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Twilio Founder Buys Satire Site 'The Onion' 18
Manga Site Blocks Adult Content, But Only For US and UK Users 92
What Comes After OLED? Meet QDEL 49
JWST Gets an IMAX Documentary: 'Deep Sky' 14
'Record Store Day' 2024 Includes Talking Heads, Daft Punk, Cheech & Chong, Beatles 20
Netflix Doc Accused of Using AI To Manipulate True Crime Story 24
Netflix Blows Past Earnings Estimates As Subscribers Jump 16% 35
Trump Media Shares Down 14% After Company Says Truth Social To Launch TV Streaming 124
Ask Slashdot: Are Movies Becoming More Derivative? 100
Song Lyrics Have Become Simpler and More Repetitive Over the Last Five Decades 143
Disneyland Adds 'Stars Wars' Touches (and New Droids) for 'Season of the Force' Event 49
Struggling Movie Exhibitors Beg Studios For More Movies - and Not Just Blockbusters 120
Chechnya Is Banning Music That's Too Fast Or Slow 229
Nine of the 10 Most-Watched Streaming Programs Are Reruns 215
How the European Space Agency Celebrated April Fool's Day 41
Disneyland Proposes New Area Based on 'Avatar' Movies 67
Denis Villeneuve is Doing Dune 3 72
Roku's New HDMI Tech Could Show Ads When You Pause Your Game 119
How a Micro-Budget Student Film Changed Sci-Fi Forever 44
Disney Will Crack Down on Password Sharing in June 38
George Carlin Estate Forces 'AI Carlin' Off the Internet For Good 31
New 'Matrix' Movie in Works 215
Top Musicians Among Hundreds Warning Against Replacing Human Artists With AI 162
'Yes, We're All Trapped in the Matrix Now' 185
After Losing Billions, Disney+ Tries Integrating Hulu Into Its App 78
'Dune 2' Beaten by 'Godzilla x Kong' 61
Russia Is Making Its Own Gaming Consoles 161
Pythagoras Was Wrong: There Are No Universal Musical Harmonies, Study Finds 73
Vinyl Records Outsell CDs For the Second Year Running 142
Star Trek: Prodigy Season 2 Releases Early In France 29
Tennessee Becomes First State To Protect Musicians, Other Artists Against AI 23
Tired of Streaming? Home-Grown 'Free Blockbuster' Libraries Are Trying to Offer Alternatives 27
93-Year-Old William Shatner Discusses 'Star Trek', Space, Mortality, and Captain Kirk's Death 62
It's 25 Years Later. Are We All Now Trapped in 'The Matrix'? 181
Netflix's '3 Body Problem' Draws Mixed Reviews, Sparks Anger in China 104
Oscars 2024: Netflix Wins Just One Award and Apple Shut Out After Streamers Combine for 32 Nominations 48
Akira Toriyama, Creator of Dragon Ball Manga Series, Dies Aged 68 40
Samsung Making It Harder To Know What Type of OLED TV You're Getting 47
Nikon To Acquire US Cinema Camera Manufacturer RED 36
Max Password Sharing Crackdown Is Coming 22
In Indonesia, Women Pirate More Music and Movies Than Men 36
Roku Disables Devices Until Users Agree To New Arbitration Rules 147
Two New 'Star Wars' Movies Will Begin Filming 147
The Desert Planet In 'Dune' Is Plausible, According To Science 51
Adobe's New Prototype Generative AI Tool Is the 'Photoshop' of Music-Making and Editing 51
Streaming To Overtake Pay TV Subscription Revenue For the First Time in US This Year 13
Hacker Uses Raspberry Pi and AI To Block Noisy Neighbor's Music 93
Open Source Movie Streaming Project 'Movie-Web' Shut Down By Hollywood Complaint 21
In Netflix's New Sci-Fi Movie 'Spaceman', an Introverted Astronaut Confronts Isolation 42
Former Gizmodo Writer Changed Name To 'Slackbot,' Stayed Undetected For Months 22
