Hundreds of advertisers, including major brands like L’Oreal and Victoria’s Secret, flocked to the Lower East Side on Thursday night for TikTok’s annual spring pitch to marketers. It had been about a week since President Biden signed a law that says TikTok must be sold from its Chinese parent company or face a potential ban, […]
Eight men who allegedly ran pirate streaming services that claimed to offer more content than Netflix have been indicted in the US. Jetflicks and iStreamItAll claimed to be used by thousands of subscribers and allegedly lost copyright owners “millions of dollars”. Together they claimed to have more than 300,000 TV episodes and films available to […]
A cleanup crew works through the ashes of a Tesla-managed solar roof fire at a Wal-Mart in Indio, California.Wal-Mart v. Tesla, complaint Wal-Mart claims in a new lawsuit that Tesla was negligent in operating and managing 244 solar roof contracts it had with the retailer. In at least 7 cases, according to Wal-Mart’s complaint, Tesla’s […]
Enlarge / Tim Cook announces Apple TV+ at an event on March 25, 2019. Ron Amadeo Disney earlier this year announced that it will launch its Disney+ streaming TV service on November 12 in the United States for $ 6.99 per month. Yesterday, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman published a report claiming that Apple’s competing TV service, Apple […]
If you’re in your mid-20s or older, chances are that you remember the Y2K scare, the year 2000-era menace which promised to make even nu metal seem benign by comparison. In the end, the so-called “Millennium bug” did very little damage, thanks to programmer-led interventions. Jump forward 18 years, however, and Japan has its own […]