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March 25, 2016
The Real Reason Why The Live Streams For Events Like March Madness Are So Glitchy
Blame money and pride, not bandwidth or technology, for live streaming's problems.
If this year's March Madness is anything like the last, viewers who opt to stream the late-round games over the Internet should brace for some unpleasantness.
Whisper's Master Of Content Moderation Is A Machine
How the anonymous social network used deep learning to teach "the Arbiter" to spot material that's mean, gross, and/or illegal.
When people are granted anonymity on the Internet, does that make them more likely to behave in a way that's sincere, constructive, and uplifting, or trollish, disgusting, or even dangerous?
Scotts Miracle-Gro Pioneers The "Connected Yard"
The lawn care company is building an Internet of Things platform for connected lawn care and gardening devices.
Scotts Miracle-Gro wants to bring your yard into the digital age.
This Supersonic Jet Could Make The NYC To London Commute In 3.5 Hours
Richard Branson's Virgin is working with startup Boom to make transatlantic trips twice as short.
Richard Branson is working with a Colorado aviation startup called Boom to bring back supersonic flights to the business world, the Guardian reports. Boom aims to create a new plane that can fly at supersonic speeds of up to Mach 2.2 (1,451 mph) and cost passengers as little as $5,000 round-trip to make the commute from New York to London is less than three and a half hours. Boom wouldn't be the first commercial supersonic passenger plane, of course. That title goes to the Concorde, which was retired in 2003.
This Supersonic Jet Could Make The N.Y.C. To London Commute In 3.5 Hours
Richard Branson's Virgin is working with startup Boom to make transatlantic trips twice as short.
Richard Branson is working with a Colorado aviation startup called Boom to bring back supersonic flights to the business world, the Guardian reports. Boom aims to create a new plane that can fly at supersonic speeds of up to Mach 2.2 (1,451 mph) and cost passengers as little as $5,000 round-trip to make the commute from New York to London is less than three and a half hours. Boom wouldn't be the first commercial supersonic passenger plane, of course. That title goes to the Concorde, which was retired in 2003.
Apple Is Making Color Quality The New Killer Feature
With more colorful screens and technologies to adjust hues to ambient light and time of day, Apple is pushing color as the next big thing.
For years, Apple sought to accentuate the elegant design of its products by using simple colors like black and white, then later expanding to silver, gold, and rose gold. And it has touted the retina display and color quality of iPhone and iPad cameras. Now, Apple is focusing on improving the quality of color hues on the screen, which have the potential to actually improve the health of users.
Netflix Admits To Throttling Video Quality For Verizon And AT&T Users
The company will allow users to control bitrate streaming in May.
Last week reports swirled that Verizon and AT&T were throttling customers' bitrate speeds while watching Netflix films on their networks, resulting in lower-quality video. The accusations were lobbed against the two telecoms giants by T-Mobile's CEO. In response, Verizon and AT&T went on the defensive. And now, as the Wall Street Journal reports, it turns out that neither of the companies had anything to do with it. The real perpetrator? Netflix itself.
Hackers Steal Data On 1.5 Million Verizon Enterprise Customers
Stolen data is for sale for $100,000.
Verizon Enterprise Solutions, the B2B division of the telecommunications company that caters to government agencies and Fortune 500 companies, which offers services including helping those organizations respond to data breaches, has experienced a massive data breach of its own, reports Krebs on Security.
As JetBlue Expands Its First Class, An Egalitarian Era Ends
JetBlue's experiment with first class has taken off and it is now expanding, with an experience tailored for entrepreneur types.
When JetBlue launched in 2000, founder David Neeleman wanted to 
Why This Tech Company Starts New Hires On Fridays (And Why You Should, Too)
Common sense meets culture at tech startup Spredfast's onboarding process.
If it seems like everyone is grumpier at the beginning of the workweek, it might not be your imagination. Mondays are tough even when you like your job, and a new report published in the Journal of Applied Psychology suggests that negativity can be as contagious among coworkers as any illness.
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