On September 13th, 2019 with 21 comments
MoviePass announced on Friday it's shutting down the discount ticketing service on Sept. 14. From a report: MoviePass parent company Helios and Matheson...
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On September 12th, 2019 with 72 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: AT&T expects to lose about 1.1 million TV customers in the third quarter as it faces pressure from...
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On September 12th, 2019 with 56 comments
Spotify knows a lot about its users -- their musical tastes, their most listened-to artists and their summer anthems. Now it will also want to know where you...
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On September 7th, 2019 with 96 comments
The Sony Walkman is back. The electronics maker will release a new version of its revolutionary portable music player, it announced Friday at IFA 2019, a...
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On September 6th, 2019 with 32 comments
Revenue made from streaming services in the United States grew by 26 percent in the first six months of the year, according to trade group Recording Industry...
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On August 29th, 2019 with 129 comments
At Disney's biannual D23 Expo executives revealed that episodes on the upcoming Disney+ streaming service will follow a weekly release schedule, unlike...
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On August 29th, 2019 with 194 comments
Tablizer shares a report from SFGate: Visitors to Disney's new Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge attraction, can choose from more than 1,000 unique items to take home...
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On August 28th, 2019 with 152 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: The UHD Alliance, a collection of companies who work together to define display standards, has announced...
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On August 27th, 2019 with 134 comments
A small but quickly growing online community believes that transforming randomly generated numbers into clusters of location data could help us tunnel out of...
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On August 27th, 2019 with 893 comments
What's one movie that is lesser-known or underappreciated that you really enjoyed -- or found insightful? Last time we asked this question, it was 2003!
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On August 26th, 2019 with 123 comments
This weekend Disney revealed more details about Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser, a cruise-like experience which promises "a two-night, all-immersive...
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On August 25th, 2019 with 6 comments
Filmmakers, Hollywood Studios, consumer electronics companies and the UHD Alliance have collaborated to make this next-level home theater viewing experience...
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On August 24th, 2019 with 120 comments
DevNull127 writes: The 77th World Science Fiction Convention announced the winners of the 2019 Hugo Awards at a ceremony Sunday night.
Here's some of the...
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On August 21st, 2019 with 182 comments
Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige has pulled out of producing future Spider-Man movies. From a report: The news was first reported by Deadline and later...
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On August 21st, 2019 with 56 comments
An anonymous Slashdot reader shares a report about Japan's virtual YouTubers or VTubers that act as live performers, corporate PR officials and even surrogate...
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On August 20th, 2019 with 208 comments
Lana Wachowski is set to write and direct a fourth film set in the world of "The Matrix," with Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss reprising their roles as Neo...
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On August 16th, 2019 with 20 comments
The Japanese anime studio, Khara, is moving to Blender, the the open-source 3D creation software. "It'll begin partially using the software for its current...
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On August 15th, 2019 with 46 comments
Disney and Charter Communications are teaming up to fight account sharing in an attempt to prevent multiple people from using a single account to access...
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On August 15th, 2019 with 38 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Economist: Many parents and grandparents will grumble about today's screen-obsessed youth. Indeed, researchers...
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On August 15th, 2019 with 32 comments
Spotify plans to sell a more-expensive version of its music service in Scandinavia, a test to see whether it can raise prices around the world, Bloomberg...
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On August 15th, 2019 with 43 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: British Airways announced that it is testing out virtual reality headsets for the rest of this year on...
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On August 10th, 2019 with 179 comments
In 2014 Esquire argued that great movies like The Matrix "predicted a revolution in film that never happened," adding "We are in many ways worse off now than...
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On August 9th, 2019 with 49 comments
MoviePass reportedly resorted to extreme tactics to prevent users from taking advantage of core features, according to a new report from Business Insider. In...
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On July 30th, 2019 with 73 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: AT&T is eliminating the DirecTV Now brand name it uses for its struggling Internet-based TV service....
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On July 25th, 2019 with 196 comments
With more streaming services coming from WarnerMedia, Apple and Disney, it has people wishing for a single plan to get access to all of them. A new survey from...
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On July 24th, 2019 with 135 comments
ikhider writes: Breukelen, Amsterdam born actor, Rutger Hauer, who played Roy Batty in the 1982 sci-fi classic Blade Runner and improvised the "tears in the...
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On July 22nd, 2019 with 164 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: In research that will ensure the sitcoms of the future are as painful as those broadcast today,...
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On July 22nd, 2019 with 141 comments
Disney's presentation of Marvel's "Avengers: Endgame" has officially surpassed "Avatar" to become the world's highest-grossing film of all time, several months...
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On July 21st, 2019 with 143 comments
"Media giants are embroiled in yet another fight over TV rates, and viewers are once again paying the price," writes Engadget.
CBS' channels in 17 markets...
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On July 21st, 2019 with 205 comments
"At Comic-Con, Sir Patrick Stewart took to the Hall H stage Saturday afternoon to discuss his new series, Star Trek: Picard," reports CBS News:
The series...
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