Entertainment Stories for 2023

'Aquaman 2' Has Made Just 12% of What 'Aquaman 1' Earned 128
Could We Build a Concert Venue in Space? 75
Documentarians Secure Original 'ReBoot' Master Tapes, But Need Help To Play Them 60
Disney, Warner, Comcast, and Paramount Are Contemplating Cuts, Possible Mergers 100
Video Game Adaptations Could Keep Beating Marvel at the Box Office in 2024 47
Amazon Prime Video Will Start Showing Ads on January 29 227
'Therapy Llamas' Visit Portland Airport to Lower the Stress of Travellers 48
EFF Warns: 'Think Twice Before Giving Surveillance for the Holidays' 28
FSF Shares Holiday Fairy Tale Warning 'Don't Let Your Tools Control You' 25
Epic's Free Game Giveaway Continues with Bethesda's 'Ghostwire: Tokyo' 24
'Doctor Who' Christmas Special Streams on Disney+ and the BBC 65
DC's 'Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom' Flops at the Box Office 114
30 Years of Donald Knuth's 'Christmas Lectures' Are Online - Including 2023's 29
'Star Wars Holiday Special' Upscaled To 4K 60fps 60
Tolkien Estate Wins Court Order To Destroy Fan's 'Lord of the Rings' Sequel 136
Wireless TVs Use Built-In Cameras, NFC Readers To Sell You Stuff You See On TV 98
Car Buyer Hilariously Tricks Chevy AI Bot Into Selling a Tahoe For $1 79
2023's Online 'Advent Calendars' Challenge Programmers With Tips and Puzzles 8
Apple and Amazon Release Warm, Fuzzy Holiday Ads - Both With Beatles-Related Songs 23
Amazon, Etsy, Launch Categories With 'Gifts For Programmers' 20
Netflix's Big Data Dump Shows Just OK TV Is Here To Stay 50
FCC Floats Ban on Cable TV 'Junk Fees' That Make It Hard To Ditch Contracts 32
The Excitement of 70,000 Swifties Can Shake the Earth 46
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Take Aim At AI Freeloading 73
Your Smart TV Knows What You're Watching 164
Netflix Releases Viewing Numbers For 18,000 Titles For First Time 19
Could 'Godzilla Minus One' Win an Oscar? 70
Google Play Movies, TV Apps Shutting Down In January 2024 12
'Zombie TV': Cable Channels Left Showing Reruns as Their Owners Invest in Streaming Services 137
Amazon Releases Fallout TV Series Trailer 52
Pixar's Disney+ Pandemic Movies Are Hitting Theaters After All 24
Rockstar Officially Unveils GTA 6 Trailer 78
Apple TV Receives First Big Native VPN App 11
150,000 Programmers Tackle 'Advent of Code' in Event's 9th Year 16
After KISS's Final Show, They'll Become Digital Avatars From Industrial Light & Magic 93
PlayStation To Delete A Ton Of TV Shows Users Already Paid For 123
Three 'Grand Theft Auto' Titles Are Coming To Netflix 11
Microsoft's Ugly Sweater For 2023 is Windows XP's Iconic Default Wallpaper 36
Global Pay TV Penetration To Fall For the First Time in 2024 25
Ridley Scott Is Terrified of AI: 'It's a Technical Hydrogen Bomb' 179
As Doctor Who Turns 60, the TARDIS Flies Again Tonight 53
Cards Against Humanity's Black Friday Prank: Launching Its Own Social Media Site 23
ECB Chief Lagarde Admits Her Son Lost Crypto Cash 61
Slashdot Asks: Your Favorite 2023-Made Movies and TV Shows? 184
Ultrawide Monitors Remind Us There's Still Much To Learn About OLED Burn-in 47
Spotify To Phase Out Service In Uruguay Following New Copyright Bill 36
Christopher Nolan Says Streaming-Only Content Is a 'Danger' 138
Is 'Disney Pinnacle' Preparing to Be the Next Big NFT Failure? 37
Sonos Teases Plans To Enter Headphones Product Category 25
Lawmakers Question Apple Over Cancellation of Jon Stewart's Show 98
