Entertainment Stories for 2013

Public Domain Day 2014 225
4 Tips For Your New Laptop 310
The Hobbit and Game of Thrones Top Most Pirated Lists of 2013 193
France's 'Culture Tax' Could Hit YouTube and Facebook 314
Australian Dept. Store Chain's Website Crashes and Can't Get Back Up 156
Sherlock Holmes Finally In the Public Domain In the US 207
Surge In Online Orders Overwhelms UPS Christmas Deliveries 378
A Short History of Computers In the Movies 165
Alek Komarnitsky's Huge Christmas Light Display Still Going Strong (Video) 29
Interview: Bruce Sterling Answers Your Questions 34
What Sci-Fi Movies Teach Us About Project Management Skills 186
Life-Sized, Drivable 500,000 Piece Lego Car Runs On Air 73
Bill Gates Plays Secret Santa To Reddit User 118
The Software Inferno 109
Interview: Ask Bruce Sterling What You Will 60
Roku Finally Adds YouTube To Its Iconic Media Player 80
Unreleased 1963 Beatles Tracks On Sale To Preserve Copyright 230
Ask Slashdot: Can Digital Music Replace Most Instrumental Musicians? 328
Swedish Man Fined $650,000 For Sharing 1 Movie, Charged Extra For Low Quality 366
Streaming and Cord-Cutting Take a Toll On the Pay-TV Industry 261
GitHub Takes Down Satirical 'C Plus Equality' Language 575
A Year After Ban On Loud TV Commercials: Has It Worked? 288
Sci-fi Author Charles Stross Cancels Trilogy: the NSA Is Already Doing It 208
AirPlay Alternative Mirrors and Streams To TVs and PCs 62
Gift Idea: Custom Photomosaics With AndreaMosaic and PhotoGrabber 61
The Climate of Middle-Earth 163
Ask Slashdot: Best FLOSS iTunes Replacement In 2013? 317
King James Programming 184
Get Ready For a Streaming Music Die-Off 370
App Detects Neo-Nazis Using Their Music 392
Spotify's Own Math Suggests Musicians Are Still Getting Hosed 244
Final Days For Australia's Analog TV 192
Piracy Offers Heavy Metal a New Business Model 246
The Ultimate Anti-Action Online Game: Waiting In Line 3D 94
Free Software Foundation Announces 2013 Holiday Giving Guide 104
Why You Shouldn't Buy a UHD 4K TV This Year 271
Gift Review: Strandbeest Model Kit 28
Happy 50th Doctor Who 211
Winamp Shutting Down On December 20 400
And Now For Something Completely Different: Monty Python Reunion Planned 168
User Alleges LG TVs Phone Home With Your Viewing Habits 286
Real-Time Radio Search Engine From Music Industry's Nemesis 59
Anki Is Not a Toy Company; Has iRobot, Others In Its Sights 19
Alfred Poor Says HDTV Manufacturers are Hurting (Video) 307
Venezuela: Cheap Television Sets For All! 702
Music Industry Issues Take Down Notices to 50 Major Lyrics Sites 281
Thor: The Dark World — What Did You Think? 233
"Dance Your PhD" Finalists Announced 16
Critics Reassess Starship Troopers As a Misunderstood Masterpiece 726
Spooked By His Sci Fi, FBI Looked Into Asimov As Possible Communist Tipster 190
Your Digital Life Will Only Get More Crowded... If You Let It 53
Blockbuster To Close Remaining US Locations 419
Movie Review: Ender's Game 732
Panasonic Announces an End To Plasma TVs In March 202
Hacker Spoofs Track Plays To Top Music Charts 157
Slashdot Asks: What Are You Doing For Hallowe'en? 273
Lost Star Wars Footage Found On LaserDisc 157
Ask Slashdot: Best Cross-Platform (Linux-Only) Audio Software? 223
Computers and Doctor Who 93
4K Ultra HD Likely To Repeat the Failure of 3D Television 559
5-Year Mission Continues After 45-Year Hiatus 283
Company To Balloon Tourists To the Edge of Space For $75,000 104
