Entertainment Stories for 2020

The ESPN+ Annual Subscription is Going Up by $10 56
Most-Played Song of 2020? For Many It's White Noise 59
Spotify's Podcasting Problem: Loophole Allows Remixes and Unreleased Songs To Hide in Plain Sight 24
Amazon To Buy Podcast Maker Wondery 5
Disney Will Test the Limits of 'Franchise Fatigue' in 2021 and 2022 129
Tesla Update Turns Cars into Boomboxes, Adds Three In-Car Videogames and Customizable Honking 83
How Astronauts on The ISS Got a Visit from Santa 28
How San Francisco Got a Very Special Monolith on Christmas Day 26
Warner Bros. Believes that Theaters Will Still Exist in 2023 43
Square Has Discussed Acquiring Jay-Z's Tidal Service 4
Nearly Half a Billion Users Played Among Us In November 37
DHS Is Looking Into Backdoors In Smart TVs By China's TCL 85
A Stranger Crowdsourced $1,700 For a Mistreated Fast-Food Worker 50
Sony Is Pulling Cyberpunk 2077 From the PlayStation Store and Offering Full Refunds 168
UK Politicians Call For 'Making the Resale of Goods Purchased Using An Automated Bot an Illegal Activity' 126
Google Will Officially Support Running Chrome OS On Old PCs 63
EA Set To Pay $1.2 Billion For Codemasters and Its Stable of Racing Games 28
Nathan Myhrvold's Dazzling High-Resolution Photographs of Snowflakes 58
Disney Stock Skyrockets 13% Friday to New All-Time High 46
Is Warner Bros' Shift To Streaming New Movies 'A Great Danger'? 93
Harrison Ford Will Return in a Fifth 'Indiana Jones' Movie 87
Slashdot Asks: Favorite Movies and TV Shows You Watched This Year? 128
Spotify Resets Passwords After a Security Bug Exposed Users' Private Account Information 19
Ahsoka Tano Standalone Star Wars Series Coming To Disney Plus 50
Aliens In Hiding Until Mankind Is Ready, Says Ex-Israeli Space Head 332
Amazon Fire TV Adds Local News In 12 U.S. Cities, With 90 More Coming In 2021 20
YouTube and Peacock are Now Streaming James Bond Films For Free 65
Third Monolith Reappears, Fourth and Fifth Monoliths Discovered 103
The Geeky Advent Calendar Tradition Continues in 2020 9
Legendary Science Fiction Author Ben Bova Has Passed At the Age of 88 53
Why Players Blame Skill-Based Matchmaking For Losing In Call of Duty 210
This Robot Can Rap 29
'It's Time For Movie Theaters To Die So Movies Can Live Again' 178
Warner Bros. To Debut Entire 2021 Film Slate, Including 'Dune' and 'Matrix 4,' Both on HBO Max and In Theaters 97
Spotify Invents AI Tech That Will Police Songwriter Plagiarism 47
Discovery To Launch Streaming Service in January Starting at $4.99 Per Month 65
Spotify Says It's Dominating the Podcasting Market Because of a Million-Plus Tiny Podcasts 11
'Code Switch' From NPR Is Apple's Podcast of the Year 48
A Second, Mysterious Monolith Appears In Romania 106
The 'Advent of Code 2020' Event Begins 26
Disney Digitally Removes The Mandalorian's Accidental Crew Member Cameo 57
EU Lawmakers To Push Audio-Visual Sector on Geoblocking 45
Darth Vader Actor From Original 'Star Wars' Trilogy Dies at Age 85 46
Tired of Mockery, Austrian Village Changes Name 190
Microsoft Hints at Turning Xbox Into an App For Your TV 24
Who Will Be the First Guest Host of Jeopardy, Alex? 70
China Requires Real Names, Bans Spending By Teens In New Curbs On Livestreaming 57
'The Queen's Gambit' Scores As Netflix Most-Watched Scripted Limited Series To Date 69
Hundreds More Movie Theatres Close As Attendance Plummets 131
US Postal Service Announces a Nationwide Digital 'Operation Santa' 25
Werner Herzog On Asteroids, Star Wars, and the 'Obscenity' of a City On Mars 152
