Entertainment Stories for 2017

German Government Tells Parents: Destroy This WiFi-Connected Doll 142
How Atari's Nolan Bushnell Pioneered the Tech Incubator In the 1980s 25
70 Percent of Young Swedish Men Are Video Pirates, Study Says 207
CloudFlare Puts Pirate Sites on New IP Addresses, Avoids Cogent Blockade 88
Lost Winston Churchill Essay Reveals His Thoughts On Alien Life 187
Facebook To Autoplay Videos With Sound On By Default 116
Canada Remains a 'Safe Haven' For Online Piracy, Rightsholders Claim 134
Facebook is Bringing Its Social Network To TV, Video App Announced For Apple's and Amazon's Set-Top Boxes 21
Playboy Is Featuring Naked Women Again -- After Dropping Nudity a Year Ago Due To the Internet 259
Netflix Geoblocking Loosened Under New EU Law 56
Valve Is Shutting Down Steam's Greenlight Community Voting System 99
Internet Backbone Provider Cogent Blocks Pirate Bay and Other 'Pirate' Sites 186
Jeff Bezos Talks About Music Streaming, and His Political Ambitions 70
Overeager Investors Seeking Snap Buy Snap Interactive Instead 55
Police Arrest Five Men For Selling Kodi Boxes 'Fully Loaded' With Illegal Streaming Apps 105
EU Agrees To Cross-Border Access To Streaming Services 55
Battlestar Galactica Actor Richard Hatch Dies At 71 100
World of Warcraft Gold Can Now Be Used To Buy Other Blizzard Games 69
Movie Industry Wants Irish ISPs To Block Pirate Movie Streaming Portals 55
Overwatch Director Speaks Out Against Console Mouse/keyboard Adapters 262
Vizio Settles With FTC, Will Pay $2.2 Million and Delete User Data 44
'The End Of The Level Playing Field' 108
The Brief, Bumbling Tech Careers of Lady Gaga, Alicia Keys, and Will.i.am 97
A Super Bowl Koan: Does The NFL Wish It Were A Tech Company? 126
Pong's Inventor Unveils Three New VR Arcade Games - Including Pong 27
Misophonia: Scientists Crack Why Eating Sounds Can Make People Angry 152
Nintendo Halts Wii U Production In Anticipation of Switch Launch 59
IMDb Is Shutting Down Its Long-Running, Popular Message Boards After 16 Years 168
False News, Absurd Reality Present Challenges For Satirists 333
Nvidia Stops Promotional Game Resales By Tying Codes To Hardware 120
Mexican Surgeon Uses VR Headset To Distract Patients During Surgery 115
Hackers Take Over Unsecured Radio Transmitters, Play Anti-Trump Song 99
Film Industry's Latest Search Engine Draws Traffic With 'Pirate' Keywords' 73
2.5 Million Xbox and PlayStation Gamers' Details Have Been Leaked From Piracy Forums 36
2K Games Wins the Right To Store and Share Your Biometric Facial Data 60
AI Decisively Defeats Four Pro Poker Players In 'Brains Vs AI' Tournament 191
Roku Owners: Comcast Is About To Sell You Cable TV Without the Cable Box 108
US Judge Rejects Suit Over Face Scanning for Video Game 69
'Father of Pac-Man,' Masaya Nakamura, Dies At Age 91 39
Sony Warns It Will Take $1 Billion Writedown, Blames Slowing DVD Sales 157
Vinyl Record Production Gets a Much-Needed Tech Upgrade 303
Actor John Hurt Dies At Age 77 50
ISPs Finally Abandon The Copyright Alert System 113
Apple Is Moving Its Entire International iTunes Business To Ireland 114
Software Engineers Are the Heroes of New Computer History Museum Exhibit 115
Samsung's Galaxy S8 Will Feature a Headphone Jack, Desktop Dock, 'Infinity Display' and More, Says In-Depth Report 146
UK 'Pirates' Get 20-Day Grace Period After Each Warning 35
