Think, Thought, Imagine: Daily tech, media & more (2/10/16)
Quick News (read the headlines and you’re done)
Tesla Will Unveil Its $35,000 Model 3 On March 31st - TechCrunch
Yahoo Announces First Round Of Layoffs As It Trims 15 Percent Of Workforce - reuters
Twitter User Growth Comes to a Halt [i.e. they didn’t add any users last quarter – revenue went up though (48% from a year ago though)] – NY Times
YouTube Red Launches First Four Originals, Announces New Shows From Gigi Gorgeous, AwesomenessTV [reminder: YouTube Red is their $10 a month streaming service (you get no ads for regular YouTube stuff and this type of exclusive content)] - tubefilter
HBO Now Has 800,000 Paid Streaming Subscribers, Time Warner Says [since this is a new “space,” whether this should be considered low or high is hard to gauge, but it contributed a significant portion of the new US customers HBO gained last year (read: 2.7 million)] – NY Times
Please Explain (someone's gotta do it)
Twitter Will Offer Selected Tweets to Keep Users Coming Back [essentially a list of curated tweets it thinks you’ll like] – NY Times
“Tweets in this update can come from any time, from minutes to hours ago. The idea is to put important tweets up top so the user does not have to wade through less interesting information.” [and your most recent stuff will be just below it]
Look, Listen (and um, learn?)
Play: Firewatch Is A Beautiful Game That Pulled Me In Like Nothing Else I’ve Ever Played [game dropped yesterday and kind of came out of nowhere – it’s notable for many reasons, including: it looks beautiful and has an aesthetic and feel different than most video game, first game from a noted design artist, it takes place in Wyoming and deals with a man, alone in the woods of Wyoming, who’s dealing with his wife suffering early onset Alzheimer’s – but then a shadowy figure appears in the woods… Try it] – The Next Web
Culture (more)
Why We Get Running Injuries (and How to Prevent Them) – NY Times
“The never-injured runners, as a group, landed far more lightly than those who had been seriously hurt, the scientists found, even when the researchers controlled for running mileage, body weight and other variables.”
Horses Can Recognise Human Emotion, New Study Shows – the guardian
“What’s really interesting about this research is that it shows horses have the ability to read emotions across the species barrier. We have known for a long time that horses are a socially sophisticated species but this is the first time we have seen that they can distinguish between positive and negative human facial expressions,”
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Chris Christie – dropped out of the Presidential race
Golden State Warriors – just keep winning – now 47 and 4 and close to breaking home win record
Carly Fiorina - dropped out of the Presidential race
Harry Potter – script for new play will be published as a book
Ivanka Trump – showing off her baby “bump,” stumping for her dad and her daughter spoke in Mandarin for the Chinese New Year
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