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Xbox’s Game Pass Pricing Crisis: Phil Spencer’s Own Words Expose Microsoft’s Subscription Dilemma
Phil Spencer thinks Game Pass costs too much.That's not the assessment of an industry analyst or a frustrated gamer on Reddit. It's the private admission of Xbox's chi...
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The Dead’s Tapes Are Alive: Thousands of Rare Concert Recordings Flood the Internet Archive in a Landmark Preservation Push
Somewhere in a climate-controlled storage unit, a reel of magnetic tape recorded at a 1977 Grateful Dead concert has been quietly degrading for nearly five decades. The oxide...
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Walmart’s $15 Streaming Stick Is About to Embarrass Devices Costing Five Times More
A $15 streaming stick with the guts of a mid-range phone. That's what Walmart appears to be preparing with its next-generation Onn streaming device, and the spec sheet reads...
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The Black Book Birthday List: How Jeffrey Epstein’s Party Contacts Became a Legal Flashpoint for Trump and Murdoch
A birthday party guest list compiled by Jeffrey Epstein's former household manager has become the unlikely centerpiece of a defamation lawsuit now entangling some of the most...
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YouTube’s 90-Second Unskippable Ads: A Bug, a Backlash, and a Billion-Dollar Ad Machine Under Scrutiny
A 90-second unskippable ad on YouTube. Not a hypothetical scenario cooked up by ad-industry critics — an actual experience reported by users in recent days, sparking fury acr...
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CBS News Reaches Across Enemy Lines: Why Hiring ABC’s Joshua Hoyos Signals a New Chapter in Broadcast News Power Plays
CBS News just made one of the most telling hires in broadcast television this year — and it came straight from the competition's bench.The network has named Joshua Hoy...
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The Machines Are Reading Everything: How AI Bot Traffic Is Overwhelming Publishers and Rewriting the Rules of the Web
The bots won't stop coming.Over the past year, a massive and accelerating wave of AI-driven web crawlers has descended on publishers' websites, consuming server resour...
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The Cassette Tape Didn’t Kill the Music Industry — But the Panic It Caused Shaped Everything That Followed
For decades, the music industry told a simple story about home taping: it was theft, it was existential, and it was going to destroy recorded music forever. The British Phono...
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Stephen Colbert Shows Up in Gilead: Inside the Most Unexpected Cameo in ‘The Testaments’
Stephen Colbert is in Gilead. Not as a prisoner, not as a Commander, but as himself — or rather, a version of himself broadcasting from a dystopian future where the theocrati...
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The Quiet Rise of AI-Powered Ad Marketplaces That Let Brands Buy Their Way Into Editorial Content
For decades, the wall between editorial content and advertising was sacred in publishing. Reporters wrote stories. Ad sales teams sold banner placements. The two rarely mixed...
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Your Face in the Game: Sony’s Plan to Let PlayStation Players Scan Themselves Into Virtual Worlds
Sony Interactive Entertainment has quietly laid the groundwork for something that sounds ripped from science fiction: letting PlayStation 5 owners scan their own faces and bo...
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The Supreme Court Just Blew Up Music Industry Piracy Strategy — And ISPs Are Cheering
The United States Supreme Court has vacated a $46.8 million piracy liability verdict against Grande Communications, a Texas-based internet service provider, in a ruling that...
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Your Phone Now Knows When the Jump Scare Is Coming — And That’s a Bigger Deal Than It Sounds
There's a particular kind of dread that horror movie fans know well. Not the dread of the monster itself, but the dread of not knowing when the movie is going to lunge at you...
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YouTube TV’s $45 Discount Is a Trojan Horse — And Cable’s Last Holdouts Should Pay Attention
For years, the pitch was simple: cut the cord, save money, watch what you want. Then the streaming services started raising prices, and suddenly the math didn't look so clean...
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FuboTV’s Quiet Metamorphosis: How a Sports Streaming Underdog Became Wall Street’s Unlikely Comeback Story
FuboTV doesn't look like the same company it was a year ago. And that's precisely the point.Wedbush Securities reiterated its Outperform rating on Fubo stock this week...
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