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Documentary+ Is the Latest Free Service to Enter the Streaming Wars

Another free, ad-supported streaming service with a focus on non-fiction films launches today, this one hoping to win over the documentary crowd. A joint project between Tony Hsieh (the former Zappos CEO who recently passed away) and studio XTR, Documentary+ launched with a catalog of films by several high-profile directors and filmmakers, among them Werner…

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Sling TV Prices Are Going Up Now, Too

One of the best cable alternatives for live TV enthusiasts is getting a price hike. Both the Sling Orange and Sling Blue packages are bumping up to $35 per month for incoming customers, a price increase of $5 per month. The service’s bundling option for both options, meanwhile, will bump up to $50 per month…

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TiVo Finds People Don’t Mind Ads

If the folks who are responsible for beaming content to your eyeballs are to be believed, streamers are thirsty for more ads of all things. A survey of 4,526 adults in the U.S. and Canada published by TiVo today claims that a whopping 79% of the survey’s respondents reported wanting to use a free and…

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Lawmakers Are Worried ISPs Can’t Deliver on Their Rural Broadband Promises

Last week, 160 members of Congress sent a letter to the FCC raising concerns about someRural Digital Opportunity Fund(RDOF) winners’ ability to provide rural America with the broadband access they promised. The letter did not call out individual internet service providers or organizations by name, but it did call on the FCC to “redouble its…

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Plex’s New Atari Retro Arcade Subscription Looks Awesome

Plex just added a new subscription tier to its live TV and media streaming services: Plex Arcade, a cloud gaming service like Amazon Luna and Google Stadia, but focused entirely on retro arcade games. The streaming company partnered with Parsec, another streaming company know for cloud gaming, to build a library filled with Atari classics…

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CenturyLink, Frontier Failed to Meet FCC Deadline for Rural Broadband Rollout

As part of the Connect America Fund Phase II grants in 2015, the FCC awarded CenturyLink and Frontier a combined total of $789.1 million in federal funds to expand broadband services to rural Americans. Dec. 31 was the deadline for CenturyLink to roll out 10Mbps/1Mbps broadband to 1.17 million homes and businesses in 33 states,…

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The Ban Is Working

This week, most of the world took a collective sigh of relief as Joe Biden was inaugurated as president without something incredibly terrible happening. That doesn’t include the most die-hard loyalists on the Trump Train, who spend Wednesday freaking out. On pro-Trump board The Donald, which was banned from Reddit for rampant hate speech and…

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Report: 70% of Americans Now Have Access to Low-Priced Wired Broadband Plans

It looks like things might be improving—at least a little—when it comes to closing the digital divide in America. The latest quarterly report from BroadbandNow highlights several small achievements that have closed the internet gap a little bit more, but also reveals the massive amount of work still ahead. As of December, 70% of Americans…

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Netflix Is Finally Adding a Streaming Roulette Feature as It Clinches 200 Million Subscriptions

Netflix has officially amassed 200 million subscribers, but the company isn’t planning to rest on its laurels. As it continues to compete with services like Disney+ and HBO Max, Netflix plans to continue to improve its user experience to keep viewers returning. It introduced its “worth the wait,” “top 10,” and “new and popular” sections…

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Paramount+ Will Officially Launch March 4

Paramount+ is set to replace CBS All Access in less than two months. ViacomCBS announced today that it’ll debut its new streaming product on March 4, though it will continue to be expanded on into the rest of 2021. Announced in September of last year, Paramount+ will be the hub for all the assets scooped…

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Apple, the Company That Basically Invented Podcasts, Has Reportedly Decided to Give This Whole Podcast Thing a Try

Apple has been slowly building its empire of subscription services for everything from news and fitness to TV and cloud storage. But Apple has dragged its feet on podcasts, which is strange considering the company popularized the creation and distribution of podcasts about [checks notes] 16 years ago. Apple is reportedly coming around to a…

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Samsung Taps Twitch Rivals for Exclusive Gaming Events

Samsung Galaxy is now the exclusive mobile partner of Twitch Rivals, a year-long agreement that will see the companies collaborate on exclusive events and Twitch content. The partnership checks a lot of boxes for Samsung. For one, it helps boost the Samsung Galaxy product lineup and more specifically its 5G-enabled suite of mobile devices. Secondly,…

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AT&T TV Now Is Merging With AT&T TV—Wait, What?

