Entertainment Stories for 2021

Tokyo Police Lose 2 Floppy Disks Containing Personal Info on 38 Public Housing Applicants 101
LG Unveils OLED EX, the Next Generation of Its OLED TV Tech 41
A DAO Wants To Make Blockbuster a Decentralized Film Streaming Service 34
Is 'The Matrix Resurrections' a Critique of the Tech Industry - or Society? 187
How Peter Jackson's Beatles Documentary Used Custom AI To Remove Background Noise 44
How Tim Burton, Disney, and a Giant Warehouse Produced 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' 8
The Free Software Foundation Recommends Last-Minute Gift Ideas 44
'The Matrix' Changed Visual Effects. Now 'Resurrections' Pivots To Reality. 48
Google's YouTube TV Reaches Deal to Restore Disney Channels 26
2021's Hugo Award Winners Include a Videogame, Plus Netflix and NBC Shows 71
'Spider-Man: No Way Home' Beats 'Star Wars' Sequels to Become Third-Biggest Opening Ever 102
Guitarist Eric Clapton Successfully Sues Woman For Posting $11 Bootleg 183
Apple Is Rebuilding Apple Music As a Full Native App 38
YouTube TV Warns It May Lose All Disney-Owned Channels Amid Contract Dispute 72
Struggling To Win Subscribers, Netflix Cuts Prices in India 27
Don't Buy a Monitor or TV Just for HDMI 2.1 -- Read the Fine Print or You Might Get Fooled 91
Cable News Talent Wars Are Shifting To Streaming Platforms 77
'Matrix' Stars Discuss Free 'Matrix Awakens' Demo Showing Off Epic's Unreal Engine 5 34
Some Fans React Negatively to Disney's Promos for Star Wars-Themed Hotel 99
Stanford Professor Garry Nolan Is Analyzing Anomalous Materials From UFO Crashes 122
Acclaimed Sci-Fi Writer On How Humanity Will Endure the Climate Crisis 206
Getting Married In the Metaverse 64
Roku, Google Settle Messy Battle Over YouTube Distribution 34
'The Insane Resurgence of Vinyl Records' 190
With New Funding Model, MST3K Attempts Online Comeback, Live Tour 19
'Advent of Code' Has Begun - and Other Geeky Daily Programming Challenges 9
Why Movie Dialogue Has Gotten Harder to Understand 180
New York Anime Convention Possibly Infected With Omicron 170
AMC, Sony Will Hand Out NFTs To 'Spider-Man' Advance Ticket Buyers 30
Sony and AMC Offer NFTs to 'Spider-Man' Advance Ticket Buyers 39
Apple Users Cancel Spotify Over Lack of HomePod Support 71
Adele Gets Spotify To Take Shuffle Button Off All Album Pages 242
Ridley Scott Confirms 'Blade Runner' and 'Alien' Live-action Shows 37
'Spider-Man: No Way Home' Trailer Remade With Footage From the 1990's Cartoon 30
Ask Slashdot: What's a 2021 Movie or TV Show That You Enjoyed Watching? 192
Disney Adds Disney+ And ESPN+ To Hulu + Live TV, Raises Bundle Monthly Price By $5 29
A Look Under the Hood of the Most Successful Streaming Service on the Planet 21
Winamp Prepares a Relaunch 84
HBO Discussed Buying Netflix in 2006 19
Neal Stephenson Discusses His New Climate Change Thriller - and Coining the Word 'Metaverse' 96
Vizio's Profit On Ads, Subscriptions, and Data Is Double The Money It Makes Selling TVs 49
The Man Behind the 'Tic-Tac' UFO Videos Claim They've Been Here Since the 1950s 139
The World's Largest Record Company Is Creating an NFT Super Group 73
MoviePass Might Return In 2022 12
Unity To Buy 'The Lord of the Rings' VFX Studio Weta Digital In $1.63 Billion Deal 22
Netflix Starts Rolling Out AV1 Codec To TVs 59
Amazon Discussing Renaming IMDb TV To Help Draw More Viewers 36
Disney+ Will Slash Your HDTV's Black Bars With IMAX Digital Update 37
