South African authorities are investigating the assassination of renowned rapper AKA. The incident occurred outside a restaurant in the coastal city of Durban on a Friday night. According to KwaZulu-Natal police chief Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, evidence gathered so far leads them to believe that AKA was shot at close range in the side of the head by a gunman who approached him from behind. A second gunman then started firing to […]

ChatGPT is an AI chatbot system that OpenAI released in November to show off and test what a very large, powerful AI system can accomplish. You can ask it countless questions and often will get an answer that's useful. For example, you can ask it encyclopedia questions like, "Explaining Newton's laws of motion." You can tell it, "Write me a poem," and when it does, say, "Now make it more […]

The Lowdown The Rane Four is a high-end, four-channel DJ controller designed to offer ultimate control over Serato DJ Pro software, for performance-focused DJs. With fixed platters and a four-channel mixer, it is not a scratch unit like the Rane One, although you can scratch great on its 8/5″ platters. Instead, it focuses on features such as pro-standard hardware FX, deep Stems compatibility, and public performance smarts like dual laptop […]

First Impressions / Setting up The DDJ-FLX4 is strikingly similar to the DDJ-400, which it replaces. That is a good thing: The DDJ-400 was a very popular controller which did pretty much everything right for its price range. We’re glad it didn’t take its cues from the DDJ-FLX6, which looked like a few ideas stuck together in a box that wasn’t quite right for any of them. So it’s a […]

From the start of December, people on Mixcloud’s basic tier will have a maximum allowance of 10 published shows, meaning that if they want to upload a new show or track, they’ll need to move an older one into their (non-public) ‘drafts’ folder. This is partly an encouragement for people to upgrade to Mixcloud’s ‘Pro’ creator tier, with a three-month, 70% discount on its usual monthly cost of £9. Mixcloud […]