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Entertainment Stories
September 2024
James Earl Jones, Beloved Actor and Voice of Darth Vader, Dies 49 comments
Podcasters Ditch Short Episodes in Favor of Four-Hour Conversations 48 comments
Two Major Anime Leakers To Be Exposed Following First-Time US Court Order 31 comments
Feds Indict Musician on Landmark Massive Streaming Fraud Charges 87 comments
The Search For the Face Behind Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 56 comments
After Nearly a Decade Away, Panasonic TVs Are Back In the US 29 comments
Oprah's Upcoming AI Television Special Sparks Outrage Among Tech Critics 34 comments
Star Wars Outlaws Is A Crappy Masterpiece 99 comments
September 2024
August 2024
Samsung TVs Will Get 7 Years of Free Tizen OS Upgrades 95 comments
Netflix Shares First Six Minutes of New Anime Series 'Terminator Zero' 66 comments
'Alien: Romulus' Director Unbanned from Subreddit After Erroneous Accusations He Was Impersonating... Himself 39 comments
Instagram Is Adding a Myspace-Like 'Song On Profile' Feature 10 comments
Lionsgate Pulls 'Megalopolis' Trailer Offline Due To Made-Up Critic Quotes 33 comments
Sonos CEO Says the Old App Can't Be Rereleased 106 comments
Rotten Tomatoes Introduces a New Audience Rating For People Who Actually Bought a Ticket 48 comments
'The Pirate Bay' TV Series Teaser Appears Online 17 comments
Your TV Set Has Become a Digital Billboard. And It's Only Getting Worse. 158 comments
Disney Gives Up On Trying To Use Disney+ Excuse To Settle a Wrongful Death Lawsuit 110 comments
Apple Podcasts Launches On the Web 11 comments
Internet Archive Streams Re-Discovered 1980s Radio Show About Early Computers 15 comments
2024's Hugo Award Winners Announced 69 comments
An Insider's Perspective Into the Pentagon's UFO Hunt 123 comments
Judge Bars Disney, Warner, Fox From Launching Sports Streamer Venu 38 comments
Redbox App Axed, Dashing People's Hopes of Keeping Purchased Content 75 comments
Paramount Global To Lay Off 15% of US Workforce, Close TV Studio 30 comments
Gamer Connects 444 Consoles To Single TV, Sets World Record 40 comments
Netflix, Crunchyroll Impacted by Data Leak, With Full Episodes of Anime Titles Released 15 comments
Video Game Adaptation 'Borderlands' Hits Theaters With Rare 0% on Rotten Tomatoes 115 comments
Mayor Shows Pirated Movie On Town Square Big Screen In Brazil 76 comments
Crunchyroll Passes 15 Million Monthly Paid Subscribers 17 comments
Disney's Password-Sharing Crackdown Starts 'in Earnest' Next Month 80 comments
Netflix To Hike Price Again By December, Jefferies Says 109 comments
Artist and Musician Sue SEC Over Its NFT Regulatory Jurisdiction 32 comments
Suno & Udio To RIAA: Your Music Is Copyrighted, You Can't Copyright Styles 85 comments
Edge-Lit LCD TV Durability Concerns Emerge in New Test 34 comments
August 2024
July 2024
Disney's First R-Rated Movie Opening Sets an All-Time Record: 'Deadpool & Wolverine' 70 comments
Comic-Con 2024: New Doctor Who Series, 'Star Trek' Movie, Keanu Reeves, and a Red Hulk 77 comments
Weed Out ChatGPT-Written Job Applications By Hiding a Prompt Just For AI 62 comments
Marvel's Kevin Feige Defends Sequels as an 'Absolute Pillar of the Industry' 61 comments
Video Game Performers Will Go On Strike Over AI Concerns 53 comments
Hugo Awards Organizers Reveal Thousands Spent On Fraudulent Votes To Help One Writer Win 61 comments
Paramount+ Documentary: an Origin Story For Music Piracy - and Its Human Side 68 comments
Netflix is Axing Its Cheapest Ad-Free Plan in the US 24 comments
Remembering Bob Newhart, Legendary Comedian - and Commodore PET Owner 24 comments
'Halo' Canceled at Paramount+ After Two Seasons 42 comments
Founder of Fandango Dies After Plunge From Manhattan Hotel 39 comments