Denuvo-Protected Games Rendered Unplayable After Domain Expires 65
Sega, Microsoft Announce Strategic Alliance To Develop 'Super Game' Initiative On Azure 20
The Rolling Stones Recreate 'Start Me Up' Video With Boston Dynamics Robot Dog 'Spot' 33
Apple's iPod Came Out Two Decades Ago 103
The 'Dune' Screenplay Was Written In MS-DOS 140
'Dune' Sequel Greenlit by Legendary and Warner Bros. 168
Amazon is Building a Clubhouse Competitor That Turns Hosts Into DJs 25
AMC To Add Onscreen Captions at Some Locations 139
Sinclair Workers Say TV Channels Are In 'Pandemonium' After Ransomware Attack 33
Leaked Email Allegedly Shows That Google Did Ask Roku For Special Treatment For YouTube 35
Vinyl Is Selling So Well That It's Getting Hard To Sell Vinyl 89
TV Prices Are the Highest They've Been In At Least Nine Years 87
Before the New Version, Let's Revisit 1984's Dune 201
Netflix Drops Action-Packed Teaser For 'Cowboy Bebop' Series 59
Apple's 3rd-Generation AirPods Arrives Next Week With a New Design, Spatial Audio 9
Is the Comic Book Industry Dying or Thriving? 163
Netflix Calls Squid Game Its 'Biggest Ever Series At Launch' 70
Nintendo Throws Rare Bone To Modern EU Gamers Via N64 60 Hz Toggle 13
Comcast's Sky Jumping Into Television Business With Sky Glass 15
Sony Planning To Make PS3, Vita Stores Nearly Unusable 67
Squid Game Subtitles 'Change Meaning' of Netflix Show 86
New 'Babylon 5' Reboot Being Developed By Original Creator J. Michael Straczynski 191
Netflix Reveals Its Most-Watched TV Shows and Movies of All Time 37
Disney, Scarlett Johansson Resolve 'Black Widow' Lawsuit 45
AI Completed Beethoven's Unfinished Tenth Symphony 64
Secret Military Aircraft Possibly Exposed On TikTok 86
April Fools' Copy-Paste Button For Lazy Programmers Now Actually For Sale 83
Chris Pratt Cast as Voice of Mario for New 'Super Mario Bros' Movie 38
Engineer Devises 'UFO Patents' For US Navy 78
'Doctor Who' Showrunner Russell T. Davies To Return For Next Season 162
Comcast and UK Subsidiary Sky Reportedly Launching Smart TVs 17
Netflix Launches Free Plan in Kenya To Boost Growth 30
YouTube Blocks 31st Ig Nobel Awards Ceremony, Citing Copyright on a Recording from 1914 130
AMC Theaters Will Accept Cryptocurrencies Other Than Bitcoin 31
Locast's Free TV Service Ordered To Shut Down Permanently After Copyright Loss 39
Comcast Will Soon Launch Smart TVs Under Its New XClass TV Brand 44
Fans Ask Questions After First Trailer Released for 'The Matrix Resurrections' 140
Amazon Launches a TV Line 60
Forget Netflix, Some Movie Fans Rewind To VHS Tapes 170
Amazon Prime Releases First Trailer for 'Wheel of Time' Series 66
Qualcomm Debuts Lossless Bluetooth Audio Streaming With aptX Lossless 96
Amazon Reportedly Close To Launching Its Own TV in the US 60
TV Streaming Service Locast Suspends Service After Court Ruling 75
Apple Acquires 'Primephonic' To Bolster Standalone Apple Music Classical App In 2022 22
What Happens When AI Writes a Play About AI 50
YouTube Kills Discord's Best Music Bot 27
Netflix Takes First Stab at Mobile Gaming in its Android App, But Only in Poland 6
Samsung Activates TV Block Function To Render All TV Sets That Were Looted and Stolen Useless 161
Netflix Reveals Premiere Date, First Images For Live-Action Cowboy Bebop Series 99
Disney Fires Back Against Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow Lawsuit 153
This Tiny Simpsons TV Lets You Watch Tiny Simpsons TV 40
Will Isaac Asimov's 'Foundation' Survive Its Transformation into a Streaming Series? 181
