Entertainment Stories for 2024

Apple TV Plus Is Free This Weekend 23
2024's Ten Top-Grossing Films Were All Sequels or Prequels 86
Older Music Has Been Getting a Second Life On TikTok, Data Shows 18
James Bond Battles a New Foe: Amazon 82
Critics, Not Fans, Perpetuate the Failed Second Album Myth, Study Shows 41
The Quest To Save the World's Largest CRT TV From Destruction 119
China's TCL Overtakes Samsung in Premium Market For Ultra-Large TVs 77
YouTube TV Price Hike Coming January 2025 98
Musicians Rally Behind Internet Archive in $621 Million Music Label Battle 65
Disney Beats Tolkein? Anime 'Lord of the Rings' Prequel Outpaced by 'Moana 2' 59
The 2024 'Advent Calendars' Offering Programming Language Tips, Space Photos, and Memories 2
Does the New 'Y2K' Comedy/Disaster/Horror Film Give the '90s the Ending It Deserved? 21
Mozilla Announces 'JavaScriptmas' - Daily Coding Challenges with a Chance at Prizes 18
The Verge Explains Why, After 13 Years, It's Offering a 'Subscription' Option for Its Supporters 27
Music Sector Workers Will Lose Nearly a Quarter of Their Income to AI in 4 Years, Study Suggests 204
Monday Americans Spent $13.3 Billion in Biggest Cyber Monday Ever 50
2024's Geek 'Advent Calendar's Offer Challenges - and a Magnus Carlsen-Signed Chessboard 9
Walmart Closes $2.3 Billion Acquisition of Vizio 83
The Casual Moviegoer is a Thing of the Past 296
Crypto Entrepreneur Eats $6 Million Banana on Stage 70
Nvidia Claims New AI Audio Generator Makes Sounds Never Heard Before 49
Is the 'Hour of Code' the New 30-Minute Saturday Morning Cartoon Commercial? 20
Plex's Upcoming App Redesign is a Big Swing at Going Legit 71
The Trade Desk Is Building a CTV OS Called Ventura 28
Musi Fans Refuse To Update iPhones Until Apple Unblocks Controversial App 103
Comcast Spins Off Cable Networks 27
Apple TV+ Will License Its Movies To Other Services To Reduce Billions In Losses 48
Bose Acquires Premium Audio Brand McIntosh 68
New Dune Prequel 'Dune: Prophecy' Premieres on HBO and Max 69
Could an Upcoming Apple Smart-Home Tablet Lead to Mobile Robots - and Maybe Even a TV Set? 25
Experts Testify US Is Running Secret UAP Programs 177
Congress To Hold Another UFO/UAP Hearing 137
Spotify's Car Thing, Due For Bricking, Is Getting an Open Source Second Life 15
A New Streaming Customer Emerges: The Subscription Pauser 46
Beatles' 'Now and Then' Makes History As First AI-Assisted Song To Earn Grammy Nomination 29
Pirating 'The Pirate Bay' TV Series Is Ironically Difficult 25
New 'Star Wars' Trilogy In the Works 178
'Mass Effect' TV Series Is In the Works At Amazon 57
Max Is Getting Ready For Its Own Password-Sharing Crackdown 42
Korean Cinema in 'Precarious Period' Due To Netflix, Says Director Jang Joon-hwan 7
Netflix Is Removing Nearly All of Its Interactive Titles 52
Prime Video Will Let You Summon AI To Recap What You're Watching 23
ASWF: the Open Source Foundation Run By the Folks Who Give Out Oscars 18
Nintendo Made a Music Streaming App For Video Game Soundtracks 19
'Alien' Signal Decoded 39
Robert Downey Jr. Threatens To Sue Over AI Recreations of His Likeness 62
'Oregon Trail' Action-Comedy Movie In Development At Apple 63
Why is Apple So Bad at Marketing Its TV Shows? 137
Streaming Subscription Fees Have Been Rising While Content Quality is Dropping 82
More Than 10,500 Artists Unite in Fight Against AI Companies' 'Unjust' Use of Creative Works 64
