| The Drill Down 316: On My Last Optic Nerve
This week, the British NSA (GCHQ) snoops on millions of webcams, Apple‘s CarPlay, Google‘s modular cellphone, Microsoft‘s version of Siri, Facebook to launch drones, the selfie that broke Twitter, and much more.
...continue reading » Tags: Academy Awards, Apple, ATAP, BitCoin, CarPlay, Cortana, drones, Ellen DeGeneres, Facebook, Flexcoin, Fred Wilson, GCHQ, Getty Images, Google, Microsoft, Minecraft, Mt. Gox, NSA, Oscars, Privacy, Project Ara, Roku, Samsung, selfie, Siri, smartphone, Streaming Stick, Titan Aerospace, Twitter, Windows, Yahoo | |
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| The Drill Down 315: The Fall Of The Mountain King, The End Of Bitcoin
This week, is this the end of Bitcoin?, a massive security flaw for Apple, Comcast strongarms Netflix, Google maps everything with a cellphone, Facebook‘s WhatsApp gets VOIP, and the internet is fucked (but is there anything we can do about it?).
...continue reading » Tags: Apple, BitCoin, CDN, Comcast, Facebook, Google, iPad, iPhone, Mac, Mt. Gox, Netflix, Project Tango, WhatsApp | |
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| Portal’s GLaDOS Teams Up With NASA To Teach Nuclear Fusion vs Fission (Video)
The dry wit of the evil artificial intelligence GLaDOS, voiced with perfect acerbic delivery by actress Ellen McLain, is one of the high points of the Portal video game series. Now GLaDOS has found new purpose as a teaching tool via NASA to discuss the differences between nuclear fusion and fission energy, with McLain returning to provide the distinctive voice. Make no mistake about it, even though this is about learning, GLaDOS is still very much evil! Check out the full video below.
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| The Drill Down 314: Moved to Tears |
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Friday, February 21st, 2014 at 12:00 pm |

This week, Samsung‘s got its finger on the pulse, Kickstarter‘s been hacked, Candy Crush reaches a new level, Facebook adds more pronouns and knows WhatsApp, Bitcoin falls due to a glitch, the biggest game of Pokémon ever, and more…
...continue reading » Tags: Bioshock, BitCoin, Candy Crush, Facebook, fingerprint, Galaxy, House of Cards, iOS, Irrational Games, Ken Levine, King Digital Entertainment, LGBT, Mt. Gox, Netflix, Network Neutrality, Pokemon, pronouns, S5, Samsung, Secret, sensor, WhatsApp, Whisper | |
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| The Drill Down 313: The Brief Rise and Fall of Flappy Bird |
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Friday, February 14th, 2014 at 12:31 pm |

This week, Sony ditches the PC market, Comcast buys Time Warner Cable, Amazon‘s ready to play games, GoPro goes for IPO, Google shows their true colors, Flappy Bird gets its wings clipped, and more…
...continue reading » Tags: Amazon, Android, Comcast, Double Helix Games, Edward Snowden, Flappy Bird, Google, Google Doodle, GoPro, Initial Public Offering, IPO, LGBT, Microsoft, National Security Agency, NSA, Olympics, Sochi, Sony, Sony VAIO, Time Warner, Time Warner Cable | |
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