| Today's Top Stories | | #1 | Pogue on TiVo Bolt: Speed, more speed and instant ad skipping | | | By David Pogue, Yahoo Tech | | | The Bolt is conceived as a clever hub for the whole universe of video. More»
Why This Matters: Pogue takes an extensive look at how the new TiVo merges web and TV into a central, searchable hub, how it manages 4K, and how it looks (spoiler: he doesn't get the curved-in-the-middle design). Perhaps most interesting (and practical) is his look at the multi-room features and the control apps. –Cynthia Wisehart |
| | #2 | Nest Weave: Nest opens up it's smart home technology to 3rd parties | | | By Dan Seifert, The Verge | | | In the still nascent world of smart home technology, Nest is already one of the dominant names. Today, it's expanding its Works with Nest program with Nest Weave, which gives third-party hardware makers access to many of the technologies previously reserved for Nest's own products. Specifically, Weave is a protocol that lets products communicate with each other without a Wi-Fi network or internet connection. More»
Why This Matters: Think of Weave as Nest's Blutooth or Wifi alternative and it further sets Next up to be the platform the home. –Cynthia Wisehart |
| | #3 | How Spotify's Discover Weekly cracked human music curation at internet scale | | | By Ben Popper, The Verge | | | Every major streaming service touts its ability to learn your taste and recommend the right song at the right time. And they all use a mix of human curators and computer algorithms to target their suggestions. But increasingly, there is a divide in the industry over which half of that equation should lead and which half should follow. More»
Why This Matters: It doesn't really matter to Pro AV exactly, right now. But I know a lot of you are musicians, and music lovers like me. I read the entire article. I'm fascinated by how music will be discovered and distributed in the future. And I think it's good to understand the possibilities, both to make your own choices, and to stay current with how audio and video flow on the pipes. In that vein, it's also time to decide whether Apple Music is worth paying for. And from the WSJ, a shootout between Joanna Stern (Spotify fan) and Wilson Rothman (Apple Music fan) –Cynthia Wisehart |
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