Entertainment Stories for 2019

Sneaky Chrome Extension Disguises Netflix As a Google Hangout To Help You Slack Off At Work 33
A Look at How Movies and Shows From Netflix and Amazon Prime Video Are Pirated 219
Elon Musk's Dream of An Onion-Like Media Empire 55
Netflix Could Lose Almost a Quarter of Its Subscribers If It Started Running Ads, Study Shows 172
MoviePass Has Shut Down For 'Several Weeks' To Update Its App 47
Spotify Shuts Down Direct Music Uploading For Independent Artists 136
Microsoft's Cloud-Only Xbox Still In Development, Report Says 36
Regal Cinemas Readying Unlimited Ticket Subscription Program 64
Slashdot Asks: What Do You Remember About the Sony Walkman? 166
Is Streaming TV About To Get Really Expensive? 378
When You Listen, They Watch: Pre-Saving Albums Can Allow Labels To Track Users on Spotify 15
TV is Still the Most Common Way For Americans To Get Local News, But Fewer People Are Watching 94
Spotify Wants a Refund On Overpaid Royalties To US Songwriters, Report Says 38
In Japan, It's a Riveting TV Plot: Can a Worker Go Home On Time? 170
Music Industry Targets Troll Farms Distorting Streaming Revenues 52
'Avengers: Endgame' Is Returning To Theaters With New Footage 122
YouTube and UMG Partner To Remaster Over 1,000 Iconic Music Videos From SD To Full-HD 84
Bernie Sanders Supports Video Game Workers Unions 323
Google Explains How It Licenses Song Lyrics For Search, Will Add Attribution 72
Samsung Recommends Scanning QLED TVs For Viruses 191
Slashdot Asks: Does Anyone Still Like Godzilla? 231
'Genius' Site Said It Used Morse Code To Catch Google Stealing Song Lyrics 157
We Won't Be Listening To Music in a Decade According To Vinod Khosla 246
Lego Struggles To Find a Plant-Based Plastic That Clicks 189
Netflix Unveils Plans To Develop Original Shows Into Video Games 57
Shazam for Android Now Recognizes Music Playing Through Headphones 44
Radiohead Release Hours of Hacked MiniDiscs To Benefit Extinction Rebellion 117
Steven Spielberg Is Writing a Horror Series That You Can Only Watch At Night 136
Supreme Court To Consider Racial Discrimination Case Against Comcast 74
New Game Based On 'The Blair Witch Project' Demoed at Microsoft Xbox Event 27
'Cyberpunk 2077' Game Starring Keanu Reeves Demoed at Microsoft Xbox Event 68
Why Some Businesses Really Hate Yelp 115
Bizarre New Theories Emerge About Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto 133
Cringely Predicts The End Of Broadcast TV Within A Decade 171
Piracy is Ethically Acceptable For Many Harvard Lawyers, Research Finds 101
WarnerMedia Scraps Plan For a Three-Tiered Streaming Service, To Package HBO, Cinemax and its Library Into One Offering For $16 to $17 a Month 61
HBO's 'Chernobyl' is Now the Top-Ranked TV Show of All Time 298
Blake's 7 Actor Paul Darrow Dies At 78 107
NYT 'Op Eds From the Future' Launch With Sci-Fi Writer Ted Chiang 33
Teen Makes His Own AirPods For $4 123
Ask Slashdot: Why Is 3D Technology Stagnating So Badly? 188
iTunes Expected To Be Retired After Over 18 Years 82
NSF Greenlights $1.1 Million Remake of Microsoft's 2016 'Code Trip' PBS Show 40
Metadata is the Biggest Little Problem Plaguing the Music Industry 171
Netflix To Raise Prices For UK Subscribers By Up To 20% 70
Hundreds of Thousands of 'Pirate' Sites Disappear Following Takedown Notices 43
Apple Sued By iTunes Customers Over Alleged Data Misuse 29
YouTube Gaming App Shuts Down This Week 52
Movie Companies Sue 'YTS' and 'YIFY' Site Operators in US Court 169
Will Disney+ Destroy Netflix? 348