AT&T Raises DirecTV Prices Again Amid Customer Losses and Possible Sale 74
Star Wars Legend Alan Dean Foster Says Disney Is Withholding Book Royalties 279
'Wonder Woman 1984' is Coming To HBO Max (and Some US Theaters) on Dec. 25 93
Charlie Brown Holiday Specials To Air On TV, After All, In PBS Deal 56
The World Is Watching More Anime -- and Streaming Services Are Buying 65
Hulu Hikes Prices of Live TV Packages by $10 per Month 60
Doctor Who's Sonic Pioneers Will Turn the Internet Into a Giant Musical Instrument 12
Twitch Users Protest Its DMCA Policy By Streaming Videos With Homemade Sound Effects 126
Google Is Reportedly Working On Linking Up Nest Audio Speakers With Chromecast Streaming Devices 16
Security Holes Opened Back Door To TCL Android Smart TVs 55
Disney+ Has More Than 73 Million Subscribers 41
RIP Google Music, One of the Company's Last Examples of Generosity 97
Twitch Says It's In Talks To License Music, Tells Users To Delete Videos With Unauthorized Tracks 76
Ticketmaster To Require Negative COVID-19 Test Or Vaccination To Attend Concerts 152
Dish To Shut Down Slingbox, Devices Will Become 'Inoperable' In 2022 52
The Eerie AI World of Deepfake Music 44
Scientists 3D Print Microscopic Star Trek Spaceship That Moves On Its Own 52
Streaming TV Advertisers Want Better Targeting -- Minus the Privacy Backlash 41
Iconic American Quiz Show Host Alex Trebek Dies at Age 80 71
Kojima's Infamous 'P.T.' Is Not Playable On PlayStation 5 16
Netflix Tests Linear Web Channel in France 29
Netflix Targets Critical 'Cuties' Tweets With Copyright Takedown Requests 72
MPA Lawyers Are Trying To Shut Down Pirate Anime Giant Nyaa.si 40
RIAA Takedowns Backfire as Pirated MP3s Now Surface on GitHub 62
Spotify Will Boost Music In Exchange For Cut of Royalties 36
South Park Creators Have New Political Satire Series With AI-Generated Deepfakes 89
Sean Connery Dies at Age 90. Remembered as 'The Best of Many' James Bonds 140
Apple Says Some AirPods Pro Have Sound Problems, Will Replace For Free 15
Sony Close To Buying Crunchyroll For Nearly $1 Billion 19
RIAA Obtains Subpoenas Targeting 40 YouTube-Ripping Platforms and Pirate Sites 99
PlayStation CEO Says VR Won't Be a 'Meaningful' Part of Gaming For Years 112
T-Mobile Unveils 'TVision' Skinny Pay-TV Bundles Starting at $10 per Month in New Play for Cord-Cutters 40
Samsung, Stanford Make a 10,000 PPI Display That Could Lead To 'Flawless' VR 62
It's Time for the Movie Studios to Step In To Save the Movie Theaters 104
James Bond Film 'No Time To Die' Explored $600 Million Sale To Streaming Services 87
The U.S. Health Department Tried to Offer Early Vaccines to Shopping Mall Santas 92
Twitch Suddenly Mass-Deletes Thousands of Videos, Citing Music Copyright Claims 75
92-Year-Old Songwriter Tom Lehrer Releases All His Lyrics Into the Public Domain 79
A Massive Spam Attack Is Ruining Public 'Among Us' Games 60
'youtube-dl' Downloading Software Removed From GitHub By RIAA Takedown Notice 186
The Technology That's Replacing the Green Screen 46
AT&T's CEO Predicts That Millions More Will Cut the Cord 30
Quibi Is Shutting Down 60
'Hands-On With Amazon's Luna Game Streaming Service' 47
'It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown' Won't Air On Broadcast TV This Year 126
Apple Launches 'Apple Music TV', a 24-Hour Music Video Livestream 22
Marvel Shortens Window Between Print and Digital Comics 20
AMC Offers Private Theater Rentals Starting at $99, As Cinemas Continue To Struggle 77
