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Apple this week started selling its new streaming video box, another piece of hardware that connects to your TV set with the sometimes-undelivered promise of making cable unnecessary. But as anyone who's been paying attention to Apple TV announcements knows, this is not about hardware; it's about apps . Executives at the Cupertino tech giant have said that tvOS, the new operating system for Apple TV,  is "95 percent" of the same core framework as iOS , so that apps being built for the different platforms will stay in sync across different devices as they're updated. This basically means Apple is attempting to make it easier for developers to make all kinds of stuff for Apple TV, just like they do for iPhone. It's an interesting direction... Continue reading…

Earlier today, Justin Bieber  shared an Instagram photo of himself surrounded by the logo for Drake's " Hotline Bling ," captioned with the cheeky question, "Should I?" The second half of that question was almost undoubtedly "release my remix of this hugely popular Drake song," and the answer to it was a resounding YES. So now you can hear the song, but you have to make a phone call first. Continue reading…

Today the  first trailer for Angelina Jolie-Pitt's directorial follow-up to Unbroken was released. It's a period piece set in the '70s about a couple whose marriage goes through some turbulent shit when they relocate to the south of France. Did I mention that Jolie-Pitt and her husband, famous actor Brad Pitt, play the married couple? And that they, too, live in the south of France? (With a vineyard, of course; and I've tried their  rosé , of course; because when someone offers you "Brangelina rosé" you don't say no.) To get into character for this emotionally taxing role, Angelina must partake in that most hallowed of Important Actress rites of passage: the  Hardworking '70s Wig . The load the HSW bears is no trifle: it must be '70s enough... Continue reading…

Yahoo has cancelled the production of a  new reality show from Simon Cowell that was originally described as an " American Idol for DJs." It's the second planned series that Yahoo has cancelled this week, the first being The Pursuit , which was buzzwordily described as " Friends for the 21st century in the era of social media." Both cancellations were  reported by Variety . Continue reading…

Ariana Grande has a new music video for a single called "Focus." This is its story. SCENE: Samsung marketing team crisis management meeting after Drake performed the most viral song of the year whilst holding an iPhone in each hand. Man 1: Okay I'm tired of negativity, let's have some solutions. Man 2: We just need to do the exact same thing but with a different celebrity, right? Man 1: Yes, but who is famous other than Drake... Adele? Man 2: Flip phone . Man 1: Justin Bieber? Man 2: He's with  Drake now. Man 1: Ariana Grande? Man 2: Yes, that is a person. Man 1: What if she used the stylus and she wrote a sexy note on the Note 5... with the stylus? Man 2: It's called an "S Pen," but yes, perfect. What if, and bear... Continue reading…

Astronaut Scott Kelly has  made it through seven months of his year-long stay on the International Space Station, and it looks like the sheer isolation of living in space â€" the vast, ever-expanding swirl of nothingness that completely envelopes us all and serves as a constant reminder that we live tiny, insignificant lives on a planet that doesn't matter â€" may be getting to him. Continue reading…