Think, Thought, Imagine: Daily Tech, Media & More (12/4/15)
Quick News (read the headlines and you’re done)
Starbucks Begins Offering Delivery, but the Fee Will Cost More Than a Coffee [$6 delivery fee (plus tip) - testing in select Seattle neighborhoods] - recode
Amazon Buys Thousands of Its Own Truck Trailers as Its Transportation Ambitions Grow [yawn, but: portends the future of Amazon as a self-sustaining shipper?] - recode
Please Explain (someone’s gotta do it)
Yahoo Board Is Quiet on Any Shake-Up Plans – NY Times
“Yahoo’s directors ended three days of deliberations on Friday without announcing whether they will proceed with plans to spin off its $31 billion of stock in the Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba or adopt an activist shareholder’s recommendation to spin off or sell Yahoo’s core business, or do something else entirely.”
Look, Listen (and um, learn?)
Listen: All Songs Considered: The Year In Music 2015 [featured songs from the year and a discussion from the critics] - NPR
Look: New Horizons Just Sent Its Sharpest Possible Photos of Pluto [check out where your great great great great great great great great great great grandchildren will live] - Wired
Let's Get Weird (what is normal, anyway)
Sad Girls And Goth Mermaids Take Over Miami Beach - Dazed
Culture (more)
Athleta Opens First Ever Fitness Studio With Free Classes and Beauty Bar [why interesting: as athleisure becomes more competitive, companies will need to differentiate themselves – example A] - Observer
Industry (we're so Hollywood)
Netflix's Uninspired Marco Polo Series Gets A One-Hour Special [ignore the snarky opinionated headline – the point is this is an interesting example of what the flexibility of Netflix’s system brings in terms of storytelling] – The Verge
iOS: Top Free
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Wish - Shopping
Pandora
Amazon
Trailers
Batman v Superman [the v is for verisimilitude. ok, not really]
I Saw the Light [Tom Hiddleston plays Hank Williams in biopic]
Eye in the Sky [Aaron Paul and Helen Mirren in drone war thriller]
Barbershop: The Next Cut [Ice Cube and whole crew, plus new additions, are back]
The Nice Guys [Ryan Gosling, Russell Crow in 70’s based crime caper directed by Shane Black (Iron Man 3, Lethal Weapon and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang]
Google Trends
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Stitches – rapper was punched by The Game’s manager after confronting them at a Miami club
Kid Cudi – released a new album that focuses on mental health
Tiffany Thorton – Disney star’s husband passed away in a car crash
Daisy Ridley – star of the new Star Wars (starting her interview tour)
Affluenza – the term used in a defense for a 16 year old’s drunk driving case which resulted in probation (new info in case was released)
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