Entertainment Stories for 2012

Intel's Rumored TV Plans Would Compete With Apple, Google 82
Christmas Tree Rocketry 29
YouTube Drops 2 Billion Fake Music Industry Views 167
Ask Slashdot: Easiest Way To Consolidate Household Media? 272
Investing In Lego Bricks For Fun But Mostly Profit 98
Stan Lee Celebrates 90th Birthday 57
Pirate Radio Station In Florida Jams Automotive Electronics 315
Adafruit To Teach Electronics Through Puppets In New Kids Show 68
'Connected' TVs Mostly Used Just Like the Unconnected Kind 217
Ask Slashdot: What Was Your Favorite Web Comic of 2012? 321
Gerry Anderson, Co-Creator of Thunderbirds, Dies 129
Has 3D Film-Making Had Its Day? 436
Tales From the Slashdot Help Desk: Reverse-Engineering Rob Malda (Video) 28
Ask Slashdot: How Do You "Unwrap" e-Gifts? 86
The Twelve Days of Christmas Gadgets 28
Internet Archive Needs Donations, Has Matching Donor 58
Has Lego Sold Out? 425
Minecraft Documentary Premiers On Pirate Bay As Well As Xbox Live 75
Arduino and MK802 Robot, Controlled By Phone 31
Juggling By the Numbers 59
Ask Slashdot: Gifts For a 90-Year-Old, Tech-Savvy Dad? 211
Drone Made of Lego Takes Flight 83
University of Chicago Receives Mystery Indiana Jones Package 65
White House Must Answer Petition To 'Build Death Star' 384
Why The Hobbit's 48fps Is a Good Thing 599
Google Loses Santa To Bing 153
Ban On Loud TV Commercials Takes Effect Today 383
"Jedi" Religion Most Popular Alternative Faith In England 262
Redbox Set To Compete With Netflix On Video Streaming 119
Zero Day Hole In Samsung Smart TVs Could Have TV Watching You 249
Bennett's Whimsi-Geek Gift Guide For 2012 57
Sir Patrick Moore Dies Aged 89 130
Windows 8: a 'Christmas Gift For Someone You Hate' 740
MPAA: the Impact of Megaupload's Shutdown Was 'Massive' 308
Original Batmobile To Be Auctioned For the First Time Ever 51
Disney Switching To Netflix For Exclusive Film Distribution 124
Star Wars Fans Plan Full-Size Millennium Falcon Replica 129
Movie Studios Ask Google To Censor Links To Legal Copies of Their Own Films 196
Valve Officially Launches TV-Friendly Steam Big Picture Mode 140
Slashdot Asks: SATA DVD Drives That Don't Suck for CD Ripping? 330
Apple Declutters, Speeds Up iTunes With Major Upgrade 295
Boring Conference Still Vows: We Will Not Rock You 42
North Korea Claims Archaeologists Have Found 'Unicorn Lair' In Pyongyang 182
Mitsubishi Drops Bulky DLP TVs: End of an Era 95
World's First Fully Functioning Missile-Shooting Robotic Transformer 33
The Coming Wave of In-Dash Auto System Obsolescence 445
Critic Cites Revenge of the Sith As "Generation's Greatest Work of Art" 376
Researchers Find Megaupload Shutdown Hurt Box Office Revenues 203
Ad Blocking – a Coming Legal Battleground? 686
A Wi-Fi Wardriving Motorbike — With Plans Available 36
Microsoft Reportedly Working On Xbox TV Device 104
Vendors Sue Dutch Government Over Media Levies 55
Syfy Reality Show Will Feature Giant Boxing Robots 82
Tolkien Estate Sues Over Lord of the Rings Slot Machines 211
Highway To Sell: AC/DC iTunes Snub Finally Over 247
One Musician's Demand From Pandora: Mandatory Analytics 227
Ask Slashdot: Which International Online Music Stores Are Legit? 166
Ask Slashdot: How To Make a DVD-Rental Store More Relevant? 547
Indian School Textbook Says Meat-Eaters Lie and Commit Sex Crimes 409
The New Series of Doctor Who: Fleeing From Format? 170
Brain Scans of Rappers and Jazz Musicians Shed Light On Creativity 92
The Downside of Warp Drives: Annihilating Whole Star Systems When You Arrive 235
