| 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…
...continue reading » 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?
...continue reading » 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.
...continue reading » 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.
...continue reading » 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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