George Orwell's '1984' Tops Amazon's Bestseller List 659
Netflix Will Now Let Android Users Download Content Onto SD Storage 62
Amazon's Best Picture Oscar Nod Makes History For Streaming Media 38
Apple Investigating Issue With AirPods Randomly Disconnecting During Calls 128
FBI Is Probing Sundance Cyberattack That Forced Box Office To Close 37
Sprint Purchases 33 Percent Stake in Tidal For $200 Million 63
NASA Names an Asteroid After 'Star Trek' Actor Wil Wheaton 126
CBS, Paramount Settle Lawsuit Over 'Star Trek' Fan Film 146
Jay Z's Tidal Music Streaming Service Is Fraudulently Inflating Subscriber Numbers, Report Says 32
Despite Glitches, AT&T's DirecTV Now Hits 200,000 Subscribers in Its First Month 25
Sony Is Weighing a Sale of Film, TV Business 37
Star Trek Discovery Gets Delayed Again As Spock's Father Is Cast 164
3D TV Is Dead 399
Netflix Calls Out HBO For Not Letting Subscribers Binge On New Shows 59
32% of All US Adults Watch Pirated Content 257
Netflix's Subscriber Boom Shows the World is Accepting Internet TV 148
Report: PS4 Is Selling Twice As Well As Xbox One 136
Japan To End Tourists' Toilet Trouble With Standardised Buttons 187
Verizon Looking To Buy Comcast or Charter, Says Report 82
Porn Pirates Exploit Well-Known Loophole To Upload Raunchy Videos On YouTube 91
Netflix is 'Killing' DVD Sales, Research Finds 316
Apple Exec Jimmy Iovine Confirms Company's Interest in Making 'Pop Culture' TV Shows 86
Headphone Users Rejoice: Samsung Reportedly Not Killing the Galaxy S8's Headphone Jack 79
Head of Sony Entertainment, Michael Lynton, To Step Down 9
Chrome is Getting the Ability To Play FLAC 80
Nintendo Switch Will Launch On March 3rd For $299, Won't Feature Region-Locking Software 167
Cassettes Are Back, and Booming 564
Amazon Launches Anime Channel for $5 Per Month, Its First Branded Subscription Channel 114
Apple Planning To Make Original TV Shows and Movies as Hardware Sales Soften 130
Streaming TV is Beginning To Look a Lot Like Cable 209
Monopoly May Replace Iconic Pieces With Emoji Faces and Hashtags 123
Sonos CEO John MacFarlene Steps Down From the Company He Helped Found 23
'OLED TVs Will Finally Take Off in 2017' 238
Streaming Now Officially the Number One Way We Listen to Music in America 180
IMDb Ignores New Law Banning It From Publishing Actors' Ages Online, Cites Free Speech Violations 218
Ask Slashdot: What's The Most Useful 'Nerd Watch' Today? 232
Chile's Goverment Announces Unexplainable 'UFO' Footage 124
Kodak Is Bringing Back Ektachrome Film 213
Dell Unveils XPS 27 All-In-One With 10 Speaker Dual 50W Sound System 53
Norway To Become First Country To Switch Off FM Radio 303
Ultrasound Tracking Could Be Used To Deanonymize Tor Users 207
Ask Slashdot: Why Did 3D TVs and Stereoscopic 3D Television Broadcasting Fail? 435
Samsung Claims Its New QLED TVs Are Better Than OLED TVs 190
Netflix Hasn't Forgotten About Its 4.3 Million DVD Subscribers 84
Piracy 'Warnings' Fail To Boost Box Office Revenues, Research Says 189
Dish's New AirTV Set-Top Box Does Over-the-Air and 4K Streaming 22
Programmer Finds Way To Liberate Ransomware Affected Smart TV, Thanks To LG 161
Despite Piracy Claims, North American Box Office Hits Record $11.4 Billion In 2016 142
Lucasfilm Creates A 4K Ultra-HD Restoration of the Original 'Star Wars' 304

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