Running Netflix On Linux 185
Google Develops Context-Aware Voice Search For TV 48
Band Uses Nuclear Isotopes To Make Music 37
Why Dissonant Music Sounds 'Wrong' 183
Little Miss Sunshine Screenwriter Gets Nod For Star Wars: Episode VII 321
Duke University Creates Perfect, Centimeter-scale Invisibility Cloak 96
Sony DVR Useless After Rovi Stops TV Guide OnScreen 321
Would Charles Darwin Have Made a Good Congressman? 155
Mike Storey and His Plate Reverb (Video) 163
Fox's Attempt To Block Ad-skipping TV Recorder Autohop Fails 142
Buckyballs Throws In the Towel 383
New Dinosaur Named After the Eye of Sauron 69
James Bond Film Skyfall Inspired By Stuxnet Virus 187
Will Microsoft Dis-Kinect Freeloading TV Viewers? 478
Apple Delays Simpler and Cleaner iTunes 'to Get It Right' 252
Physicist Explains Cthulhu's "Non-Euclidean Geometry" 179
Disney to Acquire Lucasfilm, Star Wars Episode 7 Due In 2015 816
NBC Erases SNL Sketch From Digital Archive For Fear of Copyright Lawsuit 128
BBC Turns Off CEEFAX Service After 38 Years 160
All Five Star Trek Captains Share a Stage 238
Interviews: Director Daniel Knight On Troll Bridge, Color Correction, and He-man 16
Crowdsourcing Concerts — the Future of Live Music? 58
Huston Huddleston Wants You To Help Save the Star Trek TNG Set 131
21st IOCCC Source Code Released 24
The Group That Makes Tech Work For the Disabled 44
Boxee TV's Unlimited Cloud-based DVR Holds Users Hostage To Monthly Fees 174
Jonathan Coulton Re-records 'Code Monkey' For Us 62
"Dance Your Ph.D." Winner Announced 31
FCC To Allow Cable Companies To Encrypt Over-the-Air Channels 376
Physicists Devise Test For Whether the Universe Is a Simulation 529
Dotcom's New Site "Megabox" Almost Ready 101
New Zealand Turning Hobbits Into Actual Cash 89
Pandora Shares Artist Payment Figures 152
Study: Kids Under 3 Should Be Banned From Watching TV 334
Student Publishes Extensive Statistics On the Population of Middle-Earth 218
The Sci-fi Films To Look Forward To In 2013 277
Why Klout's Social Influence Scores Are Nonsense 98
New York Plans World's Largest Ferris Wheel 170
Illegal Downloading Now a Crime In Japan With Increased Penalties 286
Blender Debuts Fourth Open Source Movie: Tears of Steel 126
Aircraft Carriers In Space 409
Iran's News Agency Picks Up Onion Story 118
The Whirlydoodle Project Makes Fun, Spinning Things (Video) 34
Linux Forcibly Installed On Congressman's Computer In Act of Terrorism 343
Google Stops Offering Free Music Service In China 67
Ig Nobels Feature Exploding Colonoscopies, Left Leaning Views of Eiffel Tower 91
Neil Young Pushes Pono, Says Piracy Is the New Radio 361
Man Pays For Cross-Country Trip Using Bacon As Currency 176
xkcd's 13-Gigapixel Webcomic 193
New Hobbit Trailer Debuts 130
Ask Director Daniel Knight About Filming Terry Pratchett's "Troll Bridge" 35
DARPA Unveils System Using Human Brains For Computer Vision 82
A Glimpse At Piracy In the UK and Beyond 132
Pirate Bay Co-Founder Detained In Sweden 95
Google Glass: Future of Movies Or Monkey Cam 2.0? 77
BBC Radiophonic Workshop Revived Online 32
Star Trek Tech That Exists Today 207
Discworld Fan Film Possibly the Largest Scale Fan Film Ever 67
8th Circuit Upholds $220,000 Verdict In Jammie Thomas Case 285
100GbE To Slash the Cost of Producing Live Television 180
Ask Slashdot: Hackable Portable Music Player For Helicopters? 158
Apple Reportedly Planning Streaming Music Service 95
Hugo Awards Live Stream Cut By Copyright Enforcement Bot 393
