BitTorrent Is Shutting Down Its Live TV Streaming Service
There’s no word on what will happen to those technical assets, or what the company aims to do with the underlying P2P-based live streaming protocol.
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Amazon confirms advertising will become a ‘meaningful’ part of its business
Amazon’s advertising business has loomed quietly in the digital media space for some time but the online behemoth has given the clearest indication yet that it will now come to the fore.
Amazon’s Alexa can now whisper, bleep out swear words, and change its pitch
Amazon says this will allow Alexa to provide a “more natural voice experience.”
Apple, Tesla ask California to change proposed self-driving car test policy
Apple Inc (AAPL.O) urged California to toughen up its proposed policy on testing self-driving cars, a move that would result in more public data that could help Apple catch up to rivals in the self-driving space by giving it a better window into their strengths and weaknesses.
What’s Next in Computing?What’s Next in Computing?
It is also possible the next era won’t arrive for a while, or that only a subset of the new computing categories will end up being important.
The inventor of Siri predicted AI will be used to upload and access our memories
Tom Gruber says AI memory enhancement is inevitable.
Blackberry confirms launch dates for its gorgeous KeyOne Android phone
If you can’t wait that long, you can pick one up today from luxury department store, Selfridges.
Nintendo Switch could outsell the Wii U in its first year
Profits are up, and ‘Pokémon’ is pretty much a license to print money.
Facebook is offering publishers money to create produced video
The new deals include a mix of both live and produced video commitments.
ARM-powered Windows 10 laptops will arrive this holiday
Hopefully Microsoft has learned its lesson from Windows RT.