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cxenseparse_start An Amazon Prime employee pushes a cart of items for customers while passing CD’s by Adele at the company’s urban fulfillment facility, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2015 in New York.(Photo: Mark Lennihan, AP) Amazon is powering up its already formidable Amazon Prime subscription service with 20% savings on new video game releases. The etailing giant…
IT IS hard to identify the moment when podcasting took off, because it keeps having them. In June last year Barack Obama showed up at a Californian man’s garage to tape a podcast (“WTF with Marc Maron”), while “Serial”, a podcast series about disputed real-life stories that was launched in 2014, has surpassed 100m downloads….
Information company’s gauge of online buzz for TV shows expands beyond just Twitter to include the world’s biggest social network Soon, your Facebook friends won’t be the only ones paying attention to the TV show rants in your News Feed. Television ratings giant Nielsen is expanding how it measures social chatter around TV shows to include Facebook, expanding it…
Devoted fans of Quentin Tarantino’s body of work have noted for years that all of his characters seem to be connected in one way or another. For example, Vic Vega from Reservoir Dogs and Vincent Vega from Pulp Fiction just so happen to be brothers. This led people to believe that Tarantino’s movies were connected,…
This past week has brought the shape of the Democratic primary into sharper focus. As we head into the start of voting, anyone paying attention to the arguments being made among voters, political professionals and opinion columnists should be able to recognize that the nomination fight is a battle between Hillary Clinton’s continuation of the…
To say that 2015 was hot is an understatement. The average recorded temperature across the surface of the planet was so far above normal that it set a record for setting records. The year was more than a quarter of a degree Fahrenheit warmer than the last global heat record—set all the way back in 2014—according…
Sign up for ScreenJunkies Plus Now! ►► http://www.screenjunkies.com/plus Since we had to say goodbye to David Bowie so soon, we decided to honor him by reviewing that one weird kid’s movie he was in that was way worse than we remember. Got a tip? Email us ► tips@screenjunkies.com Follow us on Twitter ► http://twitter.com/screenjunkies Like…
Yesterday wasn’t a great day for news about Apple’s new Apple TV digital media player. The first sting came from an interview that ESPN president John Skipper did with the Wall Street Journal, in which he revealed that Apple has been “frustrated” with its inability to form programming deals with major content providers. When asked…
Photo Sarah Palin put her political backing behind Donald J. Trump in Ames, Iowa, on Tuesday. Credit Eric Thayer for The New York Times Sarah Palin’s meandering, fiery, sarcastic, patriotic and blustery speech endorsing Donald J. Trump for president on Tuesday in Ames, Iowa, does not easily submit to categorization. It has been described as…
There is almost never a good reason to hit “reply all.” Especially not when “all” includes a listserv that goes out to thousands of employees at Time Inc., the country’s largest magazine publisher. It’s still ongoing (send us more of the chain!), but we were forwarded a portion of it as of about an hour…