AT&T appears to be killing its AT&T TV Now packages, directing new customers to its similarly titled AT&T TV product. Yes, those are two different things. As reported by Variety, the AT&T TV Now website now—which as recently as earlier this month still promoted live TV streaming packages—now splashes an ad for the company’s AT&T…

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Here Are All the Trump Sycophants Who Got Banned From Social Media After the Capitol Riot

Last week, Donald Trump riled up a mob of his supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol while members of Congress were voting to certify the results of the 2020 elections—a de facto act of sedition that failed to bring about his fantasized coup and resulted in five deaths. As a reward for his efforts, social…

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Hulu’s New $2 Plan for College Students Includes Its Watch Party Feature

If you happen to be in college at the moment, now’s the time to get yourself some Hulu. The streaming service on Monday announced a new subscription tier for college students that gives them the ad-supported version of Hulu for just $2—basically less than a cup of coffee these days! The steeply discounted college plan…

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Quibi’s Decaying Library of Content Will Soon Be Free on Roku

Quibi’s content is officially heading to Roku. It feels like either a month or roughly 100 years since we found out that the short-lived streaming experiment from Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman crashed and burned roughly six short months after its rocky launch. But Quibi had managed to churn out a significant amount of original…

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Hulu With Live TV Snaps Up Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, and More New Channels

Hulu’s live TV offering is getting more than a dozen new channels through a multi-year deal with ViacomCBS. The deal will bring Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, Paramount Network, VH1, MTV, MTV2, MTV Classic, CMT, TV Land, BET, BET Her, Nick Jr., NickToons, and TeenNick to the service—though a ViacomCBS spokesperson told Gizmodo that it isn’t sharing…

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How to Claim Your Free Year of Discovery+ Through Verizon

Verizon customers can snag up to 12 months of the brand new Discovery+ streaming service for free. Here’s how to get it. The new streaming service—home to content from HGTV, the History Channel, TLC, Discovery Channel, Food Netflix, A&E, and BBC’s natural history programming like Planet Earth and Blue Planet—officially launches today with more than…

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Roku Reportedly Looking to Buy Quibi’s Rotting Corpse

Quibi’s spectacular flameout in 2020 drags on into the new year. After raising a $1.75 billion war chest to launch the next big thing in on-the-go video, the streaming network only managed to keep the lights on for six months. Now the video vultures are circling over Quibi’s substantial catalog of content, and Roku is…

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Sorry ESPN+ Users, Your Annual Subscription Just Got More Expensive

ESPN+ is the latest streaming service to get a price hike. The sports service currently costs $50 per year when subscribers opt for annual billing over monthly. But starting Jan. 8, that price will jump to $60 per year for new customers, the company confirmed to Gizmodo on Wednesday. The good news for existing subscribers…

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Documentary+ Is the Latest Free Service to Enter the Streaming Wars

Sling TV Prices Are Going Up Now, Too

TiVo Finds People Don’t Mind Ads

Lawmakers Are Worried ISPs Can’t Deliver on Their Rural Broadband Promises

Plex’s New Atari Retro Arcade Subscription Looks Awesome

CenturyLink, Frontier Failed to Meet FCC Deadline for Rural Broadband Rollout

The Ban Is Working

Report: 70% of Americans Now Have Access to Low-Priced Wired Broadband Plans

Netflix Is Finally Adding a Streaming Roulette Feature as It Clinches 200 Million Subscriptions

Paramount+ Will Officially Launch March 4

Apple, the Company That Basically Invented Podcasts, Has Reportedly Decided to Give This Whole Podcast Thing a Try

Samsung Taps Twitch Rivals for Exclusive Gaming Events

AT&T TV Now Is Merging With AT&T TV—Wait, What?

Here Are All the Trump Sycophants Who Got Banned From Social Media After the Capitol Riot

Hulu’s New $2 Plan for College Students Includes Its Watch Party Feature

Quibi’s Decaying Library of Content Will Soon Be Free on Roku

Hulu With Live TV Snaps Up Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, and More New Channels

How to Claim Your Free Year of Discovery+ Through Verizon

Roku Reportedly Looking to Buy Quibi’s Rotting Corpse

Sorry ESPN+ Users, Your Annual Subscription Just Got More Expensive

Google’s Next Fitbit Sounds Exactly Like a Whoop Clone

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Amazon eero WiFi 7 Router (3-Pack) Keeps Its Spring Sale Price, Covering Up to 120 Devices Across 6,000 Sq. Ft.

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Nothing Might Get Into Smart Glasses at the Worst Possible Time

Samsung Slashes $350 Off 49″ Odyssey Curved Gaming Monitor to Clear Out Stock on Amazon

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