There’s always been plenty of speculation around how much Google pays Apple to include its search services inside iOS devices, and we finally have some clarity over that figure. Information raised as part of an ongoing legal case between Oracle and Google shows the search firm compensated Apple to the tune of $1 billion in 2014. Read MoreDaily Archives: January 21, 2016
There’s always been plenty of speculation around how much Google pays Apple to include its search services inside iOS devices, and we finally have some clarity over that figure. Information raised as part of an ongoing legal case between Oracle and Google shows the search firm compensated Apple to the tune of $1 billion in 2014. Read More
Canvs is a startup measuring emotion on social media — but CEO Jared Feldman insisted that we shouldn’t think of it as a social sentiment company. He said that’s because existing tools for measuring sentiment have earned something of a bad reputation. Where those tools are usually limited to classifying social media posts as good, bad or neutral, Canvs can classify a… Read MoreCanvs Raises $5.6M To Help TV Networks Track Viewers’ Emotions
How did Facebook go from 1 billion to 8 billion videos views per day in 18 months without the whole server farm catching fire? It’s called SVE, short for streaming video engine. SVE lets Facebook slice videos into little chunks, cutting the delay from upload to viewing by 10X. And to ensure the next generation of 360 and virtual reality videos load fast too, it’s invented and… Read MoreFacebook’s Engineering Wizardry Makes Even VR Videos Load Fast
Facebook wasn’t built for sports. Its filtered, non-chronological News Feed made it tough to follow real-time chatter about the game. Twitter’s feed is great for it. But out of Facebook’s 1.55 billion users, there are a LOT of rabid sports fans who aren’t on Twitter. Facebook’s not actually trying to steal Twitter’s hardcore users as much as box it out of… Read MoreFacebook Yells “Sportsball!”
The Leica X-U sports an APS-C sensor, an f/1.7 lens, and an everything-resistant body. It's also pretty cheap for a Leica, but everything's relative.
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Leica’s Slick New Waterproof Camera Only Costs $3,000
Numerous startups over the years have tried to tackle the problem of helping people track down the photos others have taken, but hadn’t yet shared with you. Today, the outsize winner in the space is Facebook, whose Moments application has taken over the social network’s photo syncing function, while leveraging Facebook’s massive scale to allow for easier private… Read MoreWaldo Raises $5 Million For A Photo-Finding Platform Targeting Professional ...
After more than a year in development, KnowMe, a new video creation and sharing platform, is launching on the iPhone. The app was created by Andrew Jarecki, the Emmy-winning and Academy Award-nominated filmmaker behind The Jinx, Catfish, and Capturing the Friedmans. KnowMe was designed from the ground up to give its users access to video editing technology that would feel less complicated… Read MoreKnowMe Is A New App For Making Better Videos On ...
If you know what a hoverboard is, chances are you know that they can be dangerous. Whether it comes to pulling a Mike Tyson (taking a hard fall) on the device or the fact that they sometimes catch fire at random, the hoverboard hasn’t particularly come off as the holiday season’s safest gift.
But today the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has released a statement… Read MoreAmazon Wants To Refund Your Potentially Explosive Hoverboard
Sony's tiny theater-maker finally has a release date and price, at least in Japan, where it will be available February 13th for roughly $800.
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Sony’s Tiny Short-Throw Projector Makes Any Wall a Screen
QuizUp, the Icelandic company that put trivia in an app, has announced that it is receiving up to $7.5 million in funding from Glu Mobile, with an option to call to acquire. This comes in the wake of a partnership forged between NBC and QuizUp, a...