NSA App Ideas To Popularize Spying and Big Data 78
Advances In Cinema Tech Overcoming a Strange Racial Divide 164
Are Cable Subscribers Subsidizing Internet-Only TV Viewers? 223
Gravity: Can Film Ever Get the Science Right? 438
Netflix Pursues Cable-TV Deals 93
Broadcasters Petition US Supreme Court In Fight Against Aereo 229
BBC Unveils Newly Discovered Dr.Who Episodes 184
Why Julian Assange Should Embrace 'The Fifth Estate' 194
Over 100 Missing Episodes of Doctor Who Located 158
More Evidence That Piracy Can Increase Sales 196
First Few Doctor Who Episodes May Fall To Public Domain Next Year 216
NASA Astronaut Talks "Gravity," Spacewalking, ISS 97
Swiss War Game Envisages Invasion By Bankrupt French 245
Facebook Delivers Viewer Engagement Reports To TV Networks 45
New Headphones Generate Sound With Carbon Nanotubes 102
MuseScore Aims Make 50,000 New Braille Scores Available To Blind Musicians 49
An Animated, Open Letter To J.J. Abrams About Star Wars 376
How LucasArts Fell Apart 178
Scientists Create New "Lightsaber-Like" Form of Matter 175
BitTorrent "Bundles" Create Cash Registers Inside Artwork 97
BBC Thinking of Canceling Sky At Night 171
Horse_ebooks Is Human After All 72
Apple Offers Refund To Stiffed Breaking Bad Season Pass Customers 215
Romanian Science Journal Punked By Serbian Academics 95
Research Finds Link Between Inflation and Laughter In Federal Reserve Meetings 144
Xbox One's HDMI Pass-Through Can Connect PS4, PCs and More 171
LucasFilm Combines Video Games and Movies To Eliminate Post-Production 79
Open Well-Tempered Clavier: a Kickstarter Campaign For Open Source Bach 70
Hulu "Kicking Back Into Action" Says CEO, Adding New Content 169
NSA Chief Built Star Trek Like Command Center 372
Stephen Colbert and the Monster Truck of Tivos 85
How Amateurs Destroyed the Professional Music Business 617
Why iTunes Radio Could Take Down Pandora 166
It Takes 2.99 Gigajoules To Vaporize a Human Body 272
The Tech Behind Man of Steel's Metropolis 74
British TV Show 'Blackout' Triggers Online LOLs 222
John McAfee Triggers the Ultimate False Positive 47
Sony Unveils the PS Vita TV and Slimmer Vita Handheld 86
Why Steve Albini Still Prefers Analog Tape 440
Time For X-No-Wiretap HTTP Header? 202
New Musopen Campaign Wants To "Set Chopin Free" 142
Man Killed By His Own Radio-Controlled Helicopter In Brooklyn 479
GameFly Scores In Longstanding DVD Mailing Complaint 147
New Smartphone Tech To Alert Pedestrians: 'You Are About To Be Hit By a Car' 136
FOI Request Reveals UK Houses of Parliament Workers' Passion For Adult Content 61
Ministry of Sound Suing Spotify Over User Playlists 201
Angry Customer Buys Promoted Tweets To Bash British Airways 286
Prankster Calls NSA To Restore Deleted E-mail 221
Sci-Fi Great Frederik Pohl Passes Away At 93 57
John Scalzi's Redshirts Wins Hugo Award for Best Novel 112
U.S. Gov't Still Fighting the Man Behind Buckyballs; Guess Who's Winning? 555
Google Breaks ChromeCast's Ability To Play Local Content 329
Newest YouTube User To Fight a Takedown: Lawrence Lessig 154
Wikipedia Can Predict Box Office Flops 147
New, Canon-Faithful Star Trek Series Is In Pre-Production 401
Can There Be Open Source Music? 183
Netflix Comes To Linux Web Browsers Via 'Pipelight' 303
The Death of the American Drive-in 236
IPTV Providers To Pay Same Regulatory Fees As Cable Companies 97
Amarok 2.8 "Return To the Origin" Released 99
Early Apple Employees Talk Memories of Steve Jobs, Thoughts On New Movie 146
