| The Drill Down 318: The Cost of Secrets
This week: When exactly did Target know about last year’s security breach?, Amazon raises the price of Prime and ponders a Chromecast-style set-top box, Sony reveals a VR helmet, Google‘s smartwatch OS, and Tech’s biggest leaders, both living and dead, have an opinion to share on big issues this week.
...continue reading » Tags: 360, Amazon, Amazon Prime, Android, Android Wear, anonymity, Apple TV, Bill Gates, Chromecast, Connected Home, Data breach, Google, hack, Marc Andreessen, Mark Zuckerberg, National Security Agency, NSA, Oculus, Oculus Rift, OnLive, Playstation, President Obama, Project Morpheus, PS4, Quirky, robots, Secret, security breaches, set top box, smartwatch. Motorola, Sony, Spying, Steve Jobs, Target, VR, VR headset, Whisper | |
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| The Drill Down 313: The Brief Rise and Fall of Flappy Bird
This week, Sony ditches the PC market, Comcast buys Time Warner Cable, Amazon‘s ready to play games, GoPro goes for IPO, Google shows their true colors, Flappy Bird gets its wings clipped, and more…
...continue reading » Tags: Amazon, Android, Comcast, Double Helix Games, Edward Snowden, Flappy Bird, Google, Google Doodle, GoPro, Initial Public Offering, IPO, LGBT, Microsoft, National Security Agency, NSA, Olympics, Sochi, Sony, Sony VAIO, Time Warner, Time Warner Cable | |
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| The Drill Down 312: Delicious, Creamy Sochi
This week, Microsoft has a new CEO, Facebook turns ten and releases a new app, the NSA plays favorites with Yahoo, and journalists at the Winter Olympics in Sochi are getting insta-hacked.
...continue reading » Tags: Anonymous, Bill Gates, Edward Snowden, Facebook, FiftyThree, Microsoft, National Security Agency, Nest, NSA, Olympics, Paper, Privacy, Satya Nadella, Sochi, Steve Ballmer, Yahoo | |
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| The Drill Down 308: Lessons Learned and The Road Ahead
We ring in the New Year with our first new show of 2014! This week we discuss a new Pebble watch, cloud gaming on Sony PlayStation, T-Mobile wants to pay you to switch, Facebook is dead to teens, are digital music downloads already obsolete?…the legacy of the Snowden NSA leaks, and a cube that balances on its edge.
...continue reading » Tags: Apple, AT&T, Comixology, Cubli, Edison, Edward Snowden, Facebook, Gaikai, iMagnet, Intel, iOS, Itunes, iTunes App store, iTunes Radio, Monaco. iPad Mini, MP3, National Security Agency, NSA, Pebble, Pebble Steel, Playstation, PlayStation Now, Privacy, Sony, Spotify, Sprint, t mobile, Target, Verizon | |
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| The Drill Down 300: The Tech That Changed Our Lives
This week, the NSA taps Yahoo! and Google data centers without their knowledge, NSA spying makes Germany want to secede from the Internet, Netflix wants to stream blockbuster movies at the same time they’re in the theaters, and Turkey builds an intercontinental tunnel linking Europe to Asia. Then, to celebrate The Drill Down‘s 300th episode, we discuss the technology that has personally moved us, from our early experiences to our most recent connections…
...continue reading » Tags: Apple, Digital photography, Everpix, Gadgets, Google, iPhone, National Security Agency, Netflix, NSA, Olympus, Privacy, Super Nintendo, Technology, The Drill Down, Yahoo | |
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