| The Drill Down 375: I’ve Got the PowerThis week, Grooveshark & Secret shut down, the Oculus Rift has a ship date, Tesla revolutionizes home energy, and a hostage situation defused by a pizza … and much much more.
...continue reading » Tags: anonymity, Avengers, Avengers: Age of Ultron, batteries, Elon Musk, Facebook, Fitbit, fitness, Grooveshark, IPO, Marvel, music streaming, Oculus Rift, Pizza hut, PowerPack, PowerWall, Red Widow, Scarlett Johansson, Secret, Tesla, Tesla Energy, Vine, Virtual Reality, VR, wearables | |
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| The Drill Down 318: The Cost of SecretsThis week: When exactly did Target know about last year’s security breach?, Amazon raises the price of Prime and ponders a Chromecast-style set-top box, Sony reveals a VR helmet, Google‘s smartwatch OS, and Tech’s biggest leaders, both living and dead, have an opinion to share on big issues this week.
...continue reading » Tags: 360, Amazon, Amazon Prime, Android, Android Wear, anonymity, Apple TV, Bill Gates, Chromecast, Connected Home, Data breach, Google, hack, Marc Andreessen, Mark Zuckerberg, National Security Agency, NSA, Oculus, Oculus Rift, OnLive, Playstation, President Obama, Project Morpheus, PS4, Quirky, robots, Secret, security breaches, set top box, smartwatch. Motorola, Sony, Spying, Steve Jobs, Target, VR, VR headset, Whisper | |
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| The Drill Down 253: OutedWhat rights to privacy can we expect when we choose to act anonymously/pseudonymously on the internet? Do they end at your public actions? Is it acceptable to violate the privacy of one class of user over another? Is it the purview of objective journalism to make that decision? The outing of Reddit‘s ViolentAcrez, “the Biggest Troll on the Web” by Gawker columnist Adrian Chen brings to light those questions and more this week. But first, the headlines…Microsoft names launch dates and pricing for Windows 8 & Surface RT, Apple teases the possible announcement of the iPad Mini. Saturday Night Live mocks whiny tech bloggers.
...continue reading » Tags: Adrian Chen, anonymity, Apple, Black Mesa, Facebook, Gawker, Half-Life, iPad, iPad Mini, iPhone, Microsoft, pseudonymity, reddit, Saturday Night Live, Surface, Surface RT, ViolentAcrez, whistleblowers, Windows 8, Yahoo | |
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