Cable TV Lost 1.1 Million Subscribers Last Quarter 45
Gen Z LinkedIn Is Full of Parodies and Snark 62
'Folding Phones Are the New 3D TV' 100
Sonos Gets Early Patent Victory Against Google Smart Speakers 60
Netflix Intensifies 'VPN Ban' and Targets Residential IP-Addresses Too 119
Warner Bros., AMC Strike 45-Day Exclusive Theatrical Window Deal for 2022 20
Pixar Co-founder Shares 'the Real Story of Pixar' 41
At Disney World's Star Wars-Themed Hotel, a Weekend for Two Costs $4,800 91
Young People Get Their Knowledge of Tech From TV, Not School 46
Vudu and FandangoNow Merge Into a Single Streaming Service 10
Netflix Announces SpaceX Documentary On Civilian Mission Into Orbit 42
Amazon's Lord of the Rings Series Will Premiere In September 2022 82
Jodie Whittaker and Showrunner Chris Chibnall To Leave 'Doctor Who' 131
'Pharma Bro' Martin Shkreli's One-of-a-Kind Wu-Tang Clan Album Sold By US Government 46
Lucasfilm Hires Deepfake YouTuber Who Fixed The Mandalorian 52
Valve Promises Steam Deck Will Run 'The Entire Steam Library' At 30+ FPS 59
Internal Documents Reveal NSA Cafeteria Sucks 91
Olympics Opening Ceremony Ratings Fall To 33-year Low 143
Virtual Comic-Con Includes Trailers For 'Blade Runner' Series, 'Dune' Movie - and NASA Panels 71
Iconic Japanese Videogame Music Incorporated Into Olympic Opening Ceremony 23
TV Networks Want To Yank Nielsen Accreditation 43
Nvidia Shield TV Owners Are Pissed About the Banner Ads in Android TV 65
Vinyl Album Sales Jump 108% In First 6 Months of 2021 110
Music Streaming Inquiry Finds 'Pitiful Returns' For Performers 108
Netflix Datamine Could Suggest a Partnership With PlayStation 7
LG's Rollable OLED TV On Sale In US For a Whopping $100,000 34
Automattic, Owner of Tumblr and WordPress, Buys Podcast App Pocket Casts 20
Netflix Plans To Offer Video Games In Push Beyond Films, TV 51
Why Media Mogul Barry Diller Thinks the Movie Business Is Dead 95
A Sealed Copy of The Legend of Zelda Just Sold For Nearly a Million Dollars 37
No, Open Source Audacity Audio Editor Is Not 'Spyware' 125
To Help Livestreamers Avoid Copyright Violations, Riot Games Releases an Uncopyrighted Album 31
California Police Officer Plays Taylor Swift Song To Try To Block Video From YouTube 172
Not Just OLED: LG is About To Release Its First Mini LED TVs 48
United's Latest Jets Will Offer Bluetooth For In-Flight Entertainment 117
YouTube TV Adds a $20 Monthly Upgrade for 4K Support and Offline Viewing 63
Netflix Loses First Court Case Over Network Usage Fee 87
As US Govt Releases UFO Report, 'X-Files' Creator Remains Skeptical 158
US Has No Explanation for Unidentified Objects and Stops Short of Ruling Out Aliens 187
Police Arrest Three For Posting 10 Minute Movie Summaries On YouTube 125
Intern's Email Goof at HBO Max Inspires Hundreds to Show Support on Twitter 62
Nielsen Now Knows When You Are Streaming 57
Why the Music Industry Doesn't Hate YouTube Any More 44
Netflix Opens an Online Shop To Hawk Items From Popular Shows 26
Is HBO Max Broken? 68
MoviePass Settles With FTC Over Fraud and Data Security Failures 30
Judge's Ruling Calls Disney's Star Wars Sequels 'Mediocre' and 'Schlocky' 79
AMC Is Giving Free Popcorn Away To Meme Stonk Investors 31
Would It Even Be Possible to Communicate with an Alien? 167
Amazon Buys MGM, Studio Behind James Bond, for $8.45 Billion 121
Man Dies Inside Spanish Dinosaur Statue After Trying To Retrieve His Phone 215
