| The Drill Down 486: Federal Miscommunication
On this week’s Drill Down podcast, the Dark Web is down, is Amazon Prime Day a ripoff, FCC buries public protests on net neutrality, the end of MS Paint and Adobe Flash, we go to San Diego Comic-Con, and much more.
...continue reading » Tags: adobe, Adobe Flash, AlphaBay, Amazon, Comic Con, Didi, FCC, Foxconn, Hansa, Jeff Sessions, Lyft, Microsoft, MS Paint, Net Neutrality, Prime Day, SDCC, Silk Road, SoftBank, US Department of Justice, Windows | |
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| The Drill Down 351: #WeCanLandOnACometButWeCant
This week, darknets go dark, Obama backs Net Neutrality, Internet satellites, To Spotify or not to Spotify, A new game from Blizzard, and much much more.
...continue reading » Topics: Features, Movie Reviews, Movies, Music, Podcasts, Reviews, Science, Space, Technology, The Drill Down, Video Games |
Tags: Android, Bill Cosby, Blizzard, Christopher Nolan, Department of Homeland Security, Elon Musk, European Space Agency, Europol, FBI, FCC, games, internet, Interstellar, iOS, linux, Mac, Microsoft, Microsoft Office, Net Neutrality, Obama, Overwatch, Philae, President Obama, Rosetta, Silk Road, Spotify, Star Wars, Taylor Swift, Tesla, The Onion Router, Titan, Tom Wheeler, Tor, Visual Studio, YouTube, YouTube Music Key | |
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| Kickstarter Spotlight: ‘Deep Web: The Untold Story Of Bitcoin and The Silk Road’ |
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Usually when I sit down to get you to take a peek at a Kickstarter campaign, it’s a comic or book-related fundraiser. This one is a bit different, on many levels. I’ve never really delved too deeply into the darker corners of the interwebs. Most of us don’t have any reason to do so. But there exists an underworld to the ‘net of which the general public knows nothing. Deep Web: The Untold Story of Bitcoin and The Silk Road digs deeply into the dark places that government’s cannot control. Examining the elusive Silk Road and the shadowy currency known as Bitcoin is just part of this documentary from Alex Winter. Like his latest film Downloaded, much of the focus will be from a historical and cultural perspective. If you for some reason you don’t recognize Alex’s name, well maybe you should go pick up the always awesome comedy Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure. I, however, know him best from the cult classic The Lost Boys (my friend Becca and I must have watched that every weekend for at least three years). But he’s more than just an actor, this dude has some pretty great director’s chops, too. He’s the man behind the film Freaked! I have no doubt this film will dig into every crevice to get to the truth. I recently read that the internet that you and I know makes up a mere 4% of the content that’s actually out there. Apparently there is a lot of stuff that isn’t indexed because it’s not meant to be seen by the average computer user.
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| The Drill Down 296: Han ALWAYS Shoots First.
This week, Steve Ballmer says goodbye, and investors want Bill Gates out next, Valve makes a new gamepad, Apple‘s the number one brand worldwide, the NSA follows you on Facebook (whether you want it to or not), the internet’s black market is raided, and four rules to make Star Wars great again.
...continue reading » Tags: Apple, Bill Gates, Facebook, FBI, J.J. Abrams, John McAfee, Microsoft, NSA, Ross Ulbricht, Silk Road, Star Wars, Steam, Steam Controller, Steve Ballmer, The Drill Down, The IT Crowd, Valve | |
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| The Drill Down 290: Chilling Effects
This week, the man behind the biggest black market on the dark web, the biggest crowdfunding campaign ever, Mark Zuckerberg wants to give the entire world internet access, the iPhone in gold?, the Tesla Model S beats all safety records, our ongoing NSA surveillance coverage, and more…
...continue reading » Tags: Alan Rusbridger, BitCoin, Black Market, Bradley Manning, Canonical, censorship, corporate seppuku, David Miranda, Dread Pirate Roberts, Edward Snowden, Glen Greenwald, Groklaw, iPhone, iPhone 5S, iTunes Radio, Mark Zuckerberg, National Security Agency, NSA, open source, Privacy, Silk Road, smartphone, Surveillance, Tesla, Tesla Model S, The Guardian, Ubuntu Edge, WikiLeaks | |
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