Google Music Shuts Down Smart Speaker Support and Music Store 46
Google Introduces Song Matching via Humming, Whistling or Singing 25
Netflix Is Creating a Problem By Canceling TV Shows Too Soon 170
Apple Announces Smaller HomePod Mini For $99 13
Here's Doom Running on a Samsung Fridge Thanks To xCloud 54
Disney Reorganizes To Focus on Streaming, Direct To Consumer 14
Are the Best Star Wars Stories Now in Games Like 'Star Wars: Squadrons'? 56
Cory Doctorow: Tech Workers Are Now Questioning the Powers Technology Gives 41
Some Onions Were Too Sexy For Facebook 107
Apple Extends Free Apple TV+ Trials For Three Months 29
Netflix Indicted By Texas Grand Jury Over 'Lewd' Depiction of Children In 'Cuties' 336
AT&T Offloading DirecTV Could Be a 'Fire Sale' As Company Weighs Low Bids 59
Slashback: How Eddie Van Halen Hacks a Guitar 50
Xbox's Phil Spencer Isn't Sure 8K Will Ever Be Standard in Video Games 123
All Regal and Cineworld Movie Theaters To Close Until Further Notice 105
Spotify Now Lets You Search For Songs By Lyrics 10
Denis Villeneuve's 'Dune' Delayed To October 1, 2021 54
Is Streaming Music Worse For the Environment? 63
After 'No Time To Die' Postponement, Hundreds of US and UK Movie Theatres Postpone Reopening 69
New James Bond Film 'No Time to Die' Is Delayed Until 2021 59
Amazon Remasters Streaming Tracks in Effort To Woo Subscribers 70
Apple Officially Obsoletes Last iPod Nano Model 14
Irish Court Says Subway Bread Is Too Sugary to Be Called 'Bread' 313
Google's Chromecast with Google TV is Its First Real Streaming Contender 24
A Week With the Xbox Series X: Load Times, Game Performance, and More 25
Amid the Pandemic's Urban Quiet, a Song That Makes Sense 9
Blizzard Co-Founder Mike Morhaime Launches New Gaming Endeavor Dreamhaven 19
Old TV Caused Village Broadband Outages For 18 Months 200
Quibi Reportedly Weighs Selling Itself Less Than 6 Months After Launching 29
Pandemic Accelerated Cord Cutting, Making 2020 the Worst-Ever Year For Pay TV 93
Major Activision Hack Reportedly Compromises Over 500,000 Call of Duty Players 17
New Reality Show's Prize? 10 Days on the International Space Station 24
DC Universe Streaming Service Will Become Universe Infinite Comics Platform 18
NBC Threatens To Black Out Apps on Roku in Dispute Over Peacock 121
Disney+ Takes First Emmy Win With 'The Mandalorian' For Visual Effects 99
Amazon Music Now Has Podcasts 15
Sir David Attenborough Delivers Stark Warning In BBC Doc 'Extinction: the Facts' 115
Remembering Laika: 'Space Dogs' Documentary Explores Moscow Through a Stray's Eyes 18
Cory Doctorow Crowdfunds His New Audiobook to Protest Amazon/Audible DRM 76
Vinyl-Record Sales Top Compact Discs for First Time in 34 Years 114
What No Man Has Seen Before: Remastering Deep Space Nine To Maximum Quality 118
CBS Will Celebrate 'Star Trek' Day 2020 With an Epic Trek Panel Marathon 54
The 61 Books Elon Musk Has Recommended on Twitter 106
Do Movie Ratings on 'Rotten Tomatoes' Really Affect a Movie's Box Office? 101
Scene Bust Triggered Historic Drop In 'Pirate' Releases 85
'Mulan' Tests Subscribers' Desire To Pay Up for Big-Budget Film 79
Star Trek To Welcome First Transgender and Non-Binary Characters 466
UFO Sightings Are Up 51% Amid Coronavirus, Data Shows 94
Joe Biden's Team Brings Digital Campaign Signs To 'Animal Crossing' 133
Netflix is Making a Series Based on 'The Three-Body Problem' 80
Nvidia's RTX 3090 Demo Emphasizes the Absurdity of 8K Gaming 142
An innocent Typo Led To a Giant 212-Story Obelisk in Microsoft Flight Simulator 51