Bruce Willis Considering Legal Action Against Apple Over iTunes Collection 570
Among Others Wins Hugo For Best Novel 115
How Apple's Story Is Like Breaking Bad 288
Final Chapter of Pink Five To Be Released On January 2013 58
4K UHDTV Hardware On Display in Berlin, And On Sale In Korea 137
Going All-Google To Replace Your PC and TV Service 134
UKNova TV Torrent Tracker Shut Down After FACT Issues C&D 195
Man With World's Deepest Voice Can Hit Infrasonic Notes 173
Will Your Books and Music Die With You? 248
Radio Royalty Legislation Described As 'RIAA Bailout' 272
Sources Say ITU Has Approved Ultra-High Definition TV Standard 341
Music Memories Stored In Different Part of Brain Than Other Memories 94
BBC Criticized For Snooping Under RIPA Powers 183
Neal Stephenson On Fiction, Games, and Saving the World 91
Project To Turn Classical Scores Into Copyright-Free Music Completed 290
Sci-fi Author Harry Harrison Dies at 87 91
Amarok 2.6 Music Player Released 100
How Google+ Punk'd The Oatmeal 218
Make Your Own LEGO Curiosity Rover 35
No Bomb Powerful Enough To Destroy an On-Rushing Asteroid, Sorry Bruce Willis 352
Ask Slashdot: Most Underappreciated Sci-Fi Writer? 1130
How To Watch Internet TV Across International Borders 206
The Internet Archive Starts Seeding Over a Million Torrents 180
Ask Slashdot: What's the Most Depressing Sci-fi You've Ever Read? 1365
Sci-Fi Writers of the Past Predict Life In 2012 179
Why Internet Pirates Always Win 360
What If There Was a Microsoft Appreciation Day? 362
400,000 American Homes Have Dumped Pay TV This Year 333
Amazon Matches iTunes Match With New 'Audio Upgrade' Feature 157
Star Wars: The Old Republic Adding Free-To-Play Option In November 135
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog Hits Primetime 95
Peter Jackson Announces Third Hobbit Movie 303
RIAA Admits SOPA Wouldn't Have Stopped Piracy 153
Study Finds New Pop Music Does All Sound the Same 576
IFPI Won't Share Pirate Bay Damages With Musicians 177
Is TV Over the 'Net Really Cheaper Than Cable? 285
Feds Ban 'Buckyballs' Magnets 820
Leaked IFPI Report Details Anti-Piracy Strategy 88
Latest Netflix Earnings Report Mixed 303
New Reality Series: Be the Next Microsoft Employee 168
What's Next For Superhero Movies? 396
F-Secure Report: Another SCADA Attack in Iran — This Time With AC/DC 253
The 21st IOCCC Has Been Announced 23
Canadians To Get Unbundled Cable TV Channels 195
Movie Review: The Dark Knight Rises 263
Viacom and DirecTV Reach New Agreement 139
Canadian Supreme Court Entrenches Tech Neutrality In Copyright Law 54
Anti-piracy Group Fined For Using Song Without Permission 220
Hollywood Acts Warily At Comic-Con 273
Star Wars Fans Fix Up Luke Skywalker's Home 90
RMS Responds To NPR File-Sharer's Blog 634
Judge Rules iDevice Speaker Docks Don't Infringe On Bose Patent 67
Highlights From Comic-Con 2012 74
UK Government To Offer Free TV Filters For 4G Interference 94
MIT Develops Holographic, Glasses-Free 3D TV 98
Canada's Supreme Court Strikes Down Copyright Fees On Music, Video 58
What's Wrong With American Ninja Warrior? 349
Aereo Wins Preliminary Injunction Hearing 65
DirecTV Drops Viacom Channels 378
Contest To Crack William Gibson Poem Agrippa 102
No, You Can't Claim 'Negligence' In a Copyright Case 108
Samsung Blames Galaxy SIII Burn On "External Energy Source" 169
San Diego's Fireworks Show Over In 15 Seconds 241
YouTube-MP3 Ripper Creator Takes On Google 141
