Entertainment Stories for 2019

3D TV Tells You Everything About This Decade's Tech 196
Syd Mead, Visionary 'Blade Runner' Artist and Futurist, Dies at 86 28
Why Is 'Rise of Skywalker' Dividing Critics and Fans? 192
Would Social Media Have Made Life Worse For Richard Jewell? 81
In 1994 A 12-Year-Old Programmed a Videogame. It Turned Up on Twitch Monday 41
Bill Gates Gives Reddit User An 81-Pound 'Secret Santa' Gift 42
New Law Finally Bans Bullshit Cable TV Fees 49
Why Do 88% of Americans Use a Second Screen While Watching TV? 138
'The Rise of Skywalker' Is a Preview of Our DRM-Fueled Dystopian Future 78
Slashdot Asks: What's Your Favorite Podcast? 277
Ask Slashdot: Will Future TVs Be Able To DeepFake Actor Faces In Realtime? 65
The Next Big Streaming Trend? Recommendations From Actual People 36
'Rise of Skywalker' Falls Short of Predecessors. Is the Future Streaming? 340
'Cats' Director Rushes Visual Effects Update Into Theaters After Disastrous Opening 101
Researcher Uses Focused Gallium Ions To Build A Microscopic Gingerbread House 17
Ask Slashdot: At What Age Should Toddlers Get Screen Time? 101
Atari's Home Computers Turn 40 86
Amazon's AI Creates Synthesized Singers 19
US Government Lists Fictional Nation Wakanda as Trade Partner 65
Cox Owes $1 Billion To Record Labels for Harboring Music Pirates, Jury Decides 87
The BBC's 1992 TV Show About VR, 3D TVs With Glasses, and Holographic 3D Screens 54
TiVo, Xperi to Merge in $3 Billion Entertainment Tech Deal 21
Missing Stars Could Point To Alien Civilizations, Scientists Say 289
More than 38,000 People Will Stand in Line this Week To Get a New Password 46
First-Run Movies at Home For the Ultra-Rich at Just $2,500 a Pop 101
Over 100 PBS Local Stations Start Streaming Today On YouTube TV 35
Apple Pulls App That Let You Turn Your Phone Into a Virtual iPod With Click Wheel 39
LucasFilm President Answers The Burning 'Star Wars' Question: What's Next? 211
'Maximum PC' Magazine Accurately Predicted Apple TV-Like Devices In 2001 44
Remembering Rene Auberjonois, 'Star Trek: Deep Space Nine' Actor 27
10 Days Early, Star Wars Fans Started Camping Outside 'Rise of Skywalker' Premiere 60
Exclusive Clip From 'Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker' Debuts In Fortnite 24
Xbox Series X To Allow 'Suspend and Resume' For Multiple Games At Once 53
Billboard Is Changing Its Albums Chart To Count Video Plays From YouTube 16
Roku Built the Dominant Streaming Box. Now It's Under Siege 93
Slashdot Asks: Your Favorite Movies, TV Shows, and Documentaries of 2019? 107
Microsoft's Next Xbox Is Xbox Series X, Coming Holiday 2020 78
Netflix Ordered To Stop Poaching Fox Employees 96
Sony Announces Plan To Publish PlayStation Games On Non-PS Consoles 24
Google Built Its Own Tiny HDMI 2.1 Box To Jump-Start 'the Next Generation of Android TV' 23
Disney Becomes First Studio To Surpass $10 Billion At Worldwide Box Office 62
World Chess Champion On the Verge of Topping Fantasy Football Table 45
Disney Warns 'Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker' Effects Could Cause Seizures 150
Linux Users Can Now Use Disney+ After DRM Fix 26
Remembering Star Trek Writer DC Fontana, 1939-2019 25
Qualcomm To Offer GPU Driver Updates On Google Play Store For Some Snapdragon Chips 8
EU Study Shows Online Piracy is Complex and Not Easy To Grasp 44
Netflix Is Spending $420 Million on Indian Content, CEO Says 52
A Two-Hour Fan-Made Audio Drama About BioShock 17
Filmmakers Sue State Department Over Social Media Surveillance Rules 20
How Chinese Sci-Fi Conquered America 90
