Entertainment Stories for 2010

Behind the Special Effects of Inception 196
The Chipophone — an 8-Bit Chiptune Organ 84
Study Finds 0.3% of BitTorrent Files Definitely Legal 321
BioWare's Star Wars MMO To Have Space Combat 122
Darth Vader Robs Long Island Bank 190
Sony's Blue-Violet Laser the Future Blu-ray? 260
Windows vs. Ubuntu — Dell's Verdict 718
Matt Smith Leaving Doctor Who Already? 423
Optimus Prime Made of Junk Cars In China 43
Gaming Without a Safety Blanket 79
Tokyo Rail Billboards Scan Viewer's Age, Gender 235
'Weekly Episodes' Coming To Star Trek Online 62
Don't Stop File-Sharing, Says Former Pink Floyd Manager 243
PS3 To Gain Support For 3-D Movies On Blu-Ray and YouTube 199
RIAA Paid $16M+ In Legal Fees To Collect $391K 387
RIAA Accounting — How Labels Avoid Paying Musicians 495
Man Repairs Crumbling Walls With Legos 106
Big Changes Planned For The Force Unleashed 2 100
ESRB Exposes Emails of Gamers Who Filed Privacy Complaints 75
Chinese News Reports the Taliban Are Training Monkey Soldiers 232
PopBox STB To Ship Soon But Without Netflix, Pandora 56
YouTube Adds 'Leanback,' Support For 4K Video 204
After a Decade, Digital Radio Still an Also-Ran In UK 200
Microsoft Applies For Page-Turn Animation Patent 293
RIAA's Tenenbaum Verdict Cut From $675k To $67.5k 253
Hollywood Accounting — How Harry Potter Loses Money 447
Open Source Music Fingerprinter Gets Patent Nastygram 487
Google's New Scheme To Avoid Unlicensed Music 213
Sidestepping A-to-D Convertors For Town Government's Cable TV? 539
George Lucas C&Ds 'Lightsaber Laser' 481
AU Band Men At Work Owes Royalties On 'Kookaburra' 371
Prince Says Internet Is Over 450
BBC Web Slip-Up Insults Facebook Fans 262
A Composer's-Eye View of the Copyright Wars 973
Stop the Math Press's Presses — Knuth Announces iTex 284
HDBaseT Supporters Hope To Kiss HDMI Goodbye 336
Buy Your Own Tron Lightcycle For $35,000 170
Feds and Hollywood Seize Domains of Movie Pirates 181
Fark Creator Slams 'the Wisdom of Crowds' 507
"David After Dentist" Made $150k For Family 234
ASCAP War On Free Culture Escalates 335
Subscription-Based 'Hulu Plus' Is Now Official 434
Science Historian Deciphers Plato's Code 402
BBC To Create Internet Protocol TV Standard 128
3D Displays May Be Hazardous To Young Children 386
Creative Commons Responds To ASCAP Letter 161
ASCAP Declares War On Free Culture, EFF 483
One Step Closer to Star Wars Holograms 122
David X. Cohen Talks About Futurama's New Season 246
Make-A-Wish Builds A Millennium Falcon Fort For Boy 94
Sunshine Writer Joins Logan's Run Remake 216
White House Cracks Down On Piracy & Counterfeiting 323
For-Profit, Illegal Movie Download Sites Threaten MPAA 387
Special Master Appointed In Jammie Thomas Case 147
Groups Urge FCC To Block NBC-Comcast Merger 160
Noisebridge Attempts to Teach Science To Juggalos 198
"Music" Of the Sun Recorded By Astronomers 94
Made-For-Torrents Sci-Fi Drama "Pioneer One" Debuts 321
Movie Studio Finally Sees the Light On Rentals 213
FEMA and DHS Fund Disaster Hero Game 68
Study Shows Monkeys Like Watching TV 103
LimeWire Sued Again, Publishers Seek $150,000 Per Song 168
Ozzy Osbourne To Be Genetically Decoded 256
Newsweek Easter Egg Reports Zombie Invasion 93
Uwe Boll, Other Filmmakers Sue Thousands of Movie Pirates 284
Set Free Your Inner Jedi (Or Pyro) 463
DTV Transition - One Year Later 431
Study Says Targeted Ads Gettin' a Lil' Creepy 241
Rock Band 3 To Include MIDI Keyboard 107
Theremin Guitar Hero 79
The Star Wars Kid Is Back 275
Why Are Video Game Movies So Awful? 385
The End of the Dr. Demento Show On Radio 206
The Apple Broadcast Network 190
Lord of the Rings Online To Go Free-To-Play 138
Frank Zappa's Influence On Linux and FOSS Development 195
The Genius of the Lego Printer 187
Homer Simpson Named Greatest TV Character 142
How a Virginia Law Firm Outpaces the MPAA at Suing Over Movie Downloads 237
The Muppets' 1967 IBM Sales Films 63
Rent an iPad For Inflight Entertainment 198
