Entertainment Stories for 2016

Google and Facebook Dominate The List of 2016's Top Ten Apps 37
Creepy Site Claims To Reveal Torrenting Histories 211
'Watership Down' Author Richard Adams Died On Christmas Eve At Age 96 46
Apple Patent Hints At Magnetic Ear Hooks To Keep Future AirPods In Your Ears 73
Ask Slashdot: Why Are Some Great Games Panned and Some Inferior Games Praised? 145
Sonos Alarms Are Waking Users a Day Early 38
Bad Year For Piracy: 2016 Was The Year Torrent Giants Fell 116
Seattle Man Accused of Using Social Media To Set Up Fake Porn Agency 215
Facebook Developing Copyright ID System To Stem Music Rights Infringement 42
Music Streaming Hailed as Industry's Saviour as Labels Enjoy Profit Surge 87
Amazon's Digital Day is Like Cyber Monday But For Downloads 20
Ask Slashdot: Is Computing As Cool and Fun As It Once Was? 449
China's Alibaba Poised To Invest $7.2 Billion in Entertainment and Media 14
Apple CEO Tim Cook Calls AirPods 'a Runaway Success' 214
Iconic Star Wars Actress Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 456
Torrent Website ExtraTorrent Under DDoS Attacks; Pirate Bay Also Down 80
Amazon Prime Video's Global Launch Looks Soft, But It's Just a First Step 19
Top Spotify Lawyer: Attracting Pirates is in Our DNA 79
VidAngel Keeps Streaming Videos, Defying Movie Studios and a US Judge 163
Did Google.org Steal the Christmas Spirit? 103
'Star Wars' Actress Carrie Fisher 'Stable' After In-Flight Heart Attack 120
Store Adds Donald Trump's Picture To $150,000 Gold-Encased iPhones 186
BitTorrent Live's 'Cable Killer' P2P Video App Finally Hits iOS 37
Dutch Market Regulator Bans T-Mobile's 'Free' Streaming Music Service 61
YouTube Views Are Down Across the Board, Analysis Says 122
Google and Amazon Will Let You Rent a Movie for $0.99 During the Holiday 63
US Government Targets Pirate Bay and Other 'Piracy Havens' 82
Pokemon Go Arrives On the Apple Watch 35
A Record High of 455 Scripted TV Shows Aired in 2016 189
Worldwide Gaming Market Hits $91 Billion In 2016, Says Report 76
Sling TV Accidentally Reveals Its Set-Top Box For Cord Cutters 86
Crytek Closing Five Studios, Will Refocus On 'Premium IPs' and CryEngine 54
Chicago Electronics Recycler Faked Tear-Downs, Sent Hazardous Waste To Overseas Landfills 91
YouTube Bans North Korea's State-Owned TV Channel 55
Apple Will Charge You $69 To Replace a Lost AirPod 253
Super Mario Run Is Now Available 70
Microsoft Xbox One and Windows 10 Getting Dolby Atmos Surround Sound 37
Netflix Gets New Global Rival: Amazon Prime Video Now Available In Over 200 Countries 65
EFF: The Music Industry Shouldn't Be Able To Cut Off Your Internet Access 88
Xbox One Games Arrive On Oculus Rift With New Streaming App 16
Comcast Raises Controversial 'Broadcast TV' and 'Sports' Fees $48 Per Year 166
Grand Tour 'Most Illegally Downloaded TV Show In History' 218
Ask Slashdot: What's The Best Geeky Gift For Children? 204
Bose Launches 'Hearphones' That Act Like Hearing Aids 65
AirPods Delay Attributed To Apple Ensuring Both Earpieces Receive Audio At Same Time 189
Google Is Testing User Ratings For Movies, TV Within Search Results 11
Watchdog Group Claims Smart Toys Are Spying On Kids 70
Congress Passes BOTS Act To Ban Ticket-Buying Software 221
Slashdot Asks: Would You Like Early Access To Movies And Stop Going To Theatres? 341
Apple Is In Talks With Hollywood For Early Access To Movies On iTunes: Bloomberg 51
