Netflix‘s trilogy of Kanye West documentary films, Jeen-yuhs — a series that intimately recorded West over two decades and was bought by Netflix for a reported $30 million — will be released on Netflix over three weeks starting Feb. 16. But fans who want to watch it even earlier have two different opportunities, if they know when …
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Time magazine on Thursday put out its list of the 25 most influential people on the internet, full of celebrities, musicians and other people we all obsess about online. Some got on the list for the positive influence, such as Charlotte and Dave Willner, who raised over $18 million on Facebook to help reunite separated immigrant families. Also on the …
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Have you ever wished you ever hit send on a tweet and wished later you could go back and edit it? Maybe there was a typo. Maybe you realised your sarcasm didn’t translate. Maybe your husband tweeted something a bit out there that you think he should tone down a tad. I’ve been there, you’ve been there and Kim Kardashian …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man tweets his love for his car. You might be tempted to offer such elevated words, on learning that fashion designer and rapper Kanye West has extremely deep feelings for his Tesla. In a series of …
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You no longer need to worry about having to remove your Facebook video of your New Year’s Eve countdown party even if it had Ed Sheeran’s Perfect playing in the background. Facebook has just inked a multiyear, multiterritory licensing deal with Sony/ATV Music that will enable its users to upload and share videos featuring songs from Sony/ATV’s collection of 3 …
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The music-streaming service Tidal is saying goodbye to yet another CEO. Jefffrey Toig, who became CEO in December 2015, is leaving the company. This would make him the third CEO to leave Tidal in two years, following the departure of Andy Chen and Peter Tonstad, according to Billboard. In a statement to CNET, Tidal said that it will announce a …
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Aziz Ansari’s critically-acclaimed, Emmy and Peabody award-winning Netflix original series “Master of None” will return for a second season on May 12. The stand-up comedian/actor/author/director of Kanye West music video parodies shared the news by tweeting a criminally short teaser trailer featuring him and Eric Wareheim, creator of “Tim and Eric Awesome Show,” joyfully riding scooters through a scenic Italy …
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Celeb-owned music-streaming service Tidal is getting a boost from a major US carrier. Sprint announced Monday that it is buying 33 percent of the service, which is famous for being backed by rapper Jay Z. Buying a third of Tidal will allow Sprint to offer the service, as well as artist content not available elsewhere, to all 45 million of …
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Netflix‘s latest documentary series, “Abstract: The Art of Design,” explores the artistic minds and creative processes of the world’s top designers in fashion, art, cars and more. It includes prominent figures with jobs you expect to see highlighted in a series about design, like architect Bjarke Ingels, photographer Platon, graphic designer Paula Scher and interior designer Ilse Crawford. But “Abstract” …
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Streaming services surged last year, overtaking digital sales of music for the first time in the US, Nielsen Music said Thursday. It’s the latest evidence that consumers have quickly shifted away from the digital downloads typified by Apple’s iTunes to streaming music alternatives. The change has made subscriptions the music industry’s dominant sales model (the US recording industry’s main trade …
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