Friday 12 April 2019

The Morning After: Disney's streaming service will cost $6.99

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After much teasing, Disney has revealed all the details of its streaming service, bringing the full might of its animated movie back-catalogue alongside all… those… Marvel… characters. The service is set to launch in November, and we’re already hearing about the new movies and shows that will come to the service.

It has also introduced leasing and made Autopilot standard.

Tesla's $35,000 Model 3 is only available as a special order

Tesla has halted online sales of the $35,000 Model 3 and will only sell it by telephone or in its stores. It also made the Autopilot driver-assist features standard on all its vehicles (except the aforementioned $35K model) and increased prices accordingly. The Model 3 Standard Plus, for instance, used to cost $37,500 plus $3,000 for Autopilot, and it now starts at $39,500.
Intriguingly, Tesla has also introduced leasing. US customers can choose from 10,000, 12,000 and 15,000 mile annual-usage options. Lease customers won't get the option to buy back their vehicles at the end of the term, with the company planning to use those older vehicles in its autonomously driven ride-hailing network.

Incredibly customizable, incredibly niche.

Alienware Area-51m review: A gaming desktop stuffed inside a laptop

Alienware’s Area 51m is a truly unique laptop. It’s portable, but it packs all the power and customizability you’d want from a gaming desktop. Still, when other modern laptops are significantly thinner, cheaper and almost as powerful, it’s a tough sell for most gamers. If anything, it’s a testament to Dell’s ingenuity. And for players who demand power above all else, it’s a solid choice.

Disney+ launches November 12th for $6.99 per month

The Netflix-fighter is coming.

After more than a year of waiting, Disney took the wraps off of its subscription streaming service Thursday night in a presentation for investors. Disney+ will launch November 12th across most mobile and connected TV platforms, ready to draw in streamers with day-one content including Captain Marvel, all 30 seasons of The Simpsons, Pixar movies, a new Star Wars live-action series called The Mandalorian and even Disney’s impressive library of animated movies.

While we saw some of the apps in action, we didn’t get much in the way of tech details beyond confirmation it supports 4K and HDR. Disney promised more than 25 original episodic series, more than ten original movies, more than 7,500 episodes of old shows, more than 100 recent titles and more than 400 archive titles, all in year one alone. Still, the biggest news is the price: It all costs $6.99 per month or $69.99 annually.

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SpaceX launched its rocket after a delay due to inclement weather.

Falcon Heavy successfully completes triple-booster landing

SpaceX launched its Falcon Heavy rocket on Thursday evening, following a one-day delay due to inclement weather. The plan is for the rocket's side boosters and central core stage to return to Earth, which will be particularly challenging. Space X failed on the center core part during last year's launch. If they are successful this time, it will be the world's first successful triple rocket landing.

But wait, there's more...

1. Privately owned Moon lander crashes in historic attempt

2. Sony's popular A7 III camera now tracks your pet's eyes

3. US charges Assange with conspiracy to commit computer hacking

4. Google and Huawei will pay Nexus 6P owners up to $400 each for battery woes

5. Samsung Galaxy Fold reservations begin

6. Uber files for its IPO and faces the past

7. Your Android phone's volume key can unlock your Google account

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Thursday 11 April 2019

Editor's Pick: What Sellers Are Missing From CRM

What Sellers Are Missing From CRM

Tony Kavadas
Apr 11, 2019 5:00 AM PT

As the B2B buyer continues to evolve, B2B sellers have more solutions than ever in their technology stacks. From CRM, sales content and asset management, to sales enablement, LMS and more, these technologies have been adopted in order to stay ahead of the changing behavior of prospects. The adopter of these solutions hopes to drive individual sales while increasing the team's productivity. [More...]

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Microsoft's Edge Goes With the Chromium Flow
Microsoft has released the first Dev and Canary channel builds of the next version of Microsoft Edge, based on the Chromium open source project. The company last year revealed that it was reworking its browser to be based on Chromium. Now the latest developments are ready for early testers on several versions of Windows and macOS. So far, however, no support is available for Linux. [More...]

Alphabet's Wing Delivery Service Takes Flight in Australia
Alphabet's Project Wing on Monday launched a commercial air delivery service in North Canberra, Australia, providing customers with fresh food, hot coffee and over-the-counter medications from seven local businesses. Shoppers can use Wing's mobile app to place orders and receive deliveries within 30 minutes. The launch follows an 18-month test period in the area. [More...]

Report: Apple Is Gearing Up to Debut Mini-LED Display Tech
Apple plans to introduce a number of new products in the next two years that will sport a new display technology, according to master Apple watcher Ming-Chi Kuo of TF International Securities. Based on Kuo's predictions, which were reported widely on Tuesday, Apple will use new "mini LED" technology in three new products: a 31.6-inch monitor, a new iPad, and a new MacBook. [More...]

