Entertainment Stories for 2011

Vision and Sound From the Ideally Bare Numeric Impression giZmo 38
Transforming Any Flat Surface Into a Control Panel With Sound 53
Ebert: I'll Tell You Why Movie Revenue Is Dropping 865
Justifications For Creating an IT Department? 214
DigiTimes Lends Credence To Apple-Branded TVs For 2012 232
Warner Bros Sued For Pirating Louis Vuitton Trademark 227
Customers Gleefully Mock Best Buy's $1,095.99 HDMI 369
Amazon Patents Deducing Religion From Gift Wrap 164
Linux-Powered Christmas Display Puts Rudolph To Shame 68
Face-Scanning Vending Machine Denies Children Access To Pudding 215
The Large Hadron Collider Has Been Recreated In Lego 80
Hack Your Holiday Decorations 48
Ask Slashdot: Best Open Source License For Guitar? 102
Hobbit Film Trailer Posted Online 257
Music Player Amarok 2.5 Released 152
Star Wars: the Old Republic Launches 389
X-Men Origins Pirate Draws a 1-Year Sentence 341
Will Toys-R-Us Carry Spy Drones? 189
NFL: National Football Luddites? 257
Ask Slashdot: Entry-Level Robotics Kits For Young Teenagers? 153
Ask Slashdot: Most Efficient, Worthwhile Charity? 570
Rare Earth Magnets Pose Threat To Children 284
Aging Consoles Find New Life As Video Streamers 255
Czech Nationwide Census Shows Jump In Jedi Knights 321
The Most Dangerous Toys of 2011 292
Nightingale Media Player Preview Released 79
Running Tor On Your TV 80
At Universal's Request, YouTube Yanks News Podcast Over Music Snippet 287
US Bans Loud Commercials 289
Louis CK's Internet Experiment Pays Off 309
The Kindle Skews Amazon's 2011 Best-Seller List 135
Verizon Considering Purchase of Netflix 139
Predator Drone Helps Nab Cattle Rustlers 214
The Encyclopedia of Sci-fi Goes Live Online 82
Two Lost Doctor Who Episodes Found 150
North Korea Threatens South Korea Over Christmas Lights 441
Two SOPA Writers Become Entertainment Lobbyists 171
Pop Artists Support Megaupload; Universal Censors 255
Geodesic Gingerbread House Template For the Holidays 61
Feds Return Mistakenly Seized Domain 243
Original Star Wars Camera Sells For $625,000 65
MythBusters Bust House 631
Digital Face-Swapping Getting Cheaper 62
TV Isn't Broken, So Why Fix It? 839
Filmmakers Reviving Sci-fi By Going Old School 422
Ticketmaster Customers, Get Ready For Your (Tiny) Class-Action Payout 140
World's Fastest Cells Raced On Petri Dish 61
Napster Being Shut Down 213
Linux Advent Calendar: "24 Outstanding ZSH Gems" 46
TV Ownership Declines For Second Time Since 1970 349
Fate Saves Workprint of Manos: The Hands of Fate 94
The Science of Humor 344
Toy Story Meets Google Street View 61
The Sports Footage You Won't See Today On TV 277
Lego Bible Too Racy For Sam's Club 484
Netflix Expects To Be Unprofitable In 2012 323
Anne McCaffrey Passes Away At 85 181
Ham Radio Licenses Top 700,000, An All-Time High 358
In the EU, Water Doesn't (Officially) Prevent Dehydration 815
Human Survival Depends On Space Exploration, Says Hawking 438
France To Tax the Internet To Pay For Music 209
'Arrested Development' Comes Exclusively To Netflix 201
Ask Slashdot: Good, Useful Free Software For Gifts? 377
Occupy Flash? 507
Google Music Goes Live With Google+ Integration 240
RIAA Doesn't Like the "Used Digital Music" Business 300
Doctor Who To Become Hollywood Feature Film 357
Secret BBC Documents Reveal Flimsy Case For DRM 199
2011 Geek IQ Test 161
German Copyright Group To Collect From Creative Commons Event 349
Workshops Begin In Australia On WikiLeaks Opera 45
Google Music Downloads To Go Ahead Without Sony Or Warner 220
Logitech Calls Google TV a 'Big Mistake' 195
Universal Buys EMI's Recorded Music Unit For $1.9 Billion 119
Sony Racing Apple To Develop 'a New Kind of TV' 273
Failures Mark First National Test of Emergency Alert System 451
Airline to Offer In-Flight Adult Movies 200
Ask The Yes Men 53
Exploiting Network Captures For Truer Randomness 189
No Charges For Child-Whipping Judge Caught On YouTube 948
A Brief History of Failed Digital Rights Management Schemes 149
