Entertainment Stories for 2018

Samsung Wants To Bring Web Browsing, Office Work To the TV 54
Netflix Permanently Pulls iTunes Billing For New and Returning Users 108
HMV, One of UK's Largest Retailers of CDs, DVDs and Blu-rays, Calls in Administrators For Second Time in Six Years 76
Slashdot Asks: Your Favorite Movies and TV Shows of 2018? 185
'Two Years Later, I Still Miss the Headphone Port' 566
Android TV Now Claiming Over 100 Pay TV Operator Partners Worldwide 34
Using Data To Determine if 'Die Hard' is a Christmas Movie 87
Should Parents Shun Toys That Track Their Kids? 191
Alexa Gets Hooked Up To a Singing Fish Toy, and Mocked By Jimmy Kimmel 18
Apple Spins 'Real Artists Ship' Into 'Share Your Gifts' 68
YouTuber Admits Aspects of Viral HomePod Glitter Bomb Video Were Faked 187
Microsoft's Next-Gen Xbox Consoles Are Codenamed 'Anaconda' and 'Lockhart' 61
Sphero Discontinues Its BB-8, R2-D2, and Other Licensed Disney Products 65
Former NASA Engineer Designed Glitter Bomb Trap To Avenge Amazon Delivery Theft Victims 468
Ask Slashdot: Is There An Open Source Tool Measuring The Sharpness of Streaming Video? 101
Doctor Who Won't Return Until 2020 159
Number of Streaming Shows Overtakes Basic Cable, Broadcast For First Time 42
Nintendo Warns It Won't Make More Retro NES and SNES Consoles 90
Discord Store To Offer Developers 90 Percent of Game Revenues 47
Hiding in Plain Sight: The YouTubers' Crowdfunding Piracy 79
Imax is Shutting Down Its VR Business, Closing Remaining Three VR Centers in Q1 75
Russian State TV Shows Off 'Robot' That's Actually a Man In a Robot Suit 120
Ask Slashdot: Why Don't HDR TVs Have sRGB Or AdobeRGB Ratings? 143
China To Force Changes To 20 Popular Games, Ban 9 Including Fortnite and PUBG 183
Netflix's Biggest Competition Isn't Sleep -- It's YouTube 115
The Future of Television? Binge-Watching is Only the Beginning 46
Marvel's 'Avengers: Endgame' Trailer Sets New Record: 289M Views In 24 Hours 64
Motion Impossible: Tom Cruise Declares War on TV Frame Interpolation 347
An Eye-Scanning Lie Detector Is Forging a Dystopian Future 113
Amazon Promised Drone Delivery In Five Years Five Years Ago 131
Hulu, AT&T To Test 'Pause Ads' In 2019, Automatically Playing Commercials When You Hit Pause 188
Nvidia Uses AI To Render Virtual Worlds In Real Time 44
AT&T Will Keep Your Money If You Cancel TV Or Internet In Middle of Billing Cycle 99
It's the Beginning of the End of Satellite TV in the US 254
Richard Branson Says He's Going to Send People Into Space by Christmas 89
2018 Advent Calendars Launched for Computer Programmers and Web Geeks 39
The World's First 8K TV Channel Launches With '2001: A Space Odyssey' 146
Japan Researchers Develop Automated Technique For Anime Colorization Using Deep Learning 77
After 12 Draws and a Day of Tiebreakers, Magnus Carlsen Beats Fabiano Caruana To Win World Chess Championship 89
Nike and Boeing Are Paying Sci-Fi Writers To Predict Their Futures 58
Music Industry Asks US Government To Reconsider Website Blocking 203
Comcast Raises Cable TV Bills Again -- Even If You're Under Contract 128
NBCUniversal Taps Machine Learning To Tie Ads To Relevant Moments on TV 60
Hollywood Wants Hosting Providers To Block Referral Traffic From Pirate Sites 149
The Graphic Art of 'Incredibles 2' 32
Court Again Rules That Cable Giants Can't Weaponize the First Amendment 152
Half-Life Celebrates 20th Anniversary With Fan-Made 'Black Mesa: Xen' Trailer 82
Apple Finally Signs A Big Deal With a Hollywood Movie Studio 62
YouTube Now Streams Free Ad-Supported Movies -- Including 'The Terminator' and 'Hackers' 86