Google, HTC, Oculus, Samsung, Sony Join Forces To Create Global VR Association 59
YouTube's $1 Billion Royalties Are Not Enough, Says Music Industry 220
Falsely Accused Movie Pirate Deserves $17K Compensation, Court Says 60
Doyodo RetroEngine Sigma Is a Linux-Powered Classic Video Game Emulation Console 91
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Makes Game For Third Annual Hour of Code 135
'The Circle' Trailer Looks An Awful Lot Like Google 77
Apple Launches Single Sign-On Service To Make Logging Into TV Apps Less Time-Consuming 29
Vinyl Records Outsold Digital Downloads In the UK Last Week 188
YouTube Pays Music Industry $1 Billion From Ads 76
Netflix Says People Watch Same Amount of Movies Regardless of Perceived Quality or Depth 162
Panasonic Announces 1,000,000:1 Contrast Ratio LCD Panel To Rival OLED 103
Most DVR Owners Are Recording Live Sports, Survey Says 137
Netflix Keeping Bandwidth Usage Low By Encoding Its Video With VP9 and H.264/AVC Codecs 76
Perl Advent Calendar Enters Its 17th Year 37
Free TV-Show Streaming Hurts Online Sales, Research Finds 67
Plex Media Player Now Doesn't Require a Subscription; Pass Users Get Kodi Plug-in 84
British Film Institute To Digitize 100,000 Old TV Shows Before They Disappear 124
No Man's Sky's Steam Page Didn't Mislead Gamers, Rules UK Ad Watchdog 76
Social Media Is Killing Discourse Because It's Too Much Like TV 220
Netflix Finally Gets Download Option 105
Facebook Is Bringing Games Like Pac-Man, Space Invaders To Messenger and Your News Feed 22
CNN Acquires Social-Video Startup Beme, Co-Founded By YouTube Star Casey Neistat 62
AT&T Unveils DirecTV Now Streaming TV Service With Over 100 Channels 80
Ron Glass, Firefly's Shepherd Book, Has Died 67
Samsung Places A Big Bet on Quantum-Dot TV, Acquires QD Vision 46
False Porn-on-CNN Report Shows How Quickly Fake News Spreads 158
Security Researchers Can Turn Headphones Into Microphones 122
Microsoft Solitaire Collection From Windows 10 Now Available For Android and iOS 50
BBC Planning 'Netflix of the Spoken Word' to Take Radio Content Global 33
Aussie Internet Pirates Are The Best Customers 48
Amazon Wants To Include Live Sports as Part of Prime Membership 77
Instagram Launches Disappearing Live Video and Messages 18
4K Netflix Arrives On Windows 10, But Only Via Microsoft's Edge Browser 126
2016 Winners Announced For Interactive Fiction Competition 24
Humble Bundle Supports The EFF With A LEGO eBook Sale 17
The Grand Tour Show To Be Streamed In Over 200 Markets as Amazon Prime Video Goes Global 70
Music Torrent Site What.CD Has Been Shut Down 86
Thanks To the Princess, Han Wasn't Always Solo 143
FCC Abides By GOP Request To Stop What It's Doing, Deletes Everything From Meeting Agenda 119
Police Raid Pirate Site, Seize 60 Servers Following MPAA Complaint 60
China Tells Trump Climate Change Isn't a Hoax it Invented 302
'Stranger In a Strange Land' Coming To TV 227
Samsung Patent Describes Holographic TV Technology 52
Shazam Keeps Your Mac's Microphone Always On, Even When You Turn It Off 126
US Finalizes Rules That Require Quiet Hyrbid and Electric Cars To Make Noise At Low Speeds 361
More Code In Movies: Nmap Meets Snowden 73
Red Hat Announces Fedora Will Support MP3 Playback 140
How Stephen Wolfram Devised Interstellar Travel (And Code Samples) For 'Arrival' 102
German Police Mock 'Not Very Clever' ATM Robbers 88
IMDb Sues California To Overturn Law Forcing Them To Remove Actors' Ages 68
