Category: Entertainment

The Morning After: Apple’s iPad turns 10

[ad_1] Need something to watch this weekend?HBO’s free streaming includes ‘The Wire’ and its Theranos documentary For a ‘limited time,’ HBO is streaming over 500 hours of content for free via the HBO Go and HBO Now services. Non-subscribers won’t be able to binge Game of Thrones this way, but there are full series runs […]

Soundcloud will help users directly support musicians with a new profile button

[ad_1] Musicians who rely on concert ticket sales are hurting — shows across the world have been cancelled, leaving bands with little recourse. Thankfully, platforms like Bandcamp and SoundCloud have been softening the blow. The latter is allowing musicians to add a button to their profile pages that links to services like PayPal, Bandcamp and […]

Tribeca Film Festival is bringing its VR films to Oculus headsets

[ad_1] Starting April 17th, you can check out Tribeca Immersive’s Cinema360 programming via Oculus TV on Oculus Go and Oculus Quest. It features 15 VR films across a quartet of programs lasting between 30 and 40 minutes. The jury and art award winners will be announced online between April 12th-26th, the period during which the […]

How Amazon turned Simon Stålenhag’s ‘Tales from the Loop’ into a TV show

[ad_1] Halpern tried to replicate that human-technology relationship in the show. Like Stålenhag’s art, the loop in Ohio uses three massive cooling towers. They’re visible in the background of countless shots but never questioned or explored up close. A floating tractor is treated the same way in episode six. Though it plays a critical role […]

‘Simpsons’ will arrive in its original 4:3 format by May

[ad_1] With Disney acquiring Fox, the entire Simpsons catalog came to Disney+ streaming, which was great for fans of the show. However, after learning nothing from FXX, Disney aired the pre-2009 seasons in widescreen rather than the original 4:3 format. That would be bad enough as is, but it also had the very unfortunate effect […]

HBO’s free streaming includes ‘The Wire’ and its Theranos documentary

[ad_1] As efforts to slow the spread of coronavirus by encouraging social distancing stretch into another week, HBO has opened up its library for some free viewing. Not everything is available — non-subscribers can’t catch up on Game of Thrones yet — but full series runs of standout shows like The Wire, The Sopranos, Veep […]

Amazon will stream SXSW Film Festival selections for free for 10 days

[ad_1] SXSW was cancelled this year due to COVID-19, but that isn’t stopping organizers from offering a taste of what the Austin event would have offered. They’re partnering with Amazon on an SXSW Film Festival Collection that will stream movies from the festival on Prime Video for 10 days, completely free in the US — […]

The comic industry would rather grind to a halt than go digital

[ad_1] Wednesday is usually New Comic Book Day but, with everyone on lockdown due to coronavirus, this week’s selection was a little light. The main distributor, Diamond, ceased shipments both to and from its warehouse — a seemingly logical move given that… [ad_2] Source link

T-Mobile family plans will include Quibi free for one year

[ad_1] Quibi short for “quick bites” is attempting to make short-form, mobile-only videos a thing. It’s enlisted celebrities and has a patent-pending technology called Turnstyle that lets you switch between portrait and landscape viewing modes — though there’s some debate over that. For most customers, the video service will cost $4.99 per month with ads […]