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Count Your Days: Netflix Will Crackdown On Password Sharing “More Broadly” In The Coming Months
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: NurPhoto / Getty / Netflix If you’re one of those people who share their Netflix password with friends, count your days because the streaming service is coming for you. Spotted on The Verge, Netflix will begin cracking down on password sharing “more broadly” toward the end of the first quarter of 2023, the streaming giant announced in its earnings report. “While our terms of use limit use of Netflix to a household, we recognize this is a change for members who share their account more broadly,” Netflix writes. “As we roll out paid sharing, members in many countries will also have the option to pay extra if they want to share Netflix with people they don’t live with.” Netflix fully expects the crackdown will cause a “cancel reaction” in each market in the ...
Apple Finally Drops New MacBook Pro M2 Pro & M2 Max Chips
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Apple / MacBook Pro After a slight delay, Apple’s new MacBook Pro and Mac Mini utilizing its in-house chipset, have arrived. Apple’s long-awaited MacBook Pro utilizing the company’s new M2 Pro and M2 Max, promises to deliver improvements like longer battery life and faster performance, have finally arrived. The arrival of the new MacBook Pro allows Apple to deliver on one of its biggest goals to utilize its chipsets in its devices, allowing Apple to ditch chips manufactured by Intel. The new MacBook Pro was initially set to launch in 2022, but due to those pesky supply chain issues, Apple set its sights on early 2023, and now we are here. The MacBook Pro Powered By M2 Pro & M2 Max Breakdown According to Apple, the new MacBook Pro with the M2 Pro and M...
Bank of America Customers Claim They Are Missing Money, Twitter Reacts To The Possible Jig
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Brandon Bell / Getty / Bank of America One thing you don’t mess with is people’s money, and Bank of America is feeling the heat from some customers. Wednesday, Jan.18, PIX 11 reports that some Bank of America customers are worried after noticing money was missing from their accounts and have taken to social media to voice their anger. “Saw Bank of America was trending and turns out my account was impacted so happy Wednesday everyone,” one person tweeted. “I am at the point of a collapse. where is my money?” another Twitter user said. ABC 7 Chicago reports that at least one person claims their entire bank account was “wiped clean.” The Daily Mail says some customers are complaining about funds being missing from deposits and Zelle transactions ...
Patrick Moxey’s New Helix Records to Onboard Entire Roster to Web3
Patrick Moxey is bringing the entire roster of Helix Records, the EDM label he launched last year after selling his stake in Ultra Records, into the world of Web3 — starting with an NFT membership pass. Starting in February, the Helix Records Genesis Pass will act as a digital passport to the Helix ecosystem and grant holders a free music NFT from one of the roster’s flagship artists, which includes electronic duo Snakehips and house DJ Marshall Jefferson. Later in 2023, NFT holders will get the chance to access VIP tickets, backstage passes and submit music directly to the label for feedback. One holder will win a 1:1 conversation with Moxey. Moxey — who played a key role in the success of Avicii, Kygo, deadmau5 and David Guetta through Ultra Records — aims to make Web3 and NFTs a foundat...
YouTube Renews Coachella Deal Through 2026
YouTube and Goldenvoice have once again renewed their livestream and content partnership agreement for the Coachella Valley Music and Arts festival, striking an agreement that keeps the mega two-weekend festival on the Google-owned video platform through 2026. First signed in 2011, the streaming partnership was renewed in 2018 through 2021 — the 2020 and 2021 versions of the festival were postponed due to COVID-19. Last year, the two companies worked out an agreement to air the festival’s post-pandemic return. Besides multichannel live streaming and on-demand video from performances, the partnership enables fan shopping for Coachella merch, exclusive content for YouTube Premium subscribers, live chat, and onsite activations with YouTube creators and artists. YouTube’s global head of music ...
What Is ChatGPT? & Why Are Teachers Worried About It
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: NurPhoto / Getty / ChatGPT Technology, explicitly using artificial intelligence in the classroom, is not a novel idea. It’s welcomed in most cases, but this one form of A.I. called ChatGPT has teachers across the country worrying. Right off the bat, we know you are asking what ChatGPT is; well, it’s an OpenAI-developed chatbot that is fully capable of writing complete essays plus can, solve math and science problems, oh and can also create working computer code. That all sounds great, and it is, but the chatbot is already causing educators to panic following its November release. As expected, cheating has become an issue with ChatGPT use among students. Students are using the A.I. generated essays and passing it off as their work forcing teachers and scho...
