Category: <span>Tech</span>

Sky Sports and 1071 Media, the production company founded by former England manager Sir Gareth Southgate and entrepreneur Jimmy Worrall, have announced a partnership to create and distribute a slate of social, long-form football content, bringing insight, analysis and topical conversation to fans across digital platforms. The partnership will see Sky Sports integrate their resources...

Roku announced Roku Outcomes, a machine learning-powered optimization suite that brings performance advertising capabilities to streaming TV. With Roku Outcomes, marketers can optimize delivery for a specific action, such as an app install or a subscription at a target cost per acquisition (CPA) they set. Roku Outcomes brings the discipline that marketers use on search...

The Echo speaker lineup gets an upgrade—Echo Dot is more capable than ever with a built-in smart home hub, while a new Echo Studio gains a camera that lets Alexa+ see and help. Echo Dot and Echo Studio are two of our most-loved speakers—the most affordable way to bring great sound to any room in the home, and...

Apple CEO John Ternus unveiled the company’s first touchscreen MacBooks on Wednesday, abandoning a long-held aversion to the technology as it caps a burst of product launches ahead of the holiday shopping season. On stage at an Apple event in Los Angeles, Ternus showed a MacBook Pro ​model with an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display, playing...

FRP Moto, the mini bike brand of FRP Powersports, Inc., has launched the M3, its first mini bike designed from the ground up for electric power. The M3’s standout feature is Auto-Wheelie. In addition to three riding gears, the bike has two dedicated wheelie gears: a practice mode for riders still learning the technique and...

Television executive Peter Rice joins Netflix as Chief Content Officer, effective October 26. He replaces Bela Bajaria, who is leaving Netflix after nearly 10 years, most recently leading the Company’s global content team.  “I want to thank Bela for a decade of dedication, innovation, creativity and leadership,” said Ted Sarandos, co-CEO of Netflix. “She led...

Data from 69,000 women in 11 countries, including more than 16,000 in the US, shows deep sleep falls and night-time heart rate climbs in the premenstrual week, a pattern seen in every country studied. US women record the highest night-time heart rate of all. A new Withings analysis of 469,000 menstrual cycles from 69,000 women not...

Netflix has confirmed it will cut 1,000 staff from its global workforce  – around 6 per cent of its employees – as the streaming giant faces growing competition from media mergers, social media platforms and vertical content. In a staff memo, Netflix Co-CEOs Greg Peters and Ted Sarandos said: “Team – We wanted to share that...

Netflix has announced that it will exclusively broadcast every match of the FIFA World Cup 2030 to subscribers in Spain and Andorra. It marks the first time the streaming giant will host action from the world’s biggest football tournament. With defending FIFA World Cup 2026 champion Spain serving as one of the competition’s three host...

Vodafone TV is now live in the UK. The new entertainment hub, first announced in early-September, brings together streaming services Netflix and HBO Max, streaming platform Freely, an additional 150+ live TV channels, 300+ games, music and a range of content apps.  Customers with a Vodafone mobile or broadband plan can take Vodafone TV from £10...