Entertainment Stories for 2015

George Lucas Criticizes the Force Awakens 562
Paramount and CBS File Lawsuit Against Crowdfunded, Indie Star Trek Movie 228
Rail Gun Controller Lets You Pack the Heat of Your Air Soft Gun In Any FPS Game 44
Discogs Turns Record Collectors' Obsessions Into Big Business 31
Drone Ban Extends 30 Miles Around DC, Per FAA 410
The Fan HD Remakes Yet To Be Banned 50
Star Wars Pulls In $1 Billion At Record Speed 467
Sci-Fi Screenwriter and Author George Clayton Johnson Dead At 86 21
Star Wars Fans and Video Game Geeks 'More Likely To Be Narcissists,' Study Finds 182
Arca Space Corp Unveils Functional Turbine Powered Hoverboard 48
Merry Christmas - Be an Erector Engineer! 200
For a Missouri Cassette Tape Factory, Obsolesence is Just a 12-Letter Word 169
Pirate Bay Cofounder Utterly Bankrupts the Music Industry 261
Another Internet Griswold's Controllable Christmas Lights 46
Disney Is Making a Fortune and Safeguarding Its Future By Buying Childhood 207
Programmers Share 188 Computer-Generated Novels On GitHub 49
UK Police Busts Karaoke 'Gang' For Sharing Songs You Can't Buy 118
Andy Weir, Author of 'The Martian,' Is Writing a Novel Set On the Moon 73
Economists Discuss the Financial Repercussions of the Destruction of the Death Stars 171
VLC Launches On Chrome OS Thanks To Android Port 44
Reddit Is Banning Users That Post Star Wars 7 Spoilers 268
Netflix To Re-Encode Entire 1 Petabyte Video Catalogue In 2016 To Save Bandwidth 285
Writer: Why Watching the Original Star Wars Again Was a Bad Idea 400
Supreme Court Upholds Arbitration In DirectTV Case 119
Cable Providers Still Have No Answer For Netflix As Cord-cutting Accelerates 247
MST3K Breaks Kickstarter Record 31
LionsGate Wants Pirate Sites To Pay For 'Expendables' 3 Leak 91
"Happy Birthday To You" Set To Finally Reach the Public Domain 120
Report: Apple To Suspend Effort To Develop Live TV Service 71
Spike TV Is Turning Red Mars Into a TV Series 39
GunTV Aims To Premier 24-Hour Shopping Channel For Firearms 633
Streaming Video Is 70 Percent of Broadband Use 89
Fan Lists Himself As a Band's Family Member On Wikipedia To Sneak Backstage 91
Science-Fictional Shibboleths 508
Perl 6 Gets Beta Compiler, Modules and an Advent Calendar 131
Millions of Smart TVs, Phones and Routers At Risk From Old Vulnerability 65
NSF Antes Up $200K For Spin-off of Microsoft-Funded 'Code Trip' TV Show 22
Patton Oswalt Recruited For New MST3K Cast 50
VTech Hack Gets Worse: Chat Logs, Kids' Photos Taken In Breach 69
MST3K Kickstarter Poised To Break Kickstarter Record 104
Finnish IT Retailer Reveals Most Returned Products 108
Richard Dawkins Opposes UK Cinemas Censoring Church's Advert Before Star Wars 319
What Is the Future of the Television? 235
Even the Dumbest Ransomware Is Almost Unremovable On Smart TVs 151
George Lucas: "I'm Done With Star Wars" 424
Amazon Screenplay-Writing Software Submits Work To Amazon Studios 33
Netflix Remaking Lost In Space 169
MST3K Successfully Crowdsources Its Comeback 53
Ask Slashdot: Xbox One Or PlayStation 4? 375
Now We Know Why the Hobbit Movies Were So Awful 175
Structural Engineer On the Fallacies of Movie Bridge Destruction 211
Star Wars Battlefront Released 126
Pandora To Buy Rdio Assets For $75M In Cash 20
ISP To Court: BitTorrent Usage Doesn't Equal Piracy 175
Microsoft Kills Off Zune Music Service 66
Why Free Services From Telecoms Can Be a Problem On the Internet 89
'Twas the Week Before the Week of Black Friday 146
Beats Music To Shut Down November 30 61
Star Trek: Renegades Working On Episodes 2 and 3 35
Hour of Code 2015 Star Wars Tutorial: Spare the IF Statement, Spoil the Child? 156
MST3K Is Kickstarting Back To Life 83