Mid-Range Google 'Pixel 3 Lite' Leaks With Snapdragon 670, Headphone Jack 94
Cheaper, Disc-Free Xbox One Coming Next Year, Report Says 75
Netflix is Testing a Mobile-Only, $3 Subscription To Make Its Service More Affordable 55
A Look at How One of the Largest Record Companies in the World Once Owned Rockstar Games and Sold it For a Pittance 49
Douglas Rain, Voice of HAL 9000 In '2001: A Space Odyssey,' Dies At 90 53
Netflix Says It Will Test Lower-Price Subscription Plans 77
There Are Way Too Many Streaming Services 218
Disney's New Netflix Rival Will Be Called Disney+, Launch Late 2019 182
David Attenborough To Present Netflix Nature Series 'Our Planet' 34
Cord Cutting Accelerates as Pay TV Loses 1 Million Customers in Largest-Ever Quarterly Loss 133
Free Music Archive Is Shutting Down 67
Microsoft Has Built Its New Campus In Minecraft To Introduce Employees 23
Tencent Will Soon Require Chinese Users To Present IDs To Play Its Video Games 56
20th Century Fox Is Using AI To Analyze Movie Trailers, Find Out What Films Audiences Will Like 123
Tetris May Help Sooth Your Worried Mind, Study Says 40
Ask Slashdot: What Happened To the Prank Apps That Used To Be Popular? 134
Mario Segale, Namesake For Nintendo's Mascot, Dies At 84 18
AT&T Blacks Out HBO, Cinemax For Dish, Sling TV Users Over Carriage Dispute 107
The Average Cable Bill Has Increased More Than 50 Percent Since 2010 193
How Much Does a Cable Box Really Cost? The Industry Would Prefer You Don't Ask 219
The Shutting Down of FilmStruck and the False Promise of Streaming Classics 125
Star Trek Animated Comedy Series Is In the Works 138
Apple's Upcoming TV Service To Launch In Over 100 Countries In 2019, Starting With the US 42
Netflix To Raise $2 Billion In Debt To Fund More Original Content 122
Winamp 5.8, the First Update In 4 Years, Is Released 198
Steam VR Introduces 'Motion Smoothing' So Low-End PCs Can Run Games More Smoothly 33
Panasonic Designed Human Blinders To Block Out Open-Plan Office Distraction 162
Someone Used a Deep Learning AI To Perfectly Insert Harrison Ford Into "Solo: A Star Wars Story" 130
Actors Are Digitally Preserving Themselves To Continue Their Careers Beyond the Grave 117
Facebook Plans Camera-Equipped TV Device, Report Says 114
Movie Commentary Tracks Are Back 50
President Trump Signs Music Modernization Act Into Law 175
The Long, Long History of Long, Long CVS Receipts 113
Apple Plans To Give Away Original Content For Free To Device Owners as Part of New Digital TV Strategy, Report Says 50
More Than One Third of Music Consumers Still Pirate Music 167
Microsoft Announces Project Xcloud For Streaming Games To PCs, Consoles, and Mobile Devices 80
London's Radio Pirates Changed Music. Then Came the Internet. 92
Years After ProPublica Exposed Vizio For Spying On Users, Lawyers Will Make Millions From Lawsuit 64
The First Rule of Microsoft Excel -- Don't Tell Anyone You're Good at It 202
Nintendo President: Our Future Is As an 'Entertainment' Company 60
Amazon Announces New Fire TV Stick Featuring 4K Support, and All-New Alexa Voice Remote 41
'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' Negative Buzz Amplified By Russian Trolls, Study Finds 447
Netflix Eats Up 15% of All Internet Downstream Traffic Worldwide, Study Finds 147
Netflix is Developing a Slate of Specials That Will Let Viewers Choose the Next Storyline in a TV Episode or Movie, Report Says 125
Spotify Starts Cracking Down on Friends Who Share Family Plans 94
Carmack Compares Oculus Quest Hardware Power To Last-Gen Game Consoles 73
CBS Shuts Down Stage 9, a Fan-Made Recreation of the USS Enterprise 209
