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The Drill Down 588: Web of Hate

On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, Media journalist Tom Cheredar joins us to discuss: Apple launches its credit card, Disney bundles its subscriptions, a harbor of hate on the web loses its platform, we make time slow to a crawl, and much, much more.
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Tags: 8chan, Alexa, Amazon, Apple, CloudFlare, Disney, Disney Plus, espn, Galaxy S10, Google, Hulu, Lego, President Trump, Samsung, Siri, The Shining
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The Drill Down 572: A Whole New World

On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, Uber releases its IPO, China uses AI to profile minorities, Samsung’s new phone prospects fold after reviews, New Next gen-consoles, and all the details of Disney’s new streaming service Disney+, and much more.
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Tags: Artificial Intelligence, autonomous vehicles, Boston Dynamics, Comcast, Disney, Disney Plus, electric vehicles, Facial recognition, Galaxy Fold, Hulu, Microsoft, Netflix, Playstation, robots, Samsung, Smartphones, Sony, Space, SpaceX, Spot, streaming Video, Tesla, Uber, Xbox
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The Drill Down 564: Call and Fold

On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, Australia’s elections are hacked, a Saudi app that tracks women’s movements, Samsung unveils a foldable phone, the perils of AI and machine learning … and much, much more.
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Tags: AI, Apple, Artificial Intelligence, Australia, elections, electric motor, Flight, Fortnite, Galaxy Fold, GANs, generative adversarial networks, Google, Hacking, machine learning, NVIDIA, Samsung, Saudi Arabia, Sun Flyer, This Person Does Not Exist, US Copyright Office
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CES 2019: Apple & Samsung, iTunes & AirPlay: It’s Complicated
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By DwayneD
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 [As Apple seeks to keep up in the streaming space, AirPlay support will allow more iTunes users to see their content in more places.]
Yesterday, Samsung surprised the technology world with two big announcements during their CES 2019 keynote: (A) Starting in Spring of 2019, Samsung smart TV sets would support Apple’s AirPlay 2 protocol, which allows users of the TV sets who have iPhone, iPad, or Mac devices to stream what they’re seeing on their Apple device over to Samsung smart TV set via Wi-Fi. (B) iTunes is coming to Samsung smart TV sets. Owners of Samsung smart TVs will be able to stream Movies and TV shows they purchased via their Apple ID via an iTunes app on a Samsung device.
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The Drill Down 535: The Library Of Amazon

This week, where Prime Day went wrong, AI in the supermarket, Google’s secret successor to Android, should Amazon replace libraries?… and much, much more.
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Tags: Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Artificial Intelligence, Discord, Facebook, Fuchsia, Gadgets, Glass, Google, iPhone, Kroger AI, M. Night Shyalaman, Nintendo, Prime Day, robots, Samsung, Science, Sony, Steam, Super Mario Odyssey
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The Drill Down 531: SCOTech

On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, a seven-year legal battle comes to an end, States can tax online sales, cellphones need a warrant from police, California’s net neutrality battle suffers a blow… and much, much more.
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Tags: Apple, cellphones, Facebook, iPhone, law, Net Neutrality, Privacy, Rubik's Cube, Samsung, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Technology, Westworld, YouTube
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The Drill Down 527: Gawd Damn Privacy Requests!

On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, Netflix is bigger than Disney (briefly), is Amazon secretly recording your conversations?, has your internet router been hijacked by Russian hackers?, why you’re seeing all those pesky privacy notices… and much, much more.
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Topics: Apps, Computers, Electronics, Features, Gadgets, Podcasts, Science, Software, Technology, The Drill Down, Video Games
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Tags: Alexa, Amazon, Amazon Echo, Apple, Bethesda, Bethesda Softworks, cellphones, Disney, Fallout, Fallout 76, GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation, Hacking, Mobile, Netflix, routers, Samsung, Tesla, Tesla Model 3, Uber, VRV, Vudu
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CES 2018: Samsung’s HomeHub Fridge Knows Who You Are (Video)
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By DwayneD
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As if the connected world wasn’t already suffering from enough information overload, Samsung has doubled-down with their smart HomeHub fridge, an appliance with an interactive touch screen larger than a standard iPad on display at CES 2018.
Wait a minute. They’re not doubling down. What’s the descriptor for the number 14? That’s right, they’re launching not two or five versions of their HomeHub fridge, but they’re launching 14. The idea here is that by 2020, Samsung wants all of its appliances to be not only IoT ready, but smart – and that’s where the title of this post comes in.
Continue below for more and a video of the HomeHub fridge.
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The Drill Down 496: “Goodbye” AOL Instant Messenger

On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, Russian hackers use antivirus software to steal U.S. secrets, Oculus’ new headset, AOL Instant Messenger says “Goodbye,†the end of Windows phone, and much more.
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Tags: AIM, Amazing Stories, America Online, AOL, AOL Instant Messenger, Eugene Kaspersky, Gmail, Google YouTube, Hackers, HBO, Kaspersky, Kaspersky Lab, Microsoft, National Security Agency, Note 8, NSA, Oculus, Oculus Go, Russia, Samsung, Steven Soderbergh, Steven Spielberg, US Cyber Defense, US Elections, Virtual Reality, VR, Windows Phone
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