[ad_1] In contrast to the former Veep star signing an exclusive agreement with a streaming service, the show’s creator, Armando Iannucci, has been critical of the industry. Iannucchi claims that studios are creating too much content and that the bubble will eventually burst when execs realize viewers are overwhelmed with choice. The ink is still […]
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Apple Music partnered with the NBA for its latest curated playlist
[ad_1] As part of a new agreement with the NBA and a startup called UnitedMasters, Apple is curating a weekly playlist called BASE:LINE. It will feature songs from up-and-coming independent hip-hop artists picked by Apple Music director Ebro Darden. The NBA will soundtrack highlights its shares online with songs directly from BASE:LINE. This week, you’ll […]
NBC’s Peacock lineup includes Mindy Kaling, Norman Lear and ‘MacGruber’
[ad_1] Other shows? Amy Poehler is executive co-producing the soccer coming-of-age comedy Division One. Norman Lear will help executive produce Clean Slate, the story of an estranged child coming home as a trans woman (played by Laverne Cox). If you’re more interested in non-fiction, veteran writer and journalist Nick Bilton is producing a series of […]
Luminary cuts the price of its premium podcast plan to $5/month
[ad_1] The premium offering includes access to exclusive, ad-free podcasts from folks including Trevor Noah, Conan O’Brien, Hannibal Buress and Lena Dunham. You can also use Luminary’s app as a regular podcast player for shows from elsewhere, which the company describes as the free version of its service. Luminary, which hopes to become the “Netflix […]
Google reveals its timeline for killing off Chrome apps
[ad_1] There are a few key dates you might want to bear in mind. From March, the Chrome Web Store won’t accept new apps, but developers can keep updating existing ones until June 2022, when they’ll stop working for everyone. On Windows, Mac and Linux, Google will stop supporting the apps in June, and it’ll […]
Director sues Apple for allegedly copying her movie with ‘Servant’
[ad_1] Gregorini further claimed that Shyamalan simply took her premise and put it through the “male lens,” with men looking down on a woman’s mental health issues and discussing the sex appeal of the nanny. Shyamalan, series creator Tony Basgallop and Apple ‘negated’ the experiences of Gregorini and other women involved in Emanuel (which had […]
Apple TV+ snags Spike Jonze’s documentary on the Beastie Boys
[ad_1] The documentary is a modest coup for Apple. Rivals have plenty of music docs, such as Beyoncé’s Homecoming on Netflix — Apple has a long way to go if TV+ is going to compete in terms of sheer numbers. An official Beastie Boys documentary is a big deal, though, and shows that Apple is […]
Cloudflare is providing free anti-DDoS services to US political campaigns
[ad_1] “This is our way of providing best practices and no-brainer solutions to not only large campaigns, but also smaller, but equally important campaigns that may have limited resources,” said Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince. To provide the service, Cloudflare is working with Defending Digital Campaigns (DDC), a non-partisan nonprofit organization that connects US election candidates […]
Jack Dorsey says Twitter ‘probably’ won’t get an edit button
[ad_1] Dorsey himself has gone back and forth on the idea, saying in 2016 that “a form of edit is definitely needed” and spelling out last March how such an option might work. But in a Wired Q&A, he said the door’s shut on the notion, at least for now. He referenced Twitter’s origins as […]
Android devices stop alerting users to completed app updates
[ad_1] As Android Police reports, users first noticed the missing notifications in early November. Then followed a period of back-and-forth when some users would receive the notifications, then they wouldn’t, then they came back, and so on, leading some to believe there was a bug at hand. However, a Google spokesperson has confirmed to Android […]