Category: entertainment
Spotify lets you hide bad songs on playlists you didn’t make
Let’s face it: not everyone has as impeccable taste in music as you do. Your friends and other curators are bound to drop some stinkers in their playlists sometimes. Spotify’s latest feature for premium subscribers should make it a bit easier to avoi… Source
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TikTok gives parents more control over their kids’ accounts
TikTok was recently fined $5.7 million for violating the child privacy act and has been criticized for putting children at risk from predators. The company is now trying to give parents more control over their kids’ privacy and security with a featur… Source
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The Morning After: Apple’s iPhone SE returns for 2020
While the big news of the day is Apple’s cheap-yet-powerful new iPhone SE, I’m waiting to see how much interest there is in the other product it’s putting on sale. Apple opened pre-orders for its new iPad Pro Magic Keyboard, which makes the slate an… Source
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Charter is the first cable company with a deal for HBO Max
WarnerMedia didn’t initially say how TV providers besides AT&T would offer HBO Max, but that’s now becoming clear through a first-ever deal. Cable provider Charter has landed a multi-year agreement that will make HBO Max available to all of its e… Source
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Original Content: Netflix’s ‘Tigertail’ tells a melancholy immigrant story
“Tigertail,” a new film on Netflix, weaves together the past and the present to tell the life story of Pin-Jui, who we first meet as a Taiwanese boy dreaming of moving to America. We soon see that he eventually made it to New York. In the present-day sequences, he struggles…
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NBCUniversal’s Peacock launches today: Here’s what you need to know
NBC’s streaming service is finally here: Peacock, the Comcast-owned platform that will be home to The Office (and much of NBC’s vast catalog), the (now-postponed) Tokyo Olympics and a lineup of new original content, is starting to roll out, though mo… Source
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