Netflix Looking To Hire Executive for Gaming Expansion 34
Newly Leaked US Navy Video Shows UFO Sinking Into the Water 216
From Apes To Birds, There Are 65 Animal Species That 'Laugh' 34
Amazon Said To Make $9 Billion Offer for MGM 66
Rotten Tomatoes Is Launching a Linear Streaming Channel 24
Apple Music is Getting Lossless and Spatial Audio Support 80
After 35 Years, Classic Shareware Game 'Cap'n Magneto' Finally Fully Resurrected 23
Russia Races to Beat Tom Cruise and NASA With First Movie Filmed in Space 57
A Podcast App is Exposing Subscribers-only Shows 15
Vizio Makes Nearly As Much Money From Ads and Data As It Does From TVs 55
Chinese TV Maker Skyworth Under Fire For Excessive Data Collection That Users Call Spying 34
On SNL Elon Musk Reveals He Has Asperger Syndrome - and Tanks the Price of Dogecoin 96
Elon Musk Begins Hosting 'Saturday Night Live' - As the World Watches 189
Amazon Is Turning Hit Sci-Fi Podcast 'From Now' Into a TV Show 16
Sennheiser Sells Its Consumer Audio Business To Hearing Aid Specialist Sonova 65
Netflix is Exploring Developing 'N-Plus' 43
Belgian Farmer Accidentally Moves French Border 91
Sony Invests In Discord, To Integrate It With PlayStation In 2022 15
Elon Musk Teased on Twitter with Ideas for SNL Comedy Sketches 65
Former Netflix IT Executive Convicted of Fraud and Taking Bribes 24
Netflix Launches Button for Indecisive Couch Potatoes 65
'Citizen Kane' Loses Perfect Rotten Tomatoes Score Thanks To Resurfaced 80-Year-Old Review 124
The Day People Named Josh Fought in Nebraska 57
Spotify Is Raising Prices For Lots of Its Plans 59
Netflix's Dominance Starts to Slow as Streaming Rivals Gain 78
Mystery Science Theatre 3000 Is Crowdfunding Another Comeback - and Also Apps 22
Elon Musk Will Host 'Saturday Night Live' on May 8th 134
Spotify Is Launching Podcast Subscriptions, and Unlike Apple Won't Take a Cut From Creators 11
Apple Must Face Lawsuit for Telling Consumers They Can 'Buy' Movies, TV Shows 130
Apple Will Let Podcasters Sell Subscriptions and Keep a Cut For Itself 37
Apple Announces New Apple TV 4K With Redesigned Siri Remote 27
Songwriters Are Getting Drastically Short-Changed In the Music-Streaming Economy, Study Shows 184
Annoying Loud TV Commercials To Get Scrutiny From the FCC 96
Nvidia's CEO Predicts a Metaverse Will Transform Our World 120
'Addams Family,' 'Buck Rogers' Actor Felix Silla Dies at 84 31
PS5 Breaks Another Huge US Sales Record 22
Apple Music Reveals How Much It Pays When You Stream a Song 55
39% of Americans Say Netflix Has Best Original Content of All Streaming Services, Survey Finds 79
Google Is Removing Its Play Movies and TV App From Every Roku and Most Smart TVs 77
Documentary Claims to Unmask 'Q'. Are Q's Drops Over? 150
Elon Musk's Neuralink Co-Founder Says He Could Build the Real 'Jurassic Park,' With Genetically Engineered Dinosaurs 71
UK Broadcaster Wins Injunction To Stop Reddit Moderator Sharing Pirated TV Shows 45
Soviet TV Version of Lord of the Rings Rediscovered After 30 Years 64
Google Asked to Hide TorrentFreak Article Reporting that 'The Mandalorian' Was Widely Pirated 72
Mixed Reactions to New Nirvana Song Generated by Google's AI 88
Deliveroo April Fools' Joke Backfires In France 50
How Should the Media Depict Autism? 117
Godzilla and Kong Keep Growing. But They're No Match for Physics 56
The PermaTab Web Browser 52
CERN's April Fools' Day Prank: Proposal For A 'Space Elevator' Accelerator 18
