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Earlier this year, R. Kelly’s team reported the theft of 300 to 500 of his master recordings that the culprits later allegedly demanded money for, per TMZ.Back in February, a man named Keith Calbert called police to report the theft of the disgraced Chicago’s recordings from an Illinois storage facility. He said the recordings were valued millions of dollars, but he also told authorities that two roadies had moved the masters to California sometime in 2021. When he asked one of them to return the material, the alleged…

The Meta Quest Pro is a classic case of the early adopter’s dilemma. Although the headset offers a wealth of potential for virtual reality enthusiasts, it also requires a $1,500 investment for something that — at least for now — doesn’t have the software to justify its price. Although today’s v47 update doesn’t fix that problem, it does take a small first step by adding mixed reality (MR) capture and background audio playback. The first update since Quest Pro’s launch lets you record your real-world environment combined…

Christine Perfect – I’d Rather Go Blind (1970)Before she was Fleetwood Mac’s Christine McVie, she was solo artist Christine Perfect – a rock’n’roll moniker if there ever was one. Her self-titled 1970 LP (later cheekily retitled The Legendary Christine Perfect Album) features a handful of originals and select covers. Among the highlights is a lovelorn take on 1967’s I’d Rather Go Blind, a hit for both Etta James and McVie’s late 60s band Chicken Shack. McVie ruminates on a broken heart, her velvety voice sounding wistful…

Anker's smart home company Eufy is under fire for its handling of customers' camera data.As reported by 9to5Google, a security research consultant by the name of Paul Moore uncovered a serious security vulnerability with the company's security cameras. According to Moore, his "supposedly 'private,' 'stored locally,' 'transmitted only to you' doorbell is streaming to the cloud - without cloud storage enabled."You have some serious questions to answer @EufyOfficial Here is irrefutable proof that my supposedly "private",…

Google may soon allow ChromeOS users to save and send screen recordings as GIFs to other users. According to a report by 9to5Google, the upcoming change is spotted in a newly posted code change. It shows that the ChromeOS team is…

Even though Los Angeles labor officials have called the leak of racist recordings involving three L.A. City Councilmembers a serious crime, the Los Angeles Police Department is not investigating who recorded and posted the clips because no one has filed a police report.The recordings took place at the offices of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, which has called the leak “illegal” and vowed to have those involved prosecuted. The union attempted to block the Los Angeles Times from publishing details of the…

Scarlett Johansson has revealed that Joaquin Phoenix had to flee the set of Her when she was recording her fake orgasms.Released in 2014, Her follows the story of Theodore Twombly (Phoenix), a man who develops a relationship with Samantha (Johansson), an artificially intelligent virtual assistant personified through a female voice.During a recent appearance on Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast, the 37-year-old actor spoke about the scene from the film where her character was required to record herself fake…

Share your sick gameplay footage without actually making people ill. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Meta is rolling out the v44 software update for Quest headsets, and its big new feature is good news for anyone who likes sharing videos of themselves in virtual reality. There are new advanced camera settings that let you manually adjust how much stabilization is added and record 16:9 videos (or 9:16 vertical videos, which are perfect for TikTok) in addition to square ones — something…

Image Source : ZOOM Zoom Zoom, a video-conferencing platform has announced a new offering which will enable the users to protect certain data which has to be stored at the rest within the Zoom Cloud infrastructure, by using their own encryption keys. The platform has mentioned that its newest advanced security offering called 'Customer Managed Key' (CMK) has been…

In the mid-60s, a struggling vibraphone player named Charles Stepney and his wife, Rubie, visited their pastor looking for career advice. Stepney’s work as a jazz musician in Chicago was intermittent at best: when he did get work, Rubie was unhappy about spending nights at home alone. “So the pastor prayed,” says Stepney’s daughter Charlene. “He said, ‘Dear God, please give him a job where he can be at home with his family at night but still be able to do his music.’ Mom and Dad laughed all the way home. They were like:…