Pedestrian Follows Google Map, Gets Run Over, Sues 699
Reproducing an Ancient New World Beer 175
Ofcom Unveils Anti-Piracy Policy For UK ISPs 234
The Hurt Locker Producers Sue First 5,000 File-Sharers 861
The Hobbit On Hold 142
Iron Baby 139
XBMC Discontinues Xbox Support 213
"Innocent Infringement" Defense May Reach Supreme Court 213
Warner Bros. Accused of Pirating Anti-Pirating Tech 228
Mass Effect To Invade the Big Screen 142
Apple Facing New Antitrust Investigation 241
Breakthroughs In HTML Audio Via Manipulation With JavaScript 141
Neuromancer Movie In Your Future? 239
Decency Group Says "$#*!" Is Indecent 821
Happy Towel Day 122
Lost Ends 955
Revenge of the Cable Customer 397
Toyota Robot Violinist Wows At Shanghai Expo 121
Local TV Could Go the Way of Newspapers 180
IBM Distributes USB Malware At Security Conference 73
Google TV Announced With Intel, Sony, and Logitech 224
The Secret of Monkey Island Shows Evolution of PC Audio 348
Would You Die To Respect a Software License? 233
Software Recognizes Sarcastic Tweets 168
Is Diaspora the Future of Free Software Funding? 146
Why I Steal Movies (Even Ones I'm In) 753
Trailer For Blender Open Movie Sintel Ready 182
The Futurama of Physics 150
Life-size Eva Unit 01 Being Built In Japan 80
In Argentina, Law Against Plagiarism Plagiarized 165
Beautifully Rendered Music Notation With HTML5 259
Wikipedia Is Not Amused By Entry For xkcd-Coined Word 553
Drifting Satellite Could Knock Out Cable TV 217
TV Networks Don't Want DMCA Protection For YouTube 197
MythTV 0.23 Released 214
When Internet Radios Get Affordable 139
Is the 4th Yellow Pixel of Sharp Quattron Hype? 511
FCC Allows Blocking of Set-Top Box Outputs 288
Most File Sharers Would Pay For Legal Downloads 370
Russian Officials To Investigate Regional President's Alien Abduction Claims 184
Top 10 Things Hollywood Thinks Computers Can Do 874
The Virtual Choir Project 58
15 Vintage Tech Ads 96
St. Louis Museum Offers Thrills, Chills, and Lawsuits 140
"Lost" and the Emergence of Hypertext Storytelling 170
One In Eight To Cut Cable and Satellite TV In 2010 502
Man Spends 2,200 Hours Defeating Bejeweled 2 179
Court Allows Unmasking of P2P Downloaders 244
False Start For Cyber Security Challenge UK 18
IT Crowd (UK) Coming Back For Season 4 165
Writer Peter Watts Sentenced; No Jail Time 299
Philip K. Dick's Exegesis To Be Published In 2011 82
Nostalgic Elation — the Super Mario Crossover 67
Avatar Blu-Ray DRM Issues 376
Apple To Shut Down Lala On May 31 438
1st International Longest Tweet Results 44
Lego Robot Solves Bigger and Harder Rubik's Cubes 63
California's Santa Clara County Bans Happy Meal Toys 756
Rocket Racing League Showcases New X-Racers 39
PowerPoint of Afghan War Strategy 233
Spoiler-Free Iron Man 2 Review 118
Why Making Money From Free Software Matters 224
Controlling a Robot With the Emotiv EEG Headset 33
Don't Talk To Aliens, Warns Stephen Hawking 1015
Leonard Nimoy Retires From Star Trek 224
4G iPhone Misplacer Invited To Germany For Beer 164
South Park's Episode 201 — the Expurgated Version 1224
Rumors of Hulu's Subscription Plans 224
True Tales of Tech Hoarding 268
The iPad As In-Car Entertainment System Killer 415
EU Piracy Estimates — Just How Inaccurate? 124
File Sharing Remains a Perk of College Life 288
Porn Virus Blackmails Victims Over "Copyright Violation" 222
Entertainment Industry's Dystopia of the Future 394
Maybe the Aliens Are Addicted To Computer Games 496
Joss Whedon To Direct The Avengers 349
Professor Says UFO Studies Should Be Taught At Universities 311
Dirty Duty On the Front Lines of IT 166
Do You Have a Secret Immunity To 3D Movies? 495
Hollywood's Growing Obsession With Philip K. Dick 244
Comcast Disables VCR Scheduling In New Guide 554
How Neuros Built Their Nearly Silent HTPC 199
Arduino Assisted Mind-Controlled Television 47
Chinese Users Get Nokia Music Service Sans DRM 67
Evolution, Big Bang Polls Omitted From NSF Report 495
DIY 80GB iPod Touch 110