TV Networks Cutting Back On Commercials 242
Viewing Data Harvested From Smart TVs Used To Push Ads To Other Screens? 148
In Ireland, All RC and Drones Over 1kg To Be Registered 108
Coming Set-top Box Mandate May Help Break Pay TV Firms' Hold Over Viewers 153
ABC's 'BattleBots' Reboot Will Come Back For a Second Season 37
Before Barbie's Brainy Makeover, Mattel Execs Met With White House, Google 125
Finland Releases National Emoji Collection 93
BBC Lets Viewers Buy Shows and Episodes Permanently, But No 'Extras' 80
TV Networks Open Neuroscience Labs To Improve Their Shows and Ads 109
New Star Trek TV Series Coming In 2017 438
Slashdot Asks: Notes For Next Hallowe'en? 151
IMDb Hits 25 59
Noriyoshi Ohrai, Illustrator of Many Hollywood Movie Posters, Has Died 16
Lawsuit Claims Buck Rogers Is In the Public Domain 207
eSports and Livestreaming Buoy PC Gaming 74
A Real-Life Space Botanist Comments On the Potato Garden In 'The Martian' 134
Judge: School's Facebook Post is a Campaign Contribution 86
Andy Kaufman and Redd Foxx To Tour As Holograms 53
Square Enix To Concentrate On Remaking Their Back Catalog 171
Mythbusters Ending After Next Season 187
"YouTube Red" Offers Premium YouTube For $9.99 a Month, $12.99 For iOS Users 236
Tomorrow Is 'Back To the Future' Day 127
Rovi and Michigan State University Establish Largest US Library Media Collection 22
BBC Begins Blocking VPN Access To iPlayer 174
Point-And-Shoot Weapon Stops Drones Without Destroying Them 116
Why You Should Be Suspicious of Online Movie Ratings 184
Teaching Kids Engineering By Building Cartoon Tech 33
Video Game Music Is Saving the Symphony Orchestra 111
Star Trek: New Voyages, The Fan-Based Star Trek Series 93
Can Star Trek's World With No Money Work In Real life? 563
Will You Ever Be Able To Upload Your Brain? 269
See the Sketches J.R.R. Tolkien Used To Build Middle-Earth 48
How To Make Messages Easy For an Alien Race To Understand 186
A Remarkable Number of People Think 'The Martian' Is Based On a True Story 367
Making Your Graphing Calculator a Musical Instrument 55
What Non-Geeks Hate About the Big Bang Theory 406
Review: The Martian 242
TiVo's Latest Offering Detects and Skips Ads, Adds 4K Capability 85
Inside the Spaceflight of 'The Martian' 124
A Broke Fan Owes $5,400 For Pokemon-Themed Party Posters 212
EU Probes TVs Over Energy Test Scores 93
Amazon To Cease Sale of Apple TV and Chromecast 223
Targeting Tools Help Personalize TV Advertising 60
Tardis Wars: The BBC Strikes Back 72
The Man Who Invents Languages For a Living 90
Edward SnowdenTalks Alien Communications With Neil deGrasse Tyson 142
Dr Who Detective Philip Morris Hints At More Rediscovered Episodes 79
Brain-Controlled (Inflatable) Shark Attack 17
The Effort To Create an 'Iron Man' Type Exoskeleton 52
Court Rules Batmobile Is Entitled To Copyright Protection 138
1000-key Emoji Keyboard Is As Crazy As It Sounds 146
Facebook Finally Delivers On the VRML Dream With Immersive Star Wars Video 58
What Ridley Scott Has To Say About the Science In "The Martian" 163
British Movie Theater Staff To Wear Night-Vision Goggles To Combat Movie Piracy 279
Sci-Fi Author Joe Haldeman On the Future of War 241
The Forgotten Tale of Cartrivision's 1972 VCR 92
Barbie Gets a Brain 235
Former NASA Mission Controller James Oberg Lauds 'The Martian' 55
2015 Ig Nobel Prizes Honor Bee Stings, Elephant Urination 30
The Force Awakens With Devon's $28,500 Star Wars Limited Edition Watch 112
Why We're Looking For ET All Wrong 275
Finding Hope In Cryonics, Despite Glacial Progress 87
NASA Launching 4K TV Channel 41
Can The Martian Give NASA's Mars Efforts a Hollywood Bump? 131
TSR's Lost 1980s Dungeons and Dragons Movie Script, Reviewed 167
