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The Drill Down 445: Blowing Up Your Phone

On this week’s Drill Down podcast, the largest hack of all time, Twitter & SoundCloud may have new owners, Apple plans its own version of the Echo, Snapchat makes a Spectacle of itself, humans are one flight closer to Mars … and much, much more.
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Tags: Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Blackberry, cellphone, Data breach, Disney, Echo, Elon Musk, Google, hack, Hacking, iPhone, iPhone 7, Mobile, Pen Pineapple Apple Pen, PPAP, Salesforce, smartphone, Snap, Snapchat, SoundCloud, Space, SpaceX, Spectacles, Spotify, Twitter, viral video, Yahoo
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The Drill Down 413: PAX South Roundup 2016

This week, Tosin recaps the best from PAX South 2016, Who won the Super Bowl…online?, Are self-driving car systems legally the driver?, Twitter turns things upside-down, Why does Amazon need brick-and-mortar stores?, What happens when you get squashed between two portals? …All this and more on The Drill Down.
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Topics: Apps, Conventions, Features, Gadgets, Pax, Podcasts, Software, Technology, Television, The Drill Down, Video Games
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Tags: Amazon, autonomous cars, BMW 750i, Department of Homeland Security, DHS, Facebook, Google, hack, Hackers, Hacking, hashtags, Infiniti Q50S, Mercedes-Benz s65 AMG, PAX, Pax South, Portal, Portal 2, self-driving car, Super Bowl, Tesla, Tesla Model S, Twitter, Valve Software, Video Streaming
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The Drill Down 397: Beneath The Surface

This week, Twitter launches Moments, Hackers hit Patreon, Amazon shall have no other media players before it, Microsoft rolls out a slew of new products, Porsche swerves away from Google, and much much more…
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Tags: AirPlay, Amazon, Android Auto, Apple, Apple TV, Chromecast, Chromecast Audio, Data breach, Display Dock, Elon Musk, Google, hack, Hacking, HoloLens, Jack Dorsey, Kindle Fire, Lumia, Microsoft, Moments, Patreon, Porsche, Surface Book, Surface Pen, surface Pro, Tesla, TPP, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Twitter, Video Streaming, Windows 10
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The Drill Down 392: …With Thunderous Applause

This week we’re once more joined by Greg Davies, host of Blendover & Heavy Metal Historian podcasts (and of course the TARDISBlend podcast hosted here at Geeks of Doom) as we discuss the biggest sausage party online, Google’s new logo, 1/7th of humanity on Facebook, the legality of teen self-sexting, Android Wear comes to iOS, a sneak peek at Apple’s future, Tesla breaks the perfection scale … and much much more.
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Tags: Alphabet, Android Wear, Apple TV, Ashley Madison, Avid Life Media, Consumer Reports, Digital photography, Facebook, Google, hack, Hacking, Hacking Team, I Dream of Wires, Just Shapes And Beats, Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft, Mirrorless cameras, modular synthesizers, Netflix, PAX, PAX Prime, Privacy, selfies, sexting, Siri, Smartwatch, synthesizers, Tesla, Video Games, wearables, Windows, Windows 10
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The Drill Down 391: Undeletable

This week we’re joined by Greg Davies, host of Blendover & Heavy Metal Historian podcasts (and of course the TARDISBlend podcast hosted here at Geeks of Doom) as we discuss escalating developments in the Ashley Madison hack, Twitter cuts off deleted political tweets, Facebook launches its own virtual assistant, YouTube takes on Twitch, ILM’s experimental lab… and much much more.
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Tags: Alexa, Alphabet, Amazon, Android, Ashley Madison, AshleyMadison, Avid Life Media, Chatroulette, Cortana, Data breach, Diplotwoops, esports, Facebook, first person shooter, Google, Greg Davies, hack, Hacking Team, Industrial Light & Magic, Jurassic Park, M, Microsoft, omegle, personal assistant, Politwoops, Siri, social media, Star Wars, Twitch, Twitter, Video Games, videogaming, virtual assistant, YouTube, YouTube Gaming
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The Drill Down 337: Monkey Selfie

This week, will cellphones be banned from airlines?, Russians hack over a billion passwords, malware in your USB, a camera that can decipher sound from silent video, the Sprint/T-Mobile merger is dead, and…if a monkey takes a selfie in the jungle, does it own the copyright?
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Tags: BitCoin, cellphone, Chromecast, Copyright, Cryptocurrency, Data breach, Foursquare, Fox, Google, hack, malware, Passwords, Playstation, ps3, Sony, Sprint, t mobile, Tesla, Tesla motors, Time Warner, USB, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Yelp
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The Drill Down 318: The Cost of Secrets

This 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.
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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 243: Beware The Net

This week, we have a ton of Apple news, including revealing evidence uncovered in the ongoing Apple/Samsung trial, and how one tech reporter’s online identity was demolished as a result of a social engineering hack on Apple & Amazon tech support.
Plus, Starbucks invests $25 million — and their entire paypoint infrastructure — in Square payments.
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Tags: Amazon, Apple, Birdbox, Digg, Ebay, Google, Google search, hack, Hacking, Half-Life 2, HL2, iOS, iPad, iPhone, OSX, Ouya, Samsung, Siri, Square, Starbucks, Steam, Valve, Windows, Windows 8, YouTube
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The Drill Down 236: E3 2012 & All Things D

This week, Andy, Devindra, Chris, and Techmeme’s Lidija Davis break down this coming year’s latest videogame announcements from the 2012 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). Later, we discuss last week’s All Things D conference, which was “haunted by the man who isn’t here.”
But first, this week’s headlines… LinkedIn suffers a massive security breach as 6.4 million passwords get leaked, Google sneaks the first video from Project Glass, Facebook Camera launches, Facebook plans to allow under 13-year-olds into their service, Apple to bring Siri to the iPad, and Airtime launches.
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Tags: Aaron Sorkin, Airtime, All Things D, Android, Apple, AR, Augmented Reality, Beyond: Two Souls, Chatroulette, E3, Electronic Entertainment Expo, Ellen Page, Facebook, Facebook Camera, hack, Hacking, Halo 4, iOS, iPad, LinkedIn, Maxis, Microsoft, Naughty Dog, Nintendo, Papo & Yo, Passwords, Playstation Network, Pocket, Privacy, ps3, Quantic Dream, Read It Later, Sean Parker, security, Shawn Fanning, SimCity, Siri, SmartGlass, Steve Jobs, The Drill Down, The Last of Us, Tim Cook, Tomb Raider, Watch Dogs, Wii, Wii U, Windows 8, Windows Phone, Wonderbook, Xbox 360
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Is This Video Of A Man Hacking The Screens Of New York City’s Time Square With An iPhone Fake?

An interesting video is making its way around the ‘net, and we want to hear your opinions on its legitimacy.
The video in question shows a man with a very cool trick. He’s created a little transmitter device that plugs into his iPhone, and when a second device is held near a video screen it automatically takes over the screen with the video playing on the phone. To prove this, he starts by recording a little video of himself shot by a friend in New York City’s Time Square of all places (where better to show off such a thing?) and then goes to prove it works.
So has this guy created something incredible, or is the entire thing a complete joke? Be sure to click on over to the other side now and see the video for yourself!
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