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Would you pay $4,000 to solve your streaming movie problems?

Fast Company Tech

While you could always set up a Roku or Apple TV box to stream on, they’re not going to feel all that theatrical. Most streaming devices are too bogged down with banner ads and obnoxious upsells, and the streaming services themselves compromise on audiovisual quality for the sake of smoother streaming.

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Netflix built an army of servers to stream TV—now it’s powering games

Fast Company Tech

A little over a decade ago, Netflix decided to take streaming into its own hands: Instead of relying on commercial content delivery services, the streamer built its own servers from scratch, and gave them away to internet service providers. It can serve about 500,000 simultaneous streams. Thats something that were building now.

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Stream raises $38M as its chat and activity feed APIs power communications for 1B users

TechCrunch

Stream , which lets developers build chat and activity streams into apps and other services by way of a few lines of code, has raised $38 million, funding that it will be using to continue building out its existing business as well as to work on new features. Image Credits: Stream (opens in a new window).

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10 Facebook Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

However, to stand out from the other nearly one hundred million Facebook Pages vying for likes, comments, and shares, your nonprofit needs to excel at Facebook to ensure News Feed exposure. Their experience of your page will occur primarily in the News Feed. First impressions are important on social media.

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Netflix now streaming Avatar: The Last Airbender in HD

The Verge

Based on my Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok feeds, practically everyone is streaming Avatar: The Last Airbender on Netflix — and based on those feeds, practically everyone is putting up with low-resolution quality. Thankfully on Sunday, Netflix announced that Avatar : The Last Airbender is now streaming in HD.

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Facebook takes the 'news' out of News Feed, figuratively speaking

TechSpot

Everything changed in September 2006 with the introduction of the News Feed, which created a centralized stream of. Users would navigate from page to page to check out what was new on the Walls of their friends.

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New Instagram test brings back the chronological feed

The Verge

Instagram head Adam Mosseri says the company has started testing two new feed settings, including the much-requested chronological option. In a video shared today, Mosseri demonstrated a new menu with three options for how Instagram’s feed will display posts. Some users have already noticed the new options in the Instagram app.

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