Leo’s Twitter Updates for 2007-12-27

Trying to sleep so I can get up early for the flight to Cairo. Can’t. #
Checking in at Lufthansa for Boston to Cairo via Frankfurt. Flight leaves in three hours. #

Peacock, Roku reach deal to add streaming service app to TV devices - CNET 18 September 2020

Roku and Amazon both have become more assertive in their talks with new streaming services lately, and media companies are more invested in reaping the most reward possible from their products, leading to impasses. HBO Max, for example, is still missing from both Roku and Fire TV several months after its May launch, although perhaps […]

Trump to block downloads of TikTok, WeChat on Sunday 18 September 2020

The department’s move is an enforcement of Trump’s original executive order from Aug. 6 that gave TikTok 45 days to sell its U.S. business to an American company or face a ban in this country. The end of the 45-day period is Sunday. WeChat, one of the world’s most popular social messaging apps, is owned by the Chinese […]

TikTok Accepts Deal Revisions as Trump Prepares to Review Proposal - The New York Times 18 September 2020

Social Gaming Startup Bunch Snags $20 Million Series A, Backing From Major Game Studios 17 September 2020

The grandest dream for Bunch is that it ends up like Discord, a chat app that’s also a social network. “There hasn’t been a social network created yet for casual gamers,” Bonatsos says. “For that kind of person, there is no real community.”

Mozilla wants your help to fix terrible YouTube recommendations - The Verge 17 September 2020

Mozilla will introduce a new browser extension, RegretsReporter, that aims to crowdsource research about users’ “regrettable recommendations,” to let users better understand how YouTube’s recommendation algorithm works and provide details about patterns it discovers.

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