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Twitter acquires rights to stream NFL's Thursday night games, beating Amazon and Verizon, in an effort to attract mainstream users — Twitter Wins NFL Deal to Stream Thursday Night Games — Twitter Inc. won a deal to show Thursday night National Football League games online, a person familiar with the matter said.
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Sources: Twitter paid less than $10M for the 10 NFL games, while rival bids were higher than $15M; users can watch for free without signing-in — Twitter Beats Amazon, Verizon for Global NFL Streaming Deal — Surprise finish to the fight for NFL streaming rights: They're going to Twitter.
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| Cade Metz / Wired: |
WhatsApp says it has enabled end-to-end encryption for all forms of communications on its service by default — Forget Apple vs. the FBI: WhatsApp Just Switched on Encryption for a Billion People — For most of the past six weeks, the biggest story out of Silicon Valley was Apple's battle …
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Facebook announces Automatic Alternative Text on iOS, that uses AI to automatically describe images to blind users — Facebook begins using artificial intelligence to describe photos to blind users — Ask a member of Facebook's growth team what feature played the biggest role in getting …
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| Valentina Palladino / Ars Technica: |
HP introduces super-thin 10.4mm, 13.3-inch Spectre laptop with i7 CPU, 9.5 hours battery life; starting $1,169, available for preorder April 25 — HP goes for bling with new super-thin, copper-accented Spectre notebook — While taking up minimal space, it promises to deliver on battery life and power.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
HTC Vive review: great innovative ideas, customizable UI, and solid construction, but glitchy and too expensive at $800 — HTC Vive review — One month ago, I tested a virtual reality headset called the HTC Vive Pre. The Pre was a development kit created by gaming behemoth Valve …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Roku debuts a new Streaming Stick with a quad-core processor, support for private listening — Roku this morning introduced the third generation of its lower-cost streaming service, the Roku Streaming Stick, priced at $49.99, and a competitor to other sticks and dongles, like Google's Chromecast or Amazon's Fire TV Stick.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sony's next PS4 update arrives tomorrow with game streaming for PC and Macs — Sony's next major update to the PlayStation 4 debuts tomorrow. It includes a number of new features, but the most important addition is Remote Play for PCs and Macs. New Remote Play apps for Windows and Mac … | Bertel King, Jr / Android Police: |
Google Open Sources WALT, A Tool For Measuring Touch And Audio Latency On Android And Chrome OS — From a user perspective, a phone is either snappy or it's not. If it isn't, the device is either old or garbage that a manufacturer should be ashamed of shipping. — Technically, things aren't quite so simple.
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| Sarah Ellison / Vanity Fair: |
Yahoo scales back its media focus as cutbacks follow tensions between media stars seeking home-page space and engineers who swear by algorithms — Marissa Mayer vs. “Kim Kardashian's Ass”: What Sunk Yahoo's Media Ambitions? — After a pricey talent spree, Yahoo News is reversing course—again.| Medium / The Story: |
Medium launches Medium for Publishers, a suite of branding and customization tools, over a dozen websites migrate over, including The Awl — Making Medium More Powerful for Publishers — At Medium, we're building out a new corner of the Internet specifically designed for people and publishers …
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See also Mediagazer| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
MIT Media Lab launches Data USA, the most comprehensive visualization of US public government data — Website Seeks to Make Government Data Easier to Sift Through — For years, the federal government, states and some cities have enthusiastically made vast troves of data open to the public.
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