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The Drill Down 600: The Future Is Now

On this week’s The Drill Down podcast Number 600, is it time up for TikTok, AT&T gets throttled for throttling, lasers hack your smart speaker, a way to preserve big data on glass, how well did Blade Runner predict 2019…and much, much more.
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Tags: Alexa, Amazon Echo, Apple, AT&T, Blade Runner, Fitbit, Google, Google Home, GPS, Hacking, Microsoft, Project Silica, Siri, TikTok, Waze
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The Drill Down 495: Google Pixel Event 2017

On this week’s Drill Down podcast, Google Pixel Event 2017; if you were on Yahoo!, you were definitely hacked; Ikea buys Taskrabbit; rocket to work and back, and much more.
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Tags: AI, Artificial Intelligence, Coca-Cola, Coke, Daydream View, elections, Elon Musk, Equifax, Facebook, Facebook Live, Google, Google Clips, Google Home, Google Pixel, Google Pixel Event, IKEA, Internal Revenue Service, IRS, Pixel, Pixel 2, Pixel Buds, Pixelbook, rockets, Russia, Taskrabbit, Tesla, The Academic, Twitter, Yahoo
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The Drill Down 489: Free Speech on the Net, Solar Eclipse 2017
 [Photo by Kirsten Jorgensen.]
On this week’s Drill Down podcast, the battle for free speech on the internet, Android Oreo is here, Solar Eclipse 2017, Samsung bursts onto the scene with a new Galaxy Note, Elon Musk wants to stop killer robots, and much, much more.
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Topics: Apps, Computers, Electronics, Features, Gadgets, Podcasts, Science, Software, Space, Technology, The Drill Down
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Tags: Alphabet, Android, Android O, Android Oreo, CloudFlare, data throttling, EFF, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Elon Musk, free speech, Google, Google Home, HTC, Jeff Immelt, Net Neutrality, Nexus, Oreo, robots, Solar Eclipse, Space, SpaceX, Uber, Verizon, Virtual Reality, Vive, VR, WalMart
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The Drill Down 477: Google I/O 2017

This week, a global ransomware hack will make you WannaCry, Google’s I/O Conference, babies made from skin cells, Apple builds a new spaceship, and a pizza box, plus much, much more.
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Topics: Apps, Computers, Conventions, Electronics, Features, Gadgets, Podcasts, Science, Software, Technology, The Drill Down
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Tags: Alphabet, Amazon, Amazon Echo, Android, Android Go, Android O, Apple, Boulder Startup Week, Echo, Google, Google Assistant, Google Home, Google I/O, Google Photos, HP, keylogger, Tensor Processing Chip, TensorGo, TPU, Uiwix, VR, WannaCry, WannaCrypt
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The Drill Down 469: Bullseye!

On this week’s Drill Down podcast, Siri & “OK Google†get new AI company from Samsung, Uber management crumbles, the U.S. bans electronics from incoming flights, Resistbot, genetic discrimination, Amazon’s Mecha-CEO, a dartboard you’ll never miss… and much much more.
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Tags: AI, Amazon, Anova, Artificial Intelligence, Bixby, digital Assistant, Digital photography, DIY, eBags, genetics, Google, Google Home, Hyperloop, Intel, Jeff Bezos, Jeff Jones, maker, mech, Mecha, Mobileeye, Netflix, Peak Design, Photography, Resist, Resistbot, robot, Samsung, sous vide, Think Tank, transportation, Uber
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The Drill Down 461: Explosions, Car Wrecks & The Presidency

On this week’s podcast, The Drill Down co-host emeritus Tom Cheredar joins us to discuss Donald Trump’s first week of Presidency as it affects the tech world, is this the end of Net Neutrality, the final word on the Samsung Note 7 and the Tesla crash, Sprint buys into TIDAL, and much, much more.
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Tags: Ajit Pai, Alexa, Amazon, Android, Belkin WeMo, digital Assistant, Donald Trump, Echo, FCC, Federal Communications Commission, Galaxy Note 7, Google Home, home automation, Honeywell, Instant Pot, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Net Neutrality, NHTSA, Pebble, Pebble Time, President Trump, Samsung, Sprint, Star Wars, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Tesla, The Last Jedi, Tidal, Twitter, Westworld
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Review: Google Home – Not The Droid You’re Looking For… Yet
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Google Home is a little device that plugs into the wall and responds to your voice. It can play recorded music or the radio through services like Google Play Music and TuneIn, and it can respond to questions based on the knowledge Google has amassed throughout the 21st century. If you’ve got the correct hardware at home, like a Nest Thermostat, Samsung’s Smartthings, or Philips hue, Google Home can allow you to control some of your home’s functions with your voice.
We’ve had some time to get to know the Google Home and there are a LOT of things to like about it. Its voice recognition is robust and its audio is impressive for being a little tiny speaker. At the same time, when one looks at Google Home through the lens of a smarthome, AI, product, one quickly realizes that the device is not quite where the demonstrations were during the 2016 Google IO developers conference, nor is it a device that delivers on the promise of its advertisements.
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The Drill Down 454: How To Hack An Election

On this week’s Drill Down podcast, was the U.S. election hacked?, Facebook compromises censorship to get into China, auto regulators want you off your apps, Google AI makes its own language, and much more.
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Tags: AI, Amazon, Amazon Web Services, apps, Artificial Intelligence, AT&T, AWS, Black Friday, Bluedio, Bluetooth, Casey Neistat, CNN, computers, computing, Cyber Monday, DirecTV, DirecTV Now, distracted driving, Election, electronic voting, Facebook, Fitbit, Google, Google Home, Grace Hopper, headphones, Margaret Hamilton, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Netflix, NHTSA, Pebble, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, YouTube
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The Drill Down 452: If It’s On the Internet, It Must Be True

This week’s Drill Down podcast, Silicon Valley responds to the election of Donald Trump, fake news on the internet, Apple wrote the book on product design…and it’s for sale, and much more.
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Tags: Amazon Echo, Apple, Donald Trump, Echo, Edward Snowden, Election, Facebook, fake news, Google, Google Home, iPhones, LifeAfter, MacBook Pro, mashups, Panoply, podcasts, remix, Technology, Twitter
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