T-Mobile Cuts Its Own TV Cord, Moves to Partner With YouTube TV 28
Italian Mafia Fugitive Caught in Dominican Republic After Police Find YouTube Cooking Show 41
Spotify Jumps Into Social Audio, Acquires Sports-Focused Live Audio App 15
New 'Godzilla Vs. Kong' Movie Sets a Global Pandemic Box Office Record 16
New Online Science Fiction Dictionary Pushes Back Origin of the Word 'Robot' to 1920 44
'Monopolists and Oligopolists' May Be Devastating the Lives of Recording Artists 130
Most TV Completely Ignores Women's Sports, a 30-Year Study Finds 340
Sonos Targets Audiophiles By Adding 24-Bit Qobuz Streaming To S2 Platform 104
Warner Bros. Will Return To Theatrical Releases In 2022, Ending Its HBO Max Experiment 50
Preservation Effort Unearths Over 750 PlayStation 2 Game Prototypes 24
UFO Report Details 'Difficult To Explain' Sightings, Says US Ex-Intelligence Director 259
Personal Archives Reveal Douglas Adams Found Writing Torturous 86
How William Shatner Is Celebrating His 90th Birthday 72
Model Trains Make a Pandemic Comeback - With Electronic Enhancements and Engineer Software 38
Zack Snyder Plans Another Version of Re-Edited 'Justice League' - in Black and White 93
Why Grandmasters Are Playing the Worst Move in Chess 58
Streaming Service Subscriptions Surpass 1 Billion as Global Box Office Craters 17
NYC Man Sells Fart For $85, Cashing In On NFT Craze 62
Intel Puts Apple's 'Mac Guy' Into New Ads Praising PCs 243
Microsoft Reiterates 'VR For Console Is Not a Focus For Us' 50
Apple Discontinues Original HomePod 38
Elon Musk Crowns Himself 'Technoking' of Tesla, Drops Techno Track About NFTs 80
'Avatar' Reclaims Box Office Record from Marvel's 'Avengers: Endgame' After China Re-Release 90
Sony PS5 Is 'Currently the Fastest Selling Hardware Platform' In US History, NPD Says 47
Netflix Tests Cracking Down On Password Sharing 81
LG is Cramming Ads Everywhere It Can On its TVs 262
Netflix Set To Release Documentary on the Last Ever Blockbuster Store 71
MGM's Iconic Roaring Movie Lion Replaced By An All-CG Logo 100
Lou Ottens, Inventor of the Cassette Tape, Has Died 103
Disney+ Tops 100 Million Subscribers Worldwide 130
Nintendo Plans Switch Model With Bigger Samsung OLED Display, 4K Output 23
Turntable.fm Is Back From the Dead 12
iOS 14.5 Won't Actually Let You Change a Default Music Service 22
Square To Buy Jay-Z's Music Service Tidal 26
Samsung Will Soon Ship Micro LED TVs, But Mini LED Still Leads the Lineup 26
Netflix App Adds 'Fast Laughs' Tab With Comedy Clips Streaming in a TikTok-Like Feed 15
Amazon Quietly Changed its App Icon After Some Unfavorable Comparisons 108
PlayStation Store Will Stop Selling Movies Nobody Bought 22
Disney CEO Suggests There's No 'Going Back' To Pre-COVID Film Releases 90
Altice USA CEO Says Cable TV Will Die and Broadband and Wireless Companies Should Merge 35
A 'Terminator' Anime Series is Coming to Netflix 75
Smart TVs Running Google TV Will Have a 'Basic' Option 173
LG Says It Will License webOS To Other TV Makers 82
Amazon Prime Video Direct and the Dystopian Decision To Stop Accepting Documentaries 75
Spotify Expands To 80 New Markets, Targeting 1 Billion Customers 25
Spotify HiFi is a Lossless Streaming Tier Coming Later this Year 71
Disney+ Added Content Disclaimers to 18 Episodes of 'The Muppet Show' 379
Martin Scorsese Argues Streaming Algorithms Devalue Cinema into 'Content' 167
Americans Are Consuming More Foreign Content than Ever 215

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