In a First, Amazon Launches a Battery-powered Portable Echo Speaker in India 25
Plex Launches Free, Ad-Supported Video Service in 200-Plus Countries, Territories 35
Genius Sues Google For 'No Less Than $50M', Alleging 'Anticompetitive Practices' Over Lyrics 69
Cord-Cutting Pushed To 'Tipping Point' as Video Streaming Grows 78
Now Even the FBI is Warning About Your Smart TV's Security 126
2019 Sees More Geeky Advent Calendars 12
Remembering The Home Computer Christmas Wars of 1983 165
DC Comics Deletes 'Batman' Image That China Complained Was Supporting Hong Kong Protesters 132
Apple's and Microsoft's 2019 Holiday Ads: Naughty Or Nice? 71
Netflix Cancels Rebooted 'Mystery Science Theatre 3000' 80
Study Reveals Music's Universal Patterns Across Societies Worldwide 45
Valve's Steam Controller Is Dead 48
Cable Execs Now Falsely Claiming Cord Cutting Is Slowing Down 59
YouTube Masthead, Rolling Out To All Users, is a Massive Auto-Playing Video Ad for TV 58
The Filmmaking Tech Behind 'The Mandalorian' Is Straight Out of the Star Wars Universe 90
Google Addresses Complaints of Sub-4K Image Quality On Stadia 44
Amazon's Cloud Gaming Service Could Arrive Next Year With Twitch Integration 19
'Netflix CEO Reed Hastings is a Coward' 96
EverQuest and Pantheon Developer Brad McQuaid Has Died 52
Justice Department To Abolish Movie Distribution Rules Dating To 1949 141
Valve Announces Half-Life: Alyx, Its First Flagship VR Game 111
Watchmen Creator Alan Moore: Modern Superhero Culture is Embarrassing 353
'Royalty-Free' Music Supplied By YouTube Results In Mass Video Demonetization 156
'Sci-fi Makes You Stupid' Study Refuted by Scientists Behind Original Research 107
'Justice League' Stars Demand Release of Director Zack Snyder's Original Cut 40
Thousands of Hacked Disney+ Accounts Are Already For Sale On Hacking Forums 46
Hulu Boosts the Price of Its Live-TV Service 36
Billboards Love Streaming Wars Because That's Where Ads End Up 14
Disney + and 'The Mandalorian' Are Driving People Back To Torrenting 277
Microsoft Adds Over 50 Games To xCloud Preview, Plans Launch For 2020 18
George Lucas Has Apparently Changed the Famous Greedo Scene In 1977's Star Wars Again, For Disney+ 284
Stadia Launch Developer Says Game Makers Are Worried 'Google Is Just Going To Cancel It' 67
More Than 10 Million Sign Up For Disney+ in First Day 59
Are We Living In a Blade Runner World? 223
The New Sonic the Hedgehog Movie Trailer is a Giant Relief 75
Disney Plus' Launch Marred by Complaints of Service Failures, Login Problems 58
Google Reveals Stadia Launch Lineup of 12 Games 62
Carrie Fisher Was Originally Going To Be 'The Last Jedi' In the Final Star Wars Movie 165
Struggling 'Terminator' Movie Has An Even Worse Second Weekend 271
Do You Remember MIDI Music Files? 112
Netflix, HBO and Cable Giants Are Exploring New Ways Such as Authentication Using Fingerprints To Crack Down on Password Sharing 116
Older Samsung Smart TVs, Certain Roku Devices To Lose Netflix Support Next Month 170
James Dean, Who Died In 1955, Will Return To the Big Screen Via CGI 93
Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+ 71
Martin Scorsese: I Said Marvel Movies Aren't Cinema. Let Me Explain. 225
Enjoy Netflix While It Lasts. It Can't Keep Going Like This Forever. 194
Microsoft and Warner Bros. Archived the Original 'Superman' Movie on a Futuristic Glass Disc 93
Third 'Terminator' Reboot Bombs at Box Office 243
Apple TV+ Meets Rivals on Originals, But Lack of Back Catalog Is Big Omission 44
EA Comes Back To Steam With New Games 33
