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The data that DraftKings acknowledged was released by its employee, Ethan Haskell, showed which particular players were most used in all lineups submitted to the site’s Millionaire Maker contests. Usually, that data is not released until the lineups for all games are finalized. Getting it early, however, is of great advantage in making tactical decisions, especially when an entrant’s opponents do not have the information at all.
Scandal Erupts in Unregulated World of Fantasy Sports - The New York Times
8 years
Camera Restricta is a speculative design of a new kind of camera. It locates itself via GPS and searches online for photos that have been geotagged nearby. If the camera decides that too many photos have been taken at your location, it retracts the shutter and blocks the viewfinder. You can't take any more pictures here.
Camera Restricta by Philipp Schmitt, Interaction Designer
8 years
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The Classic Hip-Hop Photography Being Buried in the Selfie Age
[Photo Credit: Lisa Leone] Like the music industry, photography has moved from the hands of a few well-equipped elite to the masses, practiced by anyone with access Instagram filters. Just as...
The Classic Hip-Hop Photography Being Buried in the Selfie Age | DJBooth
The Classic Hip-Hop Photography Being Buried in the Selfie Age
[Photo Credit: Lisa Leone] Like the music industry, photography has moved from the hands of a few well-equipped elite to the masses, practiced by anyone with access Instagram filters. Just as...
The Classic Hip-Hop Photography Being Buried in the Selfie Age | DJBooth
8 years
...er streaming service, some pay-TV operators have the contractual right to boot ESPN out of their most widely-sold channel packages and sell it a la carte, according to people familiar with the matter. ESPN would have to charge about $30 a month per customer in an over-the-top offering to make the same money using that model, analysts say. But those distributors would have the right to undercut ESPN in their retail pricing, the people said.
The 9 Bullet Points of Doom for ESPN — 500ish Words — Medium
9 years
... the size of the total U.S. pay-TV market — to 92.9 million households, according to Nielsen data. Viewership of SportsCenter, its marquee and high-margin sports-news show, has sagged since September, due in part to the fact that younger consumers are increasingly finding sports news at their fingertips on smartphone apps. The financial stakes are especially high for ESPN because it earns the most carriage fees of any TV channel, about $6.61 a month per subscriber, according to SNL Kagan. When Disney struck a deal to put...
The 9 Bullet Points of Doom for ESPN — 500ish Words — Medium
9 years
Meek Mill is the new top musical act in the U.S., vaulting to No. 1 on the Billboard Artist 100 (dated July 18), as the arrival of his new album fuels his vault to the top. The rapper dethrones Taylor Swift, who drops to No. 2 after spending a record 31st nonconsecutive week at No. 1.
Meek Mill Vaults to No. 1 on Billboard Artist 100 | Billboard
9 years
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