Entertainment Stories for 2022

Amazon Planning Standalone App For Sports Content 48
Did YouTube Pay Too Much to Broadcast Sunday Football Games? 45
How One Man Proved No Snowflakes Are Alike 45
NORAD Answers Questions About Their Annual Santa-Tracking Operation 36
FSF Warns: Stay Away From iPhones, Amazon, Netflix, and Music Steaming Services 199
John Cleese's Classic 'Silly Walk' Burns More Calories Than a Normal Gait, Study Finds 81
'South Park' Creators Land $20 Million In Funding For Their Deepfake VFX Studio 57
'Avatar' Sequel Crashes Movie Theater Equipment in Japan 75
The End of Netflix Password Sharing Is Nigh 117
Streaming Services Are Ordering Fewer Series - Except for Amazon and Apple TV+ 89
Pentagon Has Received 'Several Hundreds' of New UFO Reports 53
Amazon Acquires Film Rights To 'Warhammer 40,000' 44
You Can Hook Your MIDI Keyboard Up To a Website With Firefox 108 79
DeepMind Created An AI Tool That Can Help Generate Rough Film and Stage Scripts 26
Disney+ Launches Its Ad-Supported Tier To Compete With Netflix 34
Apple Music Is Getting a Karaoke Mode 11
New Winamp Update Adds Features, Fixes, and (Sigh) Support For 'Music NFTs' 47
2022's Geeky 'Advent Calendars' Tempt Programmers with Coding Challenges and Tips 11
Meet DTV's Successor: NextGen TV 135
Writers of 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story' Had Imagined an Even Darker Sequel 63
Trailers Released for 2023 First-Person Shooter 'Starship Troopers: Extermination' 57
Prime Video Replaces Netflix As No. 1 Streaming Service In US 47
Netflix To Let Tens of Thousands of Subscribers Preview Content 55
Scientists Build 'Baby' Wormhole 117
US Cable TV Companies Quietly Bled Another 785,000 Paying Customers Last Quarter 104
Netflix Nights Still Come Wrapped in Red-and-White Envelopes 85
Comcast's Sneaky Broadcast TV Fee Hits $27, Making a Mockery of Advertised Rates 96
Can't Hear What Actors Are Saying on TV? It's Not You, Probably 181
James Cameron Almost Visited the Space Station - and Helped Design a Camera Now Used On Mars 35
Why the Internet Invented a Fake Martin Scorsese Film Called 'Goncharov' 34
Free Software Foundation Publishes Its 2022 'Ethical Tech Giving Guide' 16
Apple Engineer Says Lossless Isn't the Be-all And End-all of Audio Quality 208
Two Films Hit Theaters, but Netflix Remains Committed To Streaming 19
Amazon To Spend $1 Billion a Year On Theatrical Film Releases 31
Last.fm Turns 20 6
Netflix Reveals a Series That Is Designed To Be Watched in Any Order You Choose 66
'Avatar 2' Is So Expensive It Must Become the 'Fourth or Fifth Highest-Grossing Film in History' Just To Break Even 139
Hard Science Fiction Master Greg Bear Dies at Age 71 41
As US Investigates Ticketmaster, Botched Sale of Taylor Swift Tickets Fuels Monopoly Criticisms 94
FBI, Air Force Agents Mysteriously Raid House of Guy Who Runs Area 51 Blog 107
Apple AirPods Can Work As More Affordable Hearing Aids, Study Finds 46
Libraries Are Launching Their Own Local Music Streaming Platforms 6
Seagate Announces Dual-Actuator MACH.2 Drive - and Star Wars, Black Panther Themed Drives 47
'Three-Body Problem' Animation Sci-Fi Series Starts Next Month 46
Kevin Conroy, Iconic Batman Voice Actor, Dies At 66 26
Studio Ghibli Is Teaming Up With Lucasfilm 16
Disney+ Reaches 164.2 Million Subscribers, Prepares For Ad-Supported Tier Launch 30
AMC Entertainment To Open 'Zoom Room' Auditoriums At Theaters In 17 Markets 29
Low Notes Really Do Get People Dancing, Research Finds 30
