Deadline is reporting that days after HBO Max yanked Westworld, The Nevers, and Minx from the service it pulled Raised By Wolves, The Time Traveler’s Wife, Head of the Class, FBoy Island, Legendary, and Finding Magic Mike.
This move is partly to avoid having to pay residuals on already canceled shows. The plan appears to be to package them up and sell the to a Free Ad-Support TV (FAST) service like Roku or Plex.
For a few years, there was a boon of content, and we were all wonderfully spoiled. And now that’s over.
So Nilay, Charles, and I gathered to consider who will survive the next streaming age and who will end up on the 90 side of the Go90 Scale of Doomed Streaming Services.
Earlier this year E Ink announced Gallery 3, a new color E Ink tech that promised to be a whole lot faster and more colorful than any of the color E Ink stuff currently available.
So far, a crowdfunded e-reader has been the only gadget confirmed to have a Gallery 3 display. But now E Ink has announced that bigger players will also be bringing Gallery 3 to e-readers in 2023, including Boox, PocketBook, AOC, iFlyTek, and iReader.
In its recent filing against Microsoft the FTC claimed that the company misled EU regulators over its earlier acquisition of ZeniMax. Now the EU is telling the publication MLex that the FTC’s complaint is wrong. The EU apparently never asked Microsoft to guarantee ZeniMax games be available on non-Microsoft platforms. Ouch.
This week on the Vergecast James Vincent joins us to explain ChatGPT and ponder a future where AI writes a lot of the web. Then Nilay has strong feelings about the FTC suing Microsoft, Richard has feelings about Apple’s surprise privacy moves, and I only bring up E Ink once.
Disney Plus has a new trailer for the second season of Star Wars: The Bad Batch. This time the clone Clone War veterans do a heist while they continue to reckon with the super evil nature of the Empire under Palpatine.
Also, there’s a small wookie child with a lightsaber. The new season starts streaming on January 4th, 2023.
On today’s Vergecast we talk a LOT about E Ink, but also about babies? Okay, we talk about US broadband too. Anyways, this is a fun episode and one of David’s last for the next couple of months. Give it a listen.