Netflix Announces Neil Gaiman Series, Zach Snyder Movie, Anime 'Terminator' and 'Exploding Kittens' 33
Despite Lead-in On Disney+, 'The Marvels' Bombs at Box Office 245
The AI Protections Hollywood Actors Got After Their 118-Day Strike 60
Hollywood Actors Strike Ends With a Deal That Will Impact AI and Streaming For Decades 76
After Luring Customers With Low Prices, Amazon Stuffs Fire TVs With Ads 81
Nintendo Is Making a Live-Action 'Legend of Zelda' Movie 32
SAG-AFTRA Won't Budge As Studios Push To Own Actors' Likenesses In Perpetuity 113
Consumers Paying More Than Ever for Streaming TV Each Month 162
Max Removes 4K Streaming, Other Perks From Ad-Free Plan 70
The Final Beatles Song, 'Now and Then,' Featuring All Four Members and AI, Released 63
Disney To Acquire Remaining Stake In Hulu For Expected $8.6 Billion 31
Brazil Regulator Claims '80% of Pirate TV Boxes' Were Blocked Last Week 16
When Matthew Perry Met Windows 95 60
Comcast and Xfinity Lose Customers - Thanks to Cord-Cutters and Competition from Wireless Internet Carriers 98
81st World Science Fiction Convention Announces 2023 Hugo Awards 22
People Are Speaking With ChatGPT For Hours, Bringing 2013's 'Her' Closer To Reality 72
Russia Renamed Its Ambitious Satellite Program After Putin Misspoke Its Name 95
Apple Raises Prices of TV+, Arcade, One, News+ 36
Apple To Revamp TV App in Step Toward Simplifying Video Services 22
Amazon's Live-Action Fallout Series Will Start Streaming In 2024 102
CarPlay? Android Auto? Most People Still Just Listen to AM/FM Radio 209
Amazon Workers' Sci-Fi Writing Is Imagining a World After Amazon 39
Jon Stewart's Apple TV Plus Show Ends, Reportedly Over Coverage of AI and China 115
Netflix Plans Price Increase as Password-Sharing Crackdown Boosts Subscriber Growth 51
US Is Receiving Dozens of UFO Reports a Month, Pentagon Official Says 59
'Netflix Effect' Returns As Studios License Old Shows To Their Streaming Rival 31
Two 'Godzilla' Scifi Novellas Finally Get English Translations, Capturing 1950s Horror at Nuclear Weapons 28
First 'Doctor Who' Writer Honored. His Son Contests BBC's Rights to 'Unearthly Child' 53
Musicians Are Angry About Venues Taking T-shirt Money 89
Best Buy Will Reportedly Stop Selling DVDs and Blu-Ray Starting Next Year 71
YouTube TV, Which Costs $73 a Month, Agrees To End '$600 Less Than Cable' Ads 19
Displace Came Up With a Landing Gear Safety System For Its Totally Wireless TV 68
Sony's High-Bitrate Movie Service is Now Available on PS5 and PS4 12
India's Early Electronic Music From the '70s Is Finally Being Released 38
Netflix Plans To Raise Prices After Actors Strike Ends 176
Spotify Is Adding Auto-Generated Transcripts To Millions of Podcasts 14
Could 'The Creator' Change Hollywood Forever? 96
Elvis Is Back in the Building, Thanks to Generative AI - and U2 27
Netflix Ships Its Last DVD 44
Disney's Password-Sharing Crackdown Has Begun 34
Google Podcasts Shutting Down In 2024 For YouTube Music 22
The World's Oldest Active Torrent Turns 20 Years Old 33
Lego Drops Plans To Make Bricks From Recycled Plastic Bottles 58
Hollywood Studios and Writers Guild Reach Tentative Deal to End Writer's Strike 154
Netflix Prepares to Send Its Final Red Envelope 58
'Laugh then Think': Strange Research Honored at 33rd Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony 15
HBO's Max Cancels the Most Shows Among Streaming Services, Study Shows 48
Stability AI Brings Text-To-Audio Generation To the Masses 8
It's the 50th Anniversary of 'Star Trek: the Animated Series' 60
