• Streaming platform Twitch is laying off another 500 staff.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  I was thinking that would be perhaps 5% of their staff.
  
  I was wrong.
  
  It's 35%.
  
  Which explains a lot about Twitch.  1400 staff is not a lot of people to run a global video streaming platform with literally millions of channels.  I'm impressed it even works.
  
  Of course, 900 staff is even less.

• Roxi FastStream makes interactive TV possible on broadcast channels.  (The Verge)
  
  This is an impressive technical achievement, or would be if it actually did that.
  
  What it actually does is us an app to play on-demand video to replace the broadcast channel when you want something else. 
  
  Which you could already do without Roxi FastStream.
  
  
  
• Nvidia's new RTX 5880 professional graphics card is not banned in China.  (AnandTech)
  
  Not yet.
  
  
  
• The NUC 14 Pro and NUC 14 Pro+ ranges are now available - from Asus now, rather than Intel.  (Liliputing)
  
  Intel sold off all rights to the NUC product line to Asus last year.
  
  As for the devices, well, they're NUCs.  Not awful.  Not amazing.
  
  There seems to be a sudden complete absence of audio ports though.  So if you want that, think USB.

Posted by: Mauser at Thursday, January 11 2024 03:31 PM (nk1Z+)

Posted by: Mauser at Thursday, January 11 2024 03:32 PM (nk1Z+)

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