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Tech NewsReport: Apple Is Pouring Over $6 Billion Into Apple TV+, Including Nine Figures on The Morning Show
Apple’s budget for its forthcoming streaming service—previously reported to be around $1 billion, give or take—has exploded to $6 billion, according to a Monday report in the Financial Times. “People familiar with the matter” told the paper that executives Jamie Erlicht and Zack Van Amburg, industry veterans in charge of the project, have landed funding … Continued
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Tech NewsSemen Smugglers, Spreadsheets, and Laughing to Death: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week
It’s been a weird one this week at Gizmodo, folks: From hacking buttplugs and realizing our dog photos have personally identifiable information in them to smuggled boar semen and an Arctic weather station hitting nearly 95 degrees Fahrenheit, we’ve been hard at work churning out the content you crave and that makes our heads hurt. … Continued
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io9MoviesA New Study Reminds Us How Ridiculous Spoiler Culture Has Become
Not a day goes by without someone, somewhere on the internet, feeling the need to express how they’ve been personally harmed by a news site focused on genre entertainment that committed the unforgivable sin of running headlines that very vaguely allude to the interesting parts of films and shows. “I have been slain by spoilers,” … Continued
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Tech NewsSaving an Ice Shelf, Lunar Conspiracies, and the Butterfly Effect: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week
The third week of July 2019 is past us—and if you live in much of the Midwest or the East Coast, it’s been one helluva hot one with a heat wave breaking one-day temperature records in NYC and conditions in Washington, D.C. and Cincinnati compared to Death Valley and Nairobi respectively. And while it’s difficult … Continued
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Tech NewsChernobyl, Schrödinger’s Cat, and Telegram Terrorists: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week
Happy Sunday evening! Hopefully the events of the last week have been going better for you than YouTube, which spent an impossibly long time flailing around like a Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man after refusing to remove videos of a conservative internet personality taunting a journalist with racist, homophobic harassment. Hopefully the week … Continued
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Tech NewsCatfish Fetishists, Secondhand Vape, and the Mystery of Tape: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week
Welcome! Welcome to June, which is not technically summer yet so far, but good enough to do the job so long as everyone knows what’s good for ‘em and looks the other way. But though this year is zipping by at a terrifying pace, let us commemorate the end of May by revisiting some of … Continued
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io9MoviesDeep Space Nine‘s New Documentary Is an Earnest Love Letter to Star Trek‘s Most Rebellious Era
When Deep Space Nine began 26 years ago, it was not the revered genre classic it is seen as today—it quickly became a controversial, rebellious stepchild to the wider Trek franchise. What We Left Behind, Shout Factory and 455 film’s new documentary about the series, still has some of that rebellious kick to it. But … Continued
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Tech NewsBatwoman, Failed Airlines, and Height Enhancement Scams: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week
It’s been a busy week for our friends at Facebook: Amid showing a bunch of loser far-right trolls and also Louis Farrakhan the door, kicking off an unhinged Twitter spree by the president, the company announced a confusing pivot towards being a privacy-first platform while also announcing other features designed to lure users into telling … Continued
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io9TelevisionWhoops, Game of Thrones Allegedly Leaked Again
Game of Thrones has just three episodes left to air, and clips from one of them are reportedly already circulating online hours before its premiere tonight, according to reports in Deadline and Variety and posts on Reddit’s “Free Folk” board. Leaked material that was quickly spreading on Twitter and elsewhere could not be immediately verified … Continued
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Tech NewsAmazon’s Oil Addiction, Black Holes, and Tiny Ancient Humans: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week
Wow, it’s finally here: The last season of HBO’s Game of Thrones premieres tonight. In a matter of mere minutes, viewers will have the chance to re-experience the magical world of Westeros, spending a final few episodes in the company of fan favorites like Dragon Owner, The Explosion Doer, Grizzled Conscience Man, Zombie McHugenstein, Sword … Continued
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Tech NewsAs Apple Moves Into Streaming, Netflix Kills Support for AirPlay
Streaming giant Netflix has dropped native support for Apple’s AirPlay, with the company revising its support guidelines to state that the switch is “due to technical limitations,” Cult of Mac wrote on Saturday. As Cult of Mac noted, Netflix streaming via AirPlay—namely, using the feature to stream video from the iOS app to an Apple … Continued
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io9MoviesThe DOJ Antitrust Division Just Warned the Academy About Blocking Netflix From the Oscars
The Department of Justice has warned the CEO of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Dawn Hudson, that any attempts to prevent Netflix and other streaming video companies from receiving eligibility to be considered for an Academy Award may earn it antitrust attention, Variety reported on Tuesday. Variety obtained a letter dated March … Continued
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Tech NewsGimlet’s Union Drive, Twisted Graphene, and Psychedelic Mice: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week
Well, folks, it’s just a few hours shy of the turn of the month, and you know what that means: April Fool’s Day. Yes, it’s that special time of year when insipid brands, mean-spirited teens, and tech titans compete to be the first to trick you into thinking they released Skittle’s… For Men, that it’s … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgets
The Cheapest Ways to Get HBO, Showtime, and Most Other TV Channels You Really Want
Life has never been better for those wanting to get some quality television programming beamed towards their eyeballs: Channels like HBO, Showtime, and many others are now available in all kinds of formats on all kinds of apps, including whatever it is that Apple is rolling out later this year. So for those of us … Continued
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Will Return to TV After Sexual Misconduct Investigation
The National Geographic Channel and Fox Broadcasting said they have completed their investigation of astrophysicist and TV celebrity Neil deGrasse Tyson over multiple allegations of sexual misconduct, and will air two of his shows that have been postponed, Entertainment Weekly reported on Friday. The channel said it would be airing StarTalk and Cosmos: Possible Worlds … Continued
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Samsung’s All-Wireless TV Concept Is the Real Cordcutting Solution I Want
There are a few ways to hide or camouflage the bundle of cables that hang from most wall-mounted TVs—power, HDMI, etc.—but none are as truly invisible as the wireless technology that was recently revealed in a patent Samsung filed with the World Intellectual Property Office in March of last year. It eliminates cables altogether using … Continued
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Tech NewsCommerce
Amazon Reportedly Has Lord of the Rings Writers in a Locked Office With a Guard and Fingerprint Scanner
Amazon has a lot riding on its secretive, $250 million deal with The Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien’s estate, publisher HarperCollins, and New Line Cinema to produce a streaming show in the franchise’s Middle-Earth setting, with expectations that the budget could cross one billion dollars. LOTR fans still don’t know an awful lot … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgets
Samsung Gives Up on Blu-Ray, Will Not Release Any New Players in the US
Samsung has given up on Blu-ray—at least in the U.S., where it has given up on producing new models of Blu-ray and 4K Blu-ray players, CNET reported on Friday. A prior report in Forbes suggested that Samsung was only planning on discontinuing the 4K players and would continue to release new 1080p devices, though the … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgets
Android TV Is Good Now
While often derided as buggy, slow, and not as good as alternative options like the Apple TV or even the Chromecast, Android TV has been quietly fixing a lot of its problems and adding a pile of features that make it worth a second look. Nearly five years after launch, there are a lot of … Continued
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IMDB Launches Free Movie and TV Streaming Service Called Freedive
IMDB has launched a free streaming service called Freedive that features dozens of movies and TV shows. And while it doesn’t have new releases, the selection isn’t half bad, with movies like Drive, Adaptation, Gattaca, True Romance, Last Action Hero, Legends of the Fall, and Panic Room as well as TV shows like Fringe, Quantum … Continued
By Matt Novak