Media Stories for 2019

YouTube Goes To War With Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency 134
The Next Big Streaming Trend? Recommendations From Actual People 36
Hundreds of 'Pink Slime' Local News Outlets Are Distributing Algorithmic Stories and Conservative Talking Points, Investigation Finds 228
Billboard Is Changing Its Albums Chart To Count Video Plays From YouTube 16
Verizon Lays Off More Yahoo/AOL Employees 44
The Pirate Bay Is Trialing High-Quality Video Streaming Links 35
Smartphone Videos Can Now Be Analyzed To Locate a Shooter 40
Sacha Baron Cohen Gave the Greatest Speech on Why Social Networks Need To Be Put On Check 194
George Lucas Has Apparently Changed the Famous Greedo Scene In 1977's Star Wars Again, For Disney+ 284
Iceland Livestreams 10-Year-Old McDonald's Cheeseburger That Won't Decompose 200
Netflix Expands Into a World Full of Censors 44
HBO Max Will Reportedly Get a Cheaper, Ad-Supported Tier In 2021 12
Netflix Launches $4 Mobile-only Monthly Plan in Malaysia 20
Facebook Portal Sales Are 'Very Low' 40
YouTube Gets Alleged Copyright Troll To Agree To Stop Trolling YouTubers 70
Laser Cutters Sold On Amazon and Elsewhere Are Cheap, Fun -- and Dangerous 81
Teens Choose YouTube Over Netflix For the First Time, Survey Finds 54
Slashdot Asks: What Did You Like/Dislike About iTunes? 131
Disney Bans Netflix Ads As Streaming's Marketing Wars Intensify 44
Ask Slashdot: Will P2P Video Sites Someday Replace YouTube? 68
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
AI Can't Protect Us From Deepfakes, Argues New Report 36
Facebook Expands Definition of Terrorist Organizations To Limit Extremism 145
Disney CEO Bob Iger Resigns From Apple Board As Companies Come Into Conflict On Streaming 8
YouTube Creators Are Turning the Site Into a Podcast Network 25
YouTube Removes 17,000 Channels For Hate Speech 409
Inside Plex's Quest To Become a One-Stop Shop for Digital Media 29
YouTube's CEO Explains Why It Leaves Up 'Controversial or Even Offensive' Videos 134
Netflix Has Now Shipped 5 Billion DVDs To Its Members 29
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
YouTube Pressured To Ban Chinese State Media Ads That Spread Misinformation About Protesters 29
LGBT Video-Makers Sue YouTube Claiming Discrimination 176
Disney Announces $12.99 Bundle For Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+ 118
Ask Slashdot: Budget-Friendly Webcam Without a Cloud Service? 118
Comcast's 'Unlimited' Mobile Plan Now Costs $20 Extra For HD Video 52
VLC Developer Debunks Reports of 'Critical Security Issue' In Open Source Media Player 80
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
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
Social Media, But Not Video Games, Linked To Depression In Teens, Says Study 147
Scientists Use Camera With Human-Like Vision To Capture 5,400 FPS Video 66
Bankrupt Maker Faire Revives, Reduced To Make Community 51
YouTube Is Making It Much Easier For Creators To Deal With Copyright Claims 89
Sneaky Chrome Extension Disguises Netflix As a Google Hangout To Help You Slack Off At Work 33
Netflix Could Lose Almost a Quarter of Its Subscribers If It Started Running Ads, Study Shows 172
Spotify Shuts Down Direct Music Uploading For Independent Artists 136
iOS 13 Will Add Fake Eye Contact To FaceTime For Improved Intimacy 73
Hubble Captures Cosmic Fireworks In Ultraviolet 35
Deepfake Revenge Porn Distribution Now a Crime In Virginia 170
YouTube Lets Users Override Recommendations After Criticism 91
VESA Publishes DisplayPort 2.0 Video Standard, Offers Support For Beyond-8K Resolutions and Higher Refresh Rates For 4K/HDR 46
New York City's Public Libraries to End Film Streaming Through Kanopy 42
Google Is Killing YouTube's 'Hangouts On Air' This Year 28
US Video Streaming App YouNow Files Cryptocurrency Offering With SEC 25
YouTube and UMG Partner To Remaster Over 1,000 Iconic Music Videos From SD To Full-HD 84
Citing Requests From People, FujiFilm Decides To Bring Back Its Black and White Film 74
Disney's Video Streaming Service Hotstar Halts Support for Safari Browser 52
YouTube To Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views 611
Apple's MacOS Catalina Will Open Up To iPad Apps, Be Available In the Fall 38
'U.S. Navy Says UFOs Are Real, UFO Hunters Are Thrilled' 441
Facebook Reportedly Thinks There's No 'Expectation of Privacy' On Social Media 100
Hulu Has 82M Viewers, and Most of Them Are Seeing Ads 61
YouTube Gaming App Shuts Down This Week 52
Who Killed America's Demo Scene? 143
TikTok is China's Most Important Export Right Now 61
'Game of Thrones' Fan Petition for Final Season Do-Over Snowballs 494
Disney is Taking Full Control of Hulu 100
Hotstar, Disney's Indian Streaming Service, Sets New Global Record For Live Viewership 28
Walmart Bets on TV Shows for Families, Date Night in Media Push 52
Viewers Who Stream More Also Go To Cinemas More 53
More Jails Replace In-Person Visits With Awful Video Chat Products 260
Netflix Axes Apple AirPlay Support 169
Microsoft Drops 'Safe Removal' of USB Drives As Default In Windows 10 1809 171
Social Media Bosses Could Be Liable For Harmful Content, Leaked UK Plan Reveals 95
Australia Passes Law To Punish Social Media Companies For Violent Posts 259
YouTube Executives Ignored Warnings, Letting Toxic Videos Run Rampant 426
Singapore Seeks Social Media 'Corrections' In Proposed Fake News Law 42
Years of Mark Zuckerberg's Old Facebook Posts Have Vanished. The Company Says it 'Mistakenly Deleted' Them. 118
BitTorrent Live Returns as a Snapchat-like Social Media App 8
As 'Subscription Fatigue' Sets In, the OTT Reckoning May Be Upon Us 205
Apple's Plan For Its New TV Service: Sell Other People's TV Services 95
Comcast Unveils $5-a-Month Streaming Service Xfinity Flex 59
Egypt Government Used Gmail Third-Party Apps To Phish Activists 16
Serious Amazon Ring Vulnerability Leaves Audio, Video Feeds Open To Attack 43
Microsoft Teases HoloLens 2 21
Facebook's '10 Year Challenge' Meme Could Train Facial Recognition Algorithms On Age Progression, Age Recognition 38
A Neural Network Can Learn To Recognize the World It Sees Into Concepts 69
VLC Passes 3 Billion Downloads 96
Link Between Social Media and Depression Stronger In Teen Girls Than Boys, Study Says 181
Iran Extends Social Media Crackdown With Move To Bar Instagram 37