Star Wars To Air As Animated Sitcom 268
Jordanian Mayor Angry Over "Alien Invasion" Prank 217
Amazon Reviewers Take on the Classics 272
Twitter Predicts Box Office Results 44
First Impressions of the 11th Doctor Who 379
Songbird Drops Linux Support 356
365 Days of Photojournalism With Stormtroopers 30
Star Wars: The Old Republic Sarlacc Enforcer Class Unveiled 27
Cthulhu the Musical, Tentacular, Tentacular! 33
Moog's MF-401 Auto De-tune Fixes Music 79
Will Smith In For Independence Day 2 & 3 464
New Litigation Targets 20,000 BitTorrent-Using Downloaders 949
Lord British Claims He Owns the Moon 144
Newzbin Usenet Indexer Liable For Copyright Infringement 168
Battlefield Earth Screenwriter Accepts Razzie 295
Rapidshare Trying To Convert Pirates Into Customers 227
Newcastle Maker Faire 2010 27
What's the Best Way To Get Web Content To My TV? 304
Venezuela's Last Opposition TV Owner Arrested 433
International Longest Tweet Contest Seeks Entries 99
Netflix Streaming Arrives For the Wii 171
Best Buy Offers Bogus "3D Sync" Service 248
Is the Line-in Jack On the Verge of Extinction? 411
Food Activist's Life Becomes The Life of Brian 165
New Chip Offers Virtual Windows Desktops, On TVs 99
Russian ASCII Art Animated Cat From 1968 125
Auto-Scanning the Names People Choose For Their Wireless APs 422
Sci-Fi Writer Peter Watts Convicted of Assault 381
UMG To Price New CDs Under $10 362
Details Emerge On Futurama's "Rebirth" (and Return) 183
Filming For The Hobbit Begins In July 298
MP3 Player Tax Proposed In Canada 281
I Want My GTV 198
The Movie Studios' Big 3D Scam 532
Cisco's New Router — Trouble For Hollywood 335
C-Span Posts Full Archives Online 115
Jobcentre Apologizes For Anti-Jedi Discrimination 615
Pirate Bay Legal Action Dropped In Norway 223
Scientology Tries To Block German Documentary 565
Pi Day and an Interview With a Pi Researcher 188
Malware Authors Learn Market Segmentation From the Best 49
Netflix Prize Sequel Cancelled Over Privacy Concerns 65
Hollow Spy Coins 322
Sony Begins Selling HD Movies On Its PSN 153
William Shatner Takes On Social Networking 294
EMI Cannot Unbundle Pink Floyd Songs 601
Bill To Ban All Salt In Restaurant Cooking 794
The 10 Most Absurd Scientific Papers 127
The Lost Film That Accompanied Empire Strikes Back 195
Study Shows TV Makes Kids Fat, Computers Don't 276
Rock Band 3 Officially Announced For Holiday 2010 76
How the Internet Didn't Fail As Predicted 259
Algebra In Wonderland 184
ABC Pulls Channels From Cablevision 217
TiVo Time Warp Judgment Affirmed 107
Microsoft Sends Flowers To Internet Explorer 6 Funeral 151
How To Play Poker With Your Rock Band Drum Kit 46
Holographic Human Heads Used By DJ In Live Show 0
Using Classical Music As a Form of Social Control 721
Turn Your Roomba Into a Household Google Bot 79
How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Music 261
Netflix Gauging Interest In an iPhone App 121
Scalpers Earned $25M Gaming Online Ticket Sellers 574
Appeals Court Knocks Out "Innocent Infringement" 232
LG Launches Watch Phone In India 109
California Legislature Declares "Cuss-Free" Week 262
The Sad History and (Possibly) Bright Future of TiVo 490
Aussie Internet Censorship Minister Censors Self 158
Space Exploration Needs Extraterrestrial Ethics 162
Hollywood Treats Hackers Pretty Well 216
Youtube Pulls Original "Rickroll" Video 97
Passive-Aggressive Wi-Fi Hotspots 263
Triumph of the Cyborg Composer 502
Hollywood Stock Exchange Set To Launch In April 100
1938 Superman Comic Sells For $1M 267
School Spying Scandal Gets Even More Bizarre 699
Is OLED TV Technology In Jeopardy? 99
2010 — the Year AACS and HDMI Kill Off HD Component Video 424
Toei Animation Thinks Mobiles Could Save Anime 69
Lego Robot Solves Any Rubik's Cube In 12 Seconds 224
Microsoft RickRolls Wi-Fi Network Leechers 165
New Riddick Movie Made Possible By Games? 160
Aussie Attorney General Says Gamers Are Scarier Than Biker Gangs 409

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