Christopher Nolan's 'Tenet' Makes a Global Bet on the Film Industry 103
Surprise News About Superhero Actor Chadwick Boseman Becomes Most-Liked Tweet Ever 41
Why HBO Max and Peacock Aren't On Roku 59
Thousands of Pirates Tricked Into Downloading Fake 'Tenet' Torrents 98
Incredible Ratchet & Clank Gameplay Demo Reveals PS5's SSD Difference 60
Comcast is Looking To Enter the Smart TV Wars 80
TV Watching and Online Streaming Surge During Lockdown 21
Spotify Is Developing a 'Virtual Events' Feature 14
Netflix Cancels 'Altered Carbon' After Just Two Seasons 110
Should America Re-Open Its Movie Theatres? 244
Neil Gaiman, William Shatner Join 'Read-a-Thon' Celebrating Ray Bradbury's 100th Birthday 12
Anti-Piracy Outfit Hires VPN Expert To Help Track Down The Pirate Bay 67
AI Can Make Music, Screenplays, and Poetry. What About a Movie? 35
AMC Is Reopening Theaters Today With 15-Cent Tickets 90
Taiwan To Stop Local Sales For Chinese TV Streaming Services, Not Block Them 14
Netflix Test Puts a 'Shuffle Play' Button Right on Your Home Screen 38
Cory Doctorow: 'Self-Driving Cars are Bullshit' 347
New AI Dupes Humans into Believing Synthesized Sound Effects Are Real 28
AMC Movie Theaters Will Reopen On Aug. 20 With 15-Cent Tickets 118
The Last Blockbuster Has Been Turned Into An Airbnb 23
Disney Removes Fox From TV Studios, Revives Touchstone 43
Google Gives Android TV Developers Instant Apps, Speech-to-Text, and Predictive Typing 10
Scientists Rename Human Genes To Stop Microsoft Excel From Misreading Them as Dates 217
Disney+ Passes 60.5 Million Subs, Reaches 5-Year Streaming Goal In First Eight Months 49
Google Play Music Shutdown Dates Set: Service To Be Replaced by YouTube Music by End of 2020 76
Blizzard Workers Share Salaries In Revolt Over Wage Disparities 210
PS4 Gamepads Won't Work For PS5 Games, Sony Says 42
Google Threatens to Remove All Danish Music From YouTube 83
Comcast Lost 477,000 Cable Customers In Q2 2020 63
Spotify CEO: Musicians Can No Longer Release Music Only 'Once Every 3-4 Years' 105
Netflix is Letting People Watch Things Faster or Slower With New Playback Speed Controls 49
US Adults Who Mostly Rely On Social Media For News Are Less Informed, Exposed To More Conspiracies: Study 193
AMC and Universal Agree To Let Movies Go From Theaters To Digital Rentals Much Sooner 23
Netflix Breaks Record With 160 Emmy Nominations 41
MP3 Turns 25 80
Historic Moon Landing Footage Enhanced By AI, and the Results Are Incredible 66
Pentagon's UFO Unit Will Make Some Findings Public 186
CBS' Overzealous Copyright Bots HIt Star Trek Virtual Comic-Con Panel 18
Slashdot Asks: What Movies, TV Shows, and Games Have You Enjoyed of Late? 134
With 24/7 Programming, the Future of TV Looks a Lot Like Its Past 62
Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode Display On Human Skin 36
Microsoft's Livestreaming Service Mixer Shuts Down Today 11
How Hollywood Accidentally Built Netflix 57
Elon Musk Says Neuralink Will Stream Music Straight Into Your Brain 128
Ukraine President Plugs 15-Year-Old Film To Free Hostages 34
Netflix's Most Expensive Movie Ever Will Be a $200M James Bond-Level Thriller From the Russo Bros. 44
Grant Imahara, Host of 'MythBusters' and 'White Rabbit Project,' Dies At 49 81
Scientists Say You Can Cancel the Noise But Keep Your Window Open 67
The Data-Driven Tech Engine at the Heart of Hollywood's Content Factories 44
Metronome or Music Computer? Music Geek Tries the Raspberry Pi/Linux-Based 'Organelle' 41
