July 30, 2020 Congress is starting to understand how Silicon Valley works In the runup to yesterday’s landmark antitrust hearing featuring the leaders of Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon, Dipayan Ghosh wanted to see what “unifying…
July 30, 2020 Seized Fyre Fest Merch Is Going Up for Auction An enthralling catalogue of vintage crime memorabilia has exploded on the page of a small Texas auction house today, entitled “Fyre Festival fraud scheme”:…
July 30, 2020 Star Trek’s Best Ensigns Next week, Star Trek: Lower Decks kicks off, giving us a whole show in the canon dedicated to the most unsung Starfleet officers of…
July 30, 2020 Streamers Are Misusing Twitch’s ‘Just Chatting’ Section, But It’s A Symptom Of A Larger Problem Of all of Twitch’s non-gaming categories, “Just Chatting” seems to have the most clearly defined purpose. It’s for chatting. That’s it. And yet, after…
July 30, 2020 Even Apple Gives Amazon Tax Breaks A couple of years back, Amazon’s streaming service, Prime Video, was nowhere to be found on Apple’s streaming devices—that is, until late 2017, when…
July 30, 2020 Alphabet revenue dropped in Q2 2020, the first decline since going public Google parent Alphabet had a 2% drop in sales in Q2 2020, but outlook at the end of the quarter showed some optimistic upward…
July 30, 2020 Facebook beats Q2 estimates with $18.69 billion in revenue and 2.7 billion monthly active users Facebook beat analysts’ estimates in Q2 2020, raking in $18.69 billion in revenue and hitting 2.7 billion monthly active users across its platform.Read More…
July 30, 2020 Carnegie Mellon researchers use Twitch to collect sounds for AI research Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University developed a live-streamed game designed to collect audio for AI and machine learning research.Read More via VentureBeat Check out…
July 30, 2020 Apple’s Q3 2020 revenue hits record $59.7 billion, stock will split 4:1 Apple’s revenues are in for the fiscal third quarter of 2020, and the company is succeeding during one of the most uncertain times in…
July 30, 2020 The iconic Flip Video almost became Google’s first camera, emails show Before Android, before the iPhone, and before GoPro became a known brand, the Flip Video camcorder took the world by storm, allowing millions to…