MIDI Association Explains 'Capability Inquiry' Features In MIDI 2.0 35
Can James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger Revive The 'Terminator' Franchise? 226
Neal Stephenson Says Social Media Is Close To A 'Doomsday Machine' 59
'Sonic the Hedgehog' Movie is Getting Delayed To Redesign the Title Character 114
Synthesizer Pioneer Bob Moog Gets His Own 'Moogseum' 49
Rotten Tomatoes Tackles Review Bombing By Requiring Users To Verify Ticket Purchase Before Rating a Film 153
How 'The Big Bang Theory' Normalized Nerd Culture 375
Millions of Golfers Land In Privacy Hazard After Cloud Misconfig 29
Cable TV Customer Satisfaction Falls Even Further Behind Streaming Video 52
TikTok Maker Set To Take on Spotify With Free New Music Streaming App 14
Chicago Becomes First City To Collect 'Netflix Tax' 153
Sony Reportedly Launches Marvel-Inspired Studio To Turn Games Into Movies, Shows 36
10-Year-Old's Reality-Show Victory Revoked After Automated Bot Voting 56
Who Killed America's Demo Scene? 143
Why Play a Music CD? 'No Ads, No Privacy Terrors, No Algorithms' 241
Minecraft Earth Goes a Step Beyond Pokemon Go To Cover the World In Blocks 46
'Game of Thrones' Fan Petition for Final Season Do-Over Snowballs 494
Epic Plans More Exclusives For Its Games Store 70
Internet Meme Pioneer YTMND Shuts Down 82
Division 2 Multiplayer and Single-Player Campaign Broken By Latest Update 27
Algorithmic Analysis Shows That Pop Music Is Sadder and Angrier Than Ever 224
'I Bought Some Noise-Canceling Headphones. They Don't Cancel Noise' 436
28 Years Later, Hacker Fixes Rampant Slowdown of SNES' Gradius III 58
'Don't Unionize, Buy Video Games,' Delta Airlines Employees Are Told 227
AI Avatars Could Be the Next Generation's Favorite Entertainers 82
New HHS Rule To Force Drug Companies To List Prices In TV Ads 76
US Adults Are Spending Big On Video Games, Playing Mostly On Smartphones 64
Reporter Recounts a Quirk in Google's Search Algorithm That Resulted in His Phone Number Getting Listed as Facebook's Customer Support 49
Microsoft Solitaire Inducted Into World Video Game Hall of Fame 50
id Software's Open-Source Engines Ported To iOS, tvOS 67
Actor Peter Mayhew, Who Portrayed Chewbacca the Wookiee in the "Star Wars" Films, Has Died 159
Netflix Says Python Programming Language is Behind Every Film You Stream 202
Huawei's First Television Could Also Be the World's First 5G 8K TV 196
'Let's Watch Netflix: Three Words Guaranteed To Kill a Romantic Mood' 439
Why Everyone Is Watching TV With Closed Captioning On These Days 440
Samsung Thinks Millennials Want Vertical TVs 288
'Avengers: Endgame' Shatters Box Office Records 236
High School Production of 'Alien' Suprised By Visit From Sigourney Weaver 61
Ask Slashdot: Why Are 3D Games, VR/AR Still Rendered Using Polygons In 2019? 230
Google 'Thanos' For an Epic 'Avengers: Endgame' Easter Egg 48
Sinemia, a Would-be Rival To MoviePass, Shuts Down US Movie-Ticket Subscription Service 28
Amazon is Readying a High Fidelity Music Streaming Service: Report 84
Academy Leaves Door Open To Netflix After Tussle Over Oscars Eligibility Rules 41
Podcast Wars: $100 Million Startup Luminary To Launch Tomorrow Without Some Publicly Available Popular Podcasts 71
Robot News Presenter Causes a Stir On Russian TV 66
Netflix Is Experimenting With a 'Random Episode' Feature For TV Shows 39
The Source Code For All Infocom Text Adventure Classics Has Been Released 106
Netflix Will Invest Up To $100 Million In a NYC Production Hub 36
MoviePass Has Lost Over 90% of Its Subscribers in Less Than a Year, Leaked Documents Reveal 62
