| The Drill Down 567: Breaking Up With Facebook
On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, Tesla reverses course, Boeing‘s 747’s control software issues, the potential dangers to Facebook‘s pivot, our hangup with robocalls … and much, much more.
...continue reading » Tags: airplanes, Amazon, Apple, autonomous cars, Aviation, Boeing, Boeing 737, electric vehicles, Elizabeth Warren, Facebook, Google, John Oliver, Model 3, Privacy, robocalls, software, Tesla | |
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| The Drill Down 566: The $35K Milestone
On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, a Privacy pivot for Facebook?, the $35K Tesla is finally here, do women make more than men at Google?, HIV is cured for the second time ever, robots are taking over our jobs!… and much, much more.
...continue reading » Tags: AIDS, automation, autonomous cars, BMW, Daimler, Elon Musk, Facebook, Google, HIV, Mark Zuckerberg, Mercedes-Benz, Model 3, Polestar, Science, self-driving cars, Tesla, Tesla Model 3, Volvo | |
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| The Drill Down 565: Watching Facebook’s Watchers
On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, pedophiles invade YouTube, the lives of Facebook moderators, Chinese funded genetic babies, how Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was made… and much, much more.
...continue reading » Tags: china, Cognizant, CRISPR, Facebook, genetic modification, HoloLens, Microsoft, Satya Nadella, Spider-Man, Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse, YouTube | |
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| The Drill Down: Oscars Special 2019 |
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Thursday, February 28th, 2019 at 9:44 pm |
 Netflix had an outsized presence at the 2019 Oscars despite their unconventional way of distributing films.(image Courtesy of Vulture.com) The 2019 Oscars or Academy Awards were like no other. There was a superhero film up for Best Picture and a superhero film actually won for Best Animated Feature. Among top films to come away a winner this year was an Alfonso Curaón film named Roma. It scored an industry first in that despite the fact that it was available for viewers to stream on Netflix even as it was still playing in theaters, Roma was not only a serious contender for competitive awards like Best Director and Best Picture, it actually won three of the four awards it was nominated for.
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| The Drill Down 564: Call and Fold |
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Friday, February 22nd, 2019 at 11:00 am |

On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, Australia’s elections are hacked, a Saudi app that tracks women’s movements, Samsung unveils a foldable phone, the perils of AI and machine learning … and much, much more.
...continue reading » Tags: AI, Apple, Artificial Intelligence, Australia, elections, electric motor, Flight, Fortnite, Galaxy Fold, GANs, generative adversarial networks, Google, Hacking, machine learning, NVIDIA, Samsung, Saudi Arabia, Sun Flyer, This Person Does Not Exist, US Copyright Office | |
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