That'll be the day
economist.com
Which is why Airbus is hoping its latest feature could be a draw for airlines looking to offer their passengers something beyond the usual menu of overpriced refreshments and upgrades. Its new A350 XWB aeroplane has LED lights that can produce 16.7m different color shades which, it says, can mimic the light effect of different times of day. When travelling east, the plane can expose passengers to brighter lights before dawn, making it seem as if the day has already begun, as it has in their destination. In the reverse direction, continued exposure to light in the evening can simulate the delayed sunset to the west.
“We understand in today’s game people sharing those experiences is part of what they want to do when they go to a game,” Andrew Patterson, director of new media at MLB Advanced Media told BuzzFeed News in a phone interview. “Any time there’s an opportunity on the baseball side to do a Periscope and push it out we’ll definitely do those.”
Another trend that he points out is how the traditional dinner-and-a-movie date has been replaced by, well, just dinner. “Now you go straight to dinner, you talk about the dinner you had last week and the dinner you’re going to have next week. Fuck the movie!” After a short pause, he quickly adds, “I’ll stream it. Possibly during dinner, in between Instagrammming my dinner. Because it really didn’t happen until you’ve Instgrammmed it.”
“Welcome home, darling,” Mrs. Talese said. “You’re all over Twitter.”
Heard this was amazing.
Pretty skeptical of this being any good and/or watchable, but could be a decent one-time gimmick. 📽📽📽
Amazing(ly gross).
Given a ten percent chance of a 100 times payoff, you should take that bet every time. But you’re still going to be wrong nine times out of ten. We all know that if you swing for the fences, you’re going to strike out a lot, but you’re also going to hit some home runs. The difference between baseball and business, however, is that baseball has a truncated outcome distribution. When you swing, no matter how well you connect with the ball, the most runs you can get is four. In business, every once in a while, when you step up to the plate, you can score 1,000 runs. This long-tailed distribution of returns is why it’s important to be bold. Big winners pay for so many experiments.
I’m glad you asked. That’s the most exciting part, by far. Film School Rejects will be moving to Medium, a publishing platform that, as of today, is expanding to support premium independent publishers. You may know Medium as a platform for individuals who would like to share their stories, but it’s about to become something much more. In February, they announced that Bill Simmons’ new site The Ringer will be hosted on their platform. Not long after that, they showed up in my inbox asking about Film School Rejects. It’s kismet, because obviously Bill and I were always meant to be digital neighbors and best friends. At least that’s how the whole scenario plays out in my warped mind.
The development puts a renewed spotlight on Starz, which has surpassed its rival Showtime to become the second-largest premium TV network in the country behind HBO. Now it is seeking to expand its footprint even more by making the network available outside the traditional pay TV model, as HBO has with HBO Now, and other media companies have with similar services.
At around $1 million per game, Twitter is paying a small fraction of what would seem to be the market rate. Yahoo paid $17 million to stream a single game from London, which was played at 9:30 a.m. New York time and also broadcast on network TV in the teams’ home markets. In the most recent broadcast deal, CBS Corp. and Comcast Corp.’s NBC each paid about $45 million a game for five Thursday night contests each during the 2016 and 2017 seasons.
“We did not take the highest bidder on the table,” said Brian Rolapp, the NFL’s executive vice president of media, of the Twitter deal. “The platform is built around live events already. We want to see how they use the unique platform, and syndicated tweets all over the Internet is going to be interesting.”
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The New Day, Britain’s youngest media start-up, has a little something for everyone: a digest of the day’s top news, human-interest features, coverage of popular culture, sports, health and travel, and even advice columnists.
What it doesn’t have is a website. Or an app. Or really much of a digital presence at all.
“No term since 1990 has included more than two tie votes, a benchmark the court has now hit in a single week.”
Wow. Big shake up.
Mr. Staggs, according to these people, will step down as Disney’s chief operating officer early next month. Over the last year, as Mr. Staggs came under intense scrutiny by Disney’s board, it became clear that at least some board members were not convinced that Mr. Staggs, 55, had the skills required to maintain Disney’s creative momentum, these people said. Mr. Staggs and Disney mutually decided to part ways.
An International Monetary Fund study in 2014 noted there were “many examples of failure” by countries trying to reduce reliance on energy production and few successes. Gulf Arab monarchies may have missed their best chance when oil prices were above $100 a barrel rather than about $40 now.
