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On top of that, Roku launched its free, ad-supported Roku Channel, which would later include optional premium content, too. Roku also announced its new wireless speakers , compatible with Roku TVs — later to be compatible with the Soundbars, too. These included a new, smaller form, as well as better performance. On top of that, Roku also introduced the Smart Soundbar and Wireless Subwoofer , opening up a new line of Roku player technology.

In September , Roku announced its upcoming lineup , including a new and improved Ultra and the all-new Streambar. Both the new Ultra and Streambar were available for preorder in September , but the expected shipping date was October You can now buy either device from the official Roku Store, Amazon and other major retailers. It offers the best performance in terms of device speed and wireless range, and also supports Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos.

It has Bluetooth capability and a lost remote finder, too. The Streambar is a more compact version of the Smart Soundbar with a couple of extras, such as the ability to add a USB Ethernet adapter. Roku has come a long way from starting out as a simple Netflix streaming box. Still, Roku, Inc. New channels, streaming services and content are added regularly, and the actual Roku OS is often updated, bringing extra customization options, features and more to your entertainment experience.

Plus, in January , the company announced the Roku TV Ready program , which enables other consumer electronics brands to make Roku TV compatible audio devices. Originally, Roku TVs were only compatible with the Roku-branded speakers. Plus, the devices with the badge are compatible with the Roku remote. From its inception as a Netflix streamer, Roku has become one of the best ways of accessing content and services, even for free — see our guide to the best free Roku channels and our guide on which VPN is best for Roku.

Did you have the first Roku player? Do you have a more recent model? Tell us about your experience with using your Roku player in the comment section.

As always, thank you for reading. I have the roku 3 and it works great but was thinking i should get a newer one or just get a smart tv with roku? Im not sure? I Have three.

It depends. Your best bet, though, is to buy a Roku device for each TV. I agree to TheMaven's Terms and Policy. TheStreet Recommends. By Bret Kenwell. By Vidhi Choudhary. By Rob Lenihan. By Dan Weil. By Tony Owusu. By Martin Baccardax. As student recruitment networks grow in popularity, Koning said his biggest concern is ensuring that people are equally represented on the platforms.

The makers of these tools want to host as many students from as many backgrounds as possible on their platforms; it's essential to their business pitch, and it's something they think about constantly. The goal is to help companies access a diverse candidate pool and help students access opportunities they wouldn't have had otherwise. Without a strong user base, neither of those things can happen. Digital recruitment networks can broaden choices on both the student and company sides of hiring.

The search is easier when everyone is in the same digital space and can search by category for the jobs and candidates relevant to them. Ariel Lopez, CEO of hiring platform Knac, said he believes strongly in the democratization of the recruitment process. But we also care about the people that are in your pipelines. They're more than just a resume. They're humans. Lopez began her career helping brands and startups with recruitment. She went on to found Knac, which helps companies manage and give feedback to candidates in their application pipeline.

She wants to eliminate the "black hole" of resumes and ensure companies aren't ignoring qualified and passionate people. Often even major tech companies have incompetent applicant management strategies, with candidates "swimming in spreadsheets," Lopez said.

Arsh Noor Amin, an engineering graduate student at Bucknell University, appreciates the consolidation of opportunities on platforms like Handshake. He can easily message recruiters and find software jobs that work for him as a student from Pakistan. The consolidation helps employers, too. Renee Davis, director of recruiting at Duolingo, started using Handshake to find employees in March The game-changing aspect was being able to access such a large student network all at once.

Sometimes the tools are lacking in features, however. Andrea Robinson, a junior at UCLA who's looking for marketing jobs, said Handshake is useful for finding companies, but she'll still apply directly through the company itself.

This disparity can make it confusing for students to navigate. Handshake released a report in October looking at how Gen Z navigates the digital job market.

The main takeaways were that a majority of students, particularly women, feel that they don't need to meet in-person to make meaningful professional connections. The report also found that a majority, particularly students of color, feel that it's easier to break into careers compared to their parents' generation. Digital communication is often thought to be isolating, but for some, it's freeing.

HIVE, too, is focused on helping its candidates build deeper connections. Each student on the platform assembles comprehensive resumes, encouraged by HIVE to include as much information about identity and lived experience as they feel comfortable.

The platform wants students to share their qualifications and interests beyond professional bullet points. There's a slight barrier to entry with HIVE in that the platform puts its student users through various training sessions to make their applications more attractive to employers. The quick apply button is the fastest way to nowhere.

It feels great to fire off applications, but it feels worse not to hear from anybody. As everyone discusses the "Great Resignation" and companies struggle to recruit the talent they want, some of the power has shifted to workers. A lot of the conversation centers around offering currently employed workers better benefits and pay, but it should be normalized for those entering the workforce as well.

Messy recruitment processes can really turn qualified people off. It's advantageous for any company to really be thinking, 'How do we rewire what we're doing here? For recruitment tools, putting power in young people's hands is what it's all about. David Pierce pierce is Protocol's editorial director. He owns all the phones. Stacy Spikes didn't think he'd get MoviePass back. After a whirlwind legal process to rescue the company's remaining assets from a court after its previous owner filed for bankruptcy, the movie theater subscription service that flew too close to the sun is now back in the hands of its original founder.

And he has big plans. Here's the massively abbreviated history of MoviePass. It was started by Spikes and co-founder Hamet Watt in , though Spikes said he'd been thinking about the idea for several years. The idea was simple: For one monthly fee, users could see a bunch of in-theater movies a month.

