| The Drill Down 288: The Post-Bezos Post Era
This week, the launch of the Moto X, the first phone built from the ground up by Google, The Tor anonymity network may have been hacked…by the FBI, Apple gets slapped for e-book price fixing, President Obama bails them out, and your Amazon Gold Box deal of the day… one Washington Post, slightly used…
...continue reading » Tags: Amazon, Apple, e-book, Edward Snowden, Google, International Trade Commission, iPad, iPhone, ITC, Jeff Bezos, malware, Moto X, Motorola, Motorola Mobility, National Security Agency, NSA, President Obama, The Onion Router, The Washington Post, Tor, Washington Post | |
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| The Drill Down 280: The Troll Hunter
This week Google nixes face recognition on Glass, the US Supreme Court OKs DNA swabs, Zynga axes 250 employees, Did Apple conspire with e-book publishers?, and President Obama puts the hammer down on Patent Trolls…
...continue reading » Tags: 2600, Apple, Arrested Development, Atari, DNA, eBooks, Glass, Google, Google Glass, Kazuo Hirai, Oculus Rift, patent litigation, patent trolls, Patent wars, patents, Playstation, PlayStation 4, Podcasting, President Obama, Rick Roll, RickRoll, Samsung, Sony, Vine, Virtual Reality, VR, Zynga | |
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| The Drill Down 276: Through A Glass, Darkly
This week, SNL skewers Google Glass, lots of upcoming gaming news, the FBI’s plan to wiretap web users, iOS 7 is going flat, Facebook and SMS loses millions of users, the world’s first 3D printed gun, and a man who quit the internet for a year (and lived to tell about it)…
...continue reading » Tags: 3D Printing, adobe, Barack Obama, Beyond: Two Souls, Creative Cloud, Creative Suite, Disney, EA, Electronic Arts, Enders Game, Facebook, Google Glass, GTA V, iOS, iOS 7, Jony Ive, LucasArts, Lucasfilm, Orson Scott Card, Photoshop, President Obama, Quantic Dream, Ray Harryhausen, Robert Scoble, Rockstar, Saturday Night Live, SMS, SNL, Star Wars, The Drill Down | |
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| The Drill Down 268: Terminator Sparrow
This week, the White House chimes in on cellphone unlocking, Samsung‘s new phone watches you watching it, YouTube takes on Spotify, Microsoft gets its wrist slapped, Six Strikes and you’re out, Han, Luke & Leia come back for Star Wars: Episode VII; and I, for one, welcome our new cinder block-hurling overlords.
...continue reading » Tags: AIDS, Big Dog, BigDog, Boston Dynamics, Carrie Fisher, cyborg, DARPA, DMCA, Galaxy, George Lucas, Google, Harrison Ford, HIV, Lucasfilm, Mark Hamill, Microsoft, Mobile, President Obama, Samsung, six strikes, Spotify, Star Wars, unlocking, viral, YouTube | |
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| Obama’s ‘Jedi Mind Meld’ Comment Triggers Collective Facepalm; Brings Attention To Sequester
Do you know that meme that shows an image of Star Trek‘s Captain Picard with a quote from Star Wars (“Use the Force, Luke”) attributed to Dumbledore from the Harry Potter series? It’s a pretty popular meme meant to not only incite a geek frenzy, but also to set off facepalms across the universe. On Friday, President Obama, who’s known for his love of Star Trek and other geeky franchises, inadvertently triggered a collective facepalm and inspired a meme of his own after he combined Star Wars and Star Trek references during a press conference at The White House. Speaking to the press, the President stated that he couldn’t use a “Jedi Mind Meld” to make Republicans in Congress go along with his budget proposal to avert a sequester.
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