Netflix Is Using ‘The Defenders’ to Understand Its Audience Todd Yellin is pretty sure his wife would have never watched Jessica Jones if he hadn’t tricked her. She’s not a fan of shows based on comic books, and even though he’s a Netflix exec, nepotism wouldn’t have been enough to make her tune in. Yet he …
IBM, Costco, Walmart and others team up to improve food safety with blockchains IBM today announced that it is working with a consortium that includes Costco, Golden State Foods, McCormick and Company, Nestlé, Tyson Foods, Unilever and Walmart to bring the benefit of blockchains to the food supply chain.
Linksys’ new router puts your gaming needs before everyone else’s The idea is relatively simple. The WRT32X simply determines which devices using the Killer Networking hardware are connected to it. It then works with the network to “prioritize important gaming and video networking traffic above other devices in the home.” If the network is saturated, the …
Android through the ages: Cupcake, Nougat and everything in between Introduction Android has the largest install base of any operating system, mobile or desktop. And it’s not just in phones and tablets: smart TVs, cars and smartwatches are all powered by the little green man. Its triumph hasn’t always seemed inevitable, though – in fact its …
Jake Bright Contributor Jake Bright is a writer and author in New York City. He is co-author of The Next Africa. More posts by this contributor: Americans can now buy African goods on eBay through the company’s partnership with MallforAfrica.com. Starting this week, products from select vendors in six African countries are available on eBay’s …
The Morning After: Tuesday, August 22nd 2017 It’ll be on the Pixel very soon.Oreo is officially the next name for Android Google loves to make a big splash when it reveals the name for the latest version of Android. But the company is going all out this year, using the solar eclipse as an opportunity to …
We Can’t Stop Checking the News Either. Welcome to the New FOMO This other type of FOMO, the all-news, all-the-time kind, is new enough that nobody has really studied it much, yet of the half-dozen experts in sociology, anthropology, economics, and neurology I spoke to, all quickly recognized what I was describing, and some even admitted …
Samsung Galaxy S9: what we want to see Update: A new rumor suggests the Samsung Galaxy S9 could support modular accessories, but that the fingerprint scanner won’t be built into the screen. Elsewhere, we’ve once again heard that the top-end Snapdragon 845 chipset could be used in at least some models of the Samsung Galaxy S9, …
The first ‘Shenmue III’ teaser is comfortably familiar [embedded content] The new teaser video boasts all the familiar tropes from the series. Sweeping orchestral soundtrack: check. Shots of Ryo and Shenhua gazing at open vistas: check. The mysterious dragon and phoenix mirrors: check. And, a dose of martial arts training (plus what looks like a boss …