| 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.
...continue reading » 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 386: Space Invaders VLA Image courtesy of NRAO/AUI This week, Reddit lays down the law, drones hinder rescue efforts, a cheating site gets hacked, an exploit to hijack a car remotely, Prof. Stephen Hawking joins the search for ET … and much much more.
...continue reading » Topics: Electronics, Features, Gadgets, Movies, Podcasts, Science, Space, Technology, Television, The Drill Down, Video Games |
Tags: ad blocking, Ashley Madison, AshleyMadison, automotive, Data breach, drones, Ellen Pao, Grooveshark, Hacking, Hulu, Pixels, reddit, Star Wars, Steve Huffman, Video Games, videogames | |
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| The Drill Down 380: Death by Selfie
This week, how Apple Music stands up to competitors, warrantless surveillance expands, new hardware from Valve & Xbox, DIY lethal weapons, and a selfie that killed — literally … all that and much more.
...continue reading » Tags: Amazon, Amazon Prime Music, Apple, Apple Music, Edward Snowden, extremism, Google, Google Music, Grand Theft Auto V, GTA V, Gun, Hackers, Hacking, ISIL, ISIS, laser, lethal weapons, Microsoft, National Security Agency, NSA, Pandora, selfie, social media, Spotify, Spying, Steam, Steam Machine, streaming music, stun, The Martian, US Air Force, Valve, Xbox One | |
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| The Drill Down 378: Leader of the Pac
This week, Charter buys Time Warner Cable, the secret plan to hijack our smartphones, the NSA ends bulk collection of phone records, the IRS is hacked, and Pac-Man turns 35 … and much much more.
...continue reading » Tags: All Things D, Android, Apple, arcade, Charter Communications, Coin-Op, Cortana, Data breach, design, Edward Snowden, Five Eyes, Google, Hacking, Internal Revenue Service, iOS, IRS, Jony Ive, Microsoft, Namco, National Security Agency, NSA, Pac-Man, Patriot Act, Privacy, Re/Code, Samsung, Section 215, security, selfie, smartphone, Smartphones, Time Warner Cable, Toru Iwatani, UC Browser, Video Games, videogames, Vox, Wall Street Journal | |
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| The Drill Down 363: The Richard Pryor of Hacking
This week, former The Drill Down co-host (and current co-host of TARDISBlend) Tom Cheredar joins Dwayne and Andy to discuss how hackers pulled off one of the largest heists in history, a toy from the 50s is updated for the 21st century, the FAA grounds Amazon‘s drone plans, and…is Apple building a self-driving car?
...continue reading » Tags: Alan Turing, Android, Apple, Apple Pay, cybersecurity, Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Data Policy and Chief Data Scientist, Dr. DJ Patil, drones, ELectric Car, FAA, Facebook, Federal Aviation Administration, Google, Google Cardboard, Hacking, hard drives, J.J. Abrams, JJ Abrams, Jonathan Ive, Jony Ive, Kaspersky Lab, National Security Agency, NSA, Office of Science and Technology Policy, President Obama, Seagate, Spying, Star Wars, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, TARDISblend, The White House, Tim Cook, Tom Cheredar, Toshiba, U.S. Chief Data Scientist, View-Master, VR, Western Digital, Yahoo | |
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