Plex Is Coming To Apple TV 89
An Algorithm To Stop Joke Plagiarists 128
Four Year Sentence For Running Piracy Streaming Site 235
US Government's Pirate Movie Bootlegger Gets 24 Months Probation 83
The Politics of Star Trek 485
Apple TV To Be Revamped 132
Is There Too Much New Programming On TV? 307
How Open Film Project "Cosmos Laundromat" Made Blender Better 31
Canadian Music Industry Faces Competition Complaint Over Public Domain Records 38
More Popcorn Time Users Sued 147
Netflix Is Becoming Just Another TV Channel 294
Brain Cancer Claims Horror Maestro Wes Craven At 76 35
Amazon Developing TV Series Based On Galaxy Quest 87
"Sensationalized Cruelty": FCC Complaints Regarding Game of Thrones 197
FBI Informant: Ray Bradbury's Sci-fi Written To Induce Communistic Mass Hysteria 282
Hugos Refuse To Award Anyone Rather Than Submit To Fans' Votes 1044
Ask Slashdot: Tips For Getting Into Model Railroading? 149
Ask Slashdot: Maintaining Continuity In Your Creative Works? 95
The Real NASA Technologies In 'The Martian' 60
Bozza Wants To Be Africa's Answer To iTunes, Spotify and Netflix 42
Movie Studio Sues Individual Popcorn Time Users For Infringement 144
The Tech Problems Inside Nintendo's Amiibo Toys 70
Death Star Science: The Physics Of Destroying An Earth-Sized Planet 173
HBO, Netflix, and Amazon Targeting Kids 46
CNN and CBC Sued For Pirating YouTube Video 222
Australian Courts Make Life Hard For Dallas Buyers Club Copyright Owner 25
Redefining Security Visualization With Hollywood UI Design 55
Microsoft Creates an AI That Can Spot a Joke In a New Yorker Cartoon 66
"Pixels" DMCA Takedown Even Worse Than We Thought 272
Anti-Piracy Firm Sends Out Wave of Takedown Notices For Using the Word 'Pixels' 224
French Killers Inspired By Breaking Bad TV Show 182
Fantastic Four Reboot Released To Tepid Reception 168
Dungeons & Dragons Is Getting a Film Franchise 210
KFC South Africa Lets Customers Listen To Music Using Bone Conduction 50
FirefoxOS-Based Matchstick Project Ends; All Money To Be Refunded 128
Microsoft Taps PBS To Advance Its National Talent Strategy With 'Code Trip' 43
"Happy Birthday" Public Domain After All? 183
Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May Making Show For Amazon 207
Nokia Announces OZO 360-Degree Camera For Filming Virtual Reality 23
Voyager's Golden Record For Aliens Now Available On SoundCloud 57
Police Shut Down Anti-Violence Fundraiser Over Rapper's Hologram 298
Nintendo TVii Service Will Go Dark August 11th 34
FCC Approves AT&T's DirecTV Purchase 100
Firefox Will Soon Show You Which Tabs Are Making Noise, and Let You Mute Them 151
Universal Pictures Wants To Remove Localhost and IMDB Pages From Google Results 188
Dieter Moebius, Electronic Music Pioneer, Dead at 71 27
Grooveshark Co-founder Josh Greenberg Dead At 28 173
Class Action Filed Against Sling Media 112
Berkeley Breathed Revives Bloom County Comic Strip After 25 Years 109
Famed Aircraft Designer James Bede Dies 28
Marvel Tweaks Their Superhero Film Formula With Ant-Man 58
Which Movies Get Artificial Intelligence Right? 236
Neil Young Says His Music Is Too Good For Streaming Services 574
"Happy Birthday" Hits Sour Notes When It Comes To Song's Free Use 178
Comcast Launches Streaming Service and Unveils Pricing For 2G Fiber 107
J.J. Abrams On "Star Wars" Cast's Racial and Sexual Diversity 504
FTC Officials Looking Into Apple's Streaming Business Model, Say Sources 53
Chromecast Gets a Hardwired Ethernet Adapter 133
Harry Shearer Returns To the Simpsons 100
Han Solo To Get His Own Star Wars Movie Prequel 227
Dartmouth Contests Showcase Computer-Generated Creativity 50
How Apple Music Can Disrupt Users' iTunes Libraries 360
