Entertainment Stories for 2015

The Music Industry's Latest Shortsighted Plan: Killing Freemium Services 244
Firefox 38 Arrives With DRM Required To Watch Netflix 371
How Spotify Can Become Profitable 167
What Might Have Happened To Windows Media Center 198
Counter-Strike Finally Gets the League It Deserves 113
Grooveshark Resurrected Out of US Jurisdiction 29
Apple Gets Antitrust Scrutiny Over Music Deals 47
Internet Customers Surpass Cable Subscribers At Comcast 140
Why Scientists Love 'Lord of the Rings' 179
Actress Grace Lee Whitney, Star Trek's Yeoman Janice Rand, Has Died 62
Grooveshark Shuts Down 226
The Power of Backroom Lobbying: How the Music Industry Got a Copyright Extension 109
Verizon Tells Customer He Needs 75Mbps For Smoother Netflix Video 170
ATT, DirecTV Mega-Merger May Go Through 82
ESPN Sues Verizon To Stop New Sports-Free TV Bundles 329
Conde Nast To Announce VR Series 12
Stephen Hawking Has a Message For One Direction Fans 109
Pandora Paying Artists $0.0001 More Per Stream Than It Was Last Year 124
Random Generator Parodies Vapid Startup Websites 148
Music Industry Argues Works Entering Public Domain Are Not In Public Interest 302
iTunes Stops Working For Windows XP Users 368
Netflix Is Betting On Exclusive Programming 216
Astronaut Snaps Epic Star Trek Selfie In Space 143
Star Wars Battlefront Game Trailer Is So Realistic It Looks Like Movie Footage 150
Columbia University Doctors Ask For Dr. Mehmet Oz's Dismissal 320
StarTalk TV Show With Neil DeGrasse Tyson Starts Monday 76
Jack Thompson Will Be Featured In BBC Film 'Grand Theft Auto' 118
In New Zealand, a Legal Battle Looms Over Streaming TV 106
First 26 Pages of Neal Stephenson's New Novel "Seveneves" Online 110
Legislation Would Force Radio Stations To Pay Royalties 218
Nearly Half of Game of Thrones Season 5 Leaks Online 148
Daredevil TV Show Debuts; Early Reviews Positive 114
French TV Network TV5Monde Targeted In 'Pro-ISIS' Cyberattack 71
Why CSI: Cyber Matters 141
Hugo Awards Turn (Even More) Political 587
Why More 'Star Wars' Actors Don't Become Stars 360
We're In a Golden Age of Star Trek Webseries Right Now 71
Jeremy Clarkson Dismissed From Top Gear 662
Dad and Daughter Recreate Jurassic Park With $100,000 In Lego Pieces 52
MuseScore 2.0 Released 35
The X-Files To Return 166
First Prototype of a Working Tricorder Unveiled At SXSW 61
Boeing Patents Star Wars Style Force Field Technology 126
Interviews: SMBC's Zach Weiner Answers Your Questions 25
Universal Reportedly Wants Spotify To Scale Back Its Free Streaming 117
A Software Project Full of "Male Anatomy" Jokes Causes Controversy 765
"Descent" Goes For a Crowdfunding Reboot (and a Linux Version) 149
"Open Well-Tempered Clavier" Project Complete; Score and Recording Online 59
Ask Slashdot: Building a Home Media Center/Small Server In a Crawlspace? 253
Apple Reportedly Working On an Online TV Service 87
Mickey Delp Makes 'Walk Up and Play' Electronic Instruments (Video) 28
New Site Mocks Bad Artwork On Ebook Covers 59
3D Audio Standard Released 82
"Hello Barbie" Listens To Children Via Cloud 163
Interviews: Ask SMBC's Creator Zach Weiner a Question 90
Steve Jobs's Big Miss: TV 205
UK Police and PRS Shut Down Karaoke Torrent Site 75
Kim Stanley Robinson Says Colonizing Mars Won't Be As Easy As He Thought 228
Sir Terry Pratchett Succumbs To "the Embuggerance," Aged 66 299
$7.4 Million Blurred Lines Verdict Likely To Alter Music Business 386
Google Nest Rumored To Be Moving Into Audio 37
Some of the Greatest Science Fiction Novels Are Fix-Ups 104
China's Arthur C. Clarke 187
NBC Thinks Connected Gloves and "Bullet Time" Can Make Boxing Cool 169
'Chappie': What It Takes To Render a Robot 44
Musician Releases Album of Music To Code By 181
Harrison Ford's Plane Crashes On Golf Course 117
A Critical Look At CSI: Cyber 145
Star Trek Fans Told To Stop "Spocking" Canadian $5 Bill 223
'The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress' Coming To the Big Screen 331
A Versatile and Rugged MIDI Mini-Keyboard (Video) 56
Gritty 'Power Rangers' Short Is Not Fair Use 255
That U2 Apple Stunt Wasn't the Disaster You Might Think It Was 201
Spock and the Legacy of Star Trek 233
Ultra-Low Power Radio Transceiver Enables Truly Wireless Earbuds 110
Genetic Data Analysis Tools Reveal How US Pop Music Evolved 57