Amazon Says 'No Changes' Coming To Freevee Despite Reports of the Streamer Shuttering 14
Disney Strikes Deal For Sony To Take Over Its DVD, Blu-ray Disc Business 82
YouTube Dominates TV Streaming In US, Per Nielsen's Latest Report 22
Walmart To Buy TV Maker Vizio For $2.3 Billion 50
EU to Fine Apple $500M+ for Stifling Music Competitors Like Spotify 117
Pranksters Mock AI-Safety Guardrails with New Chatbot 'Goody-2' 74
Leaked Emails Show Hugo Awards Self-Censoring To Appease China 89
Walmart In Talks To Buy Vizio For More Than $2 Billion 31
Spotify's Layoffs Put an End To a Musical Encyclopedia 21
Streamer Plex Launches Its Long-Promised Movie Rentals Store 27
Funimation is Shutting Down, And Taking Your Digital Library With It 48
Disney Plus' Restrictions on Password Sharing Are Now Rolling Out To US Subscribers 54
Warner, Fox, Disney To Launch Streaming Sports Joint Venture 31
YouTube Has Become One of the Biggest Pay TV Services in the US 31
Disneyland's New 'Pixar Place' Hotel is Like Visiting the Studio 18
Joe Rogan Gets New Spotify Deal Worth Up To $250 Million 134
Avatar VFX Workers Vote To Unionize 28
YouTube Says It Has More Than 100 Million Premium and Music Subscribers 48
Hulu Is Cracking Down On Password Sharing, Just Like Disney Plus and Netflix 62
YouTube TV's Now Lets You Customize Your Multiview Experiences 21
Halo's Trailer for Season 2 Teases More Covenant 30
Netflix Adds Generative AI To Competitive Risk Factors in Its Annual Report 18
Streaming Pirates Are Hollywood's New Villains 160
Netflix is Going To Take Away Its Cheapest Ad-Free Plan 105
Sony Ends $10 Billion Merger With India Media Giant Zee 3
Remembering The 1970s-Era Technology of Devo 43
Now Musicians' Union Threatens Possible Strike Over AI, Streaming Media 64
Plex To Launch a Store For Movies and TV Shows 22
Music Streaming Platforms Must Pay Artists More, Says EU 58
Harmonix Is Ending Rock Band DLC Releases After 16 Years, 2,800 Songs 15
Ken Fritz Built a $1 Million Stereo. The Real Cost Was Unfathomable. 222
Removal of Netflix Film Shows Advancing Power of India's Hindu Right Wing 110
AI-Generated George Carlin Drops Comedy Special 128
'Artificial Creativity' Music Software For Commodore Amiga Unearthed 39
Music Streams Hit 4 Trillion in 2023 21
Actors' Union Agrees To AI Voiceovers For Video Games 35
Telly's Free Ad-Supported TV Will Use ChatGPT For Its Voice Assistant 37
Samsung Debuts World's First Transparent MicroLED Screen Is At CES 2024 30
Flappie AI Cat Door Stops Your Pet From Gifting You Dead Mice 72
LG Unveils the World's First Wireless Transparent OLED TV 26
Ask Slashdot: Does Anyone Still Use Ogg Vorbis Format? 148
An AI-powered Holographic Elvis Concert is Coming to Las Vegas (and the UK) 39
Spotify's Editorial Playlists Are Losing Influence Amid AI Expansion 14
US Pay-TV Subscriber Base Eroding At Record Pace 104
DVD Resurgence To Prevent Films From Disappearing 131
LG's 2024 OLED TVs Put a Bigger Focus on AI Processing Than Ever Before 37
Roku Launches Its First High-End TVs in Search of Revenue Growth 18
Andrew Scott Halted Hamlet Soliloquy After Theatergoer Used Laptop To Email 91
Alamo Drafthouse Blames 'Nationwide' Theater Outage on Sony Projector Fail 52
Vizio To Pay $3 Million Settlement for Misleading Advertised TV Refresh Rates 22
'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

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