Free 'Amazon Music' Members Complain Its 100M-Song Catalog Can Only Be Played on Shuffle 96
Swedish Engineer Creates Playable Accordion From 2 Commodore 64 Computers 26
The Execs Behind the MoviePass Debacle Are Now Facing Criminal Charges 19
HBO Cancels 'Westworld' In Shock Decision 110
Meta's AI-Powered Audio Codec Promises 10x Compression Over MP3 98
Sound Burger Portable Record Player Returns From the '80s With Bluetooth, USB-C 62
Amazon Prime Now Comes With a Full Music Catalog of 100 Million Songs and Ad-free Podcasts 61
New 'Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi' Animated Series Begins Streaming on Disney+ 33
Amazon and Google Make Peace Over Smart TV Competition 6
Amazon and Google Make Peace Over Smart TV Competition 13
NASA Kicks Off Independent UFO Study 68
Bono Apologizes for 2014 iTunes Album Stunt, Remembers Pitching Steve Jobs a U2 iPod 67
Hacker Jailed For Stealing Ed Sheeran's Unreleased Music 28
'House of the Dragon' and 'Rings of Power' Face Off In Podcasting 114
RIAA Flags 'Artificial Intelligence' Music Mixer As Emerging Copyright Threat 45
RIP Apple TV HD: Apple Went All-In On 4K Yesterday 105
The Great Netflix Debate: Do Its Movies Belong in Theaters? 104
Netflix Password-Sharing Crackdown Will Roll Out Globally In 'Early 2023' 77
How 'Homestar Runner' Re-Emerged After the End of Flash 28
HBO Max Picks 'Homestar Runner' Co-Creator to Direct Batman Spin-off Series 'The Penguin' 20
Amazon's 'Lord of the Rings' Prequel Ends Season One. What Did You Think? 288
Netflix's Ad Tier Will Cost $7 a Month and Launch in November 127
'AI Music Generators Could Be a Boon For Artists - But Also Problematic' 48
YouTube, Spotify Remove QAnon Anthem After Original Composer Asserts Copyright 72
After 23 Years, Weather Channel's Iconic Computerized Channel Is Shutting Down 10
Americans Are Less Likely To Cancel Amazon Prime, Netflix Than Cut Spending On Food 157
Court Blocks 13,445 'Pirate' Sites Proactively To Protect One Movie 30
Showtime May Be Merged Into Paramount+ 40
DeepMind's Game-Playing AI Has Beaten a 50-Year-Old Record In Computer Science 91
Roku Will Now Work With Nielsen To Track Cross-Media Viewership 6
James Earl Jones Signs Off on Using Recordings to Recreate Darth Vader's Voice with AI 49
25% of Netflix Subscribers Planning To Leave Service, Survey Finds 91
Google's New Chromecast Costs $30 - and It Has a Remote 76
Civil Rights Groups Are Calling On Amazon To Cancel 'Ring Nation' Reality Show 138
'It Felt Like Star Wars': Flying Hoverbike Makes Its US Debut 117
XKCD Author Finds Geeky Ways to Promote His New Book 65
Copyright Concerns Make a Film Festival Pull 'People's Joker' Movie 102
Scientists Try To Teach Robot To Laugh At the Right Time 34
Telecom Giants Sued for Failing To Stop Movie Piracy 63
'Blade Runner 2099' Series Greenlighted By Amazon With Ridley Scott Executive Producing 150
Ukraine's Astronomers Say There Are Tons of UFOs Over Kyiv 283
Adobe Thinks It Can Solve Netflix's Password 'Piracy' Problem 81
HBO Beats Netflix In Reversal Of Emmy Fortune 33
Disney World Plans a Tron-Themed Rollercoaster: 'Lightcycle Run' 31
New Avatar Movie and Star Wars TV Trailers Revealed at D23 Conference 53
Geek Writes a Song a Day for 13 Years, Celebrates Song #5,000 With Big NFT Auction 55
Navy Says All UFO Videos Classified, Releasing Them 'Will Harm National Security' 111
Five Men Indicted For Uploading Movies, Then Extorting 'Pirate' Downloaders 24
Streaming TV is Having an Existential Crisis, and Viewers Can Tell 144
