Think, Thought, Imagine: Daily tech, media & more (1/22/16)
Quick News (read the headlines and you’re done)
Apple Hires Virtual-Reality Researcher - WSJ
The Oculus Rift Will be in Retail Stores Come April – Road to VR
SpaceX Tested Its Capsule That Will Send Humans To Space [with video!] - TechCrunch
Apple To Update Apple Watch In Mid-March With New Bands, Os + Full Redesign In Fall – 9 to 5 Mac
YouTube Now Has a ‘Global Virtual Reality Evangelist’ [he previously headed partnerships at Jaunt, the VR company Disney invested in] - recode
Apple Readying New 4-Inch “iPhone 5se” For The Spring [huh? in short: they’re gonna release an updated iPhone 5 with faster “guts” and curved edges like the 6/6s - mainly because some people like the smaller screen (allegedly)] – Ars Technica
Please Explain (someone's gotta do it)
Seattle Bookstores Face New Threat From Amazon: A Brick-And-Mortar Location [this just as independent booksellers have actually seen increases] – the guardian
Vine’s New Trends Page Helps Users Discover The Origins Of Viral Memes [and it’s dangerous as all hell (as in addictive) - Vine doesn’t get as much press as other social networks, but a lot of what people laugh at online originates there] – The Next Web
Look, Listen (and um, learn?)
Listen: Eryn Allen Kane – How Many Times
Listen: ASAP Rocky - Yamborghini High feat. ASAP Nast & ASAP Ferg
Watch: Apple TV - The Future of TV is Apps [this ad they focus on apps vs just video content- it’s well done]
Culture (more)
Old Albums Outsold New Releases For The First Time Ever [vinyl played a relatively big role – another interesting fact, top two vinyl albums? Adele and Taylor Swift] – The Verge
Industry (we're so Hollywood)
The Martian: VR Experience Confirmed For Consumer Release [tentatively for EOY] – VR Focus
Gillian Anderson: I Was Offered Half Duchovny’s Pay for ‘The X-Files’ Revival [relevant due to the ongoing discussions around pay disparity in Hwood – and because she fought (and apparently succeeded) to be paid equally during the show’s original run] – The Daily Beast
Sundance: How Netflix Is Spending Huge and Annoying Studios [in short: they’re buying streaming rights (for a lot of money), but not theatrical, but studios who buy for theatrical often need the streaming rights so they can give to the likes of HBO, Epix, Showtime etc.] - THR
Universal Pictures to Strike $500M Slate Deal With China's Perfect World [and after Universal had its most profitable year ever] - THR
“will give it a 25 percent revenue share of most, but not all, Universal films, according to sources. Excluded are such franchise releases as future Fast & Furious or Minions films and other titles from the latter's producer Illumination Entertainment
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Trailers
Keanu – Key and Peele spoof John Wick
Neighbors 2 - this time it's the sorority throwin' the parties
Suicide Squad – full trailer for the DC Comics movie about anti-heroes – Will Smith, Margot Robbie et al.
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David Blatt – Cleveland Cavaliers (think LeBron James) fired their coach – they’re also leading their division funny enough
The Boy – new horror movie out this weekend
Weather radar – winter is… here
Luis Tomlinson – One Direction member had a kid
Charlotte Rampling – Academy Award nominee for best actress said in interview that the Oscars boycott is “racist against whites” – more context
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