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E-Commerce Minute: Thursday -- April 11, 2019

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What Sellers Are Missing From CRM

As the B2B buyer continues to evolve, B2B sellers have more solutions
than ever in their technology stacks. From CRM, sales content and asset
management, to sales enablement, LMS and more, these technologies have
been adopted in order to stay ahead of the changing behavior of
prospects. The adopter of these solutions hopes to drive individual
sales while increasing the team's productivity.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/85950.html

Alphabet's Wing Delivery Service Takes Flight in Australia

Alphabet's Project Wing on Monday launched a commercial air delivery
service in North Canberra, Australia, providing customers with fresh
food, hot coffee and over-the-counter medications from seven local
businesses. Shoppers can use Wing's mobile app to place orders and
receive deliveries within 30 minutes. The launch follows an 18-month
test period in the area.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/85947.html

10 Steps to Create a Seamless Omnichannel Business

During the last year, longstanding brick-and-mortar retailer chains such
as Toys "R" Us, Payless, and Diesel USA have filed for bankruptcy.
Failures like these happen despite the fact that U.S. consumer spending
currently is high, and the unemployment rate is low. Why is that? We
cannot address this topic without first taking a good look at Amazon and
the massive power it represents.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/85942.html

Social Media's Next Act

A little over 10 years ago, we were toasting social media as the great
innovation that would enable CRM to traverse the mythical last mile
between vendors and customers. Every analyst had something positive to
say about social and its future role in CRM. I wrote a paper forecasting
that social networking and analytics would be tightly interwoven into
the fabric of the vendor-customer relationship.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/85944.html

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The Morning After: We saw a black hole

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It's Thursday, April 11, 2019.

Hey, good morning! You look fabulous.

Hey, you want to see a black hole? Now you can. Also, SpaceX is about to attempt something you’ve just got to watch live (the view of two booster rockets landing in perfect sync is amazing), and the House of Representatives is trying to save net neutrality.

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Gotta put it on Instagram.

This is the first real picture of a black hole

After years of relying on computer-generated imagery, scientists using the Event Horizon Telescope have captured the first real image of a black hole. The snapshot of the supermassive black hole in the Messier 87 galaxy (about 55 million light years away) shows the "shadow" created as the event horizon bends and sucks in light.

The image required connecting eight existing high-altitude telescopes, including ones in Chile and Antarctica, to reach an angular resolution high enough to capture such a relatively compact object (the event horizon is "just" 24.9 billion miles across) at an extreme distance. Supercomputers at the Max Planck Institute and MIT's Haystack Observatory had to combine "petabytes" of raw data from the telescopes.

Attempt number two.

Watch SpaceX's Falcon Heavy launch and triple booster landing Thursday

Last year, SpaceX finally launched its massive Falcon Heavy rocket for the first time. While the plan to return all three of its boosters fell just short of success, today the company will try again, and, as usual, you can watch a live stream of the attempt right here. A launch attempt Wednesday night fell through due to high atmospheric winds, but another window opens Thursday evening between 6:30 and 8:30 PM ET.

So, about that...

Amazon Go stores will start accepting cash

The company hasn't released any details or a timeline, but this may be in response to accusations that cashless stores discriminate against people without bank accounts or smartphones -- or people who have poor credit. Last month, Philadelphia became the first US city to ban cashless stores. New York, San Francisco, Chicago and Washington, DC, are considering similar legislation, and Massachusetts and New Jersey now prohibit cashless businesses.

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Donald Glover’s Coachella set includes tie-ins with Google and Amazon

First, the musician will host a “Brighter in the Dark” festival experience designed to show off the Pixel 3's Night Sight capabilities. Then, after Childish Gambino’s Coachella set ends late Friday night / early Saturday morning (all streaming live on YouTube, of course), Amazon Prime Video will stream his new movie Guava Island -- and for the first 18 hours, it’s free.

We can’t get enough of scams.

Hulu orders ‘The Dropout’ Theranos miniseries from Kate McKinnon

The show would be produced by and star Saturday Night Live veteran Kate McKinnon and would have its roots in a similarly titled podcast that was turned into a 20/20 documentary in March.

It’s also adding new channels including the Discovery networks.

YouTube TV costs $50 per month after another price hike

The Google-owned service has announced it's raising the base monthly price to $50 ($55 if you subscribe directly through an Apple TV), effective immediately for new subscribers and from May 13th onward for existing customers.

The team behind ‘Oxenfree’ is back with a new game coming later this year.

Flirt with Satan, but not your best friend, in emo adventure 'Afterparty'

In the coming narrative-adventure game from Night School Studio, the Prince of Darkness is hosting a rager on the outskirts of hell's waiting room, a city where fresh corpses are processed before being shipped off for an eternity of torture. There's a standing challenge for anyone who passes through: If you can outdrink Satan, you get to return to Earth. That’s where the main characters Lola and Milo come in.

According to Night School co-founder Sean Krankel, "The thing we don't talk about in the press that much is that the game is about the nature of friendship. The ups and downs of that, and managing what it is like to be in a long-term relationship with somebody, and how maybe you backstab them and stuff."