'Amazing' New Technology Set To Transform the Search For Alien Life 127 comments
'Eno' Documentary: Different at Every Screening, to Explore Randomness and 'Generative' Film-making 62 comments
DVD Rental Kiosks Business Redbox is Shutting Down 24 comments
Popular Pirate Site Animeflix Shuts Down 'Voluntarily' 13 comments
Amazon Injects Ads Into Fire TV Downtime 39 comments
Sony Music Goes After Piracy Portal 'Hikari-no-Akari' 15 comments
Netflix is Starting To Phase Out Its Cheapest Ad-Free Plan 74 comments
Redbox Owner Chicken Soup For the Soul Files For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection 26 comments
July 2024
June 2024
Lego Bricks Made From Meteorite Dust 3D Printed by Europe's Space Agency 27 comments
Big Streamers Have Been Cutting Their Original Content Output 64 comments
YouTube in Talks With Record Labels Over AI Music Deal 44 comments
Researchers Upend AI Status Quo By Eliminating Matrix Multiplication In LLMs 72 comments
MTV News Website Goes Dark, Archives Pulled Offline 67 comments
Streaming Execs Think TV's Future Looks a Lot Like Its Past 106 comments
Major Record Labels Sue AI Company Behind 'BBL Drizzy' 53 comments
Foundation Honoring 'Star Trek' Creator Offers $1M Prize for AI Startup Benefiting Humanity 37 comments
World's Largest Music Company Is Helping Musicians Make Their Own AI Voice Clones 20 comments
Roku TV Owners Complain That Motion Smoothing Is Stuck 'On' After an Update 95 comments
Ashton Kutcher: Entire Movies Can Be Made on OpenAI's Sora Someday 47 comments
Napster Sparked a File-Sharing Revolution 25 Years Ago 49 comments
June 2024
May 2024
Spotify Says It Will Refund Car Thing Purchases 28 comments
Netflix's Sci-Fi Movie 'Atlas': AI Apocalypse Blockbuster Gets 'Shocking' Reviews 94 comments
Spotify Is Going To Break Every 'Car Thing' Gadget It Ever Sold 65 comments
Sonos Enters the Headphones Market 11 comments
Sony Lays Down the Gauntlet on AI 37 comments
UK Police Could Get Ghostbusters-style Backpack Devices To Halt Ebike Getaways 98 comments
Comcast To Launch Peacock, Netflix and Apple TV+ Bundle 53 comments
Google Targets Filmmakers With Veo, Its New Generative AI Video Model 12 comments
OpenAI's Sam Altman on iPhones, Music, Training Data, and Apple's Controversial iPad Ad 37 comments
'Hunt For Gollum' Short on YouTube Survives New Peter Jackson Movie Announcement 12 comments
Streaming is Cable Now 110 comments
Prime Video Subs Will Soon See Ads for Amazon Products When They Hit Pause 47 comments
Marvel Will Release No More Than Three Movies and Two Shows Per Year, Bob Iger Says 149 comments
How 'Star Wars' was Influenced by San Francisco - and Architecture 49 comments
Geek-Friendly 'Free Comic Book Day' Titles Include Two Star Wars Books for May the Fourth 7 comments
Star Wars Day 2024 Celebrated With Videogames, Movie Marathons, Cartoons, and Mark Hamill 28 comments
Back From the Dead: Amarok 3.0 Music Player Released 56 comments
Spotify Hides Song Lyrics Behind Paywall 43 comments
Sony, Apollo Offers To Buy Paramount For $26 Billion 22 comments
May 2024
April 2024
Android TVs Can Expose User Email Inboxes 29 comments
Twilio Founder Buys Satire Site 'The Onion' 30 comments
Manga Site Blocks Adult Content, But Only For US and UK Users 123 comments
What Comes After OLED? Meet QDEL 49 comments
JWST Gets an IMAX Documentary: 'Deep Sky' 16 comments
'Record Store Day' 2024 Includes Talking Heads, Daft Punk, Cheech & Chong, Beatles 20 comments
Netflix Doc Accused of Using AI To Manipulate True Crime Story 24 comments
Netflix Blows Past Earnings Estimates As Subscribers Jump 16% 35 comments
Trump Media Shares Down 14% After Company Says Truth Social To Launch TV Streaming 126 comments
