Rest of the Day: Twitter Will Be Streaming NFL Games This Fall
Twitter, a popular site for watching long videos on the Internet, will be streaming NFL games later this year. It is unclear exactly how this will work, but they aim to be your centerpiece for discussing live events.
- Later that year, Twitter acquired the online rights to ten NFL games . Yes, Twitter. Obviously Twitter is already the preferred location for a lot of live-streaming conversations – one of the site’s advantages over Facebook – so why not host a soccer game directly on the site! Good! Play the ball! [Bloomberg]
- The Facebook iOS app has a new feature for visually impaired users that can describe what is shown in the picture . They use artificial intelligence to create “automatic alternative text” that identifies what is in a photograph using a few simple descriptors such as “trees, sky, nature” or “two people smiling, sunglasses.” Which is quite surprising, frankly. [Facebook Newsroom]
- T-Mobile has just added 16 more streaming services to Binge On . Of particular interest is Amazon Music. [9to5Mac]
- The messaging app Kik has just launched a bot store . They partner with other sites like The Weather Channel and Funny Or Die, so you can interact with these services via live chat. You can even launch your own bot if you like. The bot shop called; they run out of you! [Kik Blog via The Verge ]
- HP just wants to be loved. They are releasing a new laptop called Specter, which is super slim , super shiny, and … that’s really it. Looks trendy. [Gizmodo]