Entertainment Stories for 2016

100 Unofficial Mods Released for 'No Man's Sky' 72
Comcast Rolls Out $70-Per-Month Gigabit Internet Service In Chicago 93
Scammers Use Harvard Education Platform to Promote Pirated Movies 27
Nintendo Shuts Down 'Pokemon Uranium' Fan Game After 1.5 Million Downloads 140
NVIDIA Drops Pascal Desktop GPUs Into Laptops With Mobile GeForce GTX 10-Series 42
Twitch Acquires Curse, Its Sites, Tools For Gamers, and Databases 25
TorrentFreak Interviews The Pirate Bay Staff, As the Torrent Website Celebrates 13th Anniversary 36
Hacked Hobbit Pinball Machine Joins IoT, Broadcasts Itself Over Twitch 45
Star Wars Actor Kenny Baker Dies at Age 81 51
Maybe There's No Life in Space Because We're Too Early 250
No Man's Sky Launches On Steam and GOG and It's Off To A Rocky Start 157
Google Play Store Drops Google+ Integration 45
Cory Doctorow On What iPhone's Missing Headphone Jack Means For Music Industry 394
Barry Jenner, Who Played Admiral Ross On 'Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,' Dies At 75 59
Seagate Reveals 'World's Largest' 60TB SSD 162
Suicide Squad Fan Suing Studio For 'False Advertising' Over Lack of Joker Scenes 260
Hulu Ends Free Streaming Service, Moves Free Stuff To Yahoo View 111
Star Trek Convention Celebrates The Show's 50th Anniversary 25
Assange Says Wikileaks is 'Working On' Hacking Donald Trump's Tax Return 231
Conservative Site Argues Profiting from Snowden 'Treason' May Violate Law 236
BBC To Deploy Detection Vans To Snoop On Internet Users 212
US Copyright Office Sides With Cable Companies Against FCC's Set Top Rules 137
Suicide Squad Fans Petition To Shut Down Rotten Tomatoes Over Negative Reviews 407
TVs Are Still Too Complicated, and It's Not Your Fault 234
Japan Starts 8K TV Broadcasts In Time For Rio Olympics 154
Washington State Sues Comcast For $100M Over 'Pattern of Deceptive Practices' 90
British Newspaper Fooled By Online Harry Potter/Pokemon Go Hoax 36
Mr. Robot 'Plugs' uTorrent and Pirate Release Groups 118
Babylon 5 Actor Jerry Doyle Dies 156
Movie Studios 'Take Down' Popular KAT Mirror 111
The Mojave Desert: Home of the New Machine Movement 48
Apple's Rigid Negotiating Tactics Cost Us 'Skinny Bundles' For Apple TV, Says Report 111
ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Funding Leads To New Genetic Findings 33
Comcast Excited To Have Lost 4,000 TV Subscribers This Spring 68
James Cameron: Theater Experience Key To Containing Piracy 331
Google Play Rolls Out Family Sharing 41
Nintendo NX Is a Portable Console With Detachable Controllers, Says Report 158
Subscribers Pay 61 Cents Per Hour of Cable, But Only 20 Cents Per Hour of Netflix 174
AR Helmet Startup Skully Has Crashed and Burned 43
Harrison Ford Could Have Died In Star Wars Set Incident, Court Hears 153
Chinese Giant LeEco Buys Vizio For $2 Billion, Gets Instant Foothold In US Market 56
Slashdot Asks: What's Next For Netflix? 193
MIT Developed A Movie Screen That Brings Glasses-Free 3D To All Seats 100
Star Trek's 50th Anniversary Celebrated at Comic-Con 106
Sega Announces Two New Sonic Games That Seek To Recapture The Glory Days 45
Comcast To Offer Pay-As-You-Go TV, Broadband Service 43
Edward Snowden At Comic-Con: 'I Live a Surprisingly Free Life' 52
Apple: Pokemon Go Sets Record For Most Downloads In Its First Week 35
Man Builds $1.5 Million Star Trek-Themed Home Theater 162