Spotify Is Writing Massive Amounts of Junk Data To Storage Drives 196
Dungeons & Dragons Inducted Into Toy Hall of Fame 51
Instagram Brings Mentions, Links, and Boomerang To Stories 4
The Sega Genesis Is Officially Back In Production 117
DirecTV Now Leak Reveals Channels, Promotions of AT&T's Upcoming TV Service 45
Remembering The Creator of Marvel's Doctor Strange, Steve Ditko 44
Mythbuntu Linux Has Been Discontinued 49
Blizzard Launches A Professional Sports League For 'Overwatch' 64
The FBI Spent Two Years Investigating An Online Cult That Didn't Exist 134
Will The New 'Starship Troopers' Reboot Stay Faithful To The Book? 457
Google's DeepMind AI Plans To Take On StarCraft II 75
Intel Wants To Replace Fireworks With Drones 94
Cloudflare Slams MPAA and RIAA's 'Distorted' Piracy Claims 16
US Government Sues AT&T/DirecTV, Calls It 'Ringleader' of Collusion Scheme 113
Facebook Deletes Music Piracy Groups Following Complaints 26
Facebook Officially Announces Gameroom, Its PC Steam Competitor 116
National Geographic Releases Alarming Climate Change Movie 'Before the Flood' On YouTube 693
Opera Max Turns To Nagware, Now Prompts Users To Re-enable It Every 12 Hours 121
Cable TV Price Increases Have Beaten Inflation Every Single Year For 20 Years 112
86-Year Old Grandma Accused of Pirating a Zombie Game 122
Family Sues Amazon After Counterfeit Hoverboard Catches Fire, Destroys Home 253
Star Trek Discovery Gets Delayed After Losing Showrunner Bryan Fuller 191
Apple Debuts New 'TV' Guide and Watchlist App For Apple TV, iPhone and iPad 20
Apple Delays AirPods Beyond Original 'Late October' Window 77
Repeat Infringers Can Be Mere Downloaders, Court Rules 121
Apple To Help Viewers Discover TV Shows Through an App 45
Warner Bros Claims Agency Ran Its Own Pirate Movie Site 24
AT&T CEO: DirecTV Now Streaming Service Will Cost $35 a Month 121
People Like Netflix's Original Content More Than Its Other Content: AllFlicks 77
AT&T Buys Time Warner For $85B. Is The Mass Media Consolidating? 132
Amazon May Handle 30% Of All US Retail Sales 70
New Text Adventures Compete In 22nd 'Interactive Fiction Competition' 25
Mark Cerny, Chief PlayStation Architect, Explains the PS4 Pro 71
Television Needs To Be Reinvented, Says Apple SVP 200
All the Good Netflix Movies Are in Canada and Brazil 93
Samsung Forced YouTube To Pull GTA 5 Mod Video Because It Showed Galaxy Note 7 As Bomb 219
Nintendo NX Will Be Officially Revealed Tomorrow 35
Google To Launch Streaming TV Service In Early 2017 21
LeEco Who? Chinese Tech Giant Tries Its Luck In the US With 'More Products Than You've Ever Seen' 59
Amazon Japan's Manga-Ready Kindle Has 8 Times the Storage 82
Netflix's Big Bet on Original Shows Finally Seen Paying Off 90
Razer Acquires THX, the Audio Pioneer That George Lucas Started 44
More Unblocking Companies Give Up Their Fight Against Netflix 213
More Performers Are Demanding Audiences Lock Up Their Phones 552
5-Year-Old Hosting Service AllMyVideos, No Longer Profitable, To Shut Down 59
EFF Co-Founder Announces Benefit Concert to Pay His Medical Bills 195
Netflix Is 12x As Popular As Its Streaming Competitors Among Younger Viewers, Says Survey 44
Shadow Warrior 2 Developers Say DRM Is a Waste of Time 99
Facebook Now Lets You Use Google Cast or AirPlay To Stream Video On Your TV 31
English Man Spends 11 Hours Trying To Make Cup of Tea With Wi-Fi Kettle 200
Ford's Buggy Infotainment System Referred To By Engineers As 'Polished Turd' and 'Unsaleable' 292
