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In the wake of a huge privacy violation, several high-profile Facebook users are abandoning the social media platform. This morning, Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak announced he was leaving the site, as well as deactivating his account. Editorial credit: Viappy / Shutterstock.com The Woz sent an...
It’s been a pretty crappy year for news about the internet. From the ongoing battle over net neutrality, to the recent revelations about Cambridge Analytica’s shenanigans and the bitter friction of social networks, it sometimes seems hard to remember why we put up with it all (I...
Now we’re sure you woke up Sunday morning thinking, “Gee, I hope Bleeding Cool lets us know when and where we can watch tonight’s Academy Awards red carpet and show.” As if that wasn’t bad enough, it was probably followed up with an even more pressing concern:...
In a move that probably shouldn’t surprise anyone, Facebook has decided to reel back on releasing a demo of their VR game Bullet Train after the recent school shooting in Parkland, Florida. The company removed the demo from Oculus Rift stations set up for the Conservative Political Action ...
Yesterday, DC Comics creative freelancers received a mass e-mail covering their activities on social media.
As part of Bleeding Cool‘s never-ending mission to cover every corner of the pop culture universe — and because we have an unwavering love for dogs — we’ll be live-blogging the 142nd Annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show on Monday, February 12th and Tuesday, February 13th from 8 p....
Big victories over small minded bullies should be celebrated when they happen, and today Facebook stepped up to help. Maybe you’ll recall the recent Rotten Tomatoes review bombing for Black Panther started by “Down With Disney’s Treatment of Franchises and its Fanboys” fa...
In today’s installment of ‘what is wrong with people on the internet’ and ‘this is why we can’t have nice things’, we present the effort to give Black Panther a bad/low Rotten Tomatoes score. Blipping on the radar again is facebook group “Down With ...
Editorial credit: I AM NIKOM / Shutterstock.com This one should be a pretty interesting fight to watch from the sidelines — or stream, as the case may be. Facebook has announced that they are prepping a streaming program for gaming broadcasts. This will put them squarely as a competitor for T...
Following up on rumors last week that the part of Fox that Disney didn’t buy is interested in buying WWE, spice-of-life-themed Hollywood trade magazine Variety reports that the company could have two more potential suitors, at least for the TV rights to Monday Night Raw and Smackdown Live....
Snapchat’s corporate parent company Snap Inc. has laid off 22 staffers as part of a wider reorganization this week, according to a report from Variety. While some of the staffers laid off were part of Snap’s content team, the majority were from other teams in the company. The Infor...
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Credit: CarlaVanWagoner / Shutterstock.com Fans of Anne Rice‘s The Vampire Chronicles were excited when the author announced in 2016 that she had reclaimed the rights to her novels, writing on her Facebook page at the time, “A television series of the highest quality is now my dream for Les...
If you are an avid watcher of awards shows and the red carpet specials, chances are you already have your Golden Globes plans in place. Seth Meyers is hosting this year, and hopefully his jokes are solid. While not as big as the Academy Awards, the Globes celebrate the best in film *and* tv f...
Credit: Peter Dutton [CC BY 2.0], Wikimedia CommonsWith the 75th Annual Golden Globe Awards less than a week away, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) and Dick Clark Productions are making sure viewers get as immersed in the experience as possible. While NBC is the network ...
Proving the adage that sometimes “bad things happen in threes,” the perils of HBO continued Wednesday night as hackers gained access to a number of the cable giant’s Facebook and Twitter accounts. This latest hack follows-up a less-than-stellar two weeks for HBO: previously,...
Stage 13, a new original digital content brand under Warner Bros. Digital Networks, has officially announced that the service will premiere in October 2017. Promising a diverse mix of “unapologetic” scripted and unscripted programming, Stage 13 will debut that month via YouTube,...
