Entertainment Stories for 2016

Ask Slashdot: How Could You Statistically Identify The Best Sci-Fi Books? 180
Can Quantum Entanglement Create Faster-Than-Light Communication? 238
Drones Being Used By Peeping Toms, The Military, And Terrorists 101
Neil Gaiman Celebrates Independent Bookstore Day 33
Developer Installs Windows 95 On An Apple Watch 98
Cable Industry Threatens To Sue If FCC Tries To Bring Competition To Cable Set Top Boxes 100
Rovi Acquires DVR Company TiVo For $1.1 Billion 50
US Toy Maker Maisto's Website Pushes Ransomware 26
iTunes Turns 13 Today -- Continues To Be 'Awful' 267
Microsoft's Windows 10 Upgrade Screen Interrupts Meteorologist's Live Forecast 235
Intel Wants To Eliminate The Headphone Jack And Replace It With USB-C 382
After Netflix Crackdown On Border-Hopping, Canadians Ready To Return To Piracy 438
Report: Comcast In Talks To Buy DreamWorks For $3 Billion 49
Zero Zero's Camera Drone Could Be A Robot Command Center In The Future 31
HTC Announces $100 Million Fund For Virtual Reality Startups 43
Apple Has First Earnings Decline In More Than A Decade 284
Spotify Denies User Details Hacked After Passwords Show Up Online 39
Valve Inks Deal With Lionsgate Adding Over 100 Movie Titles To Steam Platform 117
US Justice Dept Approves Charter's Time Warner Cable Purchase With Conditions 67
Swedish ISP Vows to Protect Users From a Piracy Witch Hunt 45
Oculus Rift Users Angered By Pre-Order Snafu 70
Why Movie Trailers Now Begin With Five-Second Ads For Themselves 97
Amazon Won't Sell Non-Prime Members Certain Popular Movies and Video Games 180
Drone Believed To Have Hit British Airways Flight 'May Have Been a Plastic Bag' 120
Hearing Aid Business Under Pressure From Consumer Electronics 209
Google Search Will Soon Include Live TV Listings 36
RIP Prince, A Legendary Musician With A Complicated Internet History 196
Lian-Li's Adjustable Motorized Standing Desk Is Also a High-End PC Chassis 68
Magic Leap Adds Virtual Reality Head-Tracking and Possibly Hand-Tracking 35
Comcast To Allow TV Customers To Ditch Set-Top Box 113
BT Funnels All Customers' Sent Emails Into One Guy's Inbox 45
Animated Simulation Lets You Watch the Titanic Sink In Real Time 129
Cheaper Vizio 4K TVs With Built-in Google Cast Are Here 81
VPN Blockade Backlash Doesn't Hurt Us, Says Netflix 98
Verizon and Hearst Team Up To Buy Complex Media 22
Amazon Splits Prime Video Service To Compete Directly With Netflix 105
YouTube Introduces Live 360 Video Streaming and Spatial Audio 7
Netflix Has Twice As Many US Subscribers As Comcast 112
How 'The Jungle Book' Made Its Animals Look So Real With Groundbreaking VFX 152
Music Industry Sees First Big Gains in 20 Years Thanks to Streaming Services 134
Jet Strikes Drone Near Heathrow Airport 401
James Cameron Announces Four Sequels to 'Avatar' 283
Flying Jet-Powered Hoverboard Now a Reality 93
Google's Android N OS Will Support Pressure-Sensitive Screens 68
Underwater Sonar Robot Discovers A Real Loch Ness Monster (Prop) 62
MPAA Wants ISPs to Disconnect Persistent Pirates 263
Snowden Predicts Global iPhone Hack, Records Song 71
'Record Store Day' Creates Vinyl Logjam 120
Drone-Shooting is Now a Federal Crime, FAA Confirms 192
Obama Urges Opening Cable TV Boxes To Competition 75
Sharp Unveils Cute Robot Phone At A Not-So-Cute $1,800 Price 21
Sarah Palin Says 'Bill Nye Is As Much A Scientist As I Am' 634