Alaska Airlines Trials Virtual Reality On Some Flights 94
Facebook Announces $399 Oculus Quest Standalone VR Headset 68
Xbox Announces Mouse and Keyboard Support 66
Apple Completes Shazam Acquisition, Will Make App Ad-Free For Everyone 60
SiriusXM Is Acquiring Pandora in $3.5 Billion Deal To Create the 'World's Largest Audio-Entertainment Company' 104
A New Report Outlines Apple's Reluctance For Mature Content On Its Streaming Service 49
IAU Ad Hoc Committee Publishes Revised Set of Definitions For SETI Terms 28
PlayStation Now Is Making Its Games Downloadable 32
Streaming Accounts For 75 Percent of Music Industry Revenue In the US 55
Telltale Games Hit With Major Layoffs As Part of a 'Majority Studio Closure' 95
China Blocks Twitch 72
Amazon Announces a Range of New and Refreshed Echo and Alexa Products 97
Senate Passes Music Modernization Act With Unanimous Support 159
Emmys: Broadcast TV Airs Its Own Funeral As Netflix, HBO, Amazon and FX Dominate 93
'It's Always DRM's Fault' 172
Video Game Loot Boxes Under Scrutiny By 16 Gambling Regulators 100
Man Who Uploaded Deadpool To Facebook May Get Six Months In Prison 215
It Only Took 37 Seconds For Two Bitcoin 'Celebs' To Start Fighting on a Cruise Ship 106
China's OnePlus is Going To Start Making TVs 48
Fans Are Spoofing Spotify With 'Fake Plays', And That's A Problem For Music Charts 102
Some Linux Gamers Using Wine/DXVK To Play Blizzard's Overwatch Banned 81
Nintendo Switch Cloud Save Data Disappears If You Cancel Subscription 71
Apple Can Delete Purchased Movies From Your Library Without Telling You 326
Plex To Shut Down Its Cloud Service 42
Popular Illegal Streaming App Terrarium TV Is Shutting Down This Month 24
Nearly Half of American Households Will Own a Smart Speaker by 2019, Study Says 220
$11M Worth of Legally-Purchased Music Will Be Confiscated From Florida's Prisoners 309
Vizio May Soon Inform Customers When Its Smart TVs Are Spying On Them 77
Nintendo's Promised Cloud Saves On Switch Won't Work For Every Game 34
'IMAX Enhanced' Promises Highest-Quality Image, Sound Experiences For Home Theater Setups 84
EU To Move Ahead With Cultural Quotas For Streaming Services 350
Sony Ends Its Repair Service For the PlayStation 2 More Than 18 Years After the Console Went On Sale 69
YouTube Download Sites Are the Biggest Piracy Threat To Music Industry, Industry Figures Say 149
J.R.R. Tolkein's Last Book Finally Published 38
Samsung and LG Unveil 8K TVs 218
Nintendo Shuts Down Tool Used To Build Pokemon Fan Games 78
Amazon Reportedly Planning a Free, Ad-supported Video Service for Fire TV Owners 26
How 'Grand Theft Auto' Is Changing the Way the World Experiences Music 120
Why Don't We Care About The Rotten Tomatoes Scores Of TV Shows? 181
Read Two Of This Year's 2018 Hugh Award Winners Online 133
Struggling MoviePass Kills Off Its Annual Plan -- Even If You Already Paid For It 122
'The Big Bang Theory' Is Finally Ending 441
Netflix Is the Latest Company To Try Bypassing Apple's App Store 71
Texas ISP Slams Music Industry For Trying To Turn It Into a 'Copyright Cop' 99
Antenna Sales Are Rising, In Another Sign of Churn In TV Watching 186
Netflix Deletes All User Reviews 189
Netflix Will Now Interrupt Series Binges With Video Ads For Its Other Series 184
OpenAI Is Beating Humans At 'Dota 2' Because It's Basically Cheating 99
Amazon Is Reportedly Working On a TiVo-Like DVR For Live TV 26
Amazon Is Ready To Take on Apple and Spotify in Streaming Music 71
Amazon In Running To Acquire Landmark Movie Chain 15
MoviePass Is Limiting Selection To 'Up To Six Films' a Day 65