Amazon Launches New 'Music Unlimited' Service, Starts At $4/Month For Use On Just One Echo 25
Star Wars Production Company Fined Almost $2 Million For Harrison Ford's Injury 81
Netflix Now Only Has 31 Movies From IMDB's Top 250 List 181
Pokemon Go Could Add 2.83 Million Years To Users' Lives, Says Study 156
Viewers Only Watch 10% of Pay-TV Channels: Nielsen 198
Court Rejects Massive Torrent Damages Claim, Admin Avoids Jail 60
How a Video Game About Sheep Exposes the FBI's Broken FOIA System 116
WikiLeaks Publishes Cryptic UFO Emails Sent To Clinton Campaign From Former Blink 182 Singer 205
Google Hires Joke Writers From Pixar and The Onion To Make Assistant More Personable 38
A Spotify Ad Slipped Malware Onto PCs and Macs 96
Why Is Science Fiction Snubbed By Literary Awards? 252
Sharp Unveils 27-inch 8K 120Hz IGZO Monitor With HDR 105
Netflix CEO: Movie Theaters Are 'Strangling the Movie Business'' 342
Upcoming Blade Runner Sequel Gets a Title: Blade Runner 2049 136
BitTorrent Fires CEOs, Closes Los Angeles Studio, Shutters BitTorrent Now 34
Zuckerberg Teases An 'Affordable' Standalone Oculus VR Headset 63
Netflix Partners With iPic To Release Its Original Movies In Theaters, NATO Urges To 'Tread Lightly' 134
New AI Is Capable of Beating Humans At Doom 170
Google Gets Serious About Home Automation: Unveils Google Home, Actions on Google and Google Wifi 91
Google Refreshes Its Streaming Dongle: Unveils $69 Chromecast Ultra With 4K and HDR Capabilities 51
Researchers Restore the First Recording of Computer-Generated Music 127
Samsung's Next Flagship Smartphone May Not Feature a Headphone Jack 446
Netflix Goes Down, People Freak Out and Discover Real Life 88
USB-IF Publishes Audio Over USB Type-C Specifications 135
New iPhone 7 Case Brings Back the Headphone Jack 377
Cable TV Companies Could Lose Nearly $1 Billion in the Next Year From People Ditching Their Subscriptions 250
FCC Delays Cable TV Apps Vote, Needs Time To Work Out Licensing 39
Spotify in Talks To Acquire SoundCloud 20
Cloudflare: We Can't Shut Down Pirate Sites 140
YouTube-MP3 Ripping Site Sued By IFPI, RIAA and BPI 310
Plex Cloud Means Saying Goodbye To the Always-On PC 173
California Enacts Law Requiring IMDb To Remove Actor Ages On Request 319
'Transformer' BMW Turns Into A Giant Robot 45
The Ig Nobel Awards Celebrate Their 26th First Annual Awards Ceremony 37
People Are Drilling Holes Into Their iPhone 7 To 'Make a Headphone Jack' 201
Google To Introduce Google Wifi, Google Home and 4K Chromecast Ultra Devices On October 4th 51
You're Paying 40% More For TV Than You Were 5 Years Ago 219
Apple Is Getting Ready To Take On Google and Amazon In a Battle For The Living Room 114
Charter Fights FCC's Attempt To Uncover 'Hidden' Cable Modem Fees 65
TV Manufacturers Accused of Gaming Energy Usage Tests 86
Stop Piracy? Legal Alternatives Beat Legal Threats, Research Shows 134
Blizzard Is Getting Rid of the Battle.net Name 31
Netflix Wants 50% Of Its Library To Be Original Content 187
It Took a Couple Decades, But the Music Business Looks Like It's Okay Again 125
UK Standards Body Issues Official Guidance On Robot Ethics 68
4K UHD TVs Are Being Adopted Faster Than HDTVs 207
Cable Lobby Tries To Make You Forget That It Represents Cable Companies 33
Google Chrome Beta For Android Now Lets You Play YouTube In the Background 51
Netflix Releases 'Meridian' Test Footage To All Including Competitors, Open Sources Some Tools 40