Spotify Is Now Selling Your Information To Advertisers 107
Apple To Make $3 Billion From Pokemon Go 79
'The Wolf of Wall Street' Movie Was Financed With Stolen Money, Says DOJ 160
Feds Seize KickassTorrents Domains and Arrest Owner In Poland 302
Saudi Arabia Revives 15-Year-Old Ban On 'Zionism-Promoting' Pokemon 328
Facebook's Android App Can Now Save Offline Videos 30
Netflix Stock Price Tanks As Customers Quit Over Higher Prices 460
Pixels Are Driving Out Reality 304
Apple Begins Rolling Out iTunes Match With Audio Fingerprint to Apple Music Subscribers 61
Star Trek CBS Series To Be Streamed Internationally On Netflix 161
Leak Shows PlayStation 4 Neo Is Expected To Have Twice The Graphics Horsepower 99
NVIDIA's Releases Its First VR Game, Along With An Interactive Screenshot Tool 'Ansel' 20
Apple Launching Reality TV Show Called 'Planet of the Apps' 62
Microsoft: Only Microsoft Edge Will Play Netflix Content At 1080p On Your PC 237
Pokemon Go Becomes Biggest Mobile Game In US History 174
TOS Agreements Require Giving Up First Born -- and Users Gladly Consent 195
Google Will Let You Share Movies, Apps, and Music You Buy With Up To Six People 57
YouTube Says Content Owners Made $1B Last Year -- So Music Labels Should Stop Complaining 153
Sega Saturn's DRM Cracked Almost 23 Years After Launch 96
NBC Universal Patents a Way To Detect BitTorrent Pirates In Real-Time 104
Warner Bros. Settles FTC Charge For Not Disclosing Payments To YouTubers For Positive Reviews 81
PSA: Pokemon Go Has Full Access To Your Google Account Data 104
Netflix Is The Least-Cancelled of All Major Streaming Services, Says Study 72
Assembly Code That Took America to the Moon Now Published On GitHub 74
Pokemon Go Leads to Reckless Driving, Injuries, and A Corpse 130
Wannabe Prime Minister Andrea Leadsom Thinks Websites Should Be Rated Like Films 208
George Takei Opposes Gay Sulu In 'Star Trek Beyond' 354
Nintendo Stock Price Up 9% After Pokemon Go Launch 46
YouTube Looking To Launch Online TV Service Next Year With ESPN, ABC, and CBS 24
The Great Tablet Gold Rush Is Over 170
Unreal Engine and Unity To Get NVIDIA's New VR Rendering Tech 17
Ask Slashdot: Is It Ever OK To Quit Without Giving Notice? 765
Man Builds Giant Homemade Computer To Play Tetris 127
UK Police Accessed Civilian Data For Fun and Profit, Says Report 71
73% of Subscribers Would Download Netflix Content, Says Survey 94
Comcast Will Let Netflix Onto Its X1 Platform 43
Microsoft Xbox Project Scorpio Puts Out 6 TFLOPs On Par With Current Gaming PCs 162
Google Cast Is Now Baked Into Chrome, No Extension Needed 93
Japan's First VR Porn Festival Shut Down Due To Unprecedented Popularity 74
Google Offers Free 4-Month Play Music Trial Subscription For July 4th 45
Top Gear Host Chris Evans Steps Down After Poor Ratings 251
That Digital Music Service You Love Is a Terrible Business 240
Red Hat Exec Marries A Couple At Red Hat Summit 62
Why Did The Stars Wars and Star Trek Worlds Turn Out So Differently? 359
DVD Player Found In Tesla Autopilot Crash, Says Florida Officials 485
Senate Staffers Will No Longer Be Issued BlackBerry Devices 29
Apple Slams Spotify For Asking For 'Preferential Treatment' 181
Apple In Talks To Buy Jay Z-Owned Tidal Streaming Service 61
CBS/Paramount Sets Phasers To Kill On Star Trek Fan-Fiction With New Guidelines 254
Ask Slashdot: What's Your Preferred Media Streaming Device? 226