Is Rotten Tomatoes 'Erratic, Reductive, and Easily Hacked'? 43
PR Firm Has Been Paying Rotten Tomatoes Critics For Positive Reviews 35
Roku Laying Off 10% of Employees, Will Take up to $65 Million Charge To Remove Streaming Content 43
Florida Man Charged Over Failed Attempt To Cross Atlantic In Giant 'Hamster Wheel' 189
Sony Sends Copyright Notices To TV Museum About Shows 40 To 60 Years Old 61
Apple To Acquire Major Classical Music Labels BIS Records 26
Gannett Halts AI-Written Sports Recaps After Readers Mocked the Stories 51
Ask Slashdot: Do Streamers Waste More Time Deciding What to Watch? 50
Pentagon's New UFO Website Lets You Explore Declassified Sightings Info 54
Spotify To Cut Back Promotional Spending on White Noise Podcasts 41
Paramount DMCAs 'Star Trek' Fan Project 173
Sports Leagues Ask US For 'Instantaneous' DMCA Takedowns and Website Blocking 63
Dolby Atmos' Upcoming FlexConnect May Simplify Wireless Home Theater Audio 22
Movies, TV Shows Available on Streaming Jumped 39% in Two Years 16
Thousands of Theaters Offer $4 Movie Tickets Today for 'National Cinema Day' 50
Tesla Wins Permit Approval For Diner and Drive-In Movie Supercharger In LA 81
Amazon Sues Online Stores Selling Pirated DVDs 71
Hollywood Studios Release Offer Outlining Wage Increases, AI Protections For Writers 75
Amazon Launches a Fire TV Channels App With 400+ Free Ad-Supported TV Channels 30
Fan-Made Game Reimagines 'Twin Peaks' with PS1-Style Graphics 17
68 Years After His Death, James Dean Is Reportedly Starring in a New Movie - Thanks to AI 64
Before Delivery-Service Shutdown, Netflix Offers Remaining Customers Up to 10 Free 'Mystery' DVD Rentals 44
Is 'Blue Beetle' the Best Modern DC Superhero Movie? 85
On Bill Waterson's Upcoming Book - And Why He Vanished 77
Record Companies Sue Internet Archive For Preserving Old 78 Rpm Recordings 73
Microsoft AI Suggests Food Bank As a 'Cannot Miss' Tourist Spot In Canada 50
Television Accounts for Less than Half of US Viewing Time for the First Time 43
'Flying Aliens' Harassing Village Are Actually Illegal Miners With Jetpacks 73
Netflix Starts Testing Game Streaming on Select Devices, Smart TVs and Desktop Browsers 13
Neil Gaiman To Continue 'Good Omens' Story Even If It's Not Renewed For Season 3 42
Volume Down, Subtitles On: 51% of Us Read Along With Our Favorite Shows 75
Google and Universal Music Discuss Making an AI Tool To Replicate Artists' Voices 44
Disney Raises Prices For Streaming Services By As Much As 27% 84
Gizmodo Editor-In-Chief Sues Apple Over Tetris Movie 53
Nerdcore Is Dead (Long Live Nerdcore) 35
Three Men Battle the FBI Over Buried Civil War Gold 130
TV and Film Extras Are Afraid AI Will Copy Their Faces and Bodies To Take Jobs 79
Excel's Esports Revolution is Coming Back To ESPN This Week 24
Meta Releases AudioCraft AI Tool To Create Music From Text 25
Reddit Beats Film Industry, Won't Have To Identify Users Who Admitted Torrenting 55
Massachusetts Lawmakers Eye a 'Netflix Tax' To Fund Community TV Channels 103
Amazon Modifies Ad Revenue, Impressions Share Policy for International Fire TV Apps 18
Is AI Dangerous? James Cameron Says 'I Warned You Guys in 1984 and You DIdn't Listen' 144
Documentary on Hungary's Videogames Behind the Iron Curtain Crowdfunds Expanded Disks 11
Netflix Lists $900,000 Job Seeking AI To 'Create Great Content' 73
Spotify Hikes Prices of Premium Plans 59
Code.org Embraces Barbie 9 Years After Helping Take Her Down 75
