The days of being able to share a single streaming service account with your family and friends are quickly coming to an end. Max, the Warner Bros. Discovery-owned streaming service formerly known as HBO Max, is the latest company to announce that it will be cracking down on accounts it suspects of password-sharing. SEE ALSO: … Read more
The Vision Pro, which hit store shelves on Feb. 2, launched with electrifying fanfare — and some criticism about its $3,500 value — as Apple stepped into a brand spankin’ new product category: mixed reality. Now that several weeks have passed since the Vision Pro’s debut, early adopters have had some time with the AR/VR … Read more
Jason Hiner/ZDNET If you spent $3,500 on Apple’s Vision Pro headset (or $5,000 for a maxed out version), you’re probably doing everything you can to treat it with care. But what if it breaks completely on its own? Apparently, that’s happening to some users, as reports spread about the device developing a crack in the front … Read more
NEW DELHI — Last year more than two dozen opposition parties in India came together to take on Narendra Modi, one of the country’s most popular prime ministers in generations. But the broad alliance, beset with ideological differences and personality clashes, is cracking at a crucial time, just months before the country votes in a … Read more
Some voters in New Hampshire received a call from someone who sounded a lot like President Joe Biden. The call encouraged those New Hampshire residents to stay home during the primary election last week and “save your votes” for the general election in November. Of course, that makes no sense. Voters can vote in both … Read more
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Image: Disney Hulu has just laid the groundwork to kick friends, family, and freeloaders off its streaming service unless they pay for their own accounts. This week, the company revised its Terms of Service to explicitly ban password sharing outside of “your primary personal residence,” and it’s begun to tell subscribers they’ll need to comply … Read more
The IRS building in Washington D.C. The IRS recently announced a major tax enforcement initiative that will increase scrutiny on high-income earners, partnerships and people with foreign bank accounts. The agency said the effort would “restore fairness to [the] tax system” by focusing on wealthy taxpayers who have seen sharp declines in audit rates over … Read more
KARACHI, Pakistan — Pakistani police are arresting Afghan women and children in southern Sindh province as part of a government crackdown on migrants, activists said Saturday. More than 250,000 Afghans have left Pakistan in recent weeks as the government rounded up, arrested and kicked out foreign nationals without papers. It set an Oct. 31 deadline … Read more
YouTube is now cracking down on ad-blocker usage globally, by showing warnings about breaking the platform’s terms of service. In some cases, the company is preventing users from viewing more videos unless they disable ad blocks. The video streaming platform started experimenting in June where it showed a message to users saying that the video … Read more
Maria Diaz/ZDNET YouTube introduced that it is cracking down on medical misinformation by eradicating movies that go in opposition to its insurance policies, together with these recommending “dangerous or ineffective” most cancers therapies and “cures.” The video platform is making its medical misinformation coverage extra sturdy, having already added new guidelines to make sure abortion … Read more