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The news outlet added that Netflix is rolling out this new restriction as a test at this current time and is mainly affecting users on TV devices. “This test is designed to help ensure that people using Netflix accounts are authorised to do so,” elaborated a company spokesperson to The Streamable. According to Netflix’s current terms of use, its service and content are for personal and non-commercial use, and may not be shared with individuals beyond a user’s household....

Sarandos explained that the company must first discuss with studios to receive their approval for including advertisements to their shows or movies that are available on the platform. On that note, The Wall Street Journal reports that Netflix has been actively seeking to negotiate deals with studios, though no details of the discussions are known at this time. “Today, the vast majority of what people watch on Netflix, we can include in the ad-supported tier,” he said....

Netflix today has quietly rolled out a new plan that is specially made for mobile phone and tablet users which in line with an earlier report that the company is planning to roll out cheaper plans. As it turns out, Malaysia is one of the first markets to receive such option. Priced at RM 17 per month, the option for the new plan does not appear when you browse Netflix website using the internet browser on your PC....

Calling the move “paid sharing”, the crackdown on password sharing will start rolling out more broadly later in the first quarter of 2023, meaning that it could be implemented by the end of March at the latest. The streaming giant expects some “cancel reaction” in certain markets when it is rolled out but in the long term, it expects to see improved revenue from extra member accounts. For now, that’s all that Netflix will reveal regarding its paid sharing plans, with its pricing and exact mechanism still a mystery....

As people around the world begin self-quarantining themselves at home to prevent the ongoing Coronavirus (COVID-19) spreading further, usage for internet-based services are seeing a surge in their businesses, and understandably so. As an example In Netflix’s case, the decision to reduce the bit rate of its video streams comes after the European Commission (EU) made an appeal to the company to do so. After they saw a sharp increase in internet usage, but have so far not experienced any outages or adverse effects from the spike....

The firmware update comes after several Chromecast Ultra owners felt that frustrated that they couldn’t gain access with their pre-Stadia Dongles. Prior to the update, Stadia was only accessible through Chromecast Ultra dongles sold either with the Premier or Founders Editions. With the firmware update, all current Chromecast Ultra owners are will only need to purchase the Stadia controller and pair them with the corresponding dongle. According to some Redditors, some users saw the update simply appear one day....

Achieving “the perfect fit” has been UE’s main goal for products released under its TWS range, This was also emphasised by the brand’s UE Fits earbuds back in 2020, which features eartips made from a unique material dubbed by the company as Lightform. Once worn, the buds’ special tips will then conform to the shape of your ears in less than a minute, thus resulting in a comfortable fit. While the goal remains the same, UE’s approach for the new DROPS earbuds differs greatly from its prior model....

In other words, consumers only need to pay one single fee which is RM 110 per month that covers both their home and mobile Internet usages. Currently being offered at RM 100 in conjunction with its launch, there are quite a number of details you need to note before you sign up for the new nex.life unified (heh) unlimited plan. For starters, the people behind nex.life is actually Webe Digital which is the wireless arm of TM....

“Watch_Dogs Legion is set in a near-future, dystopian version of London. It’s a post-Brexit world in which society, politics and technology have changed and altered London’s fortunes.” pic.twitter.com/12WhBDm2wA — Wario64 (@Wario64) June 3, 2019 According to Kotaku, the game will also come with an interesting feature – you’ll be able to play as any NPC in the game. The content you experience will also apparently change according to the NPC you happen to be playing....

This vulnerability appears to have quite the sporadic distribution, affecting games as old as Mario Kart 7, and as recent as Nintendo Switch Sports. Especially notable was the former, which got its first patch in 10 years. Also, these are all first-party titles made by Nintendo itself. As mentioned above, the vulnerability also affects at least three different devices, namely the Switch, 3DS and Wii U. — PabloMK7 (@Pablomf6) December 24, 2022 One of the white hat hackers who discovered the exploit, who goes by @Pablomf6 on Twitter, has a thread explaining the way it works, as well as a link to the report on GitHub....