Sony Cracks Down On Sexually Explicit Content In Games 299
Microsoft Is Jumping Onto the Wireless Earbud Bandwagon, Says Report 38
'Avengers: Endgame' Footage Leaks on Reddit, YouTube, and Twitter 80
Starz Goes on Twitter Meta-Censorship Spree To Cover Up TV-Show Leaks 55
Dragons, Nuclear Weapons, and Game of Thrones 86
China's 'Game of Thrones' Fans Try Torrents, VPNs For Uncensored Episodes 47
George Lucas Actually Consulted For The Script Of 'Star War: Episode IX' 141
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings To Depart Facebook Board of Directors 41
DVD and Blu-Ray Sales Nearly Halved Over Five Years, MPAA Report Says 83
Disney+ Streaming Service To Launch In November, Priced At $6.99 Monthly 130
Man Caught Wearing Earbuds With a Dead Phone Found Guilty of Distracted Driving 310
T-Mobile Rebrands Layer3 Service as 'TVision Home', Inks Deal To Add Amazon Prime Video 29
YouTube TV Costs $50 Per Month After Another Price Hike 227
Apple Will Likely Replace iTunes on macOS With Standalone Music, Podcasts, and TV Apps in Next Major Update 51
Apple Music Caught Censoring Pro-Democracy Music In China 117
Sony Creates Colossal 16K Screen In Japan 56
Roku Is No Longer a Neutral Platform After Today's Roku OS 9.1 Update 41
Viewers Who Stream More Also Go To Cinemas More 53
Netflix Axes Apple AirPlay Support 169
Cord-Cutting in America May Have Already Peaked 161
Apple TV+ Includes A Muppet Who Codes 80
The Swedish DJ Who Invented Industrially-Manufactured Pop Music 110
2.7 Million Americans Still Get Netflix DVDs in the Mail 123
Android TV Update Puts Home-Screen Ads On Multi-Thousand-Dollar Sony Smart TVs 212
Internet Archive Recovers Half a Million 'Lost' MySpace Songs 30
Google Play Artist Hub Shutting Down April 30 With Google No Longer Offering Direct Portal For Smaller Musicians 36
Amazon Plans To Take on Roku By Vastly Expanding Its Free Ad-Supported Streaming Services: Report 39
Justice Department Warns Academy About Changing Oscar Rules To Exclude Streaming 140
Dubstep Music Found To Protect Against Mosquito Bites, Says Study 99
Global Video Streaming Market is Largely Controlled by the Usual Suspects 39
Blockbuster Video Now Has Just One Store Left On Earth 129
Valve Reveals High-End VR Headset Called the Valve Index 87
iFixit Teardown Reveals Apple's New AirPods Are 'Disappointingly Disposable' 117
Warner Music Signs Record Deal With an Algorithm 52
Music Labels Sue Charter, Complain That High Internet Speeds Fuel Piracy 197
Apple Arcade Is a New Game Subscription Service For iOS, Mac, and Apple TV 85
Apple TV+, With Shows From Spielberg, Oprah and J.J. Abrams, is Coming This Fall 101
New App Gives Free Movie Tickets To People Who Watch 15 Minutes of Ads 142
What If Your Electronic Parts Were More Like Legos? 98
How Science Fiction Imagines Data Storage 78
Microsoft Revived and Killed Clippy in a Single Day 79
Walmart Is Looking Into Launching Its Own Cloud Gaming Service, Report Says 76
Apple's Plan For Its New TV Service: Sell Other People's TV Services 95
Cable Lobby Seeks Better Reputation By Dropping 'Cable' From Its Name 63
Flood of 4K James Bond Leaks Further Point To iTunes Breach 114
Global Box Office Flat in 2018, Netflix and Subscription Services Rise in Popularity 53
Oculus Unveils the Rift S, a Higher-Resolution VR Headset With Built-In Tracking 68
MoviePass Brings Back Its Unlimited Movie Plan 50
Crytek Shows 4K 30 FPS Ray Tracing On Non-RTX AMD and NVIDIA GPUs 140
Netflix Won't Join Apple's Video Streaming Service 46