Apple's iTunes Movies and iBooks Stores Mysteriously Go Down In China 14
Google Play Music To Add Podcast Support on April 18, Says Report 31
AMC Drops 'Texting Friendly' Theaters Idea 150
Google Launches Customizable 'Live Cases' For Nexus Devices 44
GoPro Announces Third-Party Developer Program With Over 100 Partners 15
Phone-Friendly Movie Theaters For Millennials Could Be Reality Soon 321
About 40,000 Unionized Verizon Workers Walk Off the Job 189
Google Calendar Celebrates 10th Birthday With New Goals Feature 19
Piracy Fails To Prevent Another Box Office Record 221
Sprint Quickly Pulls Video Ad Calling T-Mobile 'Ghetto' 201
The Guardian Publishes Comment Abuse Stats, Invites Debate On Moderation 303
Tesla Updates Model S With New Front-End, Air Filtration System, Faster Charging 123
Porn Giant xHamster Blocks North Carolina Users Who Support Anti-LGBT Law 766
Medium, Twitter Founder on Media: We Put Junk Food In Front Of Them and They Eat It 123
Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Insults No Developer Wants To Hear? 523
Cellebrite Is Developing Roadside Police 'Textalyzer' Device 188
Music Streaming Service Exclusives Make Pirating Tempting Again 207
Academics Claim Google Android 2FA Is Breakable 48
Free Lightsaber Event Now Battling Lucasfilm's Lawyers 198
The FBI Director Puts Tape Over His Webcam 202
Senator Al Franken Takes On Oculus Over VR Data Mining 70
Most Netflix Customers Don't Realize Prices Will Increase Next Month 213
The Next Hot Job in Silicon Valley Is For Poets 58
Tesla Says Model 3 Had 'Biggest One-Week Launch of Any Product Ever' 270
A Lot of People Carelessly Plug In Random USB Drives Into Their Computers 391
People Feel Weird About Touching Robot Butts, Researchers Find 162
HP Says It Made the World's Thinnest Laptop 166
Tomorrow's PS4 Update To Add Game Streaming for PC and Mac, Privacy Features 64
US Army Hopes To Outfit Soldiers With Tiny Drones By 2018 101
Anti-Piracy Firm Rightscorp Will Hijack Pirates' Browsers Until a Fine is Paid 339
Australian Man Uses 1TB of Mobile Data in a Single Day 164
There Are Some Super Shady Things In Oculus Rift's Terms of Service 186
MPAA Opposes Proposed Minnesota Revenge Porn Law, Saying It Limits Speech 96
Oklahoma Video Vigilante Uses Drone To Wage War Against Prostitutes and Johns 339
The Music Industry Is Begging the US Government To Change Its Copyright Laws 209
Verizon Plans $20 Upgrade Fee Even If You Pay Full Price For a Phone 187
Man Builds 'Scarlett Johansson' Robot From Scratch 158
DJI Files Patent Lawsuit Against Yuneec, Marking Industry's First Legal Fight 33
No Joke. April Fools' Day Has Been Banned In China 83
Gmail's Mic Drop April Fool Backfires Horribly Costing People Their Jobs 252
Elon Musk Announces $35,000 Tesla Model 3 Electric Car 430
FCC Proposes New Restrictions On How Broadband Providers Share Data 23
Netflix's Original Content Library Is Growing By 185% Each Year 103
Chinese Scammers Take Mattel To the Bank, Phishing Them For $3 Million 63
Sony's Ultra 4K Streaming Service Launching On April 4; Titles Priced At $30 148
Fredkin Gate Breakthrough Brings Quantum Computing Within Closer Reach 52
Oracle Seeks $9.3 Billion For Google's Use Of Java In Android 343
Redbox Plans To Launch New Streaming Service 'Redbox Digital' 62
University of Illinois Transmits Record 57Gbps Through Fiber Optic Lines 57
iPhone 7s May Sport Curved Glass and AMOLED Display 113