Mathematically Pattern-Free Music 234
1st Strikes Issued Under New Zealand Anti-Piracy Laws 123
They Might Be Giants Answers Your Questions 92
Ubuntu Heads To Smartphones, and Tablets 281
Ohio Emergency Responders Stage Mock Zombie Invasion 219
Apple's Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) Now Open Source 526
Redbox Raises Its Prices To $1.20 Per Day 232
Ask Slashdot: How Are You Haunting Your House This Hallowe'en? 249
Hyperion Promises An AmigaOS Netbook 258
Universal Uses DMCA To Get Bad Lip Reading Parody Taken Down 298
Flowchart Guides Readers Through the 100 Best SF Books 222
Doctors Recommend Against TV For Kids Under 2 210
Microsoft Patenting Celebrity-Shaped Bing'ing 123
"World's Most Relaxing Music" Composed 239
EU Court Rules Against Exclusive TV Licensing Deal 115
Original Content Coming To YouTube? 119
SF Authors Predict Computing's Future 258
Electrical Power From Humans 220
William Shatner Answers, in 826 Words 189
Leonardo DiCaprio To Play Alan Turing? 269
Google Working To Launch Music Store Soon 66
Soon, No More Film Movie Cameras 227
Company Unveils Personalized Anime Robot Girl 240
3D Printer For Your Kids 195
Intel Gives Up On TV 89
Ask Derek Deville About High-Altitude Amateur Rocketry 148
Netflix Kills Qwikster 253
A Few Million Monkeys Finish Recreating Shakespeare's Works 186
Movie Industry: Loss of Control Worse Than Piracy 360
Microsoft To Bring Cable TV To 360 133
Ask Slashdot: What To Do In SW:TOR For Just 3 Days? 211
Robotic Arm With Home-Brewed, Open Source Voice Control 33
Spock Gives Up the Con 183
Zune Dead, Then Not Dead, Then Officially Dead 181
Anti-Piracy PI Talks About Building Cases Against File-Sharers 109
Rhapsody To Acquire Napster 59
Ask William Shatner Whatever You'd Like 368
Estimating Age With Kinect's 3D Camera To Filter Content 102
Ask They Might Be Giants About Almost 30 Years of Music 188
The Cable Industry's a La Carte Bait and Switch 447
Tokyo Subway Gets Lightsaber Handrails 61
Sesame Street Begins Teaching Math and Science 271
Spotify Defends Facebook Sign-Up Requirement 286
Will Google TV Owe Royalties For Universal Search? 91
Netflix Signs Exclusive Deal With Dreamworks 199
Star Wars: The Old Republic Launch Date Announced 125
DISH Network Unveils Movie Streaming Service 49
Electric Tron Lightcycle Hits the Streets 113
Neal Stephenson Says Video Games Are the Metaverse 176
DC Universe Online Goes F2P 103
Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day 3
William Shatner On Star Trek Vs. Star Wars 511
Netflix Creates Qwikster For DVD Only Business 481
Why Star Wars Should be Left to the Fans 425
Xbox TV Launch Planned Before End of Year 81
Court Reinstates $675k File Sharing Verdict 388
Netflix To Lose 1 Million Subscribers 349
EU Extends Music Copyright to 70 Years 536
HD Transfer of Star Trek: TNG To Arrive This Year 267
Hurt Locker Lawsuits May Reach Canadians, Too 159
Inside Netflix's WebKit-Based UI For TV Devices 39
1970s Polaroid SX-70 Cameras Make a Comeback 106
$5M In Torrented Files Presented As Art 243
Bill Gates Patents 'Virtual Entertainment' 141
Wicked Lasers Introduces Handheld One-Watt Green Laser 404
Lucasfilm Unveils "Sandcrawler" Singapore Office 159
Starz To Pull Content From Netflix 314
UK To Get Whitespace Radio 71
Environmental Enforcement Agents Targeting Guitars 379
Entrepreneur Makes Millions Selling Virtual Land 142
Samsung Cites 2001: A Space Odyssey In Apple Patent Case 432
Victory For Music Locker Services? 51
Taken Over By Aliens? Google Has It Covered 99
The 2011 Hugo Awards 162
New RIM Streaming Music: $5 For 50 Songs? 149
A TV That Knows and Shares What You're Watching 168
What If Aliens Came To Save the Galaxy From Mankind? 534
Ridley Scott To Direct New Blade Runner Movie 288
Can Google Fix the Cable Box? 223
Anti-Piracy Lawyers Accuse Blind Man of Downloading Films 302
Do Spoilers Ruin a Good Story? No, Say Researchers 238
Music Copyright War Looming 243
Star Wars Coins Issued By Pacific Island Nation 129