Nintendo was asked during a financial earnings Q&A what its plans were regarding the metaverse and NFTs. In response, company president Shuntaro Furukawa said that it is interested in the ideas. But at the same time, “there is no easy way to define specifically what kind of surprises and enjoyment the metaverse can deliver to our customers”. And so the company will not be jumping on the hypetrain until that changes....

Officially, they’re called the HyperX Cup MIX-Ins, and based on the supposed product shots, it’s pretty obvious what the shape of the earcups are. On top of that, the MIX-Ins also have a special, fork-shaped detachable microphone, known aptly as the “Microphork”. Nissin goes on to describe the headphones as being able to “cancel out all slurping sound” while still delivering “crystal-clear sound quality”. Nissin says that the HyperX MIX-Ins will be made available on the first of next month....

According to NVIDIA’s official blog, it seems that the company will be rolling out the service to Android devices sometime this year. Specifically, it’s starting within Germany first, seeing how it has already begun rolling out its RTX series GPUs to its GeForce Now (GFN) data centres. Outside of European country, NVIDIA’s partners, Softbank and LG U+, will apparently be responsible for rolling out the cloud gaming service in Japan and Korea, respectively....

The information comes by way of an entry by Taiwan-based manufacturer Gigabyte to the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC), which lists down a total of forty GeForce RTX 2060 graphics card. These include cards from its Aorus Xtreme, Gaming, Windforce, and Mini ATX series. As overwhelming as that is, breaking down the numbers reveals two key points. Firstly, the listings shows three recurring numbers – 6GB, 4GB, and 3GB. This clearly refers to the memory capacity each variant will hold....

Next-generation Mercedes-Benz vehicles will include sophisticated and advanced computing architectures developed by NVIDIA. This would enable Level 2 and 3 driving autonomy, as well as Level 4 parking autonomy – thus eliminating the need for any human-based assistance for these purposes. The computing system is based on NVIDIA’s DRIVE AGX platform for cars which is capable of “automated driving of regular routes from address to address”, according to the official press release....

A post in the OnePlus forums state that the update will be first reaching a small number of users first. A broader rollout will begin in a few days, the post continues. No timeline was given as to when the other OnePlus 5 and 5T users will be getting the update, but it’s a good idea to check for it every once in a while now. There are a few changes that you can expect from the update, a few of which we’ve covered prior....

From the start, Jerry makes it clear that removing the glass panel in the rear requires a certain level of finesse and understandably so. Exerting too much force in its removal could end badly, with the panel either cracking or snapping under the pressure. Once removed, though, the cover makes way to reveal what is quite possibly the prettiest looking coil of copper wire. Nestled right one top of the OnePlus 8 Pro’s battery....

As we’ve seen before, the OnePlus 8T Cyberpunk Edition has a custom back panel to fit the massive camera island. The camera layout itself is not changed. There’s the clear Cyberpunk branding, and the accompanying yellow accents, but the phone as a whole is grey. And even on the software side, the phone gets a Cyberpunk-themed version of the HydrogenOS. That being said, just like the camera position, the OnePlus 8T Cyberpunk Edition hasn’t changed much on the inside....

To recap, the new OPPO A96 features a 6.59-inch IPS LCD display with 1080 x 2412 pixel resolution, 20:9 aspect ratio, and 90 Hz refresh rate. Also onboard is a side-mounted fingerprint scanner, Android 11 via the brand’s ColorOS platform, and Bluetooth 5.0 connectivity. Additionally, the phone is also dust and water resistant, with ratings of IP5X and IPX4 respectively. On the inside, the device is equipped with a 4G-enabled Snapdragon 680 chipset, paired together with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of UFS 2....

The new model is indeed the company’s first attempt at a foldable clamshell form factor. While the Find N2 Flip’s general shape may not look that different from the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip4, you can easily tell it apart by the phone’s massive 3.62-inch AMOLED cover display that has a native resolution of 720 x 382 and protected by Corning Gorilla Glass 5. [Image: OPPO.]Inside the phone, OPPO has provided the new model with a 6....