Disney+ Releases Its First AR-Enabled Short Film 'Remembering' 20
Jaws is a Box Office Hit Again, 47 Years After It First Hit Theaters 90
Actors Worry That AI is Taking Centre Stage 110
LG is Bringing NFTs To Its Smart TVs 67
Tolkien Fans React to Amazon's $465M Series 'The Rings of Power' 302
Thousands of US Theatres are Offering $3 Movie Tickets Today 79
Netflix Ad Tier Launch Moved Up to November To Get Ahead of Disney+ 35
Studio Ghibli Film Catalog Now Available on Digital Rental Platforms 20
Twitter Is Becoming a Podcast App 16
Critics and Fans Have Never Disagreed More About Movies 223
The Ashes of Four 'Star Trek' Actors Will Be Carried Into Deep Space 65
Neal Stephenson Thinks Rockets are an Overhyped Technology 220
'Magic: the Gathering' Announces New Sets Based on Lord of the Rings, Doctor Who 40
Big Budget Blockbusters Arrive Amid Fears of 'Peak TV' 79
World's Largest Japanese Anime Database 'Anime Taizen' Opens To the Public 23
New Film 'BlackBerry' To Explore Rise and Fall of Canadian Smartphone 81
Congress Admits UFOs Not 'Man-Made,' Says 'Threats' Increasing 'Exponentially' 286
YouTube Launches a Dedicated 'Explore' Page For Podcasts 7
MoviePass Returns With a New Model and Without the Iconic Red Card 38
Why Return of the Jedi's Last Scene is Darker Than It Seems 80
UK's Young Adults Spending More Time on TikTok Than Watching TV 18
Old Laptop Hard Drives Will Allegedly Crash When Exposed To Janet Jackson Music 59
Streaming TV Viewing Passed Cable Last Month in Industry First 32
Netflix's Ad-Supported Plan Will Disable Ad Skipping and Block Downloads of Shows and Films 53
Crypto Ads Starring Matt Damon, Tom Brady Vanish From Television 32
Streaming Services Deal With More Subscribers Who 'Watch, Cancel and Go' 161
Paramount+ to Be Bundled With Walmart+ Membership Program 11
Disney's Streaming Services Now Have More Subscriptions Than Netflix 54
Thieves Stole $23 Million in One of the Largest YouTube Royalties Scams Ever 38
Are Things 'Looking Grim' For Movies Based on DC Superheroes? 117
Gen Z Streaming Stars React to Classic Sci-Fi Movies of the '80s 103
Amazon Studio Plans Lighthearted Show of Ring Surveillance Footage 39
Notorious Movies and TV Shows That Have Never Been Released 200
Spotify Tests Selling Concert Tickets Directly To Fans 14
Disney Raises Streaming Prices After Services Post Big Operating Loss 131
LG's 97-inch Vibrating OLED TV Claims To Offer 5.1 Audio Without Speakers 76
Walmart Ponders Streaming Deal With Paramount, Disney and Comcast 8
Live-Action Pac-Man Movie In the Works 66
Why Neil Gaiman Finally Allowed 'The Sandman' to be Adapted for Netflix 65
Winamp, the Best MP3 Player of the 1990s, Receives Major Update 127
HBO Max, Discovery+ To Merge Into Single Streaming Platform Starting In Summer 2023 88
Crunchyroll Closes Deal To Acquire Anime Superstore Right Stuf 24
Ask Slashdot: Movies, Shows and Books From This Year That You Really Enjoyed? 183
Research Shows Why Many Anti-Piracy Messages Fail 257
Nichelle Nichols, Who Played Uhura In 'Star Trek' Franchise, Dies At 89 72
The Spice DAO Crypto Collective Wants to Sell Its 'Dune' Bible - But Can't Find Buyers 47
'Halt and Catch Fire' Co-Creator's Next Project? A 'Max Headroom' Reboot 45
Marvel Movies No Longer Guaranteed Blockbusters 285
Comic-Con Gets Clips and a New Three-Minute Trailer for Amazon Prime Series 'Lord of the Rings' 120
Creator of 1983 Rogue-Like Game 'Moria' Has Died at Age 64 27
'Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves' Releases First Trailer, and a Tavern at Comic-Con 39