Valve Seems To Be Working On Tools To Get Windows Games Running On Linux 196
Verizon Nears 5G Launch Deals With Apple and Google: Bloomberg 32
Facebook Bans the Sale of All Kodi Boxes 121
Google Play Shows Warning To Anyone Searching For Fortnite APKs 83
Bethesda Blocks Resale of a Secondhand Game 203
The Pirate Bay Turns 15 48
Hollywood Goes Open Source: Academy Teams Up With Linux Foundation To Launch Academy Software Foundation 49
Lawsuit Threat Shuts Down ROM Downloads On Major Emulation Site 'EmuParadise' 79
Samsung Announces Galaxy Home Speaker With Bixby Smart Assistant 47
Tribune Terminates $3.9 Billion Merger With Rival Sinclair 54
Audius Raises $5.5 Million To Decentralize Music, Help Artists Get Paid Faster 65
P2P Piracy is Alive and Growing, Research Suggests 104
People Still Don't Like Their Cable Companies, ConsumerReports' Telecom Survey Finds 116
MoviePass Limiting Subscribers To 3 Movies Per Month 105
OpenAI's Bots Defeated Former Pro E-Sports Players At Dota 2 49
New Alexa Skill Plays Fake Stupid Arguments To Scare Off Burglars 69
Original Star Wars Movies May Not Launch With Disney's Streaming Service Until 2024 65
Easier Streaming Services Put Dent in Illegal Downloading 133
The NES Classic Outsold the PS4, Xbox One, and Switch In June 128
Tesla Is Adding Atari Games To the In-Car Display 156
MoviePass Will Increase Price, Limit Availability of New Movies 106
Steam Game Pulled From Store After Allegations of Cryptocurrency Mining 26
Doug Grindstaff, 'Star Trek' Sound Effects Maestro, Dies At 87 36
For Better or Worse, YouTube Now Adapts to Multiple Aspect Ratios 74
New Richter-Like Scale Is Here To Measure Alien Signals 29
MoviePass Having Outage Issues Because It Couldn't Pay Its Bills 100
Bugs In Samsung IoT Hub Leave Smart Home Open To Attack 44
New Zealand Government Spends $150K To Create Video Game To Teach People How To Run a Business 94
Microsoft's Next-Gen Xbox Will Focus On 'XCloud' Game Streaming 127
Cord-Cutting Keeps Churning: US Pay-TV Cancelers To Hit 33 Million in 2018 (Study) 200
New Trailers Debuted at Comic-Con Include Aquaman, Shazam, and The Simpsons 42
Star Trek: Discovery's Season 2 Trailer Teases Spock, Christopher Pike, and Tig Notaro 164
How 'Mission Impossible' Made the Leap To 4K and HDR 51
Saudi Arabia Bans 47 Games In Response To Two Child Suicides 98
Health Insurers Are Vacuuming Up Details About You -- And It Could Raise Your Rates 299
Netflix's Subscriber Growth Stalls 165
Roku's New Wireless Speakers Automatically Turn Loud Commercials Down, Turn Show Audio Up 84
How Minecraft Is Helping Kids Fall In Love With Books 35
Only 39 Percent of Viewers Choose Live TV As Their Default Option, Says Study 96
Alaska's Last Two Blockbusters Are Closing, Leaving Just One In the US 100
Smart TVs Are Invading Privacy and Should Be Investigated, Senators Say 126
Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh Opposes Net Neutrality 579
In World First, Danish Court Rules Stream-Ripping Site Illegal 88
AT&T Wants To Overhaul HBO, Says It Isn't Profitable Enough 290
Stanley Kubrick Explains The '2001: A Space Odyssey' Ending In A Rare, Unearthed Video 233
Netflix and Amazon Are Struggling To Win Over the World's Second-Largest Internet Market 29
Steve Ditko, Co-Creator of Spider-Man and Doctor Strange, Dies at Age 90 48
Valve Shuts Down New Way of Estimating Game Sales On Steam 41
An AI System For Editing Music in Videos 31
Music's 'Moneyball' Moment: Why Data is the New Talent Scout 34
MoviePass' New Business Plan Is To Charge You Whatever It Wants 128
DeepMind's AI Agents Exceed 'Human-Level' Gameplay In Quake III 137
