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'SNL' Does 'Hot Ones' With an Overheated Beyoncé The only thing Beyoncé is more famous for than her singing is her near-perfectly curated life, down to her Instagram account, her ability to drop entire albums at a moment's notice, and her rare interview appearances. She probably wouldn't sit down and do an episode of the wing-eating interview show Hot Ones, for example. But anything's possible on Saturday Night Live, and this weekend's episode hosted by erstwhile SNL star Maya Rudolph brought Beyoncé to the table, and the spicy wings nearly gave her an identity crisis.  https://youtu.be/uJYc3m89nwk Bey (Rudolph, in a wig evoking the singer's memorably enormous John Everett Millais hair) sits down with Sean Evans (Mikey...

Netflix Is Getting Serious About Ending All of That Password Sharing The days of hanging onto your ex's Netflix password long after you have broken up may soon be over. According to a new report from The Hollywood Reporter, Netflix is trying to curb the long-held tradition of password sharing with a new feature that will catch people in the act. Infographic Source: https://www.digitalinformationworld.com/2020/05/more-than-1-in-10-people-have-had-their-streaming-account-hacked.html Now, as the website Gammawire noted, some who are watching with a shared password will be met with a screen asking "Is this your account?" If it is indeed an account you pay for, you can "verify" that you're the person intended to be watching via a code sent either via text...

Free Blockbuster Is Bringing Back the Community Video Rental Hub There is only one Blockbuster still standing, in Bend, Oregon, the subject of a recent documentary available on Netflix, but blue-and-yellow boxes full of free DVDs and VHS tapes have been popping up across the country over the last year. Modeled after the “little free library” concept that's grown to over 100,000 boxes in more than 100 countries, Free Blockbuster is bringing back the community aspect of the humble video store. Free Blockbuster was first imagined by Brian Morrison in 2018, after noticing how many unused newspaper boxes there were in the Los Angeles area. A friend of his was moving across the country and wasn’t going to take all of her DVDs with her—so Morrison took them off her...