Ask Slashdot: Are Movies Becoming More Derivative? 100 comments
Song Lyrics Have Become Simpler and More Repetitive Over the Last Five Decades 143 comments
Disneyland Adds 'Stars Wars' Touches (and New Droids) for 'Season of the Force' Event 49 comments
Struggling Movie Exhibitors Beg Studios For More Movies - and Not Just Blockbusters 120 comments
Chechnya Is Banning Music That's Too Fast Or Slow 229 comments
Nine of the 10 Most-Watched Streaming Programs Are Reruns 215 comments
How the European Space Agency Celebrated April Fool's Day 41 comments
Disneyland Proposes New Area Based on 'Avatar' Movies 67 comments
Denis Villeneuve is Doing Dune 3 72 comments
Roku's New HDMI Tech Could Show Ads When You Pause Your Game 119 comments
How a Micro-Budget Student Film Changed Sci-Fi Forever 44 comments
Disney Will Crack Down on Password Sharing in June 38 comments
George Carlin Estate Forces 'AI Carlin' Off the Internet For Good 31 comments
New 'Matrix' Movie in Works 215 comments
Top Musicians Among Hundreds Warning Against Replacing Human Artists With AI 162 comments
'Yes, We're All Trapped in the Matrix Now' 185 comments
April 2024
March 2024
'Dune 2' Beaten by 'Godzilla x Kong' 61 comments
Russia Is Making Its Own Gaming Consoles 161 comments
Pythagoras Was Wrong: There Are No Universal Musical Harmonies, Study Finds 73 comments
Vinyl Records Outsell CDs For the Second Year Running 142 comments
Star Trek: Prodigy Season 2 Releases Early In France 29 comments
Tennessee Becomes First State To Protect Musicians, Other Artists Against AI 23 comments
Tired of Streaming? Home-Grown 'Free Blockbuster' Libraries Are Trying to Offer Alternatives 27 comments
93-Year-Old William Shatner Discusses 'Star Trek', Space, Mortality, and Captain Kirk's Death 62 comments
It's 25 Years Later. Are We All Now Trapped in 'The Matrix'? 181 comments
Netflix's '3 Body Problem' Draws Mixed Reviews, Sparks Anger in China 104 comments
Oscars 2024: Netflix Wins Just One Award and Apple Shut Out After Streamers Combine for 32 Nominations 48 comments
Akira Toriyama, Creator of Dragon Ball Manga Series, Dies Aged 68 40 comments
Samsung Making It Harder To Know What Type of OLED TV You're Getting 47 comments
Nikon To Acquire US Cinema Camera Manufacturer RED 36 comments
Max Password Sharing Crackdown Is Coming 22 comments
In Indonesia, Women Pirate More Music and Movies Than Men 36 comments
Roku Disables Devices Until Users Agree To New Arbitration Rules 147 comments
Two New 'Star Wars' Movies Will Begin Filming 147 comments
The Desert Planet In 'Dune' Is Plausible, According To Science 51 comments
March 2024
February 2024
Streaming To Overtake Pay TV Subscription Revenue For the First Time in US This Year 13 comments
Hacker Uses Raspberry Pi and AI To Block Noisy Neighbor's Music 93 comments
Open Source Movie Streaming Project 'Movie-Web' Shut Down By Hollywood Complaint 21 comments
In Netflix's New Sci-Fi Movie 'Spaceman', an Introverted Astronaut Confronts Isolation 42 comments
Former Gizmodo Writer Changed Name To 'Slackbot,' Stayed Undetected For Months 22 comments
Amazon Says 'No Changes' Coming To Freevee Despite Reports of the Streamer Shuttering 14 comments
Disney Strikes Deal For Sony To Take Over Its DVD, Blu-ray Disc Business 82 comments
YouTube Dominates TV Streaming In US, Per Nielsen's Latest Report 22 comments
Walmart To Buy TV Maker Vizio For $2.3 Billion 50 comments
EU to Fine Apple $500M+ for Stifling Music Competitors Like Spotify 117 comments
Pranksters Mock AI-Safety Guardrails with New Chatbot 'Goody-2' 74 comments
Leaked Emails Show Hugo Awards Self-Censoring To Appease China 89 comments
Walmart In Talks To Buy Vizio For More Than $2 Billion 31 comments
Spotify's Layoffs Put an End To a Musical Encyclopedia 21 comments