NVIDIA's Ray Tracing Tech Will Soon Run On Older GTX Cards 98
New Mirai Malware Variant Targets Signage TVs and Presentation Systems 21
To Avoid Demonetization, YouTube and Twitch Streamers Sing Badly Over Copyrighted Songs 86
After 40 Years 'Dungeons & Dragons' is Suddenly Popular 182
Man Arrested For Selling One Million Netflix, Spotify, Hulu Passwords 25
Google Is Shutting Down Its Emmy Award-Winning VR Film Studio 23
Musician Creates a Million-Hour Song Based On the Number Pi 65
Microsoft Announces Xbox Live For Any iOS Or Android Game 22
Halo: Master Chief Collection Is Finally Confirmed For PC, Will Include Reach 50
Death Metal Music Inspires Joy Not Violence, Study Finds 170
Valve's Steam Link Will Let You Stream Your PC Games Anywhere 7
Vizio Wants Next-Generation Smart TVs To Target Ads To Households 235
Scientists Have Discovered a Shape That Blocks All Sound 179
Microsoft Brings DirectX 12 To Windows 7 119
Surprising Discovery Hints Sonic Waves Carry Mass 191
Apple Confirms March 25th Event, Expected To Announce New TV Service 38
John Oliver Fights Robocalls By Robocalling Ajit Pai and the FCC 265
'Captain Marvel' Smashes Box Office Record, Laughs Off Review-Bombing Trolls 549
Disney To Close 'Vault' For Good As It Moves Film Library To Streaming Service 153
Spotify, Google, Pandora, Amazon Go To US Appeals Court To Overturn Royalty Increase 35
Samsung Patents Wireless TV With No Power Cable 55
Nintendo To Smartphone Game Makers: You Can Only Gouge Our Players So Much 29
Netflix Makes Statement In Wake Of Steven Spielberg's Attempt To Block Streaming Giant From Oscars 176
Android TV Bug Gave Users Access To Strangers' Google Photos 41
More People Bought Physical CDs and Vinyl Than Songs on iTunes Last Year 160
Can the BBC and ITV Challenge Netflix? 87
Ridley Scott's 'Alien' Will Finally be Released in 4K HDR For Its 40th Anniversary 92
Netflix is Testing Even More Expensive Subscription Prices 143
Listening To Music May Be Damaging Your Creativity 145
Samsung is Loading McAfee Antivirus Software On Smart TVs 160
Netflix May Be Losing $192 Million Per Month From Piracy, Study Claims 252
The Cassette Returns On a Wave of Nostalgia 224
Spotify Launches in India Amidst Legal Battle With Warner 14
Studies Keep Showing That the Best Way To Stop Piracy Is To Offer Cheaper, Better Alternatives 111
Rotten Tomatoes Bans User Reviews and Comments Before a Film's Theatrical Release To Counter Online Trolls 443
Microsoft Takes a Big Step Towards Putting Xbox Games On Windows 87
Starbucks' Music Is Driving Employees Nuts 267
'Captain Marvel' Review Bombers Have Dropped Rotten Tomatoes Audience Rating To Lowest Among MCU Movies 840
Netflix Buys Rights To Stream Chinese Sci-Fi Blockbuster 'The Wandering Earth' 214
'Netflix Is the Most Intoxicating Portal To Planet Earth' 94
American Airlines Has Cameras In Their Screens Too 113
Nike Bricks Its Shoes With a Faulty Firmware Update 187
Oracle Claims a Fighter of Pirated Apps is a Front For Ad Fraud 28
Cybersecurity Expert Questions Existence of Embedded Camera On SIA's Inflight Entertainment Systems 81
Google Is Expected To Reveal Game Streaming Service At GDC In March 59
Lightsaber Dueling Registered as Official Sport in France 109
How Streaming Music Could Be Harming the Planet 150
Hollywood Tries To Cripple Several Alleged Pirate TV Services In One Lawsuit 30
DC Cancels Comic Where Jesus Learns From Superhero After Outcry 348
Netflix Cancels The Punisher and Jessica Jones, Ending its Marvel Shows 273