SciFi TV Series 'Space Patrol Orion' Celebrates Its 50th Anniversary 73
The Ham Radio Parity Act Unanimously Passed By US House 195
21st Century Fox Sues Netflix Over Executive Poaching 83
26% of Netflix Users May Cancel Cable TV This Year, Says Survey 92
Russia Bans Pornhub, YouPorn - Tells Citizens To Meet Someone In Real Life 301
Over 500K People Have Installed a Pokemon Go-Related App That Roots and Hijacks Android Devices 57
28 Years A Smeghead: Red Dwarf Is Coming Back 153
Why The FCC Chair Says Set-Top Box Reform Proposal Could Change 33
Pandora Has Announced Its $5 Subscription Service 64
Samsung Stops Airing Galaxy Note 7 Commercials, Preps Early Launch of Galaxy S8 86
Bank of America Analysts Say There's A 50% Chance We Live In The Matrix 284
Amazon Adds Audiobooks and Podcasts To Prime Membership 60
YouTube Gets Its Own Social Network With Launch of YouTube Community 73
Pokemon Go's Paying Population Drops By 79% -- Still Most Profitable Mobile App In The US 91
ACLU Is Launching A Campaign To Convince President Obama To Pardon Edward Snowden 343
Google's DeepMind Develops New Speech Synthesis AI Algorithm Called WaveNet 46
Today Marks The 50th Anniversary of 'Star Trek' 204
NASA Launches OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft To Intercept Asteroid 36
FCC Chief To Unveil Revised Plan To Eliminate Cable Boxes 149
Super Mario Is Coming To The iPhone 108
Apple Cites 'Courage' As Reason To Remove 3.5mm Headphone Jack 761
Canadian Telecoms Will Try to Justify Their 'Ripoff' TV Plans Today 141
Star Trek's LCARS Could Become Your Virtual Assistant 145
Apple To Unveil 'AirPods' That Use Custom Bluetooth Chip 274
Netflix Finds x265 20% More Efficient Than VP9 178
An Asteroid Has Been Named After Freddie Mercury 58
Sony's Signature Walkman and Headphones Are $5,500 of Ridiculous 99
Warner Bros Issues Takedown For Own Website 77
Creators Call Out YouTube For Demonetizing Videos 193
IBM Watson Created The First-Ever AI-Made Movie Trailer For 'Morgan' 58
Niantic Responds To Senate Inquiry Into Pokemon Go Privacy 73
Researchers Map Locations of 4,669 Servers In Netflix's Content Delivery Network 57
PlayStation Now Streaming Service Available On Windows PCs 54
Judge Allows Kim Dotcom To Livestream Court Hearing 72
What Jonathan Coulton Learned From The Technology Industry 88
Google Tests A Software That Judges Hollywood's Portrayal of Women 321
Welcome To 1986: Inside 'Halt And Catch Fire's' High-Tech Time Machine 75
Spotify Is Burying Tracks From Musicians Who Give Exclusives To Apple and Tidal 87
US Unveils Charges Against KickassTorrents, Names Two More Defendants 110
PSA: PlayStation Network Gets Two-Step Verification 42
Canon Unveils EOS 5D Mark IV DSLR 160
YouTube Plans To Bring Photos, Polls, and Text To Its Video Service 22
Cloudflare Faces Lawsuit For Assisting Pirate Sites 83
Facebook Is Testing Autoplaying Video With Sound 152
Steve Wozniak Says Apple Must Fix iPhone 7 Bluetooth Or Revive Its Headphone Jack 385
North Korea Unveils Netflix-Like Streaming Service Called 'Manbang' 162
Aluminum NES Maker Announces Smaller, Cheaper Analogue Nt Mini 82
Cox Denies Liability for Pirating Subscribers, Appeals $25 Million Verdict 97
Samsung Reminds Us That You Can't Make People Use an App They Don't Want 70
'SingularDTV' Will Use Ethereum For DRM On A Sci-Fi TV Show 78

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