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雅虎科技2016十大预测

Whether or not you’re a cord-cutter, streaming media is the future of entertainment — and nobody streams bigger than Netflix, which accounted for nearly 40 percent of all Internet traffic last year. Since big cable can’t beat the streamers at this game, the only thing left is for it to join them by acquisition; Comcast ($192 billion valuation) and Netflix ($42 billion) are the most logical candidates for an arranged marriage. While it stands to reason that the larger company will swallow the smaller one, it’s not inconceivable that the reverse will happen — not unlike AOL’s acquisition of Time Warner 15 years ago, but perhaps with better results.

不管你是否承认，流媒体都将是娱乐业的发展趋势。而在这方面没有谁比网飞公司做得更大了。去年网飞公司就占据了网络总流量的百分之四十。强强争斗没有结果，唯有收购这一条出路。现在康卡斯特（价值1920亿美元）和网飞公司（价值420亿美元）最有可能走到一起。虽然一般情况下是大公司吞并小公司，但也不排除相反的情况——15年前美国在线就曾收购时代华纳。但与之相比，康卡斯特和网飞的合并或许会有更好的结果。

雅虎科技2016十大预测

6. Antidrone technology will rise

反无人机技术将出现

The only thing people love more than reading about drones is hating them — witness all the cheering when a Kentucky man blasted one out of the sky with his shotgun last July. (Not to mention all the animals that love to attack drones.) Look for companies to come up with antidrone technology that use nonballistic methods of ridding the flight zones of these pests. Let the games begin, and let the odds be ever in the antidrones’ favor.