Streamer Plex Launches Its Long-Promised Movie Rentals Store 27 comments
Funimation is Shutting Down, And Taking Your Digital Library With It 48 comments
Disney Plus' Restrictions on Password Sharing Are Now Rolling Out To US Subscribers 54 comments
Warner, Fox, Disney To Launch Streaming Sports Joint Venture 31 comments
YouTube Has Become One of the Biggest Pay TV Services in the US 31 comments
Disneyland's New 'Pixar Place' Hotel is Like Visiting the Studio 18 comments
Joe Rogan Gets New Spotify Deal Worth Up To $250 Million 134 comments
Avatar VFX Workers Vote To Unionize 28 comments
YouTube Says It Has More Than 100 Million Premium and Music Subscribers 48 comments
Hulu Is Cracking Down On Password Sharing, Just Like Disney Plus and Netflix 62 comments
February 2024
January 2024
Halo's Trailer for Season 2 Teases More Covenant 30 comments
Netflix Adds Generative AI To Competitive Risk Factors in Its Annual Report 18 comments
Streaming Pirates Are Hollywood's New Villains 160 comments
Netflix is Going To Take Away Its Cheapest Ad-Free Plan 105 comments
Sony Ends $10 Billion Merger With India Media Giant Zee 3 comments
Remembering The 1970s-Era Technology of Devo 43 comments
Now Musicians' Union Threatens Possible Strike Over AI, Streaming Media 64 comments
Plex To Launch a Store For Movies and TV Shows 22 comments
Music Streaming Platforms Must Pay Artists More, Says EU 58 comments
Harmonix Is Ending Rock Band DLC Releases After 16 Years, 2,800 Songs 15 comments
Ken Fritz Built a $1 Million Stereo. The Real Cost Was Unfathomable. 222 comments
Removal of Netflix Film Shows Advancing Power of India's Hindu Right Wing 110 comments
AI-Generated George Carlin Drops Comedy Special 128 comments
'Artificial Creativity' Music Software For Commodore Amiga Unearthed 39 comments
Music Streams Hit 4 Trillion in 2023 21 comments
Actors' Union Agrees To AI Voiceovers For Video Games 35 comments
Telly's Free Ad-Supported TV Will Use ChatGPT For Its Voice Assistant 37 comments
Samsung Debuts World's First Transparent MicroLED Screen Is At CES 2024 30 comments
Flappie AI Cat Door Stops Your Pet From Gifting You Dead Mice 72 comments
LG Unveils the World's First Wireless Transparent OLED TV 26 comments
Ask Slashdot: Does Anyone Still Use Ogg Vorbis Format? 148 comments
An AI-powered Holographic Elvis Concert is Coming to Las Vegas (and the UK) 39 comments
Spotify's Editorial Playlists Are Losing Influence Amid AI Expansion 14 comments
US Pay-TV Subscriber Base Eroding At Record Pace 104 comments
DVD Resurgence To Prevent Films From Disappearing 131 comments
LG's 2024 OLED TVs Put a Bigger Focus on AI Processing Than Ever Before 37 comments
Roku Launches Its First High-End TVs in Search of Revenue Growth 18 comments
Andrew Scott Halted Hamlet Soliloquy After Theatergoer Used Laptop To Email 91 comments
Alamo Drafthouse Blames 'Nationwide' Theater Outage on Sony Projector Fail 52 comments
Vizio To Pay $3 Million Settlement for Misleading Advertised TV Refresh Rates 22 comments
January 2024
December 2023
Could We Build a Concert Venue in Space? 75 comments
Documentarians Secure Original 'ReBoot' Master Tapes, But Need Help To Play Them 60 comments
Disney, Warner, Comcast, and Paramount Are Contemplating Cuts, Possible Mergers 100 comments
Video Game Adaptations Could Keep Beating Marvel at the Box Office in 2024 47 comments
Amazon Prime Video Will Start Showing Ads on January 29 227 comments
'Therapy Llamas' Visit Portland Airport to Lower the Stress of Travellers 48 comments
EFF Warns: 'Think Twice Before Giving Surveillance for the Holidays' 28 comments
FSF Shares Holiday Fairy Tale Warning 'Don't Let Your Tools Control You' 25 comments
Epic's Free Game Giveaway Continues with Bethesda's 'Ghostwire: Tokyo' 24 comments
