Dec 6th 2016
Tech News Today 1655
Organically Robotic
Snap Spectacles hellscape
YouTube hit a significant milestone by paying more than $1 billion in advertising dollars to the music industry.
The Supreme Court has negated the nearly $400 million in damages that a lower court had ordered Samsung to pay to Apple in their exhaustively long patent infringement case.
Apple CEO Tim Cook told Reuters that the Apple Watch did incredibly well during the first week of holiday shopping, setting a sales record in the process.
Instagram is fighting hate with love. Or at least the ability to love other people's comments on your photos, which you couldn't do before.
Google announced that it is near its goal of reaching 100% renewable energy for the business, expecting to reach that goal in 2017 for all of its global operations.
- Christina Warren from Gizmodo joins Megan Morrone and Jason Howell to talk about her new $180 Snap Spectacles. She says waiting in line for five hours for the plastic glasses that record round video was not worth it.
- David Ruddock from Android Police gives his review of the new Google Wi-Fi.
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Links
- instagram comment blocking
- Supreme Court throws out $399M penalty judgment against Samsung
- YouTube has paid over $1 billion to the music industry from advertising alone in the last year
- Samsung gets another chance to reduce Apple’s $400 million patent win
- Apple Watch sales to consumers set record in holiday week, says Apple's Cook
- We’re set to reach 100% renewable energy — and it’s just the beginning
- The Hellscape of Waiting 5 Hours in Line for Spectacles
- It's no Christmas No 1, but AI-generated song brings festive cheer to researchers