Why Internet Television Isn't Quite Ready To Save Us From Cable TV 304
Despite Global Release, Breaking Bad Heavily Pirated 443
Could Humanity Really Build 'Elysium'? 545
AI Is Funny - a Generative Joke Model 211
Omni Magazine To Reboot 95
Should the Next 'Doctor Who' Be a Woman? 772
TV Show Piracy Soars After CBS Blackout 314
New Android App Encourages Users To Throw Device As High As Possible 156
10 Wearable Habitats To Shelter You From the Apocalypse 135
Peter Capaldi Unveiled As the New Star of Doctor Who 242
Samsung Smart TV: Basically a Linux Box Running Vulnerable Web Apps 166
YouTube Co-founder Calls For Global Access To TV Online 140
New Doctor Who Actor To Be Revealed This Sunday 249
Congress Wants FCC To Auction TV White Spaces 127
Signs Point To XKCD's Time Ending 226
Consumer Rights Groups Take Issue With NTIA Code of Conduct For Mobile Apps 31
Google TV Hackers Open a Shell on the Chromecast; More Hacks To Follow 65
New for 2013: An In-Depth Analysis of Kubrick's 2001: a Space Odyssey 164
Google Chromecast Reviewed; Google Nixes Netflix Discount 128
Court Upholds Ruling On Dish Network's 'Hopper' 248
Fake "Speed Enforced By Drones" Signs On California Freeways 218
MediaNet Sued for Licensing Unlicensed Songs 73
Hollywood's Love of Analytics Couldn't Prevent Six Massive Blockbuster Flops 1029
The Book That Is Making All Movies the Same 384
Star Wars City Doomed By Sand Dunes 166
Colorado Town Considers Drone-Hunting Licenses 341
PayPal Credits Man With $92 Quadrillion 151
VLC For iOS Returns On July 19, Rewritten and Fully Open-Sourced 203
Radiohead's Thom Yorke Pulls Albums From Spotify In Protest of Low Royalties 301
Sci-Fi Stories That Predicted the Surveillance State 213
Piracy Rates Plummet As Legal Alternatives Come To Norway 261
Current Doctor Who Warns Against Facebook 218
Secrets of Beatboxing Revealed By MRI 49
TV Programmers Seek the Elusive Dog Market 199
Ask Slashdot: Video Streaming For the Elderly? 165
Hulu Not For Sale, Time Warner May Join 48
How DRM Won 221
Police, Copyright Industry Raid Movie Subtitle Fansite 344
Orson Scott Card Pleads 'Tolerance' For Ender's Game Movie 1448
The Physics Behind Waterslides 79
Real Version of Homer Simpson's Dream Car Built 53
NSA Recruitment Drive Goes Horribly Wrong 530
How Copyright Makes Books and Music Disappear 128
BBC Gives Up On 3-D Television Programming 120
Iain M. Banks Gets Asteroid Named After Him 30
Disney's Titling Problem With Its Star Wars Movies 279
Zynga Puts Random Stranger In Customer Support Role 158
Boxee Sold To Samsung 128
Why Automakers Should Stop the Infotainment Arms Race 317
MagicPlay: the Open Source AirPlay 177
Sarah Thee Campagna Makes Robot Sculptures (Video) 33
The Average Movie Theater Has Hundreds of Screens 924
Australian Air Force's Recruiting Puzzle Shown To Be Unsolvable 113
Scientists Work To Produce 'Star Trek' Deflector Shields 193
Kick-started Remake of Leisure Suit Larry Now On Sale 113
Netflix Ditches Silverlight With HTML5 Support In IE11 337
Buy the WarGames IMSAI 8080 and Possibly Impress Ally Sheedy 103
Science Fiction and Fantasy Author Richard Matheson Dead At 87 57
The Men Trying To Save Us From the Machines 161
Pro Bono Lawyer Fights C&D With Humor 144
The Plight of Star Wars Droids 245
TiVo Series 5 Coming This Fall 178
High TechCarnival Aims To Entertain, Inspire, and Educate 28
Man Of Steel Leaps Over Record With $125.1 Million To Mixed Reviews 364
