Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Wednesday, June 13th, 2018. I'm your

host Brian McCullough. Today was Major Revamp Day. Twitter rang in some big changes. Microsoft is putting a new

polish on office. Also, Intel is getting into the GPU game, Bitcoin might have been manipulated, and Fort Knight comes to

the Nintendo Switch. Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. The Explore company that it will soon begin curating dedicated pages for events with tweets, videos, and more that will be promoted across notifications, the Explore tab, and more. It is also redesigning moments by introducing vertical

scrolling and adding multiple timelines for some U.S. moments and Twitter is

ramping up its notification system, offering some users personalized news

updates, alerting them to follow events or breaking news based on which accounts they

follow.

In other words, as everyone basically summed it up,

Twitter is putting more live news events

into every corner of the app.

This change we're working on is designed

to make it as easy to follow an event as it is to follow a person.

So said Twitter Product VP Keith Coleman in a briefing at Twitter headquarters today.

Quote, without following accounts simply by tapping one tile you're getting the best of

the conversation on Twitter end quote. Twitter's shirram Krishnan tweeted

quote the goal is to make it easy to quickly find and

follow the events and breaking news you care about on Twitter, especially if you

already don't have a well-curated timeline, end quote. Buzzfeeds Alex Cantruitz wrote, quote,

Twitter wants its existing users to be able to find information about events as quickly as possible,

creating more situations where they feel like part of a community

following an event together in real time.

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