'Blade Runner 2049' Producer Sues Tesla, Warner Bros. Discovery 78
Special VHS Release for 'Alien: Romulus' Announced by 20th Century Studios 130
Neal Stephenson Publishes First Book in New Atomic Age Spy Series 'Bomb Light' 56
Google's NotebookLM Now Lets You Customize Its AI Podcasts 9
No, Vinyl Sales Aren't Down 33% in 2024. They're up 6.2% 82
Tinkerers Are Taking Old Redbox Kiosks Home and Reverse Engineering Them 39
Spotify Criticized For Letting Fake Albums Appear On Real Artist Pages 15
Imgur Is No Longer Classifying Memes With Adult Humor As Mature 22
Man Learns He's Being Dumped Via 'Dystopian' AI Summary of Texts 109
Vision Pro's First Scripted Immersive Film Is Coming This Week 59
Smart TVs Are Like 'a Digital Trojan Horse' in People's Homes 113
Meta's New 'Movie Gen' AI System Can Deepfake Video From a Single Photo 38
Amazon To Increase Number of Ads on Prime Video 100
Hidden 'BopSpotter' Microphone Is Constantly Surveilling San Francisco For Good 44
Amazon Is Launching Its Own Shark Tank Where Winners Get To Be Amazon Sellers 20
DirecTV To Buy Rival Dish Network 41
Songs by Adele, Bob Dylan, Green Day, Many More Blocked by YouTube in Legal Dispute 53
US Trademark Office Cancels Marvel, DC's 'Super Hero' Trademarks 31
Apple Rolls Back Its Big Plans to Release Movies in Theaters 35
Disney Officially Launches Password-Sharing Crackdown With Paid Sharing Program 22
LG TVs Start Showing Ads On Screensavers 128
ByteDance Is Shutting Down TikTok Music Globally 10
James Cameron Joins Board of Stability AI In Coup For Tech Firm 23
Indian Filmmaker Ditches Human Musicians for AI 72
Amazon Joins the Motion Picture Association, Hollywood's Top Lobbying Group 14
TCL Accused of Selling Quantum Dot TVs Without Actual Quantum Dots 48
California's New 'Cosm' Immersive Sports-Watching Dome is Amazing - and Expensive 34
1.3 Million Android-Based TV Boxes Backdoored; Researchers Still Don't Know How 28
Music Industry's 1990s Hard Drives Are Dying 259
TV News Overtaken By Digital Rivals For First Time in UK 38
James Earl Jones, Beloved Actor and Voice of Darth Vader, Dies 49
Podcasters Ditch Short Episodes in Favor of Four-Hour Conversations 48
Two Major Anime Leakers To Be Exposed Following First-Time US Court Order 31
Feds Indict Musician on Landmark Massive Streaming Fraud Charges 87
The Search For the Face Behind Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 56
After Nearly a Decade Away, Panasonic TVs Are Back In the US 29
Oprah's Upcoming AI Television Special Sparks Outrage Among Tech Critics 34
Star Wars Outlaws Is A Crappy Masterpiece 99
ESPN's 'Where To Watch' Tries To Solve Sports' Most Frustrating Problem 67
Samsung TVs Will Get 7 Years of Free Tizen OS Upgrades 95
Netflix Shares First Six Minutes of New Anime Series 'Terminator Zero' 66
'Alien: Romulus' Director Unbanned from Subreddit After Erroneous Accusations He Was Impersonating... Himself 39
Instagram Is Adding a Myspace-Like 'Song On Profile' Feature 10
Lionsgate Pulls 'Megalopolis' Trailer Offline Due To Made-Up Critic Quotes 33
Sonos CEO Says the Old App Can't Be Rereleased 106
Rotten Tomatoes Introduces a New Audience Rating For People Who Actually Bought a Ticket 48
'The Pirate Bay' TV Series Teaser Appears Online 17
Your TV Set Has Become a Digital Billboard. And It's Only Getting Worse. 158
Disney Gives Up On Trying To Use Disney+ Excuse To Settle a Wrongful Death Lawsuit 110
