Think, Thought, Imagine: Daily tech, media & more (11/20/15)
Quick News (read the headlines and you’re done)
Google Express delivery service expands throughout Southern California [why interesting: an expansion may show the program is showing signs of success] – LA Times
Jawbone Lays Off 15% of Employees Amid Heated Rivalry in Wearables [context: estimates put sales of their fitness trackers at 500K in Q2, vs 3.6 million for Apple Watch and 4.4 for Fitbit] - WSJ
Mark Zuckerberg Plans 2-Month Paternity Leave From Facebook [why interesting: high profile – you’ll be curious: Facebook offers 4 months paternity or maternity over the course of a year] – NY Times
Dunkin' Donuts is testing delivery and on-the-go ordering [partnering with delivery startup DoorDash – Starbucks has been very active (and more focused on proprietary options) on this front too] – USA Today
Please Explain (someone’s gotta do it)
Samsung's consumer Gear VR is available now for $99 [explain: Samsung sold a “beta” version that only worked with one phone, this works with more (but still only Samsung - duh) it’s also a lot cheaper and coming into a marketplace with more content options – like the new The Martian experience, born from the movie] - engadget
Gear VR Offers a Preview of Virtual Reality in the Home [more on the launch of the Gear VR] – NY Times
Great Reads (why settle for good?)
The Women of Hollywood Speak Out [you might think “I’m already aware of the issue,” but there’s a lot of good personal experience from people in here – plus, see below bullshit quote] – NY Times Mag
“When I phoned another powerful Hollywood player to ask about the issue, he said dismissively, ‘Call some chicks.'”
‘I'm Gonna Rise Above What I Was Doing’ [a first person account written by a black student from south side of Chicago (Tavaris Sanders) who details his experience attending a (mostly white) liberal-arts college in Connecticut – it’s a really personal, sweet, sad, interesting, empathy inducing read] - Chronicle
“And I got here and I was just devastated. The two days I was here was nothing like the first week. I'm from Chicago, so like, where I come from we speak slang. The way we speak is not as proper as theirs. So when I talked, they never understood what I was saying. It irritated me.”
Look, Listen (and um, learn?)
Listen: Waking Up – Mr Little Jeans
Listen: Summer Was a Day – Pete Yorn
Culture (more)
The day before Thanksgiving actually isn’t the busiest time to fly [because you’ll hear it ad-nauseam next week] - quartz
Industry (we're so Hollywood)
Fox To Stop Using Live+Same Day Ratings [why care: they’re the first TV network to do this - they’ll use: “C7” (aka live viewers and viewers within seven days) – why: Because those numbers are “no longer relevant”] - Deadline
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Trailers
Zoolander 2 [if you don’t know, we don’t wanna know]
The Boss [Melissa McCarthy plays rich tycoon who becomes not]
The Hunstman [prequel to Snow White and Huntsman – no Snow White]
Dirty Grandpa [DeNiro as horny old grandpa, Zac Efron as uptight grandson]
How to Be Single [Dakota Johnson and Rebel Wilson are single friends who make jokes]
A Monster Calls [based on children’s novel about boy who has a sick mother & trouble in school]
Gods of Egypt [Gerald Butler and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jamie Lannister) battle in ancient Egypt]
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Mali – the former French colony had terrorist attack where terrorists took 21 lives
Adele – released her new album 25 (but not on streaming services)
Future – the rapper’s birthday today and also released a new song “Rich $ex” (get it?) yesterday
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