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The Drill Down 584: Appreciating Assets

On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, the FBI and Immigration are using our DMV records for facial recognition, new changes to Facebook and Instagram, we find out where your precious Friends are going, Tesla news, a lighter Switch, and much more.
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Tags: AT&T, autonomous cars, Cars, electric vehicles, Elon Musk, Facebook, H. Ross Perot, HBO, HBO Max, IBM, Instagram, linux, Model S, Nintendo, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch Lite., open source, Ret Hat, Tesla, US Elections, voting
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The Drill Down 548: Apple October Event 2018

On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, IBM buys Red Hat, a right-wing social network ends in the wake of Pittsburgh killings, did Google pay off a harasser?, new products from Apple… and much, much more.
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Tags: Android, Andy Rubin, Apple, cellphone, cloud computing, GAB, Google, Huawei, IBM, iPad, iPad Pro, Mac Mini, Macbook, Macbook Air, open source, President Trump Donald Trump, Red Hat, security, Smartphones, social networks, Trump
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The Drill Down 456: No One Behind The Wheel

On this week’s Drill Down podcast, driverless ride-sharing is emerging, Russia’s part in hacking the U.S. election, President-Elect Trump meets with tech leaders, Bill Gates leads a fight against climate change,  and much, much more.
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Tags: Alex Karp, Alphabet, Amazfit, Amazon, Apple, Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Boston Dynamics, Brian Krzanich, Chuck Robbins, Cisco, Data breach, Donald Trump, Eight Sleep, Elon Musk, Eric Schmidt, Facebook, Galaxy Note 7, Ginni Rommety, Google, IBM, Intel, Jeff Bezos, Larry Page, Microsoft, oracle, Palantir, Peter Thiel, President Obama, Safra Catz, Samsung, Satya Nadella, Sheryl Sandberg, Tesla, Tim Cook, Travis Kalanick, Uber, Vladimir Putin, Xaomi, Yahoo
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The Drill Down 441: The Big Payback

On this week’s podcast, join former The Drill Down co-host Tom Cheredar as we discuss Spotify buries musicians who aren’t exclusive, Facebook kills the Trending Topics team, what to expect from Apple, is there a spy in your iPhone? How the Clinton Campaign is foiling the Kremlin, and have the Russians hacked U.S. voting systems? …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: AI, AirPods, Apple, Apple Music, apps, Artificial Intelligence, Cowboy Bebop, Edward Snowden, Facebook, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Gadgets, gaming, Hackers, Hacking, Hillary Clinton, IBM, iOS, iPad, iPhone, Macbook, malware, Mars, Morgan, music streaming, NASA, Neon Genesis Evangelion, News, PlayStation Now, Privacy, Science, SONOS, Space, Spotify, Tom Cheredar, Trending Topics, Video Games, videogames, watson, WhatsApp
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The Drill Down 426: Google I/O 2016

This week, all the best from Google’s developer conference, Twitter lets you tweet longer, an artificially intelligent lawyer (make up your own jokes there), 50 times faster storage from IBM.
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Tags: Amazon, Apple, Artificial Intelligence, Dot, Echo, Facebook, Gboard, Google, Google I/O, IBM, Itunes, law, Mark Zuckerberg, Spaces, storage, The Simpsons, Twitter
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The Drill Down 335: An Extra Hour In The Ball Pit

This week, Greg Davies from the Blendover podcast joins Dwayne and Andrew as we discuss: Chinese hackers break into U.S. gov’t employee records, Hulu gets South Park, a shakeup at Microsoft, Apple and IBM join forces, a new vehicle from Tesla, and…Worst. Con. Ever. All this and much more…
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Tags: Apple, Comcast, Conventions, DashCon, ELectric Car, Google, Google Drive, Greg Davies, Hacking, Hulu, IBM, Microsoft, Novartis, Right to be forgotten, Satya Nadella, South Park, Streaming, Tesla, Tumblr, Video Games, videogames, Weird Al Yankovic
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Must Watch: Short Film Created Using Only Atoms Magnified Over 100 Million Times
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IBM has created a short movie unlike anything you’ve ever seen. The movie, which is titled A Boy and His Atom, is made using stop-motion techniques—such as the ones used in films like The Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride—but instead of manipulating a visible doll or figure or object multiple times to create a film, this particular film is made up entirely of manipulated atoms that have been magnified by a microscope over 100 million times. This makes it the smallest movie ever made.
As the title implies, the short follows a boy and his friendly, lively atom. It consists of 250 stop-motion frames using techniques that were perfected over years of atomic data storage research. The microscope used to make the movie is not the kind used in science class either, as you may have guessed. This microscope weighs in at two tons, and operates at minus 450 degrees Fahrenheit. The microscope uses an ultra sharp needle to within one nanometer of a copper surface, which attracts the atom and allows them to move one at a time.
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The Drill Down 227: A Journey Into Tech

This week, The Drill Down team (including occasional co-host TechMeme editor Lidija Davis) talk about employers asking prospective new hires for their Facebook (and other social) passwords and Facebook’s reaction to that. Also, we look at the issues and reactions that have emerged in the two weeks since the launch of Apple’s new iPad.
But first, this week’s headlines… Apple to pay dividends, Kevin Rose to work for Google, Zynga buys OMGPOP, Facebook buys 750 patents from IBM, Nokia‘s Lumia 900 comes to AT&T, Obvtuse vs Svbtle, and Google shows you what you’ve been doing…on Google.
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Tags: Apple, AT&T, Draw Something, Facebook, Google, Google Plus, IBM, iPad, Journey, Kevin Rose, Lumia, Lumia 900, Nokia, Obtvuse, OMGPOP, open source, Playstation Network, Privacy, PS3. PSN, Svbtle, thatgamecompany, The Drill Down, Zynga
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