Oh, great. First they scared us with the killer robots, now we have to worry about the smart speakers? Or, perhaps more accurately, whomever is listening to us on the… Read More
Streaming television’s recent awards show successes took a bit of a back seat on Sunday night, as HBO outpaced Netflix, Amazon and others at the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards. Netflix… Read More
Streaming television is bigger than ever, as a much-needed distraction during the ongoing pandemic. And it’s back on top in the annual march to awards season supremacy. Netflix led all… Read More
Here’s what we’re talking about this week on the GeekWire Podcast. Amazon and critics wage a PR war in the company’s first virtual annual meeting. One employee said working at… Read More
Updated below with Amazon statement. The new HBO Max streaming service launches today, at $14.99/month. Developed at the company’s engineering offices in Seattle, New York and Atlanta, the new service… Read More
HBO added a new video chat feature to its HBO Now and HBO GO apps, allowing subscribers to watch shows and movies “together” via a Google Chrome extension. The “virtual… Read More
“Silicon Valley” wrapped up six seasons on HBO on Sunday night with a series finale called “Exit Event” — and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates entered for a cameo appearance. Gates… Read More
Like an army assembling troops for an epic conquest, HBO is building its Seattle engineering team to prepare for the 2020 launch of its HBO Max streaming service — albeit… Read More
The fake tech giants on “Silicon Valley” had plenty to say about the real ones Sunday night as the comedy returned to HBO for its sixth season. Pied Piper and… Read More
On the strength of the final season of “Game of Thrones,” HBO reclaimed the Emmy nominations throne on Tuesday, garnering 32 nods for the fantasy series and 137 total. Netflix,… Read More
Working conditions in Amazon’s fulfillment centers got a blistering critique at the hands of the HBO series “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” on Sunday. And in a what has… Read More
When Jon Snow inevitably abandons his direwolf Ghost again, in purely-for-the-imagination future episodes of “Game of Thrones,” at least he’ll have a Rover-qualified pet sitter to look after him. (Watch… Read More
Tormund may have been especially adamant about how he really did see Jon Snow riding a dragon, but the “Game of Thrones” character will have to check his memory about… Read More
Plenty of television fans entertain themselves by trying to figure out what might happen week to week on HBO’s popular fantasy series “Game of Thrones.” The fantasy goes a bit… Read More
“I know death. He’s got many faces. I look forward to seeing this one.” That’s Arya Stark opening the new trailer for HBO’s eighth and final season of the hit… Read More
Winter is leaving, and with that will come a new season of Major League Baseball and the final season of “Game of Thrones.” A collaboration announced Monday between MLB and… Read More
Bill Gates gets it. The Microsoft co-founder wants his friends in Silicon Valley to lighten up if they refuse to watch HBO’s “Silicon Valley” because they’re afraid it makes fun… Read More
It takes a lot of teamwork to manage an army of the undead, breach the Wall and set out to conquer Westeros. And apparently it all starts with a slide… Read More
The storm of controversy around Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh became fodder for HBO’s “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver,” and in a monologue Sunday, the host circled back on… Read More
Steve Ballmer bound onto the set of HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” Friday night in his usual high-energy style, assuring Maher that he wasn’t smoking anything, had ditched caffeine… Read More
Sci-fi spring fever is in full effect for fans of two of the biggest hits on television: “Westworld” and “The Handmaid’s Tale.” Lucky for us, there are two new trailers… Read More
Uh oh. The creepy world of “Westworld” looks like it’s going to get even creepier when season two premieres on HBO next month. The studio shared a new poster/GIF on… Read More
Steven Soderbergh, the Academy Award-winning director and groundbreaking filmmaker known for Sex, Lies & Videotape, Traffic, Ocean’s Eleven, Erin Brockovich and other iconic films, has been working for three years… Read More
Looks like the guys at the Pied Piper offices have been watching the congressional hearings involving Facebook, Twitter and Google. And it’s all sparked Dinesh to share how scared he… Read More
John Oliver is an Emmy winner for good reason — his HBO show “Last Week Tonight” is funny and smart and pretty much just what we need every Sunday after… Read More
It certainly helps to have Steph Curry on your side, either on the court or in the startup world. The 29-year-old sharpshooting NBA star — who is also a talented… Read More
In the heat of summer, all that hype about winter coming really paid off. HBO announced Tuesday that the season 7 premiere for “Game of Thrones” shattered previous records for… Read More
The kids might be out of school and the beach vacations may already be booked, but forget summer. Winter is coming. At least for fans of HBO’s “Game of Thrones.”… Read More
Curl up in your bathrobe and hold that bong rip a few extra seconds for this news: T.J. Miller, the actor who portrays entrepreneurial tech doofus Erlich Bachman on “Silicon… Read More
In addition to being queen of Westeros and rocking a pixie cut as fierce as her thirst for vengeance, Cersei Lannister also narrates the first official trailer for HBO’s “Game of… Read More