Microsoft says it will shut down Skype on May 5 and directs users to migrate all their contacts and chat data to Teams; Skype had 36M+ DAUs in 2023
Microsoft has announced it is discontinuing … Thomas Stevenson / The Post Millennial : Microsoft to shut down Skype in two months, company says switch to Teams David Phelan / Forbes : Microsoft Kills ...
Apple says it “has never used Siri data to build marketing profiles” and never sold it for advertising or other purposes, after paying $95M to settle a lawsuit
www.theverge.com/2025/1/8/243... David Carroll / @davidcarroll.org : Speaking of fact checks, Siri is not eavesdropping on you to target ads. A lot of smart people want to believe this false rumor. w...
Microsoft researchers introduce VASA-1, an AI model that can create a realistic talking face video from a portrait photo and an audio file, in research preview
YouTube videos of 6K celebrities helped train AI model to animate photos in real time. — “It paves the way for real-time engagements with lifelike avatars ,” reads the abstract of the accompanying M...
Netflix reports mixed Q4 earnings, with revenue of $4.19B vs. $4.21B est., says it added 8.8M global paid memberships, up from its estimate of 7.6M
and 10 percent of that is spent watching Netflix http://www.recode.net/... via @Recode http://twitter.com/... @sjeneris : I remember a VentureBeat article from 2 years ago: “Americans now play mobile ...
Netflix estimates it accounts for 10% of US TV screen time, shares audience numbers for some movies and TV shows, such as Bird Box's audience of 80M households
and 10 percent of that is spent watching Netflix http://www.recode.net/... via @Recode http://twitter.com/... Matt Rosoff / @mattrosoff : Netflix says 80m people watched Bird Box in its first 4 weeks....
Web developers and Google's own apps are increasingly diverging from open web ethos by optimizing for Google-developed standards that first ship in Chrome
Chrome-only sites are a problem — Chrome is now the most popular browser across all devices, thanks to Android's popularity … Tweets: @chartier , @tomstuart , @mattrosoff , @dhh , @vivaldibrowser , ...
Slack shares its platform product roadmap, highlights app discovery, interactivity, and developer experience as major themes, suggests app ideas
nice job @shellen @stewart cc @500Startups http://twitter.com/... Slack API / @slackapi : Today we share the Slack Platform Roadmap and Ideaboard. Help build the future along with us https://medium.co...
Google renames Chromecast app Google Cast; Vizio P-Series TVs launched with Cast support and a 6-inch Android tablet
Today, we are proud … Jon L. Jacobi / TechHive : Vizio's new P-series TVs offer affordable HDR and Google Cast support Tweets: David Chen / @davechensky : “The era of having a...physical remote that s...
Twitter Vice Presidents of product and engineering discuss how Twitter makes product decisions
Twitter's Dilemma — Twitter is two things. It is a concept — everyone in the world connected in real time — that's so obvious in retrospect that it is impossible to imagine it not existing. Tweets:...