Spotify Says Apple Won't Approve New Version Of Its App Because It Doesn't Want Competition For Apple Music 327
IMAX Will Build You a Home Theater -- Starting at $400K 94
FCC Says TV Airwaves Being Sold For Wireless Use Are Worth $86.4 Billion 72
RIP Xbox Fitness: Users Will Soon Lose Access To Workout Videos They Bought 115
Apple Patents a Way To Keep People From Filming At Concerts and Movie Theaters 266
Google Partners With LyricFind To Display Songs Lyrics In Search Results 35
Judge Dismisses Movie Piracy Case, IP-Address Doesn't Prove Anything 164
Minecraft Movie To Compete With Avengers and Star Wars In 2019 91
Tour de France To Use Thermal Cameras To Spot Cheats 158
You Are Still Watching a Staggering Amount Of TV Every Day 188
New 'Civilization' Game Will Be Sold To Schools As An Educational Tool 198
Is The Future Of Television Watching on Fast-Forward? 296
Star Trek Actor's Death Inspires Class Action Against Car Manufacturer 365
From File-Sharing To Prison: The Story of a Jailed Megaupload Programmer 126
Scientists Force Computer To Binge On TV Shows and Predict What Humans Will Do 63
Surface 3 Stocks Dwindling As Microsoft Plans System's Demise 59
Valve Faces Lawsuit Over Video Game Gambling 73
Netflix to Soon Let Users Download Videos, Says Report 83
Chrome Bug Makes It Easy To Download Movies From Netflix and Amazon Prime 128
BitTorrent Adds Music, Video Streaming Options With Re-Launched BitTorrent Now 29
WiFi-Connected Hard Drive Fits a Plex Server In Your Pocket 67
LeBron James Used A Steve Jobs Speech To Motivate The Cavs To Victory 97
Indie Dev TinyBuild Lost $450K To Fraudulent Sales Facilitated By G2A 104
Taking the Headphone Jack Off Phones Is User-Hostile and Stupid 595
74% of Netflix Subscribers Would Rather Cancel Their Subscription Than See Ads 316
180 Artists, Labels Including Taylor Swift Take On YouTube, Join Copyright Plea 288
New York Senate Passes Bill That Bans Short-Term Apartment Listings On Airbnb 211
Tumblr Is Launching Live Video This Week 21
Alicia Keys Latest Artist To Enforce No Cell Phone Policy at Concerts 482
Slashdot Asks: What's Your Preferred Music Streaming Service? 316
Ask Slashdot: How Can You Manage Developers Distributed Across Multiple Projects? 112
Hacker Who Stole Half-Life 2's Source Code Interviewed For New Book 192
J.J. Abrams Reacts To Death of Star Trek Actor Anton 'Chekov' Yelchin 221
IBM Engineer Builds a Harry Potter Sorting Hat Using 'Watson' AI 117
Mattel Sells Out Of 'Game Developer Barbie' 224
Court Slams Record Companies in New Vimeo/DMCA Ruling 23
Star Trek/Axanar Lawsuit Isn't Going Away Just Yet 97
LG Sells Mosquito-Repelling TV In India 50
It's Happening: A Robot Escaped a Lab In Russia and Made a Dash For Freedom 81
Rolls-Royce Unveils First Driverless Car Complete With Silk 'Throne' 105
Cable Companies Pledge Industry-Wide Commitment But Want Control Over UI 83
Pirate Bay Co-Founder Must Pay Record Labels $395,000 148
Alien Contact Unlikely For Another 1,500 Years, Says Study 159
Trent Reznor: YouTube Is Built On the Back Of Stolen Content 428
Social Media Overtakes Television As Young People's Main Source of News, Says Report 159
Twitter Invests $70 Million In Music Streaming Service SoundCloud 12
Rhapsody Rebrands Itself As Napster 42
Texas Traffic Signs Hacked With Anti-Trump and Anti-Hillary Messages 98
AMC Threatens Copyright Lawsuit Over Walking Dead Spoiler 173
