On February 20th, 2026 with 12 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: When will AI movies start showing up in theaters nationwide? It was supposed to be next month. But when word leaked online...
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On February 19th, 2026 with 4 comments
Bafta has brought in "human achievement" as a guiding principle for its annual awards as the film and television industry grapples with the rapid adoption of...
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On February 19th, 2026 with 158 comments
According to Lara Trump, Donald Trump has prepared but not yet delivered a speech about extraterrestrial life, though the White House says such a speech would...
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On February 18th, 2026 with 7 comments
Google is bringing its Lyria 3 AI music model into the Gemini app, allowing users to generate 30-second songs from text, images, or video prompts directly...
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On February 17th, 2026 with 45 comments
Mark Fischbach, the YouTube creator known as Markiplier who has spent nearly 15 years building an audience of more than 38 million subscribers by playing...
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On February 17th, 2026 with 101 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: A moderator on diyAudio set up an experiment to determine whether listeners could differentiate between audio run through...
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On February 17th, 2026 with 40 comments
Sony Group has developed a technology that can identify the underlying music used in tunes generated by AI, making it possible for songwriters to seek...
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On February 16th, 2026 with 47 comments
The music industry's long romance with an ever-expanding catalog of songs appears to be souring, as streaming platforms and rights holders confront a daily...
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On February 16th, 2026 with 37 comments
A partner at KPMG Australia has been fined $7,000 by the Big Four firm after using AI tools to cheat on an internal training course about using AI. From a...
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On February 15th, 2026 with 75 comments
Cord Cutters News reports:
In a move that has delighted fans of classic science fiction, Warner Bros. Discovery has begun uploading full episodes of the...
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On February 8th, 2026 with 25 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland writes: The world's biggest football game comes to Silicon Valley today — so one bored programmer built a site...
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On February 6th, 2026 with 46 comments
Hollywood's recent attempts to build entertainment around AI have consistently underperformed or outright flopped, whether the AI in question is a plot device...
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On February 5th, 2026 with 64 comments
Amazon plans to use AI to speed up the process for making movies and TV shows even as Hollywood fears that AI will cut jobs and permanently reshape the...
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On February 5th, 2026 with 70 comments
Sony announced last month that it plans to pass control of its home entertainment division -- including the two-decade-old Bravia television brand -- to...
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On February 4th, 2026 with 186 comments
A sprawling informal economy of rogue streaming devices has taken hold across the U.S., as consumers fed up with rising TV subscription costs turn to cheap...
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On February 2nd, 2026 with 138 comments
"Technology companies spent part of the 2010s trying to convince us that we would want an 8K display one day..." writes Ars Technica.
"However, 8K never...
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On January 29th, 2026 with 49 comments
Apple TV+ has landed the screen rights to Cosmere, the sprawling literary universe created by Brandon Sanderson. "The first titles being eyed for adaptation...
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On January 28th, 2026 with 7 comments
An analysis of film and music release patterns has found that summer and late fall are the optimal windows for movie premieres, while the music industry has no...
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On January 26th, 2026 with 29 comments
Television marks its centenary today, exactly 100 years after Scottish inventor John Logie Baird first demonstrated his electro-mechanical system to...
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On January 22nd, 2026 with 26 comments
How would Sony ceding control of its TV hardware business change the industry? The Verge has an optimistic take: [...] As of today, Sony already relies on...
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On January 20th, 2026 with 51 comments
Sony plans to spin off its TV hardware business to a new joint venture controlled by Chinese electronics giant TCL, the two said Tuesday, a significant retreat...
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On January 20th, 2026 with 80 comments
A former Bank of England analyst has urged contingency planning for a potential financial shock if the U.S. government were to confirm the existence of...
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On January 19th, 2026 with 98 comments
Netflix has begun asking filmmakers to adjust their storytelling approach to account for viewers who are scrolling through their phones while watching,...
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On January 16th, 2026 with 20 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: A hit song has been excluded from Sweden's official chart after it emerged the "artist" behind it was an AI creation. I...
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On January 16th, 2026 with 109 comments
After more than 13 years leading Lucasfilm, Kathleen Kennedy is stepping down. "When George Lucas asked me to take over Lucasfilm upon his retirement, I...
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On January 15th, 2026 with 25 comments
Amazon is expanding the Fallout universe with Fallout Shelter, a ten-episode reality competition show where contestants face survival-style challenges and...
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On January 14th, 2026 with 39 comments
Bandcamp has announced a ban on music made wholly or substantially by generative AI, aiming to protect human creativity and prohibit AI impersonation of...
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On January 12th, 2026 with 47 comments
60 years ago today, ABC aired the first episode of its live-action Batman television series, introducing Adam West as the deadpan Caped Crusader in what became...
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On January 12th, 2026 with 32 comments
Streamer spend on content is set to top the $100 billion mark for the first time this year, according to an Ampere Analysis report. From a report: The landmark...
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On January 8th, 2026 with 57 comments
The long-standing hierarchy in the TV market -- Sony, Samsung and LG at the top, TCL and Hisense fighting it out in the midrange -- is eroding as the budget...
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