Mon. 05/16 – F It! Netflix Is Doin’ It Live! (Maybe)

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🗓️ 16 May 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Is Netflix about to experiment with actual live broadcasts? Where did all the bitcoin go in the whole Luna/UST backstop debacle? Spotify is testing NFTs. Uber Eats gets into the ankle robot delivery game. And the Texas law that has all of big social media platforms worried. Sponsors: AltoIRA.com/techmeme Superside.com/techmeme Links: Netflix Exploring Live Streaming For First Time; Plans To Roll Out For Unscripted Series & Stand-Up Specials (Deadline) LFG Reserves Dwindle to Just 313 Bitcoins From 80K After UST Crash (CoinDesk) Exclusive: Spotify tests letting artists promote NFTs on their profiles (MusicAlly) OpenSea is adding NFT copy detection and verification features (The Verge) Uber Eats pilots autonomous delivery with Serve Robotics, Motional (TechCrunch) Tech groups ask Supreme Court to block Texas social media law (Washington Post) Just How Incredibly Fucked Up Is Texas’ Social Media Content Moderation Law? (TechDirt) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Monday, May 16th, 2022. I'm Brian McCullough.
0:08.3	Today is Netflix about to experiment with actual live broadcasts.
0:13.2	Where did all the Bitcoin go in the whole
0:15.0	Luna, U.S.T.
0:16.6	Backstop debacle?
0:18.1	Spotify is testing NFTs.
0:20.1	Uber Eats gets into the ankle robot delivery game and the Texas law that has all of big social media platforms worried.
0:27.0	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:32.0	It's another thing they swore they would never do, and that is Doing It Live.
0:38.8	Sources are telling deadline that Netflix is exploring live streaming its unscripted shows and stand-up specials
0:44.6	alongside live voting for competition series and talent contests.
0:49.8	Quote, deadline understands that the streamer is exploring the launch of live streaming.
0:54.1	It plans to roll out the capability which Netflix confirmed was in the early stages of
0:58.4	development for its swath of unscripted shows and Stand Up Specials.
1:02.5	It would mean that Netflix would be able to use it for live voting for competition series
1:07.0	and talent contests such as its upcoming dance competition series Dance 100 from the Circle Producer, Studio Lambert.
1:14.0	Similarly, it could use it if it decides to bring back its Netflix is a joke festival.
1:20.0	The live comedy event featured around 300 stand-up performances across LA including Dave Chappelle, Larry David, and Pete Davidson.
1:27.0	Many of the shows were being filmed with plans to air around 12 of them on the service.
1:32.0	In future, it could potentially air shows live
1:34.6	albeit with a few seconds delay in case things get saucy. Other options include
1:39.8	for live reunions for shows such as Selling Sunset, which just aired a reunion special for its
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