Comic-Con 2023 Premiers Trailers, a Climate Graphic Novel, and a Musical 'Star Trek' Episode 33
Voice Actors Warn AI Could 'Steal Voices', Call for Laws Protecting a Person's Likeness 111
The Best IMAX Movies Still Need a Palm Pilot To Work 67
Netflix Expands Password-Sharing Crackdown To Every Market 52
Hollywood Movie Aside, Just How Good a Physicist Was Oppenheimer? 91
Netflix Gains Nearly 6 Million Subscribers As Paid Sharing Soars 22
Researchers Discover That ChatGPT Prefers Repeating 25 Jokes Over and Over 69
The 'Basic' Netflix Subscription Is Now All But Deceased 58
Plex's Winamp-inspired Music Player Plexamp is Now Free 46
Vibrating Haptic Suits Give Deaf People a New Way To Feel Live Music 19
Disney CEO Bob Iger: Marvel Diluted Audience's Focus and Attention by Making So Many Disney+ TV Shows 310
How the Movie 'WarGames' Anticipated Our Current AI Fears 40 Years Ago 78
Bipartisan Measure Aims to Force Release of UFO Records 67
Actors Say Hollywood Studios Want Their AI Replicas -- For Free, Forever 203
Former Pirated Anime Site Turns Into Sony's Global Money Maker 30
Telly Starts Shipping Free, Ad-Supported 4K TVs 91
TikTok Videos Are Coming To 3,000 Redbox Kiosks 20
Hulu Launches Adult Animation, Anime Hub Animayhem 24
Silence Is a 'Sound' You Hear, Study Suggests 68
Smuggler Nabbed with 306 CPUs Stuffed in Girdle 44
The Technology Behind the New Las Vegas Sphere 71
Netflix Invents New Green-Screen Filming Method Using Magenta Light 36
Harvard Professor Believes He's Found Fragments of Alien Technology 138
Jony Ive's First Post-Apple Hardware Project is a $60,000 Turntable 128
'Piracy Is Coming Back' 187
Grammys CEO: Music Containing AI-Created Elements Eligible 14
TV's Golden Era Proved Costly To Streamers 111
Why Are So Many People Watching TV With Subtitles? 283
Why Major Newspapers Didn't Publish 'UFO Retrieval' Story 170
100 Bands Including RATM Boycott Venues Using Facial Recognition Technology 46
'You Should Be Worried About What's Going On At Turner Classic Movies' 32
After 47 Years, the National Weather Service's Daily TV Broadcast To Alaskans Will End 74
Congress Doubles Down On Explosive Claims of Illegal UFO Retrieval Programs 223
Apple Posts Entire First Episode of 'Silo' On Twitter 112
SiriusXM To Shut Down Stitcher Podcast App 15
Meta Launches VR Subscription Service 31
New Video Shows a Flyby of the Planet Mercury - with AI-Assisted Music 14
US Might Finally Force Cable-TV Firms To Advertise Their Actual Prices 67
Secret Invasion's Opening Credits Scene is AI-Made 50
New Grammy Award Rules Require Human Input, Curb AI Use 38
Spotify Plans New Premium Tier, Expected To Include HiFi Audio 50
LCD TVs Won't See Any Further Development 70
Sir Paul McCartney Says AI Has Enabled a 'Final' Beatles Song 56
TV Torrent Group CAKES Quits the Scene and Shuts Down 18
Apple TV+ 'Monsterverse' Show Filming In 3D For Vision Pro Viewing 40
71-Year-Old Mark Hamill Interviewed, Remembers 1977 'Star Wars' Audition 53
New Spider-Man Movie Features Lego Scene Made By 14-Year-Old 35
Apple TV To Support VPN Apps On tvOS 17 15
Black Mirror Creator Says He Used ChatGPT To Write An Episode. It Was Terrible. 62
Netflix Password Crackdown Drives US Sign-Ups To Highest Levels In At Least Four Years 81
The Binge Purge 156
House of Representatives To Hold Hearing On Whistleblower's UFO Claims 143
United Airlines Adding 4K OLED TVs For In-Flight Entertainment 57
Amazon Prime Video Is Reportedly Planning An Ad-Supported Tier 27
