| The Drill Down 440: Hello Neighbor!
On this week’s Drill Down podcast, autonomous Ubers invade Pittsburgh, Nougat is here, Russian hackers hit the New York Times, Mario warps down to Rio, and another Earth may be closer than we thought …and much, much more.
...continue reading » Tags: 2016 Rio Olympics, 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Android, Android Nougat, apps, autonomous cars, autonomous vehicles, Batman, cellphones, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, fitness tracker, Gawker, Gawker Media, Gawker.com, go90, Hackers, Health, health tracker, Jabra, Julian Assange, leaks, Mario, Mr. Robot, National Security Agency, Nick Denton, Nintendo, NSA, Olympics, Russia, Space, streaming Video, Super Mario Bros., Telltale, Tesla, Tesla Model S, Tesla motors, The New York Times, Transformers, Uber, Video Games, videogames, WikiLeaks | |
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| The Drill Down 439: The Uncanny Valley
On this week’s The Drill Down podcast 439, “The Uncanny Valley,” former TDD co-host Tom Cheredar joins us as we discuss:Â Intel‘s VR rig, Gawker gets a new owner, Twitter‘s harassment fails, Facebook vs AdBlock, the NSA gets hacked …and much, much more.
...continue reading » Tags: AdBlock, AdBlock Plus, Adult Swim, Buzzfeed, Cisco, Facebook, Fortinet, Gawker, Gawker Media, Google, Google Fiber, Intel, iOS, iPhone, National Security Agency, Netflix, NSA, Project Alloy, Road to Balhalla, Twitter, uncanny valley, Univision, Virtual Reality, VR | |
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| The Drill Down 407: Here, There, and Everywhere
This week, has the glow come off Tesla‘s perfect record?, the first iPhone jailbreaker has hacked self-driving cars, it’s time for drones to be registered, a fresh batch of data breaches, and streaming music just got a little more Fab … all this and more on this week’s The Drill Down podcast.
...continue reading » Tags: Amazon Prime, Apple, Apple Music, autonomous cars, Data breach, Deezer, drones, electronic voting, Elon Musk, FAA, Federal Aviation Administration, Final Fantasy, Ford, geohot, George Hotz, Google, Google Play, Groove, Hello Kitty, iPhone, Juniper Networks, Louis Vuitton, Microsoft, National Security Agency, NSA, Rhapsody, self-driving car, Slacker, SpaceX, Spotify, streaming music, Tesla, Tesla Model S, The Beatles, Tidal | |
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| The Drill Down 404: A Clone Again, Naturally
This week, we recover from Black Friday, the NSA ends mass-surveillance, the private information of 200,00+ kids get hacked, a $5 computer, and the largest cloning factory in the world …All this and more … on The Drill Down.
...continue reading » Topics: Apps, Computers, Electronics, Features, Gadgets, Podcasts, Science, Software, Technology, The Drill Down, Video Games |
Tags: Amazon, Apple, Apple Watch, Automatic, automotive, Black Friday, cloning, Computer, hacks, identity theft, iPad Pro, Mark Zuckerberg, Mobile, National Security Agency, NSA, Prime Air, Priscilla Chan, PS4, Raspberry Pi, Sony, Steam, Steam Controller, Steam Link, Surveillance, VTech | |
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| The Drill Down 390: The Cost of Convenience
This week, Gigaom columnist Tom Cheredar is our guest as we discuss hackers posting personal data from infidelity site Ashley Madison, the NSA‘s best friend is AT&T, does Amazon overwork its employees, selections from POTUS’s playlist, giant robots!… and much much more.
...continue reading » Tags: Amazon, Android, Android M, Ashley Madison, AT&T, Comcast, Data breach, edge, Felicia Day, Galaxy, Galaxy Note, Gigaom, Google, Hackers, Jeff Bezos, Megabots, Music, National Security Agency, NSA, Obama, playlist, President Obama, Privacy, robotics, robots, Samsung, smartphone, Spotify, Spying, streaming music, Surveillance, Tom Cheredar, Watchable | |
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