- The long-awaited Magic Leap AR headset is finally out (CNET)
- Disney’s strategy to beat Netflix is quality over quantity—but will it work? (Fast Company)
- What the FCC loosening children’s TV guidelines for US broadcasters would mean (Los Angeles Times)
- How Sesame Street is teaching kids empathy (TV Guide)
- The American Heart Association says too much screen time can be bad for kids’ hearts (CNN)
- Why copying Snapchat’s Story feature was the best move Instagram ever made (Recode)
- Meanwhile, Snap admitted its recent redesign cost it millions of users (The Verge)
- How British schools are using video games to teach kids traditional lessons (The Guardian)
- Even with all of its issues, MoviePass has transformed modern ticket buying (The Atlantic)
- The “NewTV” short-form streaming venture has brought in US$1 billion in investment from Disney, Viacom and Alibaba (Variety)
- What the head of marketing for Disney’s upcoming streamer can reveal about the service (New York Times)
- Apparently no one is buying anything from Amazon Alexa… so what’s the point again? (TechCrunch)
- Supergirl may be joining DC’s big-screen universe, with a film reportedly in the works (Polygon)
- Snapchat remains popular with kids, but has the techco stagnated? (Recode)
- Why streaming services are doubling down on kids content while broadcasters back off (Variety)
- How Toys “R” Us was planning on rebranding if things had gone differently (Fast Company)
- Amazon’s chat fiction app, Rapids, is now free (TechCrunch)
- Not only is Disney making a live-action Lady and the Tramp, it’s gender swapping the characters (Marie Claire)
- Why Viacom bought Awesomeness for a fraction of its US$650-million valuation (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Ofcom: TV viewing in the UK continues to fall, and risks of structural industry decline are growing (Digital TV Europe)
- Google is reportedly planning to launch a censored search engine in China (The Intercept)
- Facebook is making moves to monetize WhatsApp for the first time (The Verge)
- Living up to its name, Incredibles 2 passes the US$1-billion mark at the box office (Entertainment Weekly)
- Running out of money, stock plummeting, introducing new rules for users—how much longer can MoviePass last? (Variety)
- Apple continues to take a bite out of the competition with its services revenue rising 31% (Business Insider)
- Facebook and Instagram introduce new features to cut back screen time (Recode)
- Bojack Horseman has become the first Netflix show to enter TV syndication (TubeFilter)
- Amazon is planning to give the Prime Video app a big makeover (TechCrunch)
- 73% of smart speaker owners with children let their kids use the technology (PC Mag)
- Despite the big push for more diversity, women and minorities still aren’t getting more movie roles (Variety)
- The UK NHS will start treating kids for gaming addictions at age 12 (The Telegraph)
- Congress is considering a US$95-million proposal to study tech’s long-term effect on kids (WIRED)
- After raking in US$120 million at the domestic box office, Hotel Transylvania 3 is headed to China (Variety)
- As YA fiction becomes more popular, it’s also becoming way less diverse (The Guardian)
- Amazon Prime is no longer asking users to vote on pilots; it will now rely on in-house data (Engadget)
- Amazon’s quarterly revenue may have come under expectations, but its earnings doubled (CNBC)
- Without Fortnite, console gaming revenue would have dropped 6% last year (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Lenovo is giving Google’s voice assistant a visual element with a new smart display (Engadget)
- Disney is jumping on the bandwagon and banning plastic straws from its parks (CTV News)
- Viacom is in talks to buy NBCUniversal’s Awesomeness to bolster its digital catalog (The Hollywood Reporter)
- A team of UK scientists think they have found a formula for box-office success (The Guardian)
- Cord-cutting set to grow by 33 million in the US this year (Variety)
- Facebook’s user growth has hit a wall, with its smallest increase since 2011 (Recode)
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