Month: January 2020
Netflix adds 8.8M subscribers despite growing competition
Netflix grew by 8.8 million net subscribers in the fourth quarter of 2019, according to its latest earning report, putting its growth well ahead of its forecast of 7.6 million. The company says it has 167 million paid memberships worldwide, with more than 100 million outside the United States. It…
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Netflix reveals that 76 million people watched at least two minutes of The Witcher
Netflix’s fourth quarter 2019 earnings are here, and so are the first official numbers for Netflix’s latest streaming hit The Witcher. The company says the series was watched by 76 million households, making it the most-watched first season of television ever for Netflix. That’s according to Netflix’s newly unveiled definition…
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Canonical now lets you host Android apps in the cloud
Canonical has announced a new platform called Anbox Cloud which containerizes workloads using Android as a guest operating system to enable enterprises to distribute applications from the cloud. With Anbox Cloud, enterprises and service providers can deliver mobile applications more securely, at scale and independently of a device’s capabilities. Possible…
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Cruise doubles down on hardware
Ten months ago, Cruise declared it would hire at least 1,000 engineers by the end of the year, an aggressive target — even for a company with a $7.25 billion war chest — in the cutthroat autonomous vehicle industry, where startups, automakers and tech giants are battling over talent. What…
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Under Armour’s smart scale and fitness tracker have stopped tracking weight, steps, and sleep
Under Armour may have stopped making connected health gadgets since 2017, but it’s now halting software support entirely for its HealthBox collection, which included a scale, a wristband, and a chest-strapped heart rate monitor. As reported by Ars Technica, UA quietly pulled UA Record, its mobile app for tracking fitness…
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Super Bowl 2020: when is it, where is it, who’s playing, channel, kickoff start time and more
With the final drive of the Conference Championships over, it’s time for the Super Bowl to take centre stage once again. That’s right, the 49-ers have obliterated the Packers and Titans have succumbed to the Chiefs. The only thing left to do now is take the NFC and AFC champions…
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