Apple Podcasts Launches On the Web 11
Internet Archive Streams Re-Discovered 1980s Radio Show About Early Computers 15
2024's Hugo Award Winners Announced 69
An Insider's Perspective Into the Pentagon's UFO Hunt 123
Judge Bars Disney, Warner, Fox From Launching Sports Streamer Venu 38
Redbox App Axed, Dashing People's Hopes of Keeping Purchased Content 75
Paramount Global To Lay Off 15% of US Workforce, Close TV Studio 30
Gamer Connects 444 Consoles To Single TV, Sets World Record 40
Netflix, Crunchyroll Impacted by Data Leak, With Full Episodes of Anime Titles Released 15
Video Game Adaptation 'Borderlands' Hits Theaters With Rare 0% on Rotten Tomatoes 115
Mayor Shows Pirated Movie On Town Square Big Screen In Brazil 76
Crunchyroll Passes 15 Million Monthly Paid Subscribers 17
Disney's Password-Sharing Crackdown Starts 'in Earnest' Next Month 80
Netflix To Hike Price Again By December, Jefferies Says 109
Artist and Musician Sue SEC Over Its NFT Regulatory Jurisdiction 32
Suno & Udio To RIAA: Your Music Is Copyrighted, You Can't Copyright Styles 85
Edge-Lit LCD TV Durability Concerns Emerge in New Test 34
Apple In Talks To Bring Ads To Apple TV+ 32
Disney's First R-Rated Movie Opening Sets an All-Time Record: 'Deadpool & Wolverine' 70
Comic-Con 2024: New Doctor Who Series, 'Star Trek' Movie, Keanu Reeves, and a Red Hulk 77
Weed Out ChatGPT-Written Job Applications By Hiding a Prompt Just For AI 62
Marvel's Kevin Feige Defends Sequels as an 'Absolute Pillar of the Industry' 61
Video Game Performers Will Go On Strike Over AI Concerns 53
Hugo Awards Organizers Reveal Thousands Spent On Fraudulent Votes To Help One Writer Win 61
Paramount+ Documentary: an Origin Story For Music Piracy - and Its Human Side 68
Netflix is Axing Its Cheapest Ad-Free Plan in the US 24
Remembering Bob Newhart, Legendary Comedian - and Commodore PET Owner 24
'Halo' Canceled at Paramount+ After Two Seasons 42
Founder of Fandango Dies After Plunge From Manhattan Hotel 39
'Amazing' New Technology Set To Transform the Search For Alien Life 127
'Eno' Documentary: Different at Every Screening, to Explore Randomness and 'Generative' Film-making 62
DVD Rental Kiosks Business Redbox is Shutting Down 24
Popular Pirate Site Animeflix Shuts Down 'Voluntarily' 13
Amazon Injects Ads Into Fire TV Downtime 39
Sony Music Goes After Piracy Portal 'Hikari-no-Akari' 15
Netflix is Starting To Phase Out Its Cheapest Ad-Free Plan 74
Redbox Owner Chicken Soup For the Soul Files For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection 26
William Gibson's 'Neuromancer' to Become a Series on Apple TV+ 149
Lego Bricks Made From Meteorite Dust 3D Printed by Europe's Space Agency 27
Big Streamers Have Been Cutting Their Original Content Output 64
YouTube in Talks With Record Labels Over AI Music Deal 44
Researchers Upend AI Status Quo By Eliminating Matrix Multiplication In LLMs 72
MTV News Website Goes Dark, Archives Pulled Offline 67
Streaming Execs Think TV's Future Looks a Lot Like Its Past 106
Major Record Labels Sue AI Company Behind 'BBL Drizzy' 53
Foundation Honoring 'Star Trek' Creator Offers $1M Prize for AI Startup Benefiting Humanity 37
World's Largest Music Company Is Helping Musicians Make Their Own AI Voice Clones 20
Roku TV Owners Complain That Motion Smoothing Is Stuck 'On' After an Update 95
Ashton Kutcher: Entire Movies Can Be Made on OpenAI's Sora Someday 47