It was movies-as-a-service for the power theatergoer. In , they sold the company to Helios and Matheson, an analytics company, which fired Spikes in It worked! Millions of people signed up for MoviePass, and started going to movies at a remarkable pace. Almost as remarkable as the speed with which MoviePass hemorrhaged money on that deal.

After more bad decisions and bad customer service, MoviePass crashed so spectacularly, it drove Helios and Matheson all the way out of business in January Since then, MoviePass and other Helios and Matheson assets have been the property of a bankruptcy court.

Spikes knew that much, and had heard that the assets had been put up for auction and hadn't found a buyer. And if so, how much? He figured someone else must be willing to bid, whether it was another entrepreneur or a theater chain just looking to put the idea out of play for good. On Nov. The bidding period was over, and nobody had complained about his bid or registered one of their own. A few days later, he got another call saying a judge had signed off on the whole thing. Spikes immediately wired the money to the court.

He couldn't believe it had worked. But a few signatures and counter-signatures later, by Wednesday, MoviePass was his again.

It's part of his company, PreShow, which builds interactive advertising tech. Stacy Spikes, the former and current founder of MoviePass. Photo: PreShow. Now Spikes has something founders rarely get: a do-over.

A chance to take his idea — which he still thinks is right, and one that movie theaters have embraced in recent years as they've rolled out subscription services of their own — and do it right this time. MoviePass data showed that subscribers did go to more movies, and they did spend more money on concessions and the like when they were there. In a way, his timing couldn't be better. After the pandemic decimated the theater business while simultaneously making streaming the default entertainment choice for millions of viewers, chains and small theaters alike are done holding onto the vestiges of the past and eagerly embracing anything that looks like the future.

AMC embraced its status as a meme stock, went all-in on crypto, is planning to sell its popcorn in stores, and has invested in its own subscription service, AMC Stubs A-List. Other chains haven't embraced the zeitgeist quite so aggressively, but have spent the last few years upgrading theaters with nicer seats and better screens, and investing in subscription services of their own.

So what will the next MoviePass look like? Spikes isn't sure. He's planning to launch in , and to spend the interim months talking to users, theater owners, movie makers, everyone involved in the industry, to get a sense of what they need and how MoviePass can help. MoviePass initially embraced its renegade status, helping people get around theater policies and systems, but Spikes wants to be a good partner this time.

He's particularly focused on smaller theater chains and even individual arthouse cinemas, which don't have the resources to do subscriptions of their own. And in a time when the main competitor to theaters is streaming services and the 4K TV downstairs, anything that gets people out of the house might be a win. What Spikes does know is that MoviePass should still be a consumer product, and that the price is everything. MoviePass didn't die because it was a bad idea; it died because "10 bucks a month for all the movies you can watch" is such a ludicrously good deal that some MoviePass users were buying movie tickets just to go to the bathroom in the theater.

That was what he cared about more than a decade ago, and what he cares about now. The future of MoviePass, it appears, is substantially less wild than the past. And probably a little more expensive. But in this increasingly everything-as-a-service world, MoviePass might make more sense than ever.

And its original creator has a chance to make it work. Singapore is expected to become a global DeFi center, thanks in part to China's crypto crackdown. Shen Lu is a reporter with Protocol China.

She can be reached at shenlu protocol. Singapore is emerging as a global crypto stronghold as droves of Chinese blockchain investors, startups and crypto exchanges scramble to fly the coop following an intense regulatory crackdown at home.

In late September, China's powerful regulators delivered the heaviest blow to the country's once-sprawling crypto industry by criminalizing all crypto-related activities, from mining to transactions.

Industry players have been winding down their operations in China and are on a quest for safe havens. Many of the exiled and soon-to-be-exiled crypto exchanges, wallet apps, crypto market data publications, decentralized mining services and investors are eyeing Singapore. The Southeast Asian island city-state takes a more progressive approach toward crypto compared to China's heavy-handed stance.

And Chinese crypto players' intentions to relocate to Singapore meshes with the city-state's ambition to cement itself as a global decentralized finance hub. The Singaporean government is also actively recruiting Chinese crypto players. In late August, the Singapore nonprofit Business China — of which Singapore's former prime minister is a founding patron — hosted a closed-door conference aimed at improving the city-state's digital economy.

Chinese crypto heavyweights, including Binance founder Zhao Chengpeng, imToken founder He Bin, and Bitmain and Matrixport founder Wu Jihan were among the attendees, per screenshots of the conference agenda that Protocol reviewed. Notably, Ethereum's co-founder Vitalik Buterin spoke at the event, as did a few senior Singaporean government officials. Yan, one of the conference attendees, told Protocol that crypto entrepreneurs and investors in attendance rubbed elbows with dignitaries and their families while discussing the opportunities for Singapore's blockchain industry.

But all Singaporean state-owned enterprises and investors came to hear us speak, and former government officials wined and dined with us … It's a very Chinese way of business-dealing. You just get it right away. Beyond the implicit hospitality, Yan recalled some senior officials and business VIPs explicitly asking the attending Chinese crypto entrepreneurs: "Are you ready to fly the coop?

The Southeast Asian city-state of fewer than 6 million inhabitants punches far above its weight; it is the fourth-largest financial center in the world. And its business environment, which emphasizes networks of favor-exchanging and mutually beneficial relationships developed outside formal settings, is similar enough to China's to allow its entrepreneurs to fit in seamlessly.

Hong Kong, another Asian financial hub, could have been an alternative destination for Chinese decentralized finance businesses. But the special administrative region of China has fallen out of favor with Chinese-speaking investors, Yan said, as civil unrest and the lack of confidence in the government runs deeper.