Mark Starling is out on vacation, but I’m going to keep the tech news going. Tune in next week for the next time I’m live with the First News 570 crew. This week, we’re talking about Google’s acquisition of wearable computing company, North, how corporate America is boycotting Facebook, and a quick round up of this year’s World Wide Developer Conference. You can listen to Mark and I point and laugh while talking about the wild and crazy technology world every Thursday morning, LIVE at 6:43am Eastern.
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We still don’t have a lot of content for 4K connections, and now 8K connections are coming right around the corner. After three years of negotiations, the major tech players and TV manufactures have agreed on a new format, H.266 Versatile Video Coding, to stream content using half the bandwidth we currently use. The new codec will allow people with slow connections to stream HD, 4K, and higher content depth. Like everything else, let’s see what the pr0n industry implements.
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