Data Scientist Tries AI/Human Collaboration For Audio-Visual Art 26
Charter's Hidden 'Broadcast TV' Fee Now Adds $197 a Year To Cable Bills 69
The Far Side Returns After 25 Years, and It's All Digital 83
Microsoft's Next Xbox Series X Game Showcase Coming July 23 21
The Stunning Second Life of 'Avatar: The Last Airbender' 80
Walmart is Converting Its Parking Lots Into Pop-up Drive-in Theaters For the Summer 40
'Fallout' TV Series From 'Westworld' Creators In the Works At Amazon 27
YouTube TV Jacks Up Pricing To Become Most Expensive Cable TV Alternative 154
Disney Research Creates Face-Swapping Technique For High-Res Video 57
CNET Remembers 1995, the Year Hollywood Finally Noticed The Internet 43
Disney Kids Channels To Shutter In UK, Content Moving To Disney+ 42
Amazon Is Looking To Add Live TV To Prime Video 33
Appeals Court Says California's IMDb-Targeting 'Ageism' Law Is Unconstitutional 140
Apple Gives Us Our First Glimpse of Foundation, Adapted From Asimov Series 198
Joel Schumacher, Director With a Flair for the Distinctive, Dies at 80 21
'Biologically Plausible' Deep Learning Neurons Predict the Chords of Bach 24
AMC Theaters Changes Course and Will Require Customers To Wear Face Masks 120
Ian Holm, Bilbo Baggins In 'Lord of the Rings' and 'Alien' Star, Dies At 88 46
Unsubscribe: The $0-Budget Movie That 'Topped the US Box Office' 44
Lego Unveils New 'Robot Inventor' Mindstorms Kit 42
WarnerMedia Is Getting Rid of the HBO Go App 8
Twitch Streamers Receive a Flood of Music Copyright Claims For Old Clips 45
Racist Magic: The Gathering Cards Banned, Removed From Database By Publisher 324
PlayStation 5 Console Revealed 81
Spider-Man, Ratchet and Clank, Gran Turismo and More Are Coming To PS5 20
Illegal Netflix, Amazon Streamers Cut Off After European Arrests 66
California To Allow Movie Theaters To Reopen In Most Counties 50
The Future of Xbox Isn't Just a Console 24
Netflix Snags Space Force Trademarks Ahead of US Military 75
When the NBA Returns It May Use 'NBA 2K' For Crowd Noise 70
COVID-19 Crippled Movie Theaters and That Could Force Streamers To Be More Transparent About Viewership Data 69
GTA Online, Red Dead Online Will Temporarily Go Offline In Honor of George Floyd 246
AMC Theatres Has 'Substantial Doubt' it Can Remain in Business 203
Roku Removes Dedicated QAnon Channel That Launched Last Month 100
'Lord of the Rings' Reunion Brings Actors, Director, Writers Together on Zoom 33
82-Year-Old Ridley Scott Shares Some Secrets About 'Alien' 49
Comcast, Charter and ViacomCBS Join Forces to Make TV Commercials More Targeted 44
HBO Max Takes on Netflix With Human Curation Instead of Solely Relying on Algorithms 28
Insignia Project Aims To Resurrect Xbox Live For the Original Xbox 19
On Facebook and YouTube, Classical Musicians Are Getting Blocked or Muted 46
Copyright Office: System For Pulling Content Offline Isn't Working 60
Netflix To Start Cancelling Inactive Customers' Subscriptions 103
ScreenHits TV To Launch Streaming Aggregator To Combat 'Subscription Fatigue' 47
Zack Snyder Will Release the 'Snyder Cut' of 'Justice League' on HBO Max 21
'The Matrix' Co-Founder Slams Ivanka Trump and Elon Musk 483
Apple Buys Older Shows for TV+, Stepping Up Netflix Challenge 37
Disney Streaming Chief Kevin Mayer Leaving To Become TikTok CEO 13
Does Science Fiction Build Mental Resiliency in Young Readers? 110
Apple's Rumored Over-Ear Headphones Feature Head and Neck Detection, Custom Equalizer Settings 35

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