Would Steve Jobs Approve?: Apple Reportedly Working on Bringing Touch Screens To Macs
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Apple / Macs Apple is doing a major about-face on a feature that the late Steve Jobs did not want to see on his Mac computers. Spotted on Bloomberg, Apple is now considering bringing touch screens to its Mac computers. It would break from Steve Jobs’ feelings towards the feature when that finally happens. He felt it was “ergonomically terrible.” Per Bloomberg: Apple engineers are actively engaged in the project, indicating that the company is seriously considering producing touch-screen Macs for the first time, according to people familiar with the efforts. Still, a launch hasn’t been finalized, and the plans could change. For more than a decade, the company has argued that touch screens don’t work well on laptops and that the iPad is a better option if s...
Images of Samsung’s New Flagship Smartphone The Galaxy S23 Have Leaked
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: JUNG YEON-JE / Getty / Samsung No surprise, images of the Samsung Galaxy S23 have leaked. Ahead of Samsung’s upcoming in-person Unpacked event on February 1, images of the Galaxy S23 are now on the web. The renders of Samsung’s next flagship smartphone came courtesy of WinFuture and reveals the smartphone’s new design and color options. The photos are official and are not fan-made renders based on previous Galaxy smartphone models, according to WinFuture’s Roland Quandt. Related Stories According to the images, the Galaxy S23 will ditch the raised camera notch found on the S22, and the phone’s triple camera system protrudes out of the device’s casing. The S23’s casing will keep the metal frame over glass combination Galaxy users have come to expect and wi...
Grounded: Unprecedented FAA System Outage Causes Nightmarish Delays For Travelers Across US
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: SAUL LOEB / Getty / FAA Traveling by air is a convenient way to travel, but lately, it has become a headache. Due to a massive system outage, flights across the United States went nowhere. Travelers woke up to the news or found out that their flights to their final destinations were going nowhere minutes before boarding was not going anywhere on Wednesday morning. The FAA scrambled to get systems back up when its Notice to Air Missions System, the tool it uses to share safety information with pilots and other airline personnel, “failed,” affecting flights across the country. According to FlightAware, more than 1,800 flights have been delayed, and over 300 have been canceled. The outage caused the FAA to instruct all airlines to pause domestic flights unti...
Apple Reportedly Dropping Affordable AirPod Lite Model
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Apple / AirPods Lite Are you tired of coughing up $250 or $170 after losing a pair of AirPods? Well, this news should serve you well. According to Haitong International Tech Research analyst Jeff Pu, Apple is reportedly dropping a new affordable wireless earbuds model called the Apple AirPods Lite. Spotted on HypeBeast, the AirPods Lite will cost under $129 and help Apple compete with other lower price point earbud models currently in the market. The AirPods Lite’s specs are still unknown. Still, according to HypeBeast, Apple’s rumored latest accessory should offer premium sound quality without most of the advanced features of AirPods Pro and entry-level AirPods from Apple. No word on an actual release date for the AirPods Lite, but they should be arrivin...
HHW Gaming Presents 15 Games We Can’t Wait To Play In 2023
Source: Future Publishing / Getty / Video Games Welcome to 2023, and it promises to be another significant year for gamers. 2022 is in the books, and it closed on an extremely high note thanks to God of War: Ragnarok blowing gamers away once again and cementing Kratos as one of the greatest video game characters ever, sorry Mario. Oh, and we can’t forget Horizon Forbidden West, another fantastic entry into Guerilla’s epic franchise adding to PlayStation’s stellar year of exclusives. But that was then. This is now. 2023 looks promising, thanks mainly to games that were supposed to drop in 2022 having their wigs pushed back. Hip Hop Wired decided to narrow that list down to 15 games WE are most excited to pick up the sticks for in 2023. Now, if we miss one, that’s okay; remember, this is our...
Delta Partners With T-Mobile To Provide Free In-Flight Wi-Fi To SkyMiles Members
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: NurPhoto / Getty / Delta Flying the friendly skies got a bit better for Delta Skymiles Members thanks to Delta’s longstanding partnership with T-Mobile. Hinting at this big move coming in 2023, Delta has finally confirmed that SkyMiles Members will get free inflight Wi-Fi as part of its partnership with T-Mobile. T-Mobile customers already enjoyed the perk of having free Wi-Fi during flights but beginning Feb.1, the program will expand to Skymile Members even if they don’t use T-Mobile as a wireless carrier. With any “free service,” users should expect to experience some ads before they are given access to the Wi-Fi. Not all of Delta’s flights will have free Wi-Fi; per the company’s announcement, the free service will roll out on “most” mainline dom...
