|
November 28, 2016, 4:40 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Sling TV announces cloud DVR feature, launching beta in December, to take on Sony's PlayStation Vue, others — As competition between television streaming services heats up, Dish's Sling TV announced a new feature designed to better compete with rivals like Sony's PlayStation Vue and others … | Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
AT&T's DirecTV Now streaming TV service launches Nov. 30 starting at $35/mo. for 60+ channels, up to $70/month for 120+ channels — AT&T has officially unveiled details about its upcoming streaming TV service called DirecTV Now. The company first announced the subscription video service back in March … | Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
CNN acquires social-video startup Beme, co-founded by YouTube star Casey Neistat; app to be shut down, team to form a new media startup as an extension of CNN — With millions of people regularly tuning in to his YouTube video blogs every morning, Casey Neistat has a millennial fan base coveted by both marketers and media companies.
More:
Matt Hackett, Variety, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, VatorNews, The Verge, Hacker Noon, Tubefilter, Highsnobiety, The Next Web, SlashGear, Business Insider, HYPEBEAST, AppleInsider, Engadget, and The Drum
Tweets: @nytimes, @tsuvik, @joshconstine, @mikeisaac, @matthewknell, and @nytimesbusiness
See also Mediagazer| Steven Perlberg / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: CNN's deal to acquire Beme is valued at about $25M — YouTube creator will launch new video brand at CNN — CNN has acquired video-sharing startup Beme, a social media app launched last year by popular YouTube star Casey Neistat, the cable-news network announced Monday.
More:
Digital Trends and iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @caseyneistat, @codyjstout, and @stevetweedie. See also Mediagazer
| Ars Technica: |
Best 2016 Cyber Monday deals on smart home and media streaming devices, HDTVs, computers, smartphones, tablets, and other electronics and software — Greetings, Arsians! It's Cyber Monday, one of the busiest online shopping days of the year! Courtesy of our partners at TechBargains …
More:
BGR, BGR, The Next Web, Forbes, 9to5Mac, Tech Trader Daily, TechCrunch, CNET, PYMNTS.com, The Verge, BetaNews, AppleInsider, San Francisco Chronicle, PC Magazine, Mic, PC Magazine, Forbes, Wired, The Verge, Forbes, USA Today, USA Today, BGR, International Business Times, Forbes, Mic, BostonGlobe.com, Forbes, Forbes, USA Today, games radar, Polygon, Barron's Online, Forbes, PC Advisor, Android Central, Forbes, and Fortune. Tweets: @valaafshar
| Om Malik / New Yorker: |
Silicon Valley's biggest failing is its distinct lack of empathy for the lives disrupted by its tech: from self-driving trucks to the proliferation of fake news — Silicon Valley seems to have lost a bit of its verve since the Presidential election. The streets of San Francisco—spiritually part of the Valley—feel less crowded.
Tweets: @om, @frankpasquale, @jngross, @fredwilson, @kantrowitz, @ferenstein, @mcarney, @wselman, @coenvandedem, @mgorbis, @paulitrix, and @digiphile
| Mark Harris / Backchannel: |
Before being acquired by Uber for $680M, self-driving truck startup Otto explicitly ignored Nevada DMV regulations during first public testing — The engineer who helped craft Nevada's self-driving car regulations also ended up blowing past them. — could be the plot of an Ocean's Eleven movie …
More:
Engadget. Tweets: @sandraupson, @petercbigelow, @stevenlevy, @backchnnl, @ericnewcomer, @kadhimshubber, @sandraupson, and @megangeuss
| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Amazon sold 5.1M Echo devices in the US since 2014 launch, about 2M of them in first nine months of 2016, according to Consumer Intelligence Research Partners — Amazon's Echo device has reached a sales milestone, with a new report from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners estimating … | Laura Sydell / NPR: |
Q&A with Jestin Coler, registered Democrat and founder of Disinfomedia, which owns fake news sites including the Denver Guardian, on ad networks, money, more — Audio will be available later today. — Enlarge this image — A lot of fake and misleading news stories were shared across social media during the election.
More:
Recode and Forbes. Tweets: @npr, @bbhlabs, @aishacs, @nprextra, and @jarretthill. See also Mediagazer
| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Marc Andreessen talks about sectors tech is disrupting next, flying and autonomous cars, IoT, AR, VR, and more — Marc Andreessen may be the most dedicated optimist in Silicon Valley. During a year when the public's attention was often focused on international conflict, mass shootings … | Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
One of Trump's advisers on FCC, Mark Jamison, argued last month that the agency should only regulate radio spectrum licenses, scale back all other functions — FCC should handle spectrum licenses, but nothing else, Trump advisor wrote. — A Donald Trump advisor who will help set … Sponsor Posts
Subquadratic:
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
Cloudflare:
Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running them. 100+ sessions, workshops, and speakers from OpenAI, Arm, and Cloudflare across AI, security, and performance.
Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running them. 100+ sessions, workshops, and speakers from OpenAI, Arm, and Cloudflare across AI, security, and performance.
Zoho:
Stop re-entering Shopify order details in Zoho CRM — This is a guest blog from Xapplets (Zeeyes AI Inc).Here's a scene that plays out in many growing Shopify stores every day: a customer places an order …
Stop re-entering Shopify order details in Zoho CRM — This is a guest blog from Xapplets (Zeeyes AI Inc).Here's a scene that plays out in many growing Shopify stores every day: a customer places an order …
IDrive:
IDrive Autonomy: low-cost L2+ driver assistance with AI — L2+ driver assistance with a scalable AI stack built for automotive companies and laying the foundation for the autonomous future.
IDrive Autonomy: low-cost L2+ driver assistance with AI — L2+ driver assistance with a scalable AI stack built for automotive companies and laying the foundation for the autonomous future.Featured Podcasts
Big Technology Podcast:
GPT-6 & OpenAI's Comeback, Hugging Face Attack Debate, Ballmer's Scandalous Legacy
The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators.
Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast.
Hard Fork:
The A.I. Mob That Attacked Hugging Face + METR's Ajeya Cotra
The future is already here. Each week, journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore and make sense of the latest in the rapidly changing world of tech.
Subscribe to Hard Fork.
Channels with Peter Kafka:
Data Centers, Elon Musk, and the New Politics of Tech, with David Weigel
Media and tech aren't just intersecting - they're fully intertwined. To understand how those worlds work, Peter Kafka talks to industry leaders, upstarts and observers.
Subscribe to Channels with Peter Kafka.
Sources:
Sam Altman on OpenAI's next model and the AI backlash
Candid conversations with the leaders shaping what's next in AI and the broader tech industry. Hosted by Alex Heath, who has covered Silicon Valley for more than a decade.
Subscribe to Sources.
Uncapped with Jack Altman:
Brian Singerman from GPx
Conversations with people I admire about things I'm genuinely interested in.
Subscribe to Uncapped with Jack Altman.
Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith:
Connecting the Unconnected: Doreen Bogdan-Martin
Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith speaks with leaders in government, business, and culture to explore the most critical challenges at the intersection of technology and society.
Subscribe to Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 4:40 PM ET, November 28, 2016.
The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.
From Mediagazer
Abbie VanSickle / New York Times:Oliver Darcy / Status:
New York Times: