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Following in the footsteps of Netflix and Disney+, streaming service Max plans to start restricting password-sharing later this year.

If you’ve ever seen a lightsaber at a Disney park or marveled at BB-8, you’ve seen Lanny Smoot’s work. Now, the man with over 100 patents wants you to be able to walk in VR.

In an interview with WIRED, the legendary director says, “It would probably take contact with extraterrestrials to catch our attention.”

Max just isn't what it used to be. Apple TV+ is where you need to go for must-watch prestige television.

Amazon just rolled out its ad-supported plan, the latest in a string of covert streaming price hikes. The halcyon days of commercial-free content are gone.

By spending $5 billion for 10 years of WWE’s Raw, Netflix shows just how thoroughly it’s rewritten the old streaming rulebook.

It seems all but inevitable that streamers are going to merge into mega-media entities in 2024. New research shows what those consolidations might look like. Get ready to click on Para-Flix+.

Netflix is cutting back on shows, Amazon is laying off Prime Video workers. The boom days of streaming are showing signs of bust.

Many of the Star Wars shows on Disney+ were often just overly long movies in disguise. Bringing The Mandalorian and Grogu to the big screen rights that.

The year was dominated by talk of what artificial intelligence could do—and what it could do better than most humans.