Napster Sparked a File-Sharing Revolution 25 Years Ago 49
'Why You Should Use Your TV's Filmmaker Mode' 77
Spotify Says It Will Refund Car Thing Purchases 28
Netflix's Sci-Fi Movie 'Atlas': AI Apocalypse Blockbuster Gets 'Shocking' Reviews 94
Spotify Is Going To Break Every 'Car Thing' Gadget It Ever Sold 65
Sonos Enters the Headphones Market 11
Sony Lays Down the Gauntlet on AI 37
UK Police Could Get Ghostbusters-style Backpack Devices To Halt Ebike Getaways 98
Comcast To Launch Peacock, Netflix and Apple TV+ Bundle 53
Google Targets Filmmakers With Veo, Its New Generative AI Video Model 12
OpenAI's Sam Altman on iPhones, Music, Training Data, and Apple's Controversial iPad Ad 37
'Hunt For Gollum' Short on YouTube Survives New Peter Jackson Movie Announcement 12
Streaming is Cable Now 110
Prime Video Subs Will Soon See Ads for Amazon Products When They Hit Pause 47
Marvel Will Release No More Than Three Movies and Two Shows Per Year, Bob Iger Says 149
How 'Star Wars' was Influenced by San Francisco - and Architecture 49
Geek-Friendly 'Free Comic Book Day' Titles Include Two Star Wars Books for May the Fourth 7
Star Wars Day 2024 Celebrated With Videogames, Movie Marathons, Cartoons, and Mark Hamill 28
Back From the Dead: Amarok 3.0 Music Player Released 56
Spotify Hides Song Lyrics Behind Paywall 43
Sony, Apollo Offers To Buy Paramount For $26 Billion 22
Roku Wants To Use Home Screen For New Types of Ads 60
Android TVs Can Expose User Email Inboxes 29
Twilio Founder Buys Satire Site 'The Onion' 30
Manga Site Blocks Adult Content, But Only For US and UK Users 123
What Comes After OLED? Meet QDEL 49
JWST Gets an IMAX Documentary: 'Deep Sky' 16
'Record Store Day' 2024 Includes Talking Heads, Daft Punk, Cheech & Chong, Beatles 20
Netflix Doc Accused of Using AI To Manipulate True Crime Story 24
Netflix Blows Past Earnings Estimates As Subscribers Jump 16% 35
Trump Media Shares Down 14% After Company Says Truth Social To Launch TV Streaming 126
Ask Slashdot: Are Movies Becoming More Derivative? 100
Song Lyrics Have Become Simpler and More Repetitive Over the Last Five Decades 143
Disneyland Adds 'Stars Wars' Touches (and New Droids) for 'Season of the Force' Event 49
Struggling Movie Exhibitors Beg Studios For More Movies - and Not Just Blockbusters 120
Chechnya Is Banning Music That's Too Fast Or Slow 229
Nine of the 10 Most-Watched Streaming Programs Are Reruns 215
How the European Space Agency Celebrated April Fool's Day 41
Disneyland Proposes New Area Based on 'Avatar' Movies 67
Denis Villeneuve is Doing Dune 3 72
Roku's New HDMI Tech Could Show Ads When You Pause Your Game 119
How a Micro-Budget Student Film Changed Sci-Fi Forever 44
Disney Will Crack Down on Password Sharing in June 38
George Carlin Estate Forces 'AI Carlin' Off the Internet For Good 31
New 'Matrix' Movie in Works 215
Top Musicians Among Hundreds Warning Against Replacing Human Artists With AI 162
'Yes, We're All Trapped in the Matrix Now' 185
After Losing Billions, Disney+ Tries Integrating Hulu Into Its App 78
'Dune 2' Beaten by 'Godzilla x Kong' 61
Russia Is Making Its Own Gaming Consoles 161
Pythagoras Was Wrong: There Are No Universal Musical Harmonies, Study Finds 73
Vinyl Records Outsell CDs For the Second Year Running 142
Star Trek: Prodigy Season 2 Releases Early In France 29
Tennessee Becomes First State To Protect Musicians, Other Artists Against AI 23