Han Solo's Blaster From the Original 'Star Wars' Is Going Up For Auction 18
William Shatner Criticizes New Star Trek Shows - and Star Wars - at Comic-Con 213
Netflix CEO Says Linear TV Will Be Dead in 5 To 10 Years 201
Netflix Subscriber Count In the US, Canada Dropped By 1.3 Million Over the Last Three Months 119
Netflix Adds 'Extra Home' Fee, Will Block Usage in Other Homes If You Don't Pay 112
SF Writer/Digital Art/NFT Pioneer Herbert W. Franke Dies at Age 95 20
Hasbro Can Now 3D Print Your Face Onto a Star Wars Action Figure 29
New Windows Media Player App Travels Back in Time, Gains the Ability To Rip CDs 65
YouTube Ends Lofi Girl's Two-Year-Long Music Stream Over Bogus DMCA Warning 74
UFO Whistleblowers Would Get Immunity Under New Amendment 59
Expert GeoGuessr Players Know That Google Maps Spot Instantly 34
PlayStation Store Will Remove Customers' Purchased Movies 164
Inside the Dying Art of Subtitling 116
Amazon Prime Spends $465M on First Season of Its 'Lord of the Rings' Series 104
Disneyland's 'Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance' Ride Keeps Breaking Down 129
How 1982's 'Blade Runner' Defined the Sci-Fi Film Genre 101
Netflix Confirms Plans For Ad-Supported Service, Begins Second Round of Layoffs 78
Four Tet Wins Royalty Battle Over Streaming Music 12
Internet Explorer Gravestone Goes Viral in South Korea 36
Some Ads Play on Streaming Services Even When the TV Is Off, Study Finds 118
Samsung Caught Cheating in TV Benchmarks 124
What Happens When 'The Mandalorian' and 'Bobba Fett' Characters Come to Disneyland? 94
Spotify Ready To Take On Amazon In Audiobooks 22
Inside Roku, Talk is Heating Up About an Acquisition By Netflix 41
HBO Max Cancels Raised By Wolves After Two Seasons 139
'The Orville: New Horizons' Premieres on Hulu 97
'Father of MIDI' Dave Smith Dies At 72 30
France Bans English Gaming Tech Jargon in Push To Preserve Language Purity 291
Star Trek Wines: the Next Generation. Ars Technica Taste-Tests Klingon Blood Wine 20
Disney+ Premiers New Star Wars Miniseries 'Obi-Wan Kenobi' 113
Are We on the Verge of an 8K Resolution Breakthrough in Gaming? 104
NCTC Could Drop 'Cable' As Industry Group Eyes Name Change 16
Famous 'Alien' Wow! Signal May Have Come From Distant, Sunlike Star 36
New Copyright Lawsuit Targets Uploaders of 10-Minute Movie Edits 74
Watching Less TV Could Cut Heart Disease, Study Finds 36
How AI Brought Back Val Kilmer's Voice For 'Top Gun: Maverick' 28
Sid & Marty Krofft to Release NFTs Starting with 'Land of the Lost' 58
Google's AI Is Smart Enough To Understand Your Humor 73
Vangelis, Composer of Chariots of Fire and Blade Runner Soundtracks, Dies Ages 79 30
Netflix Customers Canceling Service Increasingly Includes Long-Term Subscribers 110
Napster Gets Bought Again, This Time With a Web3 Pivot in the Works 36
'Black Mirror' Returns For Season 6 33
Netflix Exploring Live Streaming For First Time 29
EA Plans Free Mobile 'Lord of the Rings' Game 35
'Lord of the Rings' Prequel Series Will Explore 'Unseen History' of Middle-Earth 183
How Industrial Light & Magic Helped Resurrect ABBA with Digital ABBA-Tars 46
FAA Revokes Certificates of Two Pilots Involved in Plane-Swapping Attempt 84
Classic Japanese Audio Brand Onkyo Files For Bankruptcy 70
Disney+ Adds Almost 8 Million New Subscribers 47
Windows 11's Sound Recorder Is Bringing Back Features Removed Years Ago 30
Podcasting Will Be Worth $4 Billion By 2024 24
McEnroe vs. McEnroe: Tennis Legend Plays Against AI-Powered Avatars of Himself 19
