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The Drill Down 355: Year In Review 2014

This week, The Drill Down crew looks back at the year in tech and the web for the year 2014. We’ll discuss our favorite tech events of the past year, and what we can expect in 2015.
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Tags: Alibaba, ALS, Apple, Apple Pay, Apple Watch, Barack Obama, BitCoin, Cryptocurrency, drones, FCC, Federal Communications Commission, Fitbit, Flappy Bird, GamerGate, Garmin, Hacking, HBO, HBO Go, Ice Bucket Challenge, iPhone 6, It, Jawbone, Jawbone Up, Law Enforcement, Lyft, Marvel, Microsoft, Mt. Gox, National Security Agency, Net Neutrality, Netflix, North Korea, NSA, Obama, P85D, President Obama, Privacy, ridesharing, Satya Nadella, Sony Pictures, streaming Video, Tesla, Tesla P85D, The Interview, Uber, Vivofit, Wearable Tech, wearables, year in review, YouTube
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The Drill Down 354: ScrÜber

This week, Apple deletes, AT&T throttles, the NSA hacks, HBO outsources, and Uber, well, what doesn’t Uber do? All this, and much much more.
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Tags: Apple, AT&T, AURORAGOLD, cellphone, data throttling, DPRK, Hacking, HBO, HBO Go, iPod, Lyft, Magnavox Odyssey, NASA, North Korea, NSA, Orion, Peter Sunde, Privacy, Ralph Baer, ridesharing, Sony Pictures, Space, streaming Video, The Pirate Bay, Uber, Video Games
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Standalone Cable-Free HBO GO Service Confirmed For 2015

Many of you have wanted it for a long, long time now, and today HBO made it official: a standalone cable-free HBO GO service will be made available at some point in 2015.
This of course means that instead of having Comcast or another cable provider and paying extra for HBO—a current requirement in order to use HBO GO and watch your favorite shows and movies on your tablet or gaming console and so on—you’ll soon have the option to pay a certain fee just to use HBO GO. Ideal for those of you watch Game of Thrones on a loop all day every day. Don’t judge! I’m studying the symbolism, and counting snowflakes…because math!
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The Drill Down 323: A Companion Through Time and Space Forever

This week, Twitter and LinkedIn benefit from a mobile boom, Are wearables dead in the water already?, Did the FCC just hammer the final nail in Net Neutrality’s coffin?, Netflix raises fees, Amazon goes for HBO — and smartphones, what happens when a hashtag backfires on you, and much more…
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Tags: Amazon, Amazon Prime, Broken Age, Danny Boyle, Double Fine Productions, FCC, FuelBand, Gnip, HBO, HBO Go, Irrational Games, Ken Levine, Leonardo DiCaprio, LinkedIn, Net Neutrality, Netflix, Nike, Steve Jobs, Tim Schafer, Twitter
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HBO and Amazon Sign Exclusive Multi-Year Streaming Deal For Prime Members

Amazon has announced a new multi-year content licensing agreement with HBO, bringing their exceptional library of content online exclusively to Amazon Prime members through the Prime Instant Video service.
Series and mini-series that will be available for Prime members to watch include The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, The Wire, Rome, Big Love, Deadwood, Eastbound & Down, Band of Brothers, John Adams, early seasons of Boardwalk Empire and True Blood, and much more. Other series, such as more recent hits like Girls, The Newsroom, and Veep, will eventually be made available to watch over the course of the new agreement, approximately three years after they first air on HBO.
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The Drill Down 321: The Bleeding Heart Of The Net

This week, the heart of internet security is bleeding, stock traders game the system, a Twitter to destabilize Cuba, Game of Thrones pushes piracy to a new high, and are we at 3D printing’s tipping point? All this and more…
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Tags: 3D Printing, Amazon, Brendan Eich, Bruce Schneier, Cuba, Firefox, Flash Boys, Game of Thrones, HBO, HBO Go, Heartbleed, Heartbleed bug, Kickstarter, Michael Lewis, Micro, Microsoft, Monument Valley, Mozilla, Open SSL, Silicon Valley, SSL, Twitter, Uber, UberRUSH, ZunZuneo
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‘True Detective’ Finale Crashes HBO GO Streaming Service

We knew the Season 1 finale of True Detective would be bringing in a lot of viewers, as HBO has been teasing that the episode would reveal the identity of “The Yellow King” ritualistic serial killer. But what HBO apparently didn’t anticipate is that the popularity of this eighth and final episode of the season would cause its streaming service, HBO GO, to crash.
The season finale aired on HBO on Sunday night at 9pm and by 9:50pm, the HBO GO Twitter account had posted a status about their service being affected: “Due to overwhelmingly popular demand for #TrueDetective, we’ve been made aware of an issue affecting some users. Please try again soon.”
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The Drill Down 310: Seeing The Future

This week, Apple refunds consumers whose kids clicked on mobile app purchases, President Obama reins in the NSA, the end of physical film in theaters is near, Google unveils plans for smart contact lenses, and will your next Amazon package arrive before you’ve even ordered it?
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Tags: Amazon, Amazon Prime, Apple, Digital Distribution, Google, Google Glass, Google X, HBO, HBO Go, Itunes, iTunes App store, NSA, Obama, Paramount, predictive shipping, President Obama, Privacy, Spying
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The Drill Down 283: Fifteen Seconds Of Fame

This week, more updates in the Edward Snowden/NSA case, Instagram adds video, the FAA relaxes rules on gadgets during travel, Barnes & Noble quits making the Nook, is Pandora ripping its artists off?…and much more.
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Tags: Aaron Swartz, Aaron's Law, Amazon, AOL, Apple TV, AppleTV, Barnes & Noble, CFAA, Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, Edward Snowden, FAA, Facebook, Fan TV, Federal Aviation Administration, FISA, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, GameStop, HBO Go, Instagram, John McAfee, McAfee Antivirus, Nook, NSA, Ouya, Pandora, Pebble, Pink Floyd, RSS, Skype, Streaming radio, Twitter, Vine, WatchESPN
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The Drill Down 271: Reps Forked By Dongle

This week, a global Internet apocalypse is upon us!… or is it? Twitter turns seven, Blizzard’s next Warcraft is not an RPG but a card game, streaming video heats up, the iPhone’s on T-Mobile, Scientists plan a real Jurassic Park, and a dongle joke that spiraled way out of control.
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Tags: Blizzard, Children of Liberty, CloudFlare, CyberBunker, Daylight, DDOS, Dive Kick, DNA, dongle, HBO Go, iPhone, Johann Sebastian Joust, Jurassic Park, PAX, PAX East, PlayHaven, PyCon, Python, RPG, SendGrid, Shootmania, SpamHaus, Spotify, Summly, t mobile, Twitter, World of Warcraft, WoW, Yahoo
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