Sony is Closing Vue, Its Pay TV Streaming Service You Never Used 40
Netflix Plan To Test Varying Play Speeds Meets Filmmaker Backlash 212
Nvidia Revamps Shield Android TV Streamer, Introduces New $150 Model 47
Apple Unveils $250 AirPods Pro 98
The FCC is Using Streaming Services as an Excuse To Raise Cable Rates 52
Google: Stadia Exclusives To Have Features 'Not Possible' On Home Hardware 64
40 Major Music Festivals Have Pledged Not To Use Facial Recognition Technology 22
Netflix Launches $4 Mobile-only Monthly Plan in Malaysia 20
Study Casts Doubt On Value of WHO's 'Gaming Disorder' Diagnoses 46
Comcast's 'Free' Streaming Box Actually Requires an Additional $13 a Month Fee 29
Tom DeLonge's UFO Research Group Signs Contract With US Army To Develop Far-Future Tech 77
Netflix May Crack Down On Password Sharing 94
Disney+ Does Not Work On Linux Devices 80
'South Park' Nears $500-Million Deal for US Streaming Rights 52
Apple Hid a Lightning Connector For Debugging In the Apple TV 4K's Ethernet Port 60
Unnatural Selection: the Eye-Opening Netflix Docuseries On Gene Editing 27
Call of Duty Will Have a Battle Pass Instead of Loot Boxes 54
China's Helicopter Prototype Looks Like a UFO 60
Dutch Family 'Waiting For End of Time' Discovered In Basement 154
Internet Archive Releases 2,500 MS-DOS Games 58
Project xCloud Public Preview Is Now Live 4
Apple Told Some Apple TV+ Show Developers Not To Anger China 78
Smart TVs Are Data-Collecting Machines, New Study Shows 41
Laser Cutters Sold On Amazon and Elsewhere Are Cheap, Fun -- and Dangerous 81
Google Makes It Easier To Move Music and Video Streams Between Devices 15
Teens Choose YouTube Over Netflix For the First Time, Survey Finds 54
Slashdot Asks: What Did You Like/Dislike About iTunes? 131
Hulu Finally Adds Downloads For Offline Mobile Viewing 16
'If Disney World's Star Wars Land Is a Flop, Why Is It So Crowded?' 94
'Suicide Squad' Director Urges DC and Marvel Fans To Stop Feuding 95
Videogame Records Site Refuses To Reinstate 'King of Kong' Billy Mitchell's High Scores 80
Monty Python's 50th Anniversary Celebrated With 'Extremely Silly' Event 51
Montreal Law Firm Looks To Launch Class-Action Lawsuit Against Fortnite Developer 90
Disney Bans Netflix Ads As Streaming's Marketing Wars Intensify 44
Microsoft's New Surface Earbuds Work With Any Virtual Assistant, Not Just Cortana 20
Movie Theaters' Latest Gamble: Ads Mixed in With Trailers 233
Apple TV Plus Movies Might Hit Theaters Before Streaming Service 6
Spider-Man Returns To the Marvel Cinematic Universe 40
Locast, a Free Streaming Service, Sues ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox 59
Developer Made an Ad Blocker That Works On Podcasts and Radio 31
What 'Ad Astra' and Brad Pitt Get Wrong About Space Travel, Science and Life In the Cosmos 89
Brain Research On Boys' Preference For Video Games and Girls' For Social Media 161
Court Says FCC Ignored Hard Data In Rush To Help Media Companies 35
Mysterious Avid Issue Knocks Out Mac Pro Workstations Across Hollywood 98
Researchers Find Mystery Hidden In Early 80's Atari Game 169
As Netflix Loses TV favorites Like 'The Office' To New Rivals, DVD and Blu-ray Sellers See a Big Opportunity 54
HBO Fends Off Streamers at Emmys While Other TV Networks Struggle 92
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 'Nog' Actor Aron Eisenberg Has Died at 50 63
Is 'The Far Side' Comic Strip Coming Back? 47
'Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates' Premieres on Netflix 49
TiVo Tests Running Pre-Roll Ads Before DVR Recordings 46
