The Rest of the Day: Twitter to Stream the Presidential Debate
Twitter will be streaming the upcoming presidential debate live in partnership with Bloomberg. Of course, the broadcasts will be accompanied by relevant, carefully selected tweets. About this and much more in today’s news.
- You will be able to look at debates.twitter.com or Twitter apps. Like their recent NFL streams, this is part of Twitter’s recent initiative to become a central hub for discussion of live streams by providing free streams. It will be interesting to see how many hands-on sessions are added to the companion channels; things can get confusing if messages are chosen algorithmically. The first debates are scheduled for this coming Monday, September 26th. [The Verge]
- In other news, the new portrait mode of the iPhone 7 Plus is currently in beta testing. TechCrunch has launched a new portrait mode and the results are impressive. The phone uses two cameras to create a depth map to determine what is in focus; the results look almost as if the photos were taken with a digital SLR camera. However, it still feels a bit artificial to me, akin to Photoshop’s “Gaussian blur” image rather than the more mathematically complex “lens blur”. But I’m just picky. [TechCrunch]
- Earlier today, the Financial Times reported that Apple was in talks to buy McLaren , a maker of high-end sports cars. McLaren, however, denies that such negotiations took place. [Yalopnik]
- YouTube is looking forward to crowdsourcing comment moderation. A new program called YouTube Heroes (hehe) will reward people for reporting bad comments, writing accurate subtitles, and other small tasks that benefit the site. Hero benefits include access to product previews and “exclusive workshops,” whatever that means. You can register here . [TechCrunch]