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Mobile Minutes: Wimbledon live on Twitter; Rio Olympics in VR; Google buys Moodstocks; MTA?s ticketing app

Twitter served up the first glimpse at what live sports might look like on the social media service.

NBC announced Thursday that it will broadcast 85 hours of the 2016 Olympics in 360-degree virtual reality, partnering with Samsung and the Olympic Broadcasting Services. 

Someone at Google really likes sneakers: The company has just bought a French machine learning startup that taught a computer how to recognize 15,000 different types of them.

Metro-North and Long Island Rail Road riders are one step closer to skipping ticket lines.