Hasta La Gadget!

It has just been a few days since one of the year’s biggest sporting events was held at the MetLife Stadium, I am of course talking about Super Bowl 2014. Prior to the Big Game, we reported that online video streaming would be banned in the stadium so as to avoid bandwidth constraints. The stadium holds over 85,000 people and the NFL wanted them to be able to update their social networks and stay in touch, which is why it decided to block the game’s video streaming. Still, attendees decimated a huge amount of data, with Verizon’s subscribers topping the list by using 1.9 terabytes of data at the stadium on Super Bowl Sunday.

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Super Bowl 2014 Attendees On Verizon Used 1.9TB Of Data In Stadium original content from Ubergizmo.

The Super Bowl is one spectacle that would also see its fair share of commercial tie-ins, and in this year’s edition, you could say that from a sporting perspective, it was a disappointment simply because there was no nail biting finish, and the victor was never in doubt at all. From the tech perspective, however, things have definitely looked good. Apparently, an average of 528,000 people did tune in to the stream per minute in comparison to last year’s 508,000 viewer total, which is an improvement – although it is not that much. This increase has done just enough for Fox Sports to announce that Super Bowl XLVIII is the “most-viewed live stream ever for a single sports event in the U.S.”

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Super Bowl Achieves New Live Streaming Record original content from Ubergizmo.

How the Super Bowl failed its transit-riding attendees, an L.A. museum that collects houses, and why Monarch butterflies are dying (spoiler: because of us). Plus a McDonald’s in Queens, Millennials in St. Louis, and biking in Las Vegas. It’s time for your weekly Urban Reads.

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With Macintosh turning 30 this year, you’d think Apple would go big. Maybe they’d spring for another Super Bowl commercial like the 1984 ad that changed the way the world thinks about computers. Nah… they just made an Apple promo reel that was shot entirely on iPhones—with a little help, of course.

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Think about it this way: If Justin Timberlake hadn’t partially exposed one of Janet Jackson’s nipples during that fateful Super Bowl halftime show, you wouldn’t be able to watch all the nipples you’d like on your computer today.

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