Tribeca Film Festival, Robert De Niro Pull Anti-Vaccination Film 279
Sony Fixes Flubbed Dash Download 39
How To Solve VR Simulation Sickness: Strap People Into Rollercoasters 36
FAA Predicts 7 Million Drones By 2020 56
Report: Intel May Dump Nvidia, Turn To AMD For Radeon Graphics Licensing 124
Heavy Social Media Users 'Trapped In Endless Cycle of Depression' 110
Netflix's US Catalog Has Shrunk by More Than 2,500 Titles in Less Than 2.5 Years 158
Netflix Admits To Capping Video Streams On Wireless Networks 69
Slashdot Asks: Should NPR Stop Promoting Its Own Podcasts and NPR One App On Air? 143
CCTV DVR Vulnerabilities Traced To Chinese OEM Which Spurned Researchers' Advice 51
Pornhub Unveils Free VR Porn Channel 91
OLO, World's First Portable 3D Printer Prints On Top Of Smartphones 80
Music Streaming Sales Outstrip Digital Downloads For First Time 74
New Microhotels Fight Airbnb With 65 Square Foot Rooms 123
Vizio's New TVs Sport Google Cast, HDR and Android Tablets 56
MuckRock Launches March Madness -- For FOIA 16
Microsoft Asks If You'd Be Happy With Selling Back Digital Xbox One Games For 10% 101
Apple Unveils Smaller iPhone SE, Starting At $399 158
Studio Ghibli Animation Software Going "Open Source"; Details Pending 102
Jury Orders Gawker To Pay $115 Million To Hulk Hogan In Sex Tape Lawsuit 236
Netflix CEO Says Blocking Proxy Services Is Maturation of Internet TV 191
Sexism Is Still a Thing At Microsoft's GDC Party 586
Nike's Self-Lacing Shoes Will Go On Sale This Year 84
How Much Do Tech Bosses Really Earn? 59
Steam Stealer Malware Becomes Extremely Sophisticated, Remains Very Cheap 95
Peter Jackson and JJ Abrams 'Back' Sean Parker's Screening Room 288
LG Releases First Smartphone With DAB+ Chip 53
Leaked Islamic State Documents Identify Thousands of Jihadis 180
An Inside Look At How Netflix Builds Code 48
Apple Announces 'Let Us Loop You In' Event For March 21st 66
Miniature Fuel Cell To Keep Drones Aloft For Over An Hour 61
Amazon Job Posting Hints At New VR Platform 17
Feds: Brink's Employee Makes Off With $196,000 In Quarters 142
New Smartwatches Allow Students To Cheat On Exams 394
Comcast Hit With FCC Complaint Over Net Neutrality Violations 109
Record-Breaking 11000ft Flight Sparks Criticism In Pilot Community 233
Government To Bring Forward Law To Close BBC 'iPlayer Loophole' 100
CRTC Enforced $25/mo Cable TV Is Now Available To Canadians, But With Caveats 194
FCC Complaints For the 2016 Primary Debates 178
YouTube Promises Changes To Copyright Claim Policy 95
Microcasting Color TV By Abusing a Wi-Fi Chip 63
Surge Pricing Arrives In Disney's Magic Kingdom Just in Time for Star Wars Opening 164
Valve's SteamOS Now Supports Vulkan, The Cross-Platform Alternative To DirectX 12 119
Next-Gen Ultra HD Blu-Ray Discs Probably Won't Be Cracked For A While 244
Drones Under 2kg May Be Set Free Under Forthcoming FAA Rules 103
Ask Slashdot: Linux and the Home Recording Studio? 264
Israel Thwarts Attempt To Smuggle Commercial Drones Into Gaza 312
Feds Say There Isn't A Single Safe 'Hoverboard' 146
HTC Vive Is $799, Ships From April 1st 83
Rio Has Given Up On Clean Water For Olympics 400
China Set To Ban All Foreign Media From Publishing Online 110
Original 1977 Star Wars 35mm Print Has Been Restored and Released Online 272
Kanye West Is Reportedly Considering Legal Action Against the Pirate Bay 311
FCC Votes To Fight Cable's Reign Over Set-top Boxes 186
