Category: All News
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MLB Says It Expects Bally Sports To Cancel One Team’s TV Contract Soon
This week, the MLB asked the court overseeing Bally Sports’ bankruptcy to push the regional sports network to offer a new TV contract for its teams. In that filing, we learned that the league is expecting Bally Sports to drop at least one team after the end of the 2023 season. This comes as Bally…
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Microsoft Officially Closes Activision Blizzard Deal Bringing Hit Gaming Franchises Under Xbox Umbrella
Microsoft officially owns Activision Blizzard and King, marking the largest gaming deal in the U.S. to date. Hit franchises like Pitfall, Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Candy Crush Saga and Farm Heroes Saga will be more formally part of the Xbox family. The deal closed ahead of Microsoft’s estimated original October 18 date. “Together, we’ll create new worlds…
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Best Buy Confirms It Will Stop Selling DVDs & Blu-rays, Leaving Walmart and Amazon as Some of the Last Options For Physical Media
Last night, news broke that Best Buy would stop selling DVDs and Blu-rays in the first quarter of 2024, according to The Digital Bits. Now Best Buy has confirmed that it will stop selling DVDs and Blu-rays in 2024. “To state the obvious, the way we watch movies and TV shows is much different today…
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Starlink To Offer Texting From Space Starting in 2024
SpaceX plans to enable direct-to-cell capabilities for its satellite internet provider, Starlink, starting with texting support next year. The company’s website also said voice and data will roll out in 2025 along with IOT. Starlink’s direct-to-cell will work with existing LTE phones “wherever you can see the sky” without extra hardware, software or special apps.…
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FTC Continues To Fight Spam Calls as it Wins a Court Case Against a Company That Made 40 Million Illegal Sales Calls
Today, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it won a court case against a telemarketing company that bombarded job seekers with millions of illegal, unsolicited calls. The FTC said Day Pacer, LLC and Edutrek LLC purchased consumers’ contact information from websites claiming to help people find jobs, and use the data to make 40 million…
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Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Effectively Blends Mystery and Mega Monsters
Typically, mega-monster plots demolish buildings and people rather quickly; however, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters takes more of a slow-build approach to the genre. It creates an immersive reality where monsters are a real, known threat and pairs it with a conspiracy led by a global organization known as Monarch that is somehow behind all the…
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Fubo Is Rolling Out An Updated Roku App With New Features, Faster Speed, & Bug Fixes
Over the last few weeks, Fubo has started to roll out an updated user interface for its live TV streaming service. Now it is Roku’s turn as the new app that includes a lot of nice features along with some bug fixes. If you are on an Android TV or Google TV device, you should…
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Deal Alert! Anker’s 100W USB-C Charger is On Sale For Just $42.99 Its Lowest Price Ever
Did you miss out on Anker’s huge Fall Prime Day event? Good news! Right now, Anker has once again dropped the price of its USB-C, and USB 100W wall charger to just $42.99, down from $74.99. This is the lowest price Anker has ever had this charger at. This great charger is perfect for phones,…
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YouTube TV is The Only Live TV Service Adding Subscribers Thanks to NFL Sunday Ticket
This is the first year YouTube and YouTube TV have offered the NFL Sunday Ticket. Before that, DIRECTV was the exclusive home for the NFL Sunday Ticket service that let customers watch every Sunday afternoon game even if it was not shown in their area. Now Bloomberg is reporting that YouTube TV has hit 1.3…
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How to Watch ‘Friday the 13th’ Movies in Order On Friday The 13th
Friday the 13th has arrived and today is known to be unlucky if you’re superstitious, but those at Camp Crystal Lake have the worst luck. Since 1980, this date has been closely associated with one of the most iconic horror franchises in the history of cinema thanks to the hockey-masked-machete-weilding slasher Jason Vorhees. The series…