Researchers Make Graphene From Girl Scout Cookies 129
Walmart To Close Online Music Store 92
$1.5 Billion Star Trek Theme Park Coming To Jordan 233
Review: Rise of the Planet of the Apes 239
L.A. Artist Contemplates Future Traffic Flow, With Hot Wheels 118
ISPs Will Now Be Copyright Cops 338
FOX To Host New Cosmos 206
Sony Wins 'Epic Fail' Honors At Pwnie Awards 48
Internet Eats Into Time-Warner Cable Porn Profits 228
NASA Sends Lego Figures to Jupiter 164
Spiderman's Politically Correct Replacement 608
Ripping CDs Set To Be Legalized In UK 156
Review: Cowboys & Aliens 225
Movie Studios Want Automated BitTorrent Warnings 140
No Set-Top TV Device Market Domination For Google 133
Dice Age — Indie Gaming Project vs. Hollywood 47
Beyond HDTV 354
Spotify Sued For Patent Infringement 151
Why Your Dad's 30-Year-Old Stereo Sounds Better Than Yours 674
McCain Decries "Hobbits," Accused of Ringbearing 722
What Happens After the Super-Hero Movie Bubble? 339
OK Go Goes HTML5 171
Lucas Loses Star Wars Stormtrooper Copyright Case 325
Wal-Mart Jumps Into Video Streaming 150
Blockbuster Trying To Woo Disgruntled Netflix Customers 214
Public AAC Listening Test @ ~96 Kbps [July 2011]. 277
Get Your Own Action Figure (In Japan) 74
Today's Lighter TVs Mean Much Less E-Waste 197
3D Hurts Your Eyes 244
PayPal Joins London Police Effort 117
Google Music Adds Linux, Ogg Vorbis Support 111
The Loudness Wars May Be Ending 294
Spotify To Bait and Switch? 121
Why Netflix Had To Raise Its Prices 574
Activision Trying To 'Reinvent' Guitar Hero 144
Wall-E Robot Made With LEGO Mindstorms 29
Stanford Students Build "JediBot" 157
Netflix Deflects Rage Over Price Increase 722
Bruce Campbell Confirms New Evil Dead Movie 74
Robot Film Festival Hits New York 20
Exercise Your Thumbs and Eyeballs With a Tiny Space Invaders Cabinet 24
Why SOE Decided To Cancel Star Wars Galaxies 149
Turn Your iPad Into a Star Trek PADD 165
LG Cinema 3D TV Get Full HD Certification From VDE 71
Playdough For Fun and Profit 70
Space Invaders: The Movie 244
RIAA Math: Sell 1 Million Albums, Still Owe $500k 355
Spanish Copyright Society Raided For Embezzlement 80
Scientists Play World's Oldest Commercial Recording 105
Star Wars Landspeeders Are Here 112
Are Google Music and Amazon Cloud Player Legal? 226
Indie Film Premieres On BitTorrent Before Cinema 93
America: Like It Or Unfriend It 277
How To Get Websites To Ban Sign-ups From Gmail.com Accounts 175
Is There a Formula For a Hit Song? 243
Monty Python Members Reunite For Chapman Film 55
Star Wars Books Released As Ebooks 70
Where Jules Verne Meets Star Wars: GE's Walking Truck 57
DVRs, Cable Boxes Top List of Home Energy Hogs 324
Sony Develops Technology To Hack Your Hand 114
Sony Shutting Down Star Wars Galaxies MMO and TCG 142
Hulu For Sale: Is There Good News For Users? 473
Expense and Uncertainty Plague 'Fair Use' Defense 190
The History of the Videophone In Sci-Fi 97
Apple To Start Making TVs? 313
Weird Al Says "Twitter Saved My Album" 160
Practical "Smell-o-Vision" System Being Developed 210
Ask Slashdot: How Do I Scrub Pirated Music From My Collection? 758
Best Buy Releases Their Own Music Cloud 187
Defiance Combines TV Show and MMO 45
Review: Green Lantern 201
JavaScript Decoder Plays MP3s Without Flash 250
Senate Bill Could Make It Illegal To Upload Lip-Synced Videos 239
John Linnell of They Might Be Giants Talks Tech 111
Comcast Offering Home Security Bundle 102
Netflix's New Web Interface Gets Thumbs Down From Users 267
Austin's Alamo Drafthouse Theater Gives Texters the Boot 370
Google Guitar Doodle Song Gallery 77
The Science of Lightsabers 232
Dozens of Tech Bigwigs Friend Facebook Spambot 81
Arduino Music Controllers With Horns, Finally 19
Judge Prevents 23,322 Filesharing Does From Being Sued For Now 199
Supreme Court Takes Up Scholars' Rights 190
Microsoft Announces Halo 4, TV For Xbox Live, Kinect Star Wars 157
X-Men: First Class 226
Pranksters Post Giant Windows Logo On Hamburg Apple Store 249

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