Gaga, Bowie, the Grammys, and the Internet of Augmented Things 42
End of an Era As Pioneering BBC3 Becomes an Online-Only Station 85
UK Pilots' Union Calls For Laser Pointers To Be Classed As Offensive Weapons 275
'The Room Had Started To Smell. Really Quite Bad': Stephen Fry Exits Twitter 305
Goldman Sachs: VR and AR "Will Be The Next Generation Computing Platform" Worth $80 Billion By 2025 133
What Bell Labs Was Like C.1967 264
Dallas Buyers Club LLC Abandons Fight Against Australian Pirates 37
Why Sarcasm Is Such a Problem In Artificial Intelligence 152
FAA Eases Drone Restrictions Around Washington, DC 72
AWS Terms of Service Offer a Break If Zombie Apocalypse Occurs 57
Bethesda To Unleash the Hounds of Hell On May 13th: Doom Release Date Confirmed 86
Verizon's Mobile Video Won't Count Against Data Caps -- but Netflix Will 106
The Pirate Bay Now Let You Stream Movies and TV, Not Just Download 125
A Bot That Drives Robocallers Insane 253
In Japan, a Battle Brewing Over the Right To Record 4k and 8k Broadcasts 105
Torrents Time Lets Anyone Launch Their Own Web Version of Popcorn Time 144
John Cleese Warns Campus Political Correctness Leading Towards 1984 669
Price Dispute Means 800k Customers Lose TV Channels In Sweden 164
A Legal Name Change Puts 'None of the Above' On Canadian Ballot 171
Cable Lobby Steams Up Over FCC Set-Top Box Competition Plan 167
iTunes Radio Is Now "Apple Music" (and You Need a Subscription) 105
German Inventor, Innovator and Businessman Artur Fischer Dies At Age of 96 38
Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli Threatens Ghostface Killah 108
Drone Racing League Wants To Be the Next NASCAR 91
Filmmaker Forces Censors To Watch 10-Hour Movie of Paint Drying 255
Ask Slashdot: Math-Related Present For a Bright 10-Year-Old? 238
Spotify To Launch New Video Product This Week 9
Hollywood Turning Against Digital Effects 232
To Solve a Rubik's Cube In 1 Second, It Takes a Robot 100
DOJ and 4 States Want $24 Billion In Fines From Dish Network For Telemarketing 117
Intel Compute Stick Updated With Cherry Trail Atom, Tested 90
CIA: 10 Tips When Investigating a Flying Saucer 54
Netflix's Doomed Battle Against VPNs Begins 159
Nielsen Adds Facebook To Social TV Ratings 28
'Star Wars: Episode VIII' Delayed By Seven Months 203
Tension Escalates Between Netflix and Its TV Foes 302
Matt Groening In Talks With Netflix For Animated Series 103
The FBI Feared Communist Infiltration of EPCOT 112
Geoblocking, Licensing, and Piracy Make For Tough Choices at Netflix 106
RIP Alan Rickman, AKA Hans Gruber, Severus Snape 174
Universal To License Music To SoundCloud In Streaming Deal 49
The BBC Announces Robot Wars' Return To TV 77
AT&T Brings Back Unlimited Mobile Data To Lure TV Subscribers 68
David Bowie Dies At Age 69 296
Ask Slashdot: Cheap and Fun Audio Hacks? 135
Quantifying How Much the Force Is Used In Star Wars 188
Android-Based Smart TVs Aren't That Smart When You Install Malware On Them 89
Open-Source Firmware For Your Toy Drone 32
Netflix Teams With LG For 'Prepaid' Streaming Worldwide 32
CBS, Others Sued For Copyright Infringement Over "Soft Kitty" In Big Bang Theory 349
A New, App-Based Format For Novels 57
Gene Roddenberry's Floppy Disks Recovered 277
What the Future Fiction of 2015 Revealed About Humans Today 179
LG Announces "Super UHD" TV Lineup 121

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