| The Drill Down 395: Race Against the Clock |
By Mr. BabyMan
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Friday, September 25th, 2015 at 12:00 pm |

This week, we’re joined by Greg Davies, host of Blendover and Heavy Metal Historian podcasts (and of course the TARDISBlend podcast hosted here at Geeks of Doom) as we discuss a victory for fair use, are cars next for Apple?; Volkswagen‘s shady emissions code, the future of science in the classroom, 4Chan changes hands, and when is tinkering a crime? All this and much, much more!
...continue reading » Topics: Computers, Discussion, DIY, Electronics, Features, Gadgets, Podcasts, Science, Software, Technology, The Drill Down |
Tags: 2channel, 4chan, Ahmed Mohamed, Angry Birds, Apple, code, coding, computer science, Copyright, Digital Millenium Copyright Act, DIY, DMCA, ELectric Car, engineering, fair use, General Electric, Greg Davies, home automation, iOS, iOS 9, Prince, Quirky, school, software, Steve Jobs, TARDISblend, Texas Student clock, tinkering, Titan, Universal Music Group, Volkswagen, Warner/Chappell, YouTube | |
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| ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ 360-Degree Video Let’s You Experience Jakku Like Never Before |
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Wednesday, September 23rd, 2015 at 4:00 pm |

It seems that Star Wars: The Force Awakens is being used as a medium to introduce new updates to major social media platforms. During Star Wars Celebrations, hashtagging key characters allowed Twitter users to input Star Wars emjois in their tweets. Next, Instagram introduced their landscape videos in the form of a new teaser that gave us our first look at Finn wielding Anakin’s blue lightsaber. Now Disney and Lucasfilm have teamed up once more to help launch a new 360-Degree video for Facebook. You can watch the video below.
...continue reading » Tags: Adam Driver, Andy Serkis, Anthony Daniels, Carrie Fisher, D23 Expo, Daisy Ridley, Domhnall Gleeson, Gwendoline Christie, Harrison Ford, J.J. Abrams, John Boyega, Kenny Baker, Lupita Nyong'o, Mark Hamill, Max Von Sydow, Oscar Isaac, Peter Mayhew, Star Wars, Star Wars: The Force Awakens | |
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| The Drill Down 394: PAX Prime 2015 Review |
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Friday, September 18th, 2015 at 11:15 am |

This week, Tosin is back from PAX Prime, and he’s got the whole rundown, plus Android Pay, the first human head transplant, repairing our own gadgets… and much more!
...continue reading » Tags: Android Pay, Armello, Augmented Reality, castAR, Elite Dangerous, Gadgets, Gigantic Game, Google, Just Shapes And Beats, Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime, Mekazoo, Microsoft, Nintendo, PAX, PAX Prime, Satoru Iwata, Screen Cheat, Tatsumi Kimishima, Tinertia, Windows 10, Xing: The Land Beyond | |
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| The Drill Down 393: Apple September Event 2015 |
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Friday, September 11th, 2015 at 1:47 pm |

This week, Apple‘s massive September event, e-book sales fall after Amazon contracts, Comcast wants you to pay to remove data caps, the hottest toy this holiday season … and much more in this super-sized episode!
...continue reading » Tags: Alpha a6000, Amazon, Apple, Apple Pencil, Apple TV, Apple Watch, AppleTV, BB-8, Comcast, data caps, Digital photography, Droid, e-books, Fire Phone, Fitbit, Fitbit HR, fitness tracker, Google, Google Maps, Google Street View, iPad, iPad Pro, Sony, Star Wars, Steve Jobs, Street View, wearables | |
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| The Drill Down 392: …With Thunderous Applause
This week we’re once more joined by Greg Davies, host of Blendover & Heavy Metal Historian podcasts (and of course the TARDISBlend podcast hosted here at Geeks of Doom) as we discuss the biggest sausage party online, Google‘s new logo, 1/7th of humanity on Facebook, the legality of teen self-sexting, Android Wear comes to iOS, a sneak peek at Apple‘s future, Tesla breaks the perfection scale … and much much more.
...continue reading » Tags: Alphabet, Android Wear, Apple TV, Ashley Madison, Avid Life Media, Consumer Reports, Digital photography, Facebook, Google, hack, Hacking, Hacking Team, I Dream of Wires, Just Shapes And Beats, Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft, Mirrorless cameras, modular synthesizers, Netflix, PAX, PAX Prime, Privacy, selfies, sexting, Siri, Smartwatch, synthesizers, Tesla, Video Games, wearables, Windows, Windows 10 | |
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