Spotify is teaming with Ellen DeGeneres for a first on the music service: a partnership hub for Ellen with her favorite music and podcasts.
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The Game Awards: the highlights, premieres and winners at the video game industry’s big night
We track the biggest moments from The Game Awards, the video game industry’s biggest night, including winners, and game previews from the show in L.A.
Reddit back up after outage early Thursday. Users head to Twitter.
Popular website Reddit, known as “the front page of the internet,” was down early Thursday for unknown reasons.
Tom Cruise has a new mission: Improving your TV video for ‘Mission: Impossible-Fallout’
Tom Cruise took a break from filming ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ to instruct TV owners how to get a better picture when they watch ‘Mission: Impossible – Fallout,’ which landed on home video this week. He wants you to turn off “motion smoothing.” What’s that?
Uber, Lyft rides in NYC could cost more under new minimum wage rule
New York City’s Taxi & Limousine Commission approved a minimum wage of $17.22 per hour for drivers of ride-sharing services such as Uber and Lyft.
Q&A site Quora says data breach may affect 100 million users
Quora, a question-and-answer website with 300 million users, says a data breach may have compromised 100 million users’ data.
A multifaceted focus on games at The Game Awards this Thursday
Geoff Keighley, the creator and executive producer of The Game Awards, has worked three decades to finetune the game industry’s event.
Tumblr to ban all adult content beginning Dec. 17, and some users are fuming
Tumblr will ban adult content beginning Dec. 17. After child sex abuse content was found on it recently, Apple removed Tumblr from its App Store.
Nexstar to buy Tribune Media for $4.1 billion, become largest local TV group in U.S.
Nexstar will pay $4.1B to acquire Tribune Media’s 42 television stations. The deal gives Nexstar the largest U.S. collection of local TV stations.
Americans prefer to watch news, on TV and online, rather than read it, study finds
Most Americans still like to watch, rather than read the news, a Pew Research Center study says. While 44 percent prefer TV, 34 percent use the web.