UAV Cameras an Eye In the Sky For Adventurous Filmmakers 63
Valve Hands Over Its Own Movie-Making Tools To Gamers 68
VLC 's Beta For Android Is Ready — Unless You're North American 118
Is the Google Nexus Q Subtraction by Subtraction? 128
The Boy Who Loved Batman 157
Ask Slashdot: How To Add New Tech To Old Van? 212
Targeted TV Ads: Silver Bullet Or Privacy Nightmare? 96
Majority of Americans Think Obama Is Better Suited To Handle an Alien Invasion 305
Game of Thrones: Bush's Head Gets a Makeover 266
ADA May Force Netflix To Provide Closed Captioning On Content 694
Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Watch TV In 2012? 479
Eben Moglen: Time To Apply Asimov's First Law of Robotics To Smartphones 305
Ask Bas Lansdorp About Going to Mars, One Way 540
Hip Hop Artists Developing Open Source Beat Making Software 192
Quiet Victories Won In the Loudness Wars 251
Space Command Creator Launches Real Life Space Command 22
Will Dolby's New Atmos 62.2 Format Redefine Surround Sound? 298
DarwinTunes Iterates, Mixes And Culls To Create Listenable Music From Noise 53
Ask Slashdot: How To Introduce Someone To Star Trek? 634
Time Warner Cable Patents Method For Disabling Fast-Forward Function On DVRs 298
Ask Slashdot: Best Science-Fiction/Fantasy For Kids? 726
Another YouTube Conversion Site Clipped 94
Capitalists Who Fear Change 297
David Lowery On the Ethics of Music Piracy 713
A Turing Machine Built With Lego, And a Place To Put It 74
Google Bars Site That Converts YouTube Songs Into MP3s 177
Young Listeners Opt For Streaming Over Owning 390
The Hobbit's Higher Frame Rate To Cost Theater Operators 710
Joe Cornish To Write and Direct Snow Crash Movie 256
Listen to the RIAA's Appeal In Jammie Thomas Case 225
Chords To 1300 Songs Analyzed Statistically For Patterns 132
Ask Slashdot: Best Headphones, Earbuds, Earphones? 448
The Space Command Team Answers Your Questions 32
Neal Stephenson Reinventing Computer Swordfighting, Via Kickstarter 151
Intel To Launch TV Service With Facial Recognition By End of the Year 175
NPR's "Car Talk" Glides To a Halt 148
Game of Thrones The Most Pirated TV Show of the Season 312
Ray Bradbury Has Died 315
Canada No Pirate Nation: Global Leader In Music Download Sales 179
Star Wars: 1313, a 'Darker, Grittier' Star Wars Game 133
China Secretly Clones Austrian Village 329
Ask the Space Command Team About All Things Sci-Fi 100
DirecTV CEO Scoffs At Competition From Apple TV 264
Fox News Ties 'Flame' Malware To Angry Birds 188
Canadian Copyright Board To Charge For Music At Weddings, Parades 349
MusOpen Releases Open Source Classical Music As Pro Tools Files 83
Do Headphones Help Or Hurt Productivity? 405
The Poor Waste More Time On Digital Entertainment 515
"Open Source Bach" Project Completed; Score and Recording Now Online 110
Star Trek Luminaries Behind the Fastest Funded Film Project On Kickstarter 158
Court Ruling Shuts Down Australian Cloud TV Recorders 46
Fox Sues Dish Over "Auto Hop" Ad-Skipping Feature 578
New Music Boss, Worse Than Old Music Boss 567
Sci-fi Writer Elizabeth Moon Believes Everyone Should Be Chipped 409
The Price of Military Tech Assistance In Movies 212
Inventor of the TV Remote Control Dies 113
SCOTUS Refuses To Hear Tenenbaum Appeal 420
Who's Pirating Game of Thrones, and Why? 1004
Amazon Patents Pitching As-Seen-On-TV Products 83
Tenenbaum To SCOTUS: Let's Get This Debate Rolling 114
Broadcast Industry Wades In On Dish Network's Hopper 194

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