“It is clear Saudi Arabia needs to reform, diversify, and re-energize its economy, but this will involve more than just increasing investments in non-oil industries,” said Paul Sullivan, a professor of security studies at Georgetown University in Washington. “One cannot order economic reforms like a multiple course dinner.”
Limp says the sales numbers aren’t a priority at this point. Rather, he’s more focused on making the product better and smarter. “At Amazon, we believe the next big platform is the voice,” Limp said at a recent press event for Echo. “What we’re trying to do is to build a computer in the cloud that’s completely controlled by your voice.”
What could go wrong? 🐻⚾️
But the Cubs are also this year’s preseason favorites. Casinos in Las Vegas have given them four-to-one odds of taking home the Commissioner’s Trophy in October, more than twice as good as those of any other team, and the predictions of the sports media have largely echoed the sentiment. Chicago’s status is the result of a promising 2015—with one of baseball’s youngest squads, they won 97 games before falling in the league championship round of the postseason—and a winter that saw them add a number of highly sought-after free agents to their roster. They are at once underdog and front-runner: history’s David and this year’s Goliath.
Beer, you know, it’s just fun
Some thoughts on our latest investment...
Tell me someone used the headline: "If you build it, they will come."
This is that. Exactly. 🚗🚕🚙
Customers gave Tesla what is effectively a $232 million interest-free loan to fund its goal of selling 500,000 new Model 3s by the end of the decade,
Watch the video. Amazing.
To prove Jobs right, around 13,000 construction workers have laboured for years behind thick, high walls. The site spans several city blocks. Earlier this year, everything was hidden from view except cranes and a huge sand pile that rose a few hundred feet high, like the Great Pyramid of Giza. The scale of the project rivals the ancient Egyptians’ monuments. Every piece of glass on the four-storey exterior is curved, requiring special panes to be made in Germany – the largest pieces of curved glass ever manufactured. With a price tag of around $5 billion, it may be the most expensive corporate headquarters in history.
I wish American sports leagues had this dynamic. Brilliant & fair. And eliminates tanking. ⚽️
Jobs responded back right away:
David,
Apple is focused on the future, not the past.
—Steve
Great background on Alaska Airlines. Seemingly the soon-to-be owner of all of our favorite airline. ✈️✈️✈️
Only April Fools here are those who are not yet aboard the 🚀 that is Slack.
This, despite the fact that he is a tireless self-promoter who fancies himself the next Fabio. Industry executives say it will be difficult to topple the king. “Nobody did it better than Fabio,” said Allison Kelley, executive director of the romance writers group. “He really did create the brand.”
Interesting. But don't think I could go back.
But that’s about all I can tell you right now: it’s very Tesla-like, it’s definitely quick, and it’s roomy. Given Musk’s MO, none of that should come as a surprise. I also think it’s pretty — certainly prettier than the Model X, and possibly prettier than the Model S. That won’t necessarily matter to the Tesla die-hards who were going to plunk down a deposit no matter what, but to legitimately pit this $35,000 sports sedan against the BMW 3 Series, Audi A4s, and Mercedes C-Classes of the world, looking good is non-negotiable.
“Most of Model 3 has to be new,” Straubel said during the question-and-answer portion of the event. “With X, we were able to build on a lot of common components with S, but with Model 3 we can’t do that. So we’re inventing a whole new platform for Model 3. It’s a new battery architecture, it’s a new motor technology, brand-new vehicle structure -- it’s a lot of work. This is something we started on even a few years ago. It is a brand new vehicle -- and it has to be.”
Mr. Kalanick said it was likely that soon, in big cities and even in many suburbs, most Uber rides will be pooled, meaning each Uber car will be serving more than one rider most of the time.
If that occurs, and if Uber continues growing at its breakneck pace, it would represent a momentous transformation in how Americans get around. Car-pooling was popular in the earliest days of the automobile, but for much of the last 100 years, the numbers have been going in the opposite direction. Today most Americans drive to work alone.
Most comics don’t generate that much buzz, but then again, most comics aren’t written by Ta-Nehisi Coates, a national correspondent for The Atlantic and the best-selling author of “Between the World and Me,” which won the National Book Award last year. One of the most celebrated authors about race in America writing about a black superhero who has pummeled Captain America and members of the Ku Klux Klan? The collective response from fans of comics and Mr. Coates alike: I’d read that.