Doctor Who's 14th Time Lord Announced for 60th-Anniversary Season 197
Free Comic Book Day Celebrates Big 20th Year with Many Geek-Friendly Titles 34
Daniel Ek Invests $50 Million Into Spotify: 'I Believe Our Best Days Are Ahead' 12
Apple Music Is Installing Itself To the Dock, Booting Out Other Apps 50
Sonos Is About To Introduce Its Own Voice Assistant 14
Sony Rejected China's Demand To Scrub Statue of Liberty From 'Spiderman' 147
Paramount+ Subscriber Count Grows To Nearly 40 Million 38
Pirate Site Traffic Surges With Help From Manga Boom 16
Researchers Develop a Paper-Thin Loudspeaker 66
Comcast and Charter Team Up in Hopes of Toppling Roku, Amazon Streaming Hardware 51
Two Skydiving Pilots Try to Change Planes in Mid-Air 102
UK's Department for Transport Proposes To Allow Drivers To Watch TV on Self-Driving Cars 47
What 'Severance' Gets Right About Infantilizing Office Perks 66
Netflix Shares Crater 20% After Company Reports it Lost Subscribers For the First Time in More Than 10 Years 114
The Streaming Service Formerly Known as IMDb TV is Rebranding To 'Amazon Freevee' 39
Cop Admits To Playing Copyrighted Music Through Squad Car PA To Keep Videos Off YouTube 127
Bigger Sound In Smaller Packages, As Sonos Buys Mayht For $100 Million 42
'Sonic the Hedgehog 2' Sets New Record: Biggest Opening Ever for a Videogame Movie 27
How a Ukranian Soldier's Instagram Post Spawned the First New Pink Floyd Song in 28 Years 60
Why Netflix Should Sell Ads 169
300 Drones Formed a QR Code That Rick Rolled Dallas on April Fools' Day 40
Plex Wants To Become the First App You Open on Your TV Every Day 108
Paramount+ Releases Trailer for Its 6th Star Trek Series, 'Strange New Worlds' 220
The Patagonia Vest Endures in San Francisco Tech Circles, Despite Ridicule 59
A New Proposal For Interstellar Communication With Alien Intelligences 97
YouTube Added 1,500 Free Movies, But Good Luck Finding Them 30
One-Third Of US Netflix Subscribers Admit They Share Their Passwords, Survey Finds 65
This Year's Big Oscar Winners: 'Dune', Apple TV+ and James Bond 117
Are Movies Dying? 249
What Andy Warhol Was Really Thinking on Commodore's Amiga Demo Day 11
As Far as China Is Concerned, Keanu Reeves No Longer Exists 149
Sony Addresses Troubled Gran Turismo 7 Launch, Gives Angry Fans One Million Free Credits 11
Music Improves Wellbeing and Quality of Life, Research Suggests 44
Netflix Could Reap $1.6 Billion Per Year By Charging Password-Sharing Users Extra Fees, Analysts Say 118
Activist Publishes Redacted Version of Classified Military UFO Report 96
Google Will Remove the Movies and TV Tab From the Google Play Store 8
YouTube is Taking on Over-the-Air TV With Nearly 4,000 Free Episodes of TV 64
Roku OS 11 Will Let You Set Your Own Photos as a Screensaver 61
Qualcomm is Adding AV1 Support, Which Could Be Huge For Online Video 24
How the Music Industry Survived the Internet. Sort of. 152
After 17 Years and 265 Scripts, Microsoft Finally Turns 'Halo' Into a $90M TV Show on Paramount+ 55
Spotify Draws Up Plans To Join NFT Digital Collectibles Craze 12
Amazon Closes $8.5 Billion Acquisition of MGM 57
The Original Winamp Skin Is Selling As An NFT 47
Netflix Will Prompt Subscribers To Pay for Users Outside Their Households in New Test to Address Unauthorized Password Sharing 113
CD Sales Grow for First Time Since 2004 65
LimeWire is Back - as an NFT Marketplace 25
LimeWire Plots a Return 18
'God of War' TV Series Adaptation Eyed By Prime Video 12

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