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The Drill Down 358: I, For One, Welcome Our New A.I. Overlords
This week, broadband gets a new definition, Edward Snowden on Cyber Warfare, ISIS may have hacked US Central Command‘s Twitter, Experts call for tighter AI safeguards, and those shoes from Back to the Future are finally going to happen. All this, and much much more…
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Tags: AI, Air MAG, Amazon Instant Video, Artificial Intellegence, Back to the Future, Back to the Future II, Broadband, CENTCOM, cyber warfare, drone, Edward Snowden, FCC, Federal Communications Commission, Google, Google Translate, Hacking, internet, ISIS, Net Neutrality, Nike, Personal Data Notification and Protection Act, Pet Cube, President Obama, Privacy, rampant AI, Saints Row, Skype, US Central Command, viral video, Waze, Yahoo
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Working Hoverboard Can Be Yours For Just $10,000! (Video)
Back in March the internet exploded after a video of what appeared to be a real working hoverboard—the wheel-less, floating skateboard made famous by Back to the Future II—surfaced online. The video, as it turned out, was a Funny or Die hoax.
But people just love their Back to the Future technology dreams (I cannot WAIT for one of those fancy pizza rehydrators personally), so it was only a matter of time before the hoverboard showed up again. This time, however, it appears that the hoverboard, which is called the Hendo Hoverboard, actually works…and you can reserve yours for only $10,000.
Click on over to the other side for more and to see a video of the board in action.
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Funny Or Die Admits To Hoverboard Hoax With New Video, Shares How You Can Win Signed Replica
By now you’ve likely heard of or seen the video that stormed the ‘net recently claiming to show a real working Back to the Future II hoverboard. Everyone wanted to believe it was a real thing, but the general consensus was that the video was almost certainly fake. Not long after, it was discovered that Funny or Die was apparently behind it all.
Now Funny or Die has admitted to the prank, and is apologizing for such a cruel, cruel hoax. They’ve released a new video with BTTF star Christopher Lloyd, who appeared in the prank video and even got a little emotional toward the end to help try to sell it, talking about the deception. He also reveals a way that one person will be able to win a replica hoverboard that was signed by the celebrities who took part in the prank.
You can check out the video below.
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