Tired of Streaming? Home-Grown 'Free Blockbuster' Libraries Are Trying to Offer Alternatives 27
93-Year-Old William Shatner Discusses 'Star Trek', Space, Mortality, and Captain Kirk's Death 62
It's 25 Years Later. Are We All Now Trapped in 'The Matrix'? 181
Netflix's '3 Body Problem' Draws Mixed Reviews, Sparks Anger in China 104
Oscars 2024: Netflix Wins Just One Award and Apple Shut Out After Streamers Combine for 32 Nominations 48
Akira Toriyama, Creator of Dragon Ball Manga Series, Dies Aged 68 40
Samsung Making It Harder To Know What Type of OLED TV You're Getting 47
Nikon To Acquire US Cinema Camera Manufacturer RED 36
Max Password Sharing Crackdown Is Coming 22
In Indonesia, Women Pirate More Music and Movies Than Men 36
Roku Disables Devices Until Users Agree To New Arbitration Rules 147
Two New 'Star Wars' Movies Will Begin Filming 147
The Desert Planet In 'Dune' Is Plausible, According To Science 51
Adobe's New Prototype Generative AI Tool Is the 'Photoshop' of Music-Making and Editing 51
Streaming To Overtake Pay TV Subscription Revenue For the First Time in US This Year 13
Hacker Uses Raspberry Pi and AI To Block Noisy Neighbor's Music 93
Open Source Movie Streaming Project 'Movie-Web' Shut Down By Hollywood Complaint 21
In Netflix's New Sci-Fi Movie 'Spaceman', an Introverted Astronaut Confronts Isolation 42
Former Gizmodo Writer Changed Name To 'Slackbot,' Stayed Undetected For Months 22
Amazon Says 'No Changes' Coming To Freevee Despite Reports of the Streamer Shuttering 14
Disney Strikes Deal For Sony To Take Over Its DVD, Blu-ray Disc Business 82
YouTube Dominates TV Streaming In US, Per Nielsen's Latest Report 22
Walmart To Buy TV Maker Vizio For $2.3 Billion 50
EU to Fine Apple $500M+ for Stifling Music Competitors Like Spotify 117
Pranksters Mock AI-Safety Guardrails with New Chatbot 'Goody-2' 74
Leaked Emails Show Hugo Awards Self-Censoring To Appease China 89
Walmart In Talks To Buy Vizio For More Than $2 Billion 31
Spotify's Layoffs Put an End To a Musical Encyclopedia 21
Streamer Plex Launches Its Long-Promised Movie Rentals Store 27
Funimation is Shutting Down, And Taking Your Digital Library With It 48
Disney Plus' Restrictions on Password Sharing Are Now Rolling Out To US Subscribers 54
Warner, Fox, Disney To Launch Streaming Sports Joint Venture 31
YouTube Has Become One of the Biggest Pay TV Services in the US 31
Disneyland's New 'Pixar Place' Hotel is Like Visiting the Studio 18
Joe Rogan Gets New Spotify Deal Worth Up To $250 Million 134
Avatar VFX Workers Vote To Unionize 28
YouTube Says It Has More Than 100 Million Premium and Music Subscribers 48
Hulu Is Cracking Down On Password Sharing, Just Like Disney Plus and Netflix 62
YouTube TV's Now Lets You Customize Your Multiview Experiences 21
Halo's Trailer for Season 2 Teases More Covenant 30
Netflix Adds Generative AI To Competitive Risk Factors in Its Annual Report 18
Streaming Pirates Are Hollywood's New Villains 160
Netflix is Going To Take Away Its Cheapest Ad-Free Plan 105
Sony Ends $10 Billion Merger With India Media Giant Zee 3
Remembering The 1970s-Era Technology of Devo 43
Now Musicians' Union Threatens Possible Strike Over AI, Streaming Media 64
Plex To Launch a Store For Movies and TV Shows 22
Music Streaming Platforms Must Pay Artists More, Says EU 58

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