- A disturbance in the force: Directors of Star Wars’ Han Solo spin-off leave production (Variety)
- Behind Sony’s conservative approach to the busy robotics coding market (TechCrunch)
- About that digital divide…more than 60 million Americans don’t have internet access (Recode)
- Shopping online just got a bit cheaper, as eBay will price-match Amazon, Walmart and more (CNET)
- Tumblr is trying to appeal to a young audience again (Ubergizmo)
- Time Warner is going big on digital, producing US$100-million worth of Snapchat shows (Tube Filter)
- How does YouTube stand out in the crowded online video space? (Fast Company)
- Nintendo’s Switch is jumping on the kids coding trend (The Next Web)
- A vintage Disney auction has items going for close to US$1 million (Forbes)
- The world’s first emoji translator on why he’s necessary in today’s world (Refinery 29)
- Cars 3 races past Wonder Woman with a US$53.5-million opening weekend (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Banning the sale of smartphones to under-13s? A Colorado group wants to make it happen (USA Today)
- Pokémon GO is getting an update to include cooperative play (TechCrunch)
- Why gender-neutral kindergarten could be the key to a child’s success (Quartz)
- Gen Zers have their own tastes when it comes to the web, and they’re so over blogs and publishers (eMarketer)
- Netflix wants Bill Nye to save the world…again (The Verge)
- How homemade fan films influenced The Lego Movie’s groundbreaking animation (Vox)
- Apple continues its original video push, hiring two former Sony Pictures TV execs (Variety)
- Did Disney make a big mistake by putting its content on Netflix? (Recode)
- Rumor has it Samsung just paid US$5.5 million for a VR app studio (TechCrunch)
- Seeing green: Disney, Warner Bros., Universal and more sign joint environmental production initiative (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Nintendo makes good on VR plans as Mario Kart heads to virtual reality arcades in Tokyo (Mashable)
- Amazon is catching up to Netflix in Europe (Variety)
- Foursquare’s co-founder has launched a startup where influencers sell their favorite products (Tube Filter)
- Netflix and Amazon will overtake UK cinema spending by 2020 (The Guardian)
- Elsewhere, Hollywood and SVODs are coming together to fight online piracy (Variety)
- An inside look at how GoldieBlox is disrupting the pink aisle (Insider)
- Long-form content now represents the majority of time spent watching video across all screens (Rapid TV News)
- Instagram’s newest feature looks squarely at Generation Z (Fast Company)
- Summer may have just started, but back-to-school shopping is already expected to grow by 4% this year (eMarketer)
- Interactive bedtime-storytelling wallpaper for kids is now a reality (Springwise)
- Edtech startup Mrs. Wordsmith has raised US$2.5 million in seed funding (TechCrunch)
- Talk about pocket change: This school principal will pay students to forgo screens over the summer (The Washington Post)
- TV execs have some strong opinions on viewership, ratings and Netflix’s long shadow (The New York Times)
- Microsoft launches the new (and more expensive) Xbox One X at E3 (CNET)
- Number one trillion: Amazon could be the first company to be worth a dozen zeros (Recode)
- Is a high-achieving kid really best? Or should parents be content with happy slackers? (The Guardian)
- UK consumer spending is down for the first time in four years (Bloomberg)
- Hulu says there are big advantages to not being Netflix (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Fans are in for a big ride if the upcoming Super Nintendo World theme park turns out anything like its teaser video (TIME)
- Why bringing VR to the masses has become quite complicated (Fast Company)
- Expected to swell to US$107 billion in five years, the smartphone accessory biz has turned to gold…literally (AdWeek)
- Perhaps Netflix isn’t keeping teens away from movie theaters after all (Los Angeles Times)
- This AR-fueled treasure hunt app wants to be the next Pokémon GO (CMO)
- Dream-crushers: Are reality TV shows about kids too mean? (The Guardian)
- Influencers are driving a new book publishing trend where authenticity is checked at the door (TubeFilter)
- It’s not just breaking ticket sales records, Wonder Woman is the most tweeted about movie of 2017 (Variety)
- How Norway’s The Future Group wants to revolutionize television with interactive mixed reality (alistdaily)
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