They Want To Believe: People Gather Near Area 51 To 'See Them Aliens' 143
Authorities Consider Taking Legal Action Against Facebook Over Storm Area 51 Event 87
AT&T Explores Parting Ways With DirecTV 59
Navy Confirms Existence of UFOs Seen In Leaked Footage 197
New Eco-Friendly Game Packaging Could Save Tons of Plastic Each Year 63
Smart TVs, Smart-Home Devices Found To Be Leaking Sensitive User Data, Researchers Find 66
Amazon Confirms 'Lord of the Rings' TV Series Will Be Filmed In New Zealand 106
Amazon Music Rolls Out Lossless Streaming Tier 48
'Big Bang Theory' Sets Staggering Multi-Billion-Dollar HBO Max Streaming Deal 94
NBCUniversal's Streaming Service Is Called Peacock and It's Launching Next April 69
Netflix Lands 'Seinfeld' Rights in $500M-Plus Deal After Losing 'Friends' and 'The Office' 115
'Men In Black' Director Barry Sonnenfeld Calls 8K, Netflix HDR 'Stupid' 279
Disney CEO Bob Iger Resigns From Apple Board As Companies Come Into Conflict On Streaming 8
MoviePass Will Shut Down For Good on September 14 22
AT&T To Lose 1.1 Million TV Subscribers As DirecTV Continues Nosedive 75
Spotify Wants To Know Where You Live and Will Be Checking In 57
Comcast Sues Maine To Stop Law Requiring Sale of Individual TV Channels 141
Apple Arcade Will Be Available On September 19 For $4.99 39
Storm Area 51 Festival Canceled Because It Was a 'Possible Humanitarian Disaster' 96
Apple Prices TV+ Video Service at $4.99 a Month, Hitting Netflix and Disney 74
Sony Releases a Walkman For Its 40th Anniversary 96
Streaming Makes Up 80 Percent of the Music Industry's Revenue 32
Apple Releases Public Beta of Apple Music For Web 13
Google Search is Getting Personalized TV and Movie Recommendations 15
Disney Is Leading the Charge Against Netflix By Returning To Weekly Episode Releases 129
Inside Plex's Quest To Become a One-Stop Shop for Digital Media 29
TSA Bans Star Wars Coke Bottles That Resemble Grenades 194
TV Manufacturers Unite To Tackle the Scourge of Motion Smoothing 152
Jessi Combs, the 'Fastest Woman On Four Wheels,' Killed In Land-Speed Record Crash 152
Xbox Live Is Down, Bringing Some Apps and Games Offline 18
Netflix-like Pirate Sites Offered More Video Than the Real Netflix, Feds Say 31
A Growing Community Called Randonauts Believe That Journeying To Random Locations Can Help Put Us in New Realities 134
Netflix Has Now Shipped 5 Billion DVDs To Its Members 29
Slashdot Asks: What's Your Favorite Underappreciated Movie? 893
Disney World Plans Two-Day, Stars Wars-Themed Simulated Space Cruises 123
UHD Alliance, Filmmakers, TV Vendors, and Hollywood Studios Announce 'Filmmaker Mode' To Fight Motion Smoothing 6
2019 Hugo Award Winners Include a Fan Fiction Site and 'Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse' 120
Netflix Tests 'Collections' That Are Curated By Humans Instead of Algorithms 32
YouTube Says It Will Now Remove 'Violent' and 'Mature' Videos Pretending To Be Kid-Friendly 40
Streaming Video Will Soon Look Like the Bad Old Days of TV 140
Spotify Triples Free-Trial Period on Premium Service 13
Sony Pulls Spider-Man Out of the MCU Over Profit-Sharing Dispute With Disney 182
Japan's Digital Pop Stars Blur Line Between Virtual and Reality 56
'Matrix 4' Officially a Go With Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss 208
Sony Buys Spider-Man Developer Insomniac Games 14
YouTube To Allow Everyone To Watch YouTube Originals For Free 57
Anime Studio, Khara, Is Planning To Use Open-Source Blender Software 20
Disney Fights Streaming Account Sharing With Help From Cable Industry 46
