Tech News Today 1831

One White Supremacist website, the DailyStormer, was hosted by GoDaddy until last last night when the site was given 24 hours to move its domain for violating the terms of service by encouraging additional violence. Today, many news outlets are reporting that Google has also refused to host the site.

Snapchat released a new Stories feature called Crowd Surf that takes videos recorded at big events and merges them into an interactive viewing experience that puts the viewer in control. Snapchat collects and syncs videos recorded simultaneously from many users at a performance, so the viewer can hit play and switch between the videos as a song plays without being interrupted.

Paul Thurrott has obtained a leaked Microsoft memo that reveals how the company plans to deal with the fallout from Consumer Reports's bad reliability rating of all Surface products. The memo also included a chart with return rates for the products included in the Consumer Reports research.

Plus, Netflix is hiring away Hollywood, AI is making video streaming more tolerable, and we go hands-on with the latest Project Tango phone, the Asus Zenfone AR.

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Links

• Google cancels domain registration for Daily Stormer
• Airbnb banned neo-Nazis from booking in Charlottesville — and set a standard for how tech companies can fight hate
• crowd surfing
• Here’s What Microsoft is Saying Internally About Surface Quality and Reliability
• Netflix doesn’t need to buy its hits from Hollywood anymore. It can go straight to the hit makers.
• David Letterman to Host Netflix Interview Series
• Go Beyond Reality
• MIT’s new AI can keep streaming video from buffering