Netflix is Testing a New 'Ultra' Tier of Service 126
Already at Movie Theaters Near You: Ticket Subscriptions 60
The BBC Is Heading To Court To Hunt Down a Doctor Who Leaker 158
TV Coverage of Cycling Races Can Help Document the Effects of Climate Change 171
Sony Blunders By Uploading Full Movie To YouTube Instead of Trailer 113
AT&T Promised Lower Prices After Time Warner Merger -- It's Raising Them Instead 192
Netflix Is Ending Reviews July 30th 147
Despite FCC's Promise To Take Aggressive Action To Stamp Out Radio Pirates, Illegal Stations Are Flourishing 198
Google Is Planning a Game Platform That Could Take On Xbox and PlayStation 149
Science Fiction Writer Harlan Ellison Dies At 84 118
How Many Exclamation Points Do You Need To Seem Genuinely Enthusiastic? 158
AT&T Removes HBO From an Unlimited Data Plan After Buying Time Warner 103
Apple To Unveil High-End AirPods, Over-Ear Headphones For 2019 82
Mouse and Keyboard Support Could Be Coming To the Xbox One This Year 43
MoviePass is Going To Start Charging More For Popular Movies Next Month 63
DC Comics Returns To Supermarket Shelves With New, Giant-Sized Comics 58
Warner Bros Is Cracking Down On Harry Potter Festivals 160
George Lucas's Terrible Idea for Star Wars Episodes 7-9 312
Bethesda Sues Warner Bros, Calls Its Westworld Game 'Blatant Rip-Off' of Fallout Shelter 109
Atari Accuses Journalists of Making Stuff Up So They Produce Recordings of the Interview 84
Uber Driver Was Streaming Hulu Just Before Fatal Self-Driving Car Crash, Says Police 184
Days After Buying Time Warner, AT&T Launches New TV Service 52
AMC is Creating a Rival Service To MoviePass 72
5 Star Trek Shows in Development, 1 Could Star Patrick Stewart, Reports Say 300
Cord-cutting Report: Streaming Services Will Be 25% of the Pay-TV market by 2023 65
Google Has A New Podcast App. It Also Hopes To Diversify Podcasting. 105
New Commercial Amiga 500 Game Released 123
Gaming Companies Remove Analytics App After Massive User Outcry 232
Sony's PlayStation 5 Will Launch In 2020 Powered By An AMD Navi GPU, Says Report 95
Time Warner Deal Aftermath: AT&T Is About To Give Free TV To Its Wireless Customers 51
How the World Cup Plays Out Among Hackers 28
The Internet Is Finally Going To Be Bigger Than TV Worldwide 60
Sony Is Blocking Fortnite Cross-Play Between PS4, Nintendo Switch Players 90
Next Year, People Will Spend More Time Online Than They Will Watching TV. That's a First. 74
Lawrence Lessig Criticizes Proposed 140-Year Copyright Protections 175
Ubisoft CEO: Cloud Gaming Will Replace Consoles After the Next Generation 144
70 Long-Lost Japanese Video Games Discovered In a 67GB Folder of ROMs On a Private Forum 158
'Solo' Will Lose $50+ Million In First Defeat For Disney's 'Star Wars' Empire 579
tvOS 12 Brings Dolby Atmos Support, Zero Sign-In, and TV App Improvements 47
Dolby Looking To Monopolize Consumer Audio By Restricting Its Codec 158
Hacker Gets Super NES Games Running On Unmodified NES 43
When Did TV Watching Peak? 178
Game Livestreaming Explodes, But Women Are Less Likely To Be Paid Than Men 268
FCC Asks Amazon and eBay To Stop Selling Fake Pay TV Boxes 62
AirPlay 2 Brings HomePod Stereo Pairs and Multi-Room Audio To iOS 11.4 109
Pandora Launches Unlimited Premium Family Plan For $15 Per Month 44
Increasing Similarity of Billboard Songs 169
Most MoviePass Subscribers Have Gone To a Movie They Normally Would've Ignored 45
Apple Blocks Steam's Plan To Extend Its Video Games To iPhones 202
A Star Wars Boba Fett Movie Is In the Works 318

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