How TV Pirates Accidentally Pushed a 25-Year-Old Indie Song to the Top of the Charts in Japan 43
Star of Film 'Downfall' and Widespread 'Hitler Finds Out...' Meme, Dead At 77 50
Researchers Are Working With NASA To See If Comedians Help Team Cohesion On Long Space Missions 99
Samsung To Stop Making 4K Blu-Ray Players, Report Says 71
US Labor Organization AFL-CIO Urges Game Developers To Unionize In Open Letter 158
James Cameron's Alita: Battle Angel Released After Sixteen Years 140
Netflix Has Saved Every Choice You've Ever Made In 'Black Mirror: Bandersnatch' 102
Activision Blizzard Cuts 8% of Jobs Amid 'Record Results In 2018' 112
'90s-Style 'Captain Marvel' Website Will Have You Nostalgic for Dial-Up 137
Sony Pictures Open Sources Software Used to Make 'Into the Spider-Verse' 38
Spotify Bans Ad Blockers In Updated ToS 172
Pirate Bay 'Promotion' Increases Post-Release Box Office Revenue, Study Shows 42
How Arthur C. Clarke Predicted We'd Communicate in the 21st Century 48
Nintendo Reportedly Plans Smaller and Cheaper Switch For This Year 96
UltraViolet Digital Movie Locker is Shutting Down 66
Locast, a Free App Streaming Network TV, Would Love to Get Sued 156
Netflix, Amazon, and Hollywood Studios Shut Down Dragon Box 54
Game Retailer GameStop Says It Can't Sell Itself, Sees Stock Drive 27 Percent 104
Amazon Prime Video Has More Movies, But Netflix Has Higher-Rated Films, Study Says 200
Apple Plans Netflix-Like Gaming Subscription Services, Report Says 39
The Mystery Tracks Being 'Forced' on Spotify Users 63
Internet Addiction Spawns US Treatment Programs 80
Spotify Data Shows How Music Preferences Change With Latitude 40
Nintendo Throws Out Metroid Prime 4 Work, Restarts With Retro Studios 77
DeepMind AI AlphaStar Wins 10-1 Against 'StarCarft II' Pros 103
Nearly Half of Game Developers Want To Unionize 115
YouTube TV Opens To the Whole US 57
Netflix Becomes First Streaming Company To Join the MPAA 139
Netflix 'Would Lose 57 Percent of Their Subscribers If They Added Commercials' 287
Spotify Will Soon Let You Mute, Block Artists 44
Why High-Fidelity Streaming is the Audio Revolution Your Ears Have Been Waiting For 312
MIDI Association Announces MIDI 2.0 Prototyping 133
The Economics of Streaming is Making Songs Shorter 133
Netflix Says It's More Scared of Fortnite and YouTube Than Disney and Amazon 135
'I Got Death Threats For Writing a Bad Review of Aquaman' 384
Larry Lessig Will Headline Friday's 'Grand Re-opening of the Public Domain' Event 21
Is Disney's Star Wars Franchise In Trouble? 548
LucasFilm Rescues Darth Vader Fan Film From YouTube Copyright Fight 60
Cassette Album Sales in the US Grew By 23% in 2018 133
Netflix Says It Has 10 Percent of All TV Time In the US 52
Fortnite Bugs Gave Hackers Access To Millions of Player Accounts, Researchers Say 27
Netflix To Raise Prices By 13% To 18% 228
Tidal Under Criminal Investigation In Norway Over 'Faked' Streams 28
Battlefield 5's Poor Sales Numbers Have Become a Disaster For Electronic Arts 715
The Last of Manhattan's Original Video Arcades 60
Streaming TV May Never Again Be as Simple, or as Affordable, as It is Now 343
USB Type-C Headphones Were Nowhere in Sight at CES 2019 197
GPU Accelerated Realtime Skin Smoothing Algorithms Make Actors Look Perfect 138
Ask Slashdot: Is Today's Technology As Cool As You'd Predicted When You Were Young? 352
Improbable, Epic Games Establish $25 Million Fund To Help Devs Move To 'More Open Engines' After Unity Debacle 80
Google Discontinues Chromecast Audio 88

Page: ← 1 2 3 →

Overload -- core meltdown sequence initiated.