| The Drill Down 526: Polly Want A-Lexa!
This week’s The Drill Down podcast, does President Trump have a beef with Jeff Bezos? Amazon sells your face to law enforcement, Elon Musk drives journalists and reviewers crazy, a parrot who uses Amazon Echo (Alexa!) … and much, much more.
...continue reading » Tags: 2001 A Space Odyssey, Alexa, Amazon, Amazon Echo, distilleries, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, liquor, President Trump, Privacy, security, Space, SpaceX, Tesla, Tesla Model 3, US Postal Service, USPS | |
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| 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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| SXSW 2018: HBO’s ‘Westworld’ Panel
With the return of HBO’s Westworld coming sometime in April, fans of the smash hit show crowded the Austin Convention Center ballroom during SXSW 2018 in hopes that its stars and showrunners might offer hints of what’s to come. And they weren’t disappointed. The panel was moderated by WIRED’s Jason Tanz, who introduced showrunners Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, and stars Evan Rachel Wood (Dolores Abernathy), Thandie Newton (Maeve Millay), James Marsden (Teddy Flood), and Jeffrey Wright (Bernard/Arnold) to the stage.
...continue reading » Tags: Elon Musk, Evan Rachel Wood, HBO, James Marsden, Jeffrey Wright, Jonathan Nolan, Lisa Joy, SXSW, SXSW 2018, Thandie Newton, Westworld | |
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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 514: With A Little Help From My Friends
On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, Amazon wants to undercut UPS, Facebook uses tech to guess your social class, Google comes back to Nest, the most complex drone display ever, robots that open doors … and much, much more.
...continue reading » Tags: Alphabet, Amazon, Boston Dynamics, Cryptocurrency, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Elon Musk, Facebook, FedEx, Google, Hacking, Intel, John Barlow, Nest, Olympics, SpotMini, Tesla, Uber, UPS, Waymo | |
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