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This week we have Disney’s triumph over Netflix; DoorDash partners with FB Marketplace; and Xiaomi’s Robot.
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Oh Mickey You’re So Fine
Disney+ subscriptions rose to 152.1M during the company’s Q3, posting better-than-expected results. The streaming service added 14.4M subscribers in the quarter, beating expectations of 10M. More importantly, Hulu had 46.2M subs. ESPN+ had 22.8M, bringing Disney’s DTC subscribers to 221.1M in total, which means that the company’s streaming services combined now surpass Netflix in total subscribers.
Netflix reported 220.67M total global subscribers for its third quarter after losing almost 970K subscribers. This then brings a question: Is the Netflix model running out of steam? Or does the OG flywheel of Disney rearing its potential in a streaming first world? Tell us your thoughts in the comments!
Your DoorDash (FB Package) Has Arrived
DoorDash has confirmed that it has teamed up with Facebook Marketplace. DoorDash Drive, its business-to-business service that provides drivers to merchants through their own website or app, is now in the early stages of testing a service that will allow DoorDash drivers to pick up and drop off Facebook Marketplace items to customers.
DoorDash and Facebook are currently offering the test in several cities in the United States, giving many drivers another opportunity to earn money. Items that are eligible for delivery are Marketplace items that can fit in the trunk of a car and must be located up to 15 miles away. DoorDash drivers are expected to make deliveries within 48 hours or less.
It also helps DoorDash continue to compete with Uber Eats, which recently launched a nationwide delivery offering. DoorDash already introduced nationwide shipping nine months prior. Last month, Amazon partnered with DoorDash’s rival Grubhub to offer Prime members a free membership to Grubhub+ for one year.
Xiaomi Robot
Xiaomi followed up its foldable news by handing the stage over to CyberOne. The bipedal humanoid robot joined Lei Jun onstage, greeting the CEO and handing him a long-stem flower. CyberOne is said to be able to detect human emotion and create 3D visual reconstructions of the world.
CyberOne is very different from its dog-like friend. It's 177cm tall and weighs 52kg, and (Xiaomi thought this was important to know) has an arm span of 168cm. Xiaomi says CyberOne can perceive 3D space and recognize people, their gestures and expressions. It has an AI-powered "semantics recognition engine" as well as a "vocal emotion identification engine," meaning it can recognize 85 types of environmental sounds and 45 classifications of human emotion. It can comfort you in times of sadness, Xiaomi says.
While it's not entirely clear what Xiaomi plans to do with CyberOne, it said robotics is a "crown jewel of manufacturing," and goes on to explain how complex it was to put all this tech together into a single unit, indicating that the CyberOne, like so many robotics projects today, is mostly a technological showcase. The company did say that the technology applied to CyberOne will trickle into other Xiaomi products in the future, though.
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