Comcast’s split could make or break Peacock
…Now that Comcast is planning to split NBCUniversal, Peacock, and Sky from its broadband and wireless businesses, Peacock will be forced to stand on its own — without the backing of a combined…
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Microsoft Scout is “the first real personal assistant we’ve offered customers”
…Microsoft Scout is an always-on assistant that integrates into Microsoft 365 apps like Outlook, OneDrive, and Microsoft Teams, allowing businesses to assign a virtual assistant to employees to help with organizing…
‘We Are Xbox’: read the memo defining Microsoft’s gaming future
…They expect more content in familiar places, want to shape the worlds they play in, and want to create and socialize together, not just play together. > These changes are…
Xbox’s bold plan for the future sounds nearly impossible
…With that focus on bigger projects, some of the changes at Xbox make a certain sense. If your goal is to reach a billion people each day, a game from a quirky…
Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms
…Ultimately, everything in business is incentive, and there’s always been a bunch of doors open to us that feel very business. “We’ve got to turn this into a freemium product…
Mass Transit
…Phil Murphy look even more stupid in his failed attempt to block the climate change-fighting policy from going through. Congestion Pricing’s Unexpected Winners: Suburban Drivers [ Bloomberg ] Waymo’s school bus…
RGB LED TVs show color crosstalk issues in Display Week demo
At the Los Angeles Convention Center, two 85-inch TVs sat side by side inside the Nanosys meeting room at Display Week — a yearly business-to-business convention focusing on the technology…
Climate Change
…Policies and economies are also changing as world leaders and businesses try to cut down global greenhouse gas emissions. How energy is produced is shifting, too — from fossil fuels to carbon-free…
Ride-sharing
…three month stint, Business Insider reports. Around a dozen people were involved, though it’s not clear how many were cut. “The client has recently communicated a change in their internal priorities…
How Silicon Valley enshittified the internet
…And because it’s tech, they can move value around really quickly because that Turing completeness, that universality, means that a product can have its business logic changed from moment to moment…