Recode Daily - Disney makes a billion-dollar bet on video streaming - Aug 10, 2016

[banner] [..] [..] [.] A year ago Disney freaked out the TV business by talking about subscriber losses at ESPN. Now it has a plan to sell an ESPN-branded digital subscription service that won't actually include ESPN. The service will be powered by pro baseball's BAM Tech, and Disney is buying a chunk of that company for $1 billion, [as Recode readers already knew]. [[Edmund Lee | Recode]] [.] Intel is trying to incorporate machine learning technology into its silicon by shelling out more than $400 million for startup Nervana Systems. [[Ina Fried | Recode]] [.] Yelp shares climbed more than 10 percent after the consumer reviews site surprised Wall Street by posting a slim profit and boosting its guidance. [[Aishwarya Venugopal | Reuters]] [.] Sony is going to unveil an upgraded PlayStation 4 are expected at a Sept. 7 event. That's the week Apple traditionally shows off its new iPhones, by the way... [[Tom Warren | The Verge]] [.] In its quest to free people from the drudgery of actually eating, Soylent introduced [Coffiest], a breakfast-in-a-bottle with the caffeine of a couple cups of coffee and the calories of a Sausage McMuffin. [[David Pierce | Wired]] [..] Facebook [The biggest advertiser in the world just reminded us why Facebook wants to be TV] By Peter Kafka The tube still rules when it comes to brand advertising. Rio Olympics 2016 [This Olympic fencer shows why you never bring a phone to a sword fight] By Ina Fried Sorry, can’t talk now. There’s a guy trying to stab me. Recode Decode [Full transcript: 'Chaos Monkeys' author Antonio García-Martinez on Recode Decode] By Eric Johnson “The book isn’t nice because Silicon Valley isn’t a nice place.” Facebook [Even Facebook says ad blocking is a problem, so it’s going to show ads to people who use ad blockers] By Kurt Wagner Desktop ads are still a huge revenue source for the social network. Twitter [Twitter will soon let anyone create a Twitter Moment] By Kurt Wagner You can make a moment. And you can make a moment. And you .... [..] [Elaborate crime scene dioramas built by 'the mother of forensic science'] [In the '40s and '50s, Frances Glessner Lee, heir to the International Harvester fortune, indulged her fascination with police work by building incredibly detailed, dollhouse-scale recreations of actual crime scenes that are used to this day to train investigators.] [facebook] [twitter] [YouTube] [Instagram] [News] [divider][Podcasts] [divider][Events] [img-3] You are receiving this email because you subscribed to Recode Daily. If you would like to unsubscribe, [click here]. Mailing Address: Vox Media, 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2016 Vox Media, Inc.