Frank Herbert's Dune, 50 Years On 234
How To Design Robot Overlords For "Robot Overlords" 17
Watching People Code Is Becoming an (Even Bigger) Thing 135
"Jobs" vs. "Steve Jobs": Hollywood Takes Another Stab At Telling the Steve Jobs Story 266
Interviews: Ask Steve Jackson About Designing Games 111
Chromecast Update Bringing Grief For Many Users 142
Disney Bans Selfie Sticks 177
Movie Composer James Horner Dies In Plane Crash 66
Apple To Pay Musicians For Free Streams, After All 134
Are Girl-Focused Engineering Toys Reinforcing Gender Stereotypes? 490
WikiLeaks' Latest: An Even More Massive Trove of Sony Documents 100
Taylor Swift: Apple's Disdain For Royalties Is 'Shocking, Disappointing' 368
Kim Jong Un Claims To Have Cured AIDS, Ebola and Cancer 162
The Problems Apple Music Needs To Fix Before Launch 110
UK's Legalization of CD Ripping Is Unlawful, Court Rules 301
BBC Develops "Mind-Control TV" Headset For iPlayer App 27
Researchers Claim a Few Cat Videos Per Day Helps Keep the Doctor Away 59
Apple Will Pay More To Streaming Music Producers Than Spotify -- But Not Yet 141
Restaurateur Loses Copyright Suit To BMI 389
Adam Nimoy "For the Love of Spock" Documentary On KickStarter 43
Spotify Raises $526 Million As Apple Charges Into Streaming 72
2014 Nebula Award Winners Announced 52
A Music-Sharing Network For the Unconnected 66
Sony Music CEO Confirms Launch of Apple's Music Streaming Service 86
Apple Music and the Terrible Return of DRM 260
Star Trek's Nichelle Nichols Hospitalised In LA After Stroke 40
Stormtrooper Arrested 535
Why Americans Loathe Cable Companies 229
Bell Media President Says Canadians Are 'Stealing' US Netflix Content 408
Showtime Announces Subscription-Free Streaming Plan 84
Apple Recalls Beats Pill XL Speakers As Fire Risk 104
Cable Companies Hate Cord-Cutting, but It's Not Going Away (Video) 160
Netflix Is Experimenting With Advertising 318
Tron 3 Is Cancelled 205
Steve Albini: The Music Industry Is a Parasite -- and Copyright Is Dead 189
Ask Slashdot: What Interesting Things Can I Power With an External USB Battery? 133
Let's Take This Open Floor Plan To the Next Level 156
NVIDIA SHIELD Android TV Reviewed: Gaming and Possibly the Ultimate 4K Streamer 54
Android, Chromecast To Get HBO Now 39
Ask Slashdot: Will Technology Disrupt the Song? 158
Hyundai Now Offers an Android Car, Even For Current Owners 86
Hot Topic To Buy ThinkGeek Parent Company Geeknet 107
Charter Strikes $56B Deal For Time Warner Cable 206
What AI Experts Think About the Existential Risk of AI 421
The Hoverboard Flies Closer To Reality 81
Cute Or Creepy? Google's Plan For a Sci-Fi Teddy Bear 102
Musical Organ Created From 49 Floppy Disk Drives 76
Take Two Sues BBC Over Drama About GTA Development 81
Secret Files Reveal UK Police Feared That Trekkies Could Turn On Society 214
Canadian Piracy Rates Plummet As Industry Points To New Copyright Notice System 224
Marvel's Female Superheroes Are Gradually Becoming More Super 228
Why Apple Ditched Its Plan To Build a Television 244
Learning About Constitutional Law With Star Wars 121
First Smart TVs Powered By Firefox OS On Sale In Europe, Worldwide Soon 119
Men's Rights Activists Call For Boycott of Mad Max: Fury Road 776
On the Taxonomy of Sci-Fi Spaceships 90
Canadian Prime Minister To Music Lobby: Here's Your Copyright Term Extension 121
How MMO Design Has Improved Bar Trivia 22
What Happens To Our Musical Taste As We Age? 361
Harry Shearer Walks Away From "The Simpsons," and $14 Million 214
Rediscovered Lucas-Commissioned Short "Black Angel" Released On YouTube 121
Film Consortium Urges ISPs To Dump Ineffective "Six Strikes" Policy For Pirates 186

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