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| Man In The High Castle’s ‘Resistance Radio’ Launched; Angry Trump Fans Think It’s Real |
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Amazon recently launched Resistance Radio, a digital radio station created as a companion to their award-winning streaming television series The Man in the High Castle, which is based on the book by Philip K. Dick. High Castle‘s story is set in an alternate dystopian world where, after losing World War II, the United States is divided and occupied by two powers — Greater Nazi Reich and the Japanese Pacific States — and its oppressed people live in fear under totalitarian rule. From the country’s lawless neutral zone, a pirate radio station has emerged to keep the memory of the former America alive and to fight back against the current regime. As io9 discovered, interestingly enough, soon after Resistance Radio was launched, some supporters of U.S. President Trump (the actual current president of the United States of America) took to social media to express their outrage at the new anti-fascism and anti-Nazi propaganda radio station. Not only did they believe that the station was real, but that it was somehow anti-Trump; therefore, they were offended by its existence and what they referred to as its “liberal agenda.”
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| The Drill Down 466: To The Moon!
This week, more tech responses to President Trump actions, Uber vs Google in a self-driving patent battle, PlayStation, Xbox, and YouTube in the news, SpaceX plans moon tourism, and much, much more.
...continue reading » Tags: Alphabet, Boston Dynamics, Elon Musk, FCC, Google, Internet of things, IoT, ISP, ISPS, LGBT, Netflix, Otto, Playstation, PlayStation VR, President Trump, PS4, Sony, SpaceX, STEM, Uber, Waymo, Xbox, YouTube, YouTube TV | |
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| The Drill Down 463: PAX South Recap; Snap IPO
On this week’s Drill Down podcast, Tosin recaps PAX South, drones at the Super Bowl, the tech world opposes President Trump‘s immigration ban, Snap goes IPO, factory robots on the rise, Tesla breaks another speed record, and more.
...continue reading » Tags: adobe, Amazon, Intel, IPO, PAX, Pax South, President Trump, Snap, Snapchat, Super Bowl, Tesla, Uber, Zendesk | |
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| The Drill Down 462: Rogues and Resistance [The Young Family by Patricia Piccinini]On this week’s Drill Down podcast, “Rogues and Resistance,” Science and the National Parks go rogue, tech’s response to President Trump‘s immigration ban, Oculus loses a $500M suit, a human/pig hybrid, and more.
...continue reading » Tags: ACLU, Ajit Pai, Apple, chimera, Donald Trump, FCC, Federal Communications Commission, Google, Kickstarter, Lyft, Oculus, President Trump, Resist, Stagg, STEM, Tesla, Twitter, Uber, Virtual Reality, VR, ZeniMax | |
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