Can the Guitar Games Market Be Resurrected? 163
Harrison Ford To Return In Blade Runner Sequel 222
Star Wars-Style "Bionic Hand' Fitted To First Patients 72
Use Astrology To Save Britain's Health System, Says MP 320
Pandora Pays Artists $0.001 Per Stream, Thinks This Is "Very Fair" 305
Mars One Does Not Renew Contracts For Robotic Missions 110
The Imitation Game Fails Test of Inspiring the Next Turings 194
Why Hollywood Fudged the Relativity-Based Wormhole Scenes In Interstellar 133
Ask Slashdot: How Could We Actually Detect an Alien Invasion From Outer Space? 576
Samsung Smart TVs Don't Encrypt the Voice Data They Collect 153
1950s Toy That Included Actual Uranium Ore Goes On Display At Museum 286
Wheel of Time TV Pilot Producers Sue Robert Jordan's Widow For Defamation 148
Star Trek Continues Meets Kickstarter Goal, Aims For Stretch Goals 165
Ask Slashdot: Affordable Large HD/UHD/4K "Stupid" Screens? 330
BitTorrent Announces Exclusive TV Shows 25
Samsung Smart TVs Injected Ads Into Streamed Video 370
Jon Stewart Leaving 'The Daily Show' 277
Spider-Man Finally Joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe 98
Something Resembling 'The Wheel of Time' Aired Last Night On FXX 54
$10K Ethernet Cable Claims Audio Fidelity, If You're Stupid Enough To Buy It 418
Netflix Now Available In Cuba 125
Samsung SmartTV Customers Warned Personal Conversations May Be Recorded 309
The Man Who Invented the Science Fiction Paperback 99
Google-Advised Disney Cartoon Aims To Convince Preschool Girls Coding's Cool 254
MPAA Considers Major Changes After Sony Hack 65
LEGO Contraption Allows Scientists To Safely Handle Insects 93
Homemade RC Millennium Falcon Is the Drone You've Always Dreamed of Flying 51
Apple Said To Be Working On a Pay TV Service 155
Canada, Japan Cave On Copyright Term Extension In TPP 227
Major Record Labels Keep 73% of Spotify Payouts 157
Science's Biggest Failure: Everything About Diet and Fitness 958
Music Doesn't Feature In the Pirate Bay's Top 100 Biggest Torrents 196
Texas Boy Suspended For "Threatening" Classmate With the One Ring 591
R.U. Sirius Co-Authors New Book On Transhumanism 76
George R. R. Martin's "The Winds of Winter" Wiill Not Be Published In 2015 180
UK Broadcaster Sky To Launch Mobile Service 32
The American App Economy Is Now "Bigger Than Hollywood" 135
Why We Still Can't Really Put Anything In the Public Domain 99
Americans Support Mandatory Labeling of Food That Contains DNA 351
UHD Spec Stomps on Current Blu-ray Spec, But Will Consumers Notice? 332
Smartphones, Tablets and EBay Send SkyMall To Chapter 11 65
Disney Turned Down George Lucas's Star Wars Scripts 422
The Untold Story of the Invention of the Game Cartridge 60
Simon Pegg On Board To Co-Write Next Star Trek Film 138
Steam Broadcasting Now Open To Everyone 93
Sid Meier's New Game Is About Starships 227
Star Trek Continues Kickstarter 2.0 109
Amazon Plans To Release 12 Movies a Year In Theaters and On Prime 92
Nintendo Power Glove Used To Create 'Robot Chicken' 40
Being Pestered By Drones? Buy a Drone-Hunting Drone 151
Ridley Scott Adapts Philip K. Dick's 'Man in the High Castle' For Amazon 94
Silicon Valley Security Experts Give 'Blackhat' a Thumbs-Up; Do You? 98
Radio, Not YouTube, Is Still King of Music Discovery 126
Heinlein's 'All You Zombies' Now a Sci-Fi Movie Head Trip 254
Porn Companies Are Going After GitHub 165
HOA Orders TARDIS Removed From In Front of Parrish Home 320
Unbundling Cable TV: Be Careful What You Wish For 448
The Search For Starivores, Intelligent Life That Could Eat the Sun 300
Sony Thinks You'll Pay $1200 For a Digital Walkman 391
Why We're Not Going To See Sub-orbital Airliners 300
Dish Introduces $20-a-Month Streaming-TV Service 196
How Long Will It Take Streaming To Dominate the Music Business? 169
Museum's Adults-Only Nights Show That Alcohol and Science Are a Good Mix 131
Netflix Begins Blocking Users Who Bypass Region Locks 121
Netflix Cracks Down On VPN and Proxy "Pirates" 437
Vinyl's Revival Is Now a Phenomenon On Both Sides of the Atlantic 278
Box Office 2014: Moviegoing Hits Two-Decade Low 400
Happy Public Domain Day: Works That Copyright Extension Stole From Us In 2015 328
Bitcoin Gets Its First TV Ads 127

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