking a stance that all deepfakes must be disclosed and banning deepfakes of private figures. Now, it faces an unlikely opponent -- the state of Montana.Today, Montana passed a bill -- SB 419 -- that effectively "prohibit[s] a mobile application store from offering the TikTok application to Montana users." ...