Legislators Introduce Bill To Stop Set Top Boxes From Watching You 161
Kickass Torrents' KAT.ph Domain Seized By Philippine Authorities 122
Birthday Song's Copyright Leads To a Lawsuit For the Ages 442
Dotcom Alleges Megaupload Raid Was Part of Deal To Film The Hobbit 112
Arnold Schwarzenegger Will Be Back As the Terminator 245
The Trajectory of Television: A Big History of the Small Screen. 134
Pandora's Promise and the Problem of "Solutionism" 293
Man Creates ATLAS Detector From Lego Bricks 54
Greek Government Abruptly Shuts Down State Broadcaster 230
UK ISPs Secretly Start Blocking Torrent Site Proxies 82
FLAC Gets First Update In 6 Years 197
Linus Torvalds Promises Profanity Over Linux 3.10-rc5 334
Google Loves The Internship; Critics Not So Much 103
NASA Teams With LEGO To Offer Model Competition 34
European HbbTV Smart TV Holes Make Sets Hackable 39
World of Warcraft Film Shooting Begins Early 2014 181
Green Lantern Writer To Pen Blade Runner Sequel 326
Salvaging E.T. In Software, Instead of New Mexico 146
Matt Smith Leaves "Doctor Who" 375
Writer Jack Vance Dead At 96 83
Book Review: The Human Division 115
Neil Gaiman, Amber Benson and the Blood Kiss Crew Answer Your Questions 44
WeVideo Helps You Edit Your Videos Online (Video) 48
Star Wars Episode 4 To Be Dubbed In Navajo 155
Yahoo Joins Growing List of Bidders For Hulu 69
Meet the 23-Ton X-Wing, the World's Largest Lego Model 121
Ask Neil Gaiman and Amber Benson About Their Kickstarter Vampire Movie 103
Hollywood Studios Use DMCA To Censor Pirate Bay Documentary 139
Happy Culture Freedom Day! 45
Review: Star Trek: Into Darkness 514
Irish Judge Orders 'The Internet' To Delete Video 243
Anti-Infringement Company Caught Infringing On Its Website 135
Records Labels Prepare Massive 'Pirate Site' Domain Blocking Blitz 110
Gene Wolfe To Be Honored At Nebula Awards 34
A Tardis Art Piece at the Austin Mini Maker Faire (Video) 25
Bing Translator Adds Klingon 103
Cosmos Remake Coming To Fox In 2014 193
The Bronies Get Their Own Charity 417
Astronaut Chris Hadfield Performs Space Oddity On the ISS 212
17-Year-Old Girl Wins Boston TV API Programming Contest 117
John McCain Working On Legislation For 'a La Carte' TV Channel Packages 614
When Vote Counting Goes Bad 128
Israeli Singer Publishes a Song In Hebrew — and Perl 69
Mars One Has 78,000 Applicants 355
Ray Harryhausen, Visual Effects Master, Dies Aged 92 49
Ender's Game Trailer Released 470
BitTorrent Bundle Puts a Music Store Inside Torrents 78
EA Is the Game Company Disney Was Looking For 254
TED Teams Up With PBS On Ideas For Education 78
"Terrorist" Lyrics Land High Schooler In Jail 573
Warner Bros. Sued By Meme Creators Over Copyright Infringement 210
What Modern Militaries Can Learn From Battlestar Galactica 272
How To Promote Stage Comedy In a Geeky Way? 123
Online Hitchhiker's Guide Thriving 40
Lawyer Loses It In Letter To Patent Office 342
iTunes Store Turns 10 184
MPAA Executive Tampers With Evidence In Piracy Case 156
EVE Online Getting TV, Comic Book Adaptations 81
Politician Wants Sci-fi To Be Mandatory In School 295
Hollywood Studios Fuming Over Indie Studio Deal With BitTorrent 187
Should TV Networks Put Pilots Online For Judgement Like Amazon Is Doing? 128
Smithsonian Releases 128-Year-Old Recording of Alexander Graham Bell 122
DMCA Safe Harbor May Not Apply To Old Copyrighted Works 139

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