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Comcast launches G4 Tv, a focused online video video game channel

Comcast has re-released the movie video game channel G4, betting that on the internet streaming and the escalating attractiveness of gaming will make the network a hit this time around.

The channel went reside this 7 days on standard Television lineups, together with Comcast’s Xfinity and Verizon Fios, as effectively as on the net on YouTube Dwell and Twitch, the video clip-match-targeted streaming support. The network, devoted to gaming and geek tradition, options an unscripted assortment display, video sport critiques, protection of esports, and a series devoted to the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying activity.

“It actually is Saturday Night time Dwell for gamers,” claimed G4 president Russell Arons, describing the programming as “comedy irreverence, but backed on the perception and knowledge of the gaming and fandom world.”

Indeed, the network’s title is alone a joke. G4 is not an acronym. “It absolutely means almost nothing,” Arons said. “It’s just form

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Breanne Logiudice by — November 24, 2021 in Comcast Business
An ‘eraser button’: Focused ideas could help bridle Big Tech

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Break up Big Tech? How about shrinking the tech companies’ shield against liability in cases where the content they push to users causes harm? Or creating a new regulator to strictly oversee the industry?

Those ideas have captured official attention in the U.S., Europe, U.K. and Australia as controversy has enveloped Facebook — which on Thursday renamed itself Meta — Google, Amazon and other giants. Revelations of deep-seated problems surfaced by former Facebook product manager Frances Haugen, buttressed by a trove of internal company documents, have lent momentum to legislative and regulatory efforts.

But while regulators are still considering major moves such as breaking up some companies or limiting their acquisitions, the most realistic changes may be more tangible and less grandly ambitious. And also the kind of thing people might actually see popping up in their social feeds.

FACEBOOK REBRANDING TO META ‘TERRIFYING’:

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Breanne Logiudice by — November 1, 2021 in Fox Business