| The Drill Down 518: #deletefacebook
On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, a self-driving car kills a pedestrian, a burger robot is fired, does space travel alter our DNA?, and experts Tom Cheredar and Gina Lee De Freitas help us decide if it’s time to #deletefacebook… and much, much more.
...continue reading » Tags: autonomous vehicles, Cambridge Analytica, data analysis, DNA, elections, Elizabeth Holmes, Elon Musk, Facebook, Jonathan Nolan, Mark Zuckerberg, NASA, politics, robots, Scott Kelly, self-driving cars, Space, SpaceX, Stephen Hawking, Theranos, Uber, US Elections | |
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| The Drill Down 517: AI Carumba!
On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, Uber takes you to the doctor, Twitter bookmarks, it’s U.S. vs China for AI supremacy, nanobots fight cancer… and much, much more.
...continue reading » Tags: AI, Artificial Intelligence, biotech, FCC, Federal Communications Commission, nanobiotech, nanobots, nanotech, Net Neutrality, Twitter, Uber, UBER Health | |
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| SXSW 2018: Elon Musk Surprises ‘Westworld’ Panel With SpaceX Falcon Heavy Launch Trailer
SXSW attendees who sat in on a panel last Saturday afternoon featuring HBO’s Westworld showrunners and stars were surprised when showrunner Jonathan Nolan introduced SpaceX CEO (and generally real-life Tony Stark) Elon Musk onto the Austin Convention Center stage. During the panel, Nolan had been previously lamenting at the fact that when he was a kid, he used to spend an “unhealthy amount of time” dreaming about spaceflight, but in recent years the enthusiasm for space travel had waned, so he was talking to “a friend” about how to inspire people to drive the conversation back into space exploration. The inspirational “shocking” idea they came up with was a red sportscar combined with the music of David Bowie. That “friend” was of course Elon Musk, who joined the panel on stage.
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| The Drill Down 516: It’s a Dog-Clone-Dog World
On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, tech IPOs, Harley Davidson goes electric, Amazon rings our bell, Russia hacks the Olympics, all the best from Mobile World Congress, cloned pets! … and much, much more.
...continue reading » Topics: Apps, Computers, Conventions, Electronics, Features, Gadgets, Podcasts, Science, Software, Technology, The Drill Down |
Tags: Alphabet, Amazon, autonomous cars, Barbra Striesand, cloning, Diesel, Dropbox, electric vehicles, Google, Hacking, Harley-Davidson, internet, Internet of things, IoT, IPO, Microsoft Word, Mobile, Mobile World Congress, NYSE, Olympics, Paul Manafort, PDF, Ring, Russia, Smartphones, Spotify, Waymo | |
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| The Drill Down 515: Speakers For The Dead
On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, we review Black Panther and “˜Afrofuturism’, the Parkland, FL school shooting victims take their anger to Twitter, U.S. charges Russia with election interference, FCC‘s chairman is under investigation, North Korea’s hacker army, using CG to mimic real celebrities without their permission… and much, much more.
...continue reading » Topics: Apps, Computers, Electronics, Features, Gadgets, Movie Reviews, Podcasts, Reviews, Software, Technology, The Drill Down |
Tags: Afrofuturism, Ajit Pai, Annihilation, BitCoin, Black Panther, Cryptocurrency, deepfakes, elections, Facebook, FCC, Federal Communications Commission, Hacking, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, North Korea, Parkland, Robert Muller, Russia, school shootings, Sinclair Broadcast Group, social media, Soulth Korea, Twitter, US Elections | |
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