America's Elderly Seem More Screen-Obsessed Than the Young 38
LGBT Video-Makers Sue YouTube Claiming Discrimination 176
Netflix's Biggest Bingers Get Hit With Higher Internet Costs 116
Spotify Plans To Sell a More Expensive Version of Its Music Service in Scandinavia in a Test To See Whether It Can Raise Prices Around the World 32
British Airways Testing VR Headsets For First-Class Passengers This Year 43
Apple, Spotify Discuss Siri Truce, as Antitrust Battle Looms 9
CBS, Viacom Strike Deal To Recombine 24
How Netflix Is Using Its Muscle To Push Filmmaking Technology Boundaries 50
Was 'The Matrix' Part of Cinema's Last Great Year? 179
MoviePass Reportedly Changed Account Passwords To Prevent Users From Seeing Films 49
Google Attempts To Solve Podcasting's Discovery Problem By Embedding Playable Episodes in Search 57
Chernobyl and Why Some TV Shows Should Be Unbingeable 206
Disney Announces $12.99 Bundle For Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+ 118
MoviePass Worked Out Great 118
Spotify Keeps Big Lead Over Apple Music But Disappoints With 108M Subscribers 37
Major Broadcasters Sue TV Streaming Nonprofit Locast 90
AT&T Kills DirecTV Now Brand Name As TV Subscribers Leave In Droves 73
PlayStation 4 Becomes Fastest Console To Sell 100 Million 76
American Movie Studios Appease Chinese Censors 284
Amazon Just Brought Prime Video To VR Headsets 55
Would You Pay $17 To $27 Monthly For All Video Streaming Services Combined? 196
AT&T Loses Nearly 1 Million TV Customers After Raising DirecTV Prices 75
Is Motion Smoothing Ruining Cinema? 347
Blade Runner Actor Rutger Hauer Dies Aged 75 135
As Streaming Offerings Become More Expensive and Convoluted, People Are Setting Up Their Own Smaller, More Intimate Platforms 159
Netflix Launches $2.8 Mobile-Only Monthly Plan in India 49
Canned Laughter Makes Jokes Seem Funnier, Study Finds 164
'Avengers' Surpasses 'Avatar' as Highest-Grossing Film of All Time 141
TV Antenna Listings on Amazon Are Rife With Dubious Claims 170
6.6 Million Lose CBS Channels After 'Business Dispute' With AT&T 143
Comic-Con Trailers Include 'Star Trek: Picard' and HBO's 'Watchmen' Series 205
New 'HBO Max' Streaming Service Will Include a 'Dune' TV Series 53
James Bond Was Going To Fight Robot Sharks With Nukes In New York's Sewers 90
Apparent Arson Attack Devastates Kyoto Animation Anime Studio With Dozens Confirmed Dead 179
Have We Hit Peak Podcast? 106
Netflix Will Roll Out a Lower-Priced Subscription Plan in India 58
Netflix Stock Tumbles After US Subscribers Drop For the First Time Ever 210
Apple Plans To Bankroll Original Podcasts To Fend Off Rivals 50
Social Media, But Not Video Games, Linked To Depression In Teens, Says Study 147
Ajit Pai's New Gift To Cable Companies Would Kill Local Fees and Rules 96
Review: 'Solid State' by Jonathan Coulton 47
They're Making a Movie Based On the 1978 Game 'Space Invaders' 132
Amazon Continues Work On Mobile Home Robot As It Preps New High-End Echo, Says Report 52
Thousands of People Have Taken a Facebook Pledge To Storm Area 51 345
Amazon Becomes Fastest-Growing Music Streaming Service 28
Streaming's Bounty of Choices Overwhelms Consumers 115
Parks and Recreation Centers Are Using Sonic Devices That Play High-Pitched Noises To Repel Teens 406
FCC Photos Confirm Galaxy Note 10 Won't Have a Headphone Jack 148
Coming To a Streaming Service Near You: Shows Costing as Much as Big-Budget Movies 81
WarnerMedia Announces HBO Max, Its Netflix Rival That Will Launch Next Year 65

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