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The Drill Down 470: The Beat Of My Spinach Heart

On this week’s Drill Down podcast, Congress just sold your internet privacy to the highest bidder, Samsung’s Galaxy S8, AI solves traffic jams, a heart made from spinach, Elon Musk wants to download your thoughts… and much much more.
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Tags: AI, Artificial Intelligence, Elon Musk, Galaxy, Galaxy S8, ISP, Model 3, Neuralink, Samsung, Techmoan, Tesla, Uber
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The Drill Down 390: The Cost of Convenience

This week, Gigaom columnist Tom Cheredar is our guest as we discuss hackers posting personal data from infidelity site Ashley Madison, the NSA’s best friend is AT&T, does Amazon overwork its employees, selections from POTUS’s playlist, giant robots!… and much much more.
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Tags: Amazon, Android, Android M, Ashley Madison, AT&T, Comcast, Data breach, edge, Felicia Day, Galaxy, Galaxy Note, Gigaom, Google, Hackers, Jeff Bezos, Megabots, Music, National Security Agency, NSA, Obama, playlist, President Obama, Privacy, robotics, robots, Samsung, smartphone, Spotify, Spying, streaming music, Surveillance, Tom Cheredar, Watchable
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The Drill Down 341: Check Yo’ Selfie

This week, Google’s secret drones, Apple’s upcoming event includes a massive building under wraps, celebs naked selfies get hacked, and the first look at the Apple spaceship.
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Tags: 4chan, Anand Lai Shimpi, AnandTech, Android, Android Wear, Apple, celebrities, Data breach, fantasy football, Find My Phone, Galaxy, Galaxy Note, Galaxy Note Edge, Hacking, iCloud, indie games, iOS, iPhone, iWatch, Near Field Communications, NFC, PAX, PAX Prime, Samsung, selfie, The Fappening, Yahoo
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The Drill Down 338: Exiled and Replaced

This week, Edward Snowden tells all, Uber & Lyft play dirty, Buzzfeed gets major VC love, Amazon launches a mobile card reader, Netflix passes HBO, more teens are familiar with PewDiePie than Johnny Depp, and what will you do when a robot has your job?
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Tags: Action Cam, Amazon, Andreessen Horowitz, Buzzfeed, cameras, Edward Snowden, Galaxy, Galaxy Alpha, GoPro, HBO, Hyperlapse, iPhone, Lyft, Netflix, paypal, robots, Samsung, Square, Streaming, Uber, venture capital, YouTube
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The Drill Down 314: Moved to Tears

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…
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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 270: Gone, But Not Dead

This week, Dropbox acquires superstar app Mailbox, Google shuts down Reader (and the internet goes berserk), Netflix goes social, Samsung launches the S4 and Apple goes on the defensive, and Veronica Mars is back…thanks to Kickstarter.
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Tags: Apple, Chuck, Digg, Dropbox, Evernote, Firefly, Galaxy, Galaxy S4, Google, Google Keep, Google Reader, iPhone, Joss Whedon, Kickstarter, Kristen Bell, Mailbox, Netflix, Pushing Daisies, Redbox, Rob Thomas, RSS, Samsung, Terriers, Verizon, Veronica Mars
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The Drill Down 269: Broken Cities

This week, the first businesses start to ban Google Glass — before it’s even out! The U.S. reinforces our right to videotape the police, Samsung poised to beat Apple, SimCity players speak out against draconian DRM and dead servers, and the world’s coolest gamer dad hacks Donkey Kong so the girl rescues Mario!
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Tags: Amazon, Android, Donkey Kong, DRM, first amendment, Galaxy, Google, Google Glass, Hacking, iPhone, Kickstarter, Pebble, Privacy, Samsung, SimCity
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The Drill Down 268: Terminator Sparrow

This week, the White House chimes in on cellphone unlocking, Samsung’s new phone watches you watching it, YouTube takes on Spotify, Microsoft gets its wrist slapped, Six Strikes and you’re out, Han, Luke & Leia come back for Star Wars: Episode VII; and I, for one, welcome our new cinder block-hurling overlords.
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Tags: AIDS, Big Dog, BigDog, Boston Dynamics, Carrie Fisher, cyborg, DARPA, DMCA, Galaxy, George Lucas, Google, Harrison Ford, HIV, Lucasfilm, Mark Hamill, Microsoft, Mobile, President Obama, Samsung, six strikes, Spotify, Star Wars, unlocking, viral, YouTube
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The Drill Down 246: Accept No Substitutes

On this week’s show, a court rules in favor of Apple over Samsung in a landmark patent and design lawsuit to the tune of $1 billion. Panelists Andrew Sorcini, Christopher Burnor, and guest VentureBeat staff writer Sean Ludwig discuss how this affects Apple, Samsung, the whole mobile phone ecosystem, the future of patent lawsuits, and you, the consumer.
But first, the headlines…Twitter removes friend-finding from Tumblr and removes 3rd-party plugin identification from Twitter.com, Microsoft gets a new logo, Apple delays TV device development, a landmark filesharing fine is upheld, Ask.com buys About.com from The New York Times, and President Obama visits Reddit.
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Tags: About.com, Android, Apple, Ask.com, Barack Obama, Barry Diller, filesharing, Galaxy, Google, IAC, iPad, iPhone, Microsoft, President Obama, reddit, Samsung, The New York Times, Tim Cook, Tumblr, Twitter, VentureBeat
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