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BitTorrent takes on Netflix and Amazon with new original content partnership

Feb11
by on February 11, 2015 at 5:42 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Everyone’s getting into the original content game now. BitTorrent today announced a partnership with Rapid Eye Studios to debut original content on the BitTorrent Bundle distribution platform. Rapid Eye Studios, created by producer Marco Weber, will be creating and producing the content. It will be released first on BitTorrent, but the platform only has the content exclusively for 30 to 60 days. After that period, it can be made available through any other distributor. Still, the projects receive heavy BitTorrent support, with marketing across all of BitTorrent’s brand. Creators can choose either paid or free (advertising-based) pricing models. BitTorrent says its original programming will…

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BitTorrent takes on Netflix and Amazon with new original content partnership

Feb11
by on February 11, 2015 at 5:42 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

BitTorrent
Everyone’s getting into the original content game now. BitTorrent today announced a partnership with Rapid Eye Studios to debut original content on the BitTorrent Bundle distribution platform. Rapid Eye Studios, created by producer Marco Weber, will be creating and producing the content. It will be released first on BitTorrent, but the platform only has the content exclusively for 30 to 60 days. After that period, it can be made available through any other distributor. Still, the projects receive heavy BitTorrent support, with marketing across all of BitTorrent’s brand. Creators can choose either paid or free (advertising-based) pricing models. BitTorrent says its original programming will…

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89% off the Apple Watch App Builder Course

Feb11
by on February 11, 2015 at 5:35 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Offers, TNWDeals

While smartwatches have been around for a little while now, none have been more highly anticipated than the upcoming Apple Watch, slated to launch this year. And while its design and build look promising, the interface and functionality are expected to set the benchmark for what wearables can achieve. Here’s a great opportunity to begin building apps for the Apple Watch ahead of time. Mammoth Interactive’s course will take you through the fundamentals of WatchKit, Apple’s toolkit for building apps for its first wearable. You can start watching the online tutorials right now, and learn at your own pace to…

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Samsung’s troubles prove smart TVs are the dumbest tech purchase

Feb11
by on February 11, 2015 at 5:16 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, netflix, Opinion, samsung, smart tvs

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The big problem with smart TVs isn’t that they interrupt your viewing with ads or listen to your private conversations like a horrible corporate-branded take on Nineteen Eighty-Four’s telescreens. It’s that they’re unnecessary. They’re the product of companies jostling to remain relevant and desperate to shovel more apps your way. Samsung is currently struggling with dual controversies about its smart TVs – a glitch in Australia forcing Pepsi ads on unsuspecting viewers and a poorly-written privacy policy that suggested its screens were unwelcome eavesdroppers in millions of living rooms. The simple solution? It should stop making them. Of course it makes…

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Elon Musk’s Hyperloop gets its first funded startup and landing page

Feb11
by on February 11, 2015 at 4:46 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

Elon Musk’s Hyperloop may have seemed like a crazy idea pulled out of a science fiction novel when first introduced, but every day it seems closer to reality. A group called Hyperloop Technologies has stepped up as the first funded Hyperloop startup, armed with an $8.5 million pool of money and plans for an $80 milion funding round later this year. It’s an all-star team. There’s Shurvin Pichevar, a major investor in Uber close to Musk, Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir, Joe Messina, former White House deputy chief of staff, David Sacks, founder of Yammer, Peter Diamandis, founder of the X-prize, and Brogan…

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