Redditor Creates Working Anime QR Codes Using Stable Diffusion 61
Excel Spreadsheet Error Leads Austrian Party To Announce Wrong Leader 65
Military Whistleblower Claims US Has Retrieved Craft of Non-Human Origin 303
NASA UFO Team Calls For Higher Quality Data In First Public Meeting 39
Music Pirates Are Not Terrorists, Record Labels Argue In Court 46
India's JioCinema Breaks World Record With Free Cricket Streaming 26
The Problem with the Matrix Theory of AI-Assisted Human Learning 28
Fans Book One Last Stay at Disney World's 'Star Wars' Hotel 46
40 Years Ago, NPR Had To Apologize For Airing 'Return of the Jedi' Spoilers 56
MoviePass Is Back 35
Netflix's Password Sharing Crackdown Officially Hits US Customers 100
A Group of Workers at Bandcamp Just Voted to Unionize 23
Disney World Is Shutting Down Its $2,500-a-Night Star Wars-Themed Hotel 330
Netflix Alerts Telecoms Groups Over Looming Account-Sharing Crackdown 40
Telly, the 'Free' Smart TV With Ads, Has Privacy Policy Red Flags 46
Congress Moves To Preserve AM Radio in Cars 260
LG To Supply OLED TV Panels To Samsung 18
Startup Plans To Give Away 500,000 Free 4K TVs. The Catch? The Sets Have a Second Screen That Constantly Shows Ads 190
Saving AM Radio - the Case For and Against 282
How the NFL Scheduled 272 Football Games Using 4,000 Virtual AWS Servers 34
Google Makes Its Text-To-Music AI Public 16
US Pay-TV Subscriptions Fall To Lowest Levels Since 1992 53
Fairphone's User-Repairable Headphones Will Offer Spare Parts Through Its App 13
Hulu Content Will Be Added To Disney+ 44
Tipping at Self-Checkout Has Customers Crying 'Emotional Blackmail' 293
Amazon To License Original Content To Other Media Companies 13
UFO Hunters Built an Open-Source AI System To Scan the Skies 72
What Happens When AI Tries to Generate a Pizza Commercial? 61
'Free Comic Book Day' 2023 Celebrations Include 'Ant-Sized' Blu-Ray Discs 10
'Star Trek' Fans Can Now Virtually Tour Every Starship Enterprise Bridge 34
Grimes Unveils Software To Mimic Her Voice 49
48% of People Under 42 Spend More Time Socializing Online Than Off 37
'Super Mario Bros. Movie' Tops $1 Billion Globally, Highest-Grosser Ever For a Film Based on a Video Game 58
New Senate Bill Could Force Ticket Sellers To Disclose Their Fees Upfront 115
'Indiana Jones 5' Will Feature a De-Aged Harrison Ford for the First 25 Minutes 88
Netflix Loses 1 Million Spanish Users Over Password Policing 119
Avengers' Joe Russo Says Movies Soon Will Be Made By AI 126
Grimes Tells Fans To Deepfake Her Music, Will Split 50% Royalties With AI 63
Cory Doctorow's New Thriller Dramatizes 'Cryptocurrency Shenanigans' and 'Financial Rot' 29
Redbox Owner Interested In Buying Netflix's DVD Business 56
Amazon Introduces New Feature To Make Dialogue In Its TV Shows Intelligible 121
Pentagon Shoots Down UFO Rumors But Says 650 Cases Are Still Pending 40
Sonos' Exciting New Product Category Is Commercial Audio 39
Netflix Password Sharing Crackdown To Expand To US In Q2 2023 111
Netflix Will End Its DVD-By-Mail Service After 25 Years 77
YouTube TV Nabs Its First Technical Emmy Win For 'Views' Feature 15
Pentagon Official Floats a Theory For Unexplained Sightings: Alien Motherships 118
LG and Samsung Are Getting Serious About Their OLED Panel Deal Again 9
Universal Music Asks Streaming Services To Block AI Access To Its Songs 84
HBO Max To Be Renamed 'Max' With Addition of Discovery+ Content, Launch Date and Pricing Revealed 68

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