'Doctor Who' Christmas Special Streams on Disney+ and the BBC 65 comments
DC's 'Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom' Flops at the Box Office 114 comments
30 Years of Donald Knuth's 'Christmas Lectures' Are Online - Including 2023's 29 comments
'Star Wars Holiday Special' Upscaled To 4K 60fps 60 comments
Tolkien Estate Wins Court Order To Destroy Fan's 'Lord of the Rings' Sequel 136 comments
Wireless TVs Use Built-In Cameras, NFC Readers To Sell You Stuff You See On TV 98 comments
Car Buyer Hilariously Tricks Chevy AI Bot Into Selling a Tahoe For $1 79 comments
2023's Online 'Advent Calendars' Challenge Programmers With Tips and Puzzles 8 comments
Apple and Amazon Release Warm, Fuzzy Holiday Ads - Both With Beatles-Related Songs 23 comments
Amazon, Etsy, Launch Categories With 'Gifts For Programmers' 20 comments
Netflix's Big Data Dump Shows Just OK TV Is Here To Stay 50 comments
FCC Floats Ban on Cable TV 'Junk Fees' That Make It Hard To Ditch Contracts 32 comments
The Excitement of 70,000 Swifties Can Shake the Earth 46 comments
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Take Aim At AI Freeloading 73 comments
Your Smart TV Knows What You're Watching 164 comments
Netflix Releases Viewing Numbers For 18,000 Titles For First Time 19 comments
Could 'Godzilla Minus One' Win an Oscar? 70 comments
Google Play Movies, TV Apps Shutting Down In January 2024 12 comments
'Zombie TV': Cable Channels Left Showing Reruns as Their Owners Invest in Streaming Services 137 comments
Amazon Releases Fallout TV Series Trailer 52 comments
Pixar's Disney+ Pandemic Movies Are Hitting Theaters After All 24 comments
Rockstar Officially Unveils GTA 6 Trailer 78 comments
Apple TV Receives First Big Native VPN App 11 comments
150,000 Programmers Tackle 'Advent of Code' in Event's 9th Year 16 comments
After KISS's Final Show, They'll Become Digital Avatars From Industrial Light & Magic 93 comments
PlayStation To Delete A Ton Of TV Shows Users Already Paid For 123 comments
December 2023
November 2023
Microsoft's Ugly Sweater For 2023 is Windows XP's Iconic Default Wallpaper 36 comments
Global Pay TV Penetration To Fall For the First Time in 2024 25 comments
Ridley Scott Is Terrified of AI: 'It's a Technical Hydrogen Bomb' 179 comments
As Doctor Who Turns 60, the TARDIS Flies Again Tonight 53 comments
Cards Against Humanity's Black Friday Prank: Launching Its Own Social Media Site 23 comments
ECB Chief Lagarde Admits Her Son Lost Crypto Cash 61 comments
Slashdot Asks: Your Favorite 2023-Made Movies and TV Shows? 184 comments
Ultrawide Monitors Remind Us There's Still Much To Learn About OLED Burn-in 47 comments
Spotify To Phase Out Service In Uruguay Following New Copyright Bill 36 comments
Christopher Nolan Says Streaming-Only Content Is a 'Danger' 138 comments
Is 'Disney Pinnacle' Preparing to Be the Next Big NFT Failure? 37 comments
Sonos Teases Plans To Enter Headphones Product Category 25 comments
Lawmakers Question Apple Over Cancellation of Jon Stewart's Show 84 comments
Netflix Announces Neil Gaiman Series, Zach Snyder Movie, Anime 'Terminator' and 'Exploding Kittens' 33 comments
Despite Lead-in On Disney+, 'The Marvels' Bombs at Box Office 245 comments
The AI Protections Hollywood Actors Got After Their 118-Day Strike 60 comments
Hollywood Actors Strike Ends With a Deal That Will Impact AI and Streaming For Decades 76 comments
After Luring Customers With Low Prices, Amazon Stuffs Fire TVs With Ads 81 comments
Nintendo Is Making a Live-Action 'Legend of Zelda' Movie 32 comments
SAG-AFTRA Won't Budge As Studios Push To Own Actors' Likenesses In Perpetuity 113 comments
Consumers Paying More Than Ever for Streaming TV Each Month 162 comments