Looks like Twitter’s streaming video news deal with Bloomberg was just the first of more than a dozen content partnerships that it’s announcing today. The company unveiled the full slate at the NewFronts, where online publishers pitch their content to advertisers. (This was the first time Twitter’s held its own NewFronts presentation.) Twitter has been ramping up its… Read More
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Twitter might have killed off its Music app but now it’s working with the world’s top concert promoter. Today at the NewFronts conference in New York, Twitter announced it is partnering with Live Nation to exclusively livestream video of concerts. Artists including Train, Portugal The Man, August Alsina, and Marian Hill are slated to have shows streamed on Twitter. The first will… Read More
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Giant robots attack! A Chinese fighting robot wants to challenge US MegaBots Mk III and Japanese Kuratas to a robot duel to the death.
Source: CNET
Find out how to curb Chrome’s appetite for CPU, memory and battery resources.
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Commentary: A flight from Moscow to Bangkok hits several air pockets. A video posted to YouTube shows how bad it was and serves as a seatbelt reminder.
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Facebook’s role in spreading news, especially fake news, has been in the spotlight since last year’s presidential election. Now it’s promoting Alex Hardiman to lead its news efforts on the product side. Hardiman worked at The New York Times, most recently as vice president of news products, until joining Facebook last year. Read More
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The apps reportedly have been absent from Apple’s smartwatch for some time.
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Yamaha unveils its 2017 Aventage receivers which incorporate Dolby Atmos capability, 4K video and Wi-Fi music streaming
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Cisco has been rather acquisitive in recent years, buying 19 companies since 2015; today it announced it was acquiring cloud-based SD-WAN vendor Viptela for $610 million in cash. Viptela was founded in 2012 and had raised more than $108 million, including its most recent $75 million round just last May. The $610 million price tag appears to be a nice return for investors. Read More
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Hace años, el espacio era cosa de investigadores y gobiernos. Pero ahora, se está llenando de diminutos satélites privados. Inversores y emprendedores empiezan a confiar en los pequeños CubeSats para crear nuevos mercados en tierra
Source: MIT