Hacker Puts 51 Million iMesh Accounts For Sale On Dark Web 21
What Star Trek Owes To Robert Heinlein 180
Amazon To Launch Streaming Music Service In Late Summer Or Early Fall: Report 22
Ready CEO: Coding Snobs Are Not Helping Our Children Prepare For The Future 342
Canada Federal Court Restrains Sale Of 'Pirate' Boxes 90
Lenovo and Motorola Unveil PHAB2 Tango AR and Modular Moto Z Smartphones 25
Movie Written By Algorithm Turns Out To Be Hilarious and Intense 160
Microsoft Makes Minecraft Education Edition Available To Schools 32
Google Matches Apple's Plan To Give Developers A Bigger Cut of The Revenue 44
Microsoft Isn't Adding a TV DVR Feature To Xbox One Anymore 76
Many Lexus Navigation Systems Bricked By Over-The-Air Software Update 110
Smartphone Sales Growth Will Drop To Single Digits In 2016, Says Gartner 78
Netflix Blocks Many IPv6 Users Over Geolocation Difficulty 229
Tesla: Model X Accident Caused By Driver Error, Not Autopilot 596
Pandora CEO: No Plans To Sell Company: On Path To Do Something Big 32
Future Phones May Use Vacuum Tube Chips As Silicon Hits Moore's Law Extremes 147
BuzzFeed Ends $1.3M Advertising Deal With RNC Over Donald Trump 403
Wonder Boy Remake Finally On The Way 48
Snapchat Secretly Acquires Seene, A Startup That Lets Mobile Users Make 3D Selfies 20
DVD Release Delays Boost Piracy and Hurt Sales, Study Shows 202
Apple Reportedly Developing 5K Retina Thunderbolt Display With Integrated GPU 296
Minecraft Tops 100 Million Sales 112
Elon Musk: 'One In Billions' Chance We're Not Living In A Computer Simulation 951
Google's 'Project Magenta' Art Machine Composes Its First Song 72
Ask Slashdot: Why Do You Want a 'Smart TV'? 507
Panasonic To Stop Making LCD Panels For TVs 103
Samsung To Roll Out In-TV Ads To Legacy Displays Via Software Update 304
William Gibson Announces New Sci-Fi Comic Book 32
Ask Slashdot: What Books Should An Aspiring Coder Read? 178
The NSA's Delightfully D&D-inspired Guide To the Internet 43
Wearable 'Backpack PCs' Let You Experience High-End VR On The Go 47
Patent Troll VirnetX Wants To Ban FaceTime and iMessage, Increase Damages Award By $190M 94
Smartphone Surveillance Tech Used To Target Anti-Abortion Ads At Pregnant Women 260
Slashdot Asks: Should It Be Legal To Resell E-Books, Software, and Other Digital Goods? 380
American Schools Teaching Kids To Code All Wrong 369
Xiaomi Unveils Budget-Friendly Mi Drone, $460 For 4K Or $380 For 1080p 55
The Pirate Bay Sails Back To Its .ORG Domain 91
Google Built an Escape Room, Making People Use Its Apps To Get Out 50
Toyota Forms 'Strategic Partnership' With Uber 92
Apple To Open Up Siri To Developers, Release An Amazon Echo Competitor 82
E Ink Creates Full-Color Electronic Paper Display 96
Facebook Acquires VR Audio Company, Launches 'Facebook 360 Spatial Workstation' 28
Apple Sued Over iPhones Making Calls, Sending Email 134
Americans Used Nearly 10 Trillion Megabytes of Mobile Data Last Year 91
September: Netflix Will 'Become Exclusive US Pay TV Home of Films From Disney, Marvel, Lucasfilm and Pixar' 175
Google's 'Science Journal' App Turns Your Android Device Into A Laboratory 29
Spotify's New Family Plan Is Cheaper, $14.99 For Up To 6 people 67
Rovio's Desperate Push For 'Angry Birds' Movie 145
Netflix and Amazon Could Face Content Quotas In Europe 344
Abrams Says Paramount Will Drop Star Trek/Axenar Lawsuit 82
Fake Facebook Event Draws Police, Spawns New Meme 92
