On August 4th, 2020 with 210 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Employees at Blizzard Entertainment, a division of Activision Blizzard Inc., began circulating a...
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On July 13th, 2020 with 41 comments
navindra (Slashdot reader #7,571) is a professional coder and an amateur musician. He writes:
Music and technology have always been intertwined and this has...
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On July 10th, 2020 with 69 comments
Charter is raising the "Broadcast TV" fee it imposes on cable plans from $13.50 to $16.45 a month starting in August. "Charter has raised the fee repeatedly --...
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On June 30th, 2020 with 154 comments
On Tuesday, Google's YouTube TV announced a monthly $15 price hike, bringing its streaming package of channels to $64.99 monthly, from $49.99. "YouTube TV is...
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On June 25th, 2020 with 42 comments
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Walt Disney Company is closing down its three Disney Channels in the U.K. this fall and moving the content to its...
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On June 4th, 2020 with 69 comments
Sarah Whitten writes via CNBC: The coronavirus pandemic has fundamentally changed the entertainment industry. With movie theaters shuttered, studios have been...
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On June 3rd, 2020 with 100 comments
Streaming platform Roku has removed a channel dedicated to the QAnon conspiracy theory movement after facing criticism for letting it slip through its review...
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On May 16th, 2020 with 110 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader sandbagger writes:
Science fiction and fantasy can help readers make sense of the world. Rather than limiting readers' capacity to...
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On May 11th, 2020 with 68 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Everyone is stuck at home, which you would think would mean a lot more TV watching, not less. And up to...
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On May 3rd, 2020 with 103 comments
DevNull127 writes: You probably remember Zoe Bell strapped to the hood of a speeding 1970 Dodge Challenger in the Death Proof half of Quentin Tarantino's...
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On May 2nd, 2020 with 146 comments
destinyland writes: For the first time in many years, the first Saturday in May won't mark Free Comic Book Day, as the worldwide comic celebration at...
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On April 25th, 2020 with 230 comments
Nearly 16 years ago, Slashdot's original co-founder CmdrTaco posted that liberal film-maker Michael Moore had won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival for...
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On April 21st, 2020 with 57 comments
Ticketmaster is finalizing a plan to begin offering refunds to concertgoers who purchased tickets to an event canceled or indefinitely postponed by the ongoing...
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On April 20th, 2020 with 107 comments
As Marvel cuts staff and publishers stop selling new titles, artists, shop owners and writers worry for the future of an industry worth billions. From a...
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On April 14th, 2020 with 196 comments
Ticketmaster has quietly changed its refund policy to no longer cover postponed or rescheduled shows. Now, the Live Nation company's refund policy simply says:...
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On March 25th, 2020 with 41 comments
jmcbain writes: When Facebook launched its Portal hardware product line for in-home video communication in 2018, people accused the company of being tonedeaf...
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On March 21st, 2020 with 42 comments
An anonymous reader shares some free streaming media options:
There's over 10,000 public domain audiobooks at LibriVox.org, created by volunteers reading...
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On March 4th, 2020 with 100 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: AT&T is planning tens of billions of dollars worth of cost cuts, AT&T President and COO John...
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On February 19th, 2020 with 51 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report from Wired: In January, all seven of the most-watched YouTube Gaming channels weren't run by happy gamers livestreaming the...
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On February 18th, 2020 with 29 comments
Redbox has entered the ad-supported streaming market with the launch of Redbox Free Live TV. "But despite its name, Redbox's new streaming service isn't...
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On February 14th, 2020 with 30 comments
YouTube says it paid the music industry more than $3 billion last year. "YouTube offers twin engines for revenue with advertising and subscribers, paying out...
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On February 7th, 2020 with 59 comments
ItsJustAPseudonym writes: "The number of Texas school districts with esports programs has exploded this school year, growing from about 20 to more than 300 in...
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On January 31st, 2020 with 168 comments
A reader shares a report from Ars Technica: CBS has made the entirety of the first episode of its new series Star Trek: Picard freely and publicly available...
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On January 30th, 2020 with 82 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: On the night of December 30, Sergeant Vince Iovinella of the Morgan County Sheriff's Department in rural...
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On January 27th, 2020 with 102 comments
The US film industry may have generated revenues somewhere in the region of $40 billion last year, but it seems Hollywood still has plenty of work to do if it...
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On January 23rd, 2020 with 229 comments
Streaming service touts its large collection of titles, but a majority are uploads -- and questionable films are in the mix [Editor's note: the link may be...
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On January 19th, 2020 with 81 comments
71-year-old science fiction author William Gibson coined the word "cyberspace" in his 1984 novel Neuromancer. 36 years later he's back with an even more...
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On January 16th, 2020 with 40 comments
Christopher Tolkien, the son of Lord Of The Rings author JRR Tolkien who was responsible for editing and publishing much of his father's work, has died aged...
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On January 11th, 2020 with 47 comments
The source code for acclaimed 2D puzzle platformer VVVVVV has been released by creator Terry Cavanagh to celebrate the title's 10th anniversary. Gamasutra...
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On January 6th, 2020 with 53 comments
YouTube said Monday it is rolling out new protections for children viewing videos on its site (source may be paywalled; alternative source), an effort to...
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