Apple Opens First 'Next Generation' Retail Store 91
IMAX Embraces Virtual Reality, To Open Six VR Theaters This Year 32
Fox 'Stole' a Game Clip, Used It In Family Guy and DMCA'd the Original 311
Men Are Sabotaging The Online Reviews Of TV Shows Aimed At Women 858
Android Wear 2.0 Gets A Keyboard, Standalone Apps, Activity Recognition, New UI 31
Nintendo May Start Selling 'Computer Software' 74
Google Announces New Virtual Reality Platform 'Daydream' 24
Transparent Displays Are Here, But They're Pretty Useless 171
Live-Action Tetris Movie Secures $80 Million Funding, Plans To Be Part Of A Trilogy 122
Google Unveils 'Gigapixel' Camera To Preserve and Archive Art 71
YouTube Is Guilty Of Criminal Racketeering, Grammy Winner Says 246
Campaign Demands Telecoms Unlock the FM Radio Found in Many Smartphones 340
Warren Buffett Buys $1 Billion Stake In Apple 120
Microsoft To License Nokia Brand To Foxconn, Says Report 139
Raspberry Pi Zero Gains Camera Support, Keeps $5 Price 84
John McAfee Tried to Trick Reporters Into Thinking He Hacked WhatsApp 99
Jail Sentence For Popular YouTube Pranksters 231
History Buffs Discover Inaccuracies In Battlefield 1 Trailer 74
2015 Nebula Award Winners Announced 231
EFF Confronts World Copyright Committee 32
Apple Says It Doesn't Know Why iTunes Users Are Losing Their Music Files 214
Disney Research Leverages RFID Tech For Low Cost Interactive Games With Physical Objects 18
Google Paying Arizona Residents $20/Hr To Test Self-Driving Cars 76
Ask Slashdot: What Was The Greatest Era Of Innovation? 177
Samsung Unveils 256GB MicroSD Card, Highest Capacity In Its Class 117
Guy Who Didn't Invent Email Sues Gawker For Pointing Out He Didn't Invent Email 91
Jeremy Clarkson's Amazon Show To Be Called The Grand Tour 145
Netflix Cuts Out Over 6 Days Of Commercials From Your Life Per Year, Compared To Cable TV 127
MegaBots Raises $2.4M To Create League Of Human-Piloted, Giant Fighting Robots 52
Amazon Goes After YouTube With New Online Video Posting Service 61
Swarm AI Correctly Predicts Kentucky Derby Superfecta, Turns $20 Into $11,000 170
Lego Robots Crack Gesture-Based Security 13
The Pirate Bay Now Blocked In Chrome, Firefox, And Safari 202
Legendary Sound Designer Jory Prum Passes Away At 41 62
Does Free Comic Book Day Help Retailers? 47
Streaming Surpasses CD Sales At Warner Music 63
'Boaty McBoatface' Polar Ship Named After Attenborough Despite Less Votes 232
YouTube: Our Primetime Audience Is Bigger Than the Top 10 TV Shows Combined 46
Netflix Enables Streaming Quality Control To Reign In Mobile Data Usage 69
Finger-Tracking Tech Turns Your Arm Into A Touchpad 28
Cops Deploy StingRay Anti-Terror Tech Against $50 Chicken-Wing Thief 194
'Apple Stole My Music. No, Seriously' 341
Star Wars Buttons And Lights You May Have Missed 125
Man Sets World Record With 25 Continuous Hours In Virtual Reality 80
YouTube To Launch 'Unplugged' Online TV Service In 2017 67
Slashdot Asks: What Do You Think Is The Most Influential Gadget Of All Time? 397
76% Of Netflix Subscribers Think Netflix Can Replace Traditional TV 160
Self-Driving Features Could Lead To More Sex In Moving Cars, Expert Warns 268
Audiophile Torrent Site What.CD Fully Pwnable Thanks To Wrecked RNG 138
The Pirate Bay Gets a 'Massive' $9 in Donations Per Day 103
Government Could Ban BBC From Showing Top Shows at Peak Times 84

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