| The Drill Down 316: On My Last Optic Nerve
This week, the British NSA (GCHQ) snoops on millions of webcams, Apple‘s CarPlay, Google‘s modular cellphone, Microsoft‘s version of Siri, Facebook to launch drones, the selfie that broke Twitter, and much more.
...continue reading » Tags: Academy Awards, Apple, ATAP, BitCoin, CarPlay, Cortana, drones, Ellen DeGeneres, Facebook, Flexcoin, Fred Wilson, GCHQ, Getty Images, Google, Microsoft, Minecraft, Mt. Gox, NSA, Oscars, Privacy, Project Ara, Roku, Samsung, selfie, Siri, smartphone, Streaming Stick, Titan Aerospace, Twitter, Windows, Yahoo | |
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| The Drill Down 243: Beware The Net
This week, we have a ton of Apple news, including revealing evidence uncovered in the ongoing Apple/Samsung trial, and how one tech reporter’s online identity was demolished as a result of a social engineering hack on Apple & Amazon tech support. Plus, Starbucks invests $25 million — and their entire paypoint infrastructure — in Square payments.
...continue reading » Tags: Amazon, Apple, Birdbox, Digg, Ebay, Google, Google search, hack, Hacking, Half-Life 2, HL2, iOS, iPad, iPhone, OSX, Ouya, Samsung, Siri, Square, Starbucks, Steam, Valve, Windows, Windows 8, YouTube | |
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| The Drill Down 236: E3 2012 & All Things D
This week, Andy, Devindra, Chris, and Techmeme’s Lidija Davis break down this coming year’s latest videogame announcements from the 2012 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). Later, we discuss last week’s All Things D conference, which was “haunted by the man who isn’t here.” But first, this week’s headlines… LinkedIn suffers a massive security breach as 6.4 million passwords get leaked, Google sneaks the first video from Project Glass, Facebook Camera launches, Facebook plans to allow under 13-year-olds into their service, Apple to bring Siri to the iPad, and Airtime launches.
...continue reading » Tags: Aaron Sorkin, Airtime, All Things D, Android, Apple, AR, Augmented Reality, Beyond: Two Souls, Chatroulette, E3, Electronic Entertainment Expo, Ellen Page, Facebook, Facebook Camera, hack, Hacking, Halo 4, iOS, iPad, LinkedIn, Maxis, Microsoft, Naughty Dog, Nintendo, Papo & Yo, Passwords, Playstation Network, Pocket, Privacy, ps3, Quantic Dream, Read It Later, Sean Parker, security, Shawn Fanning, SimCity, Siri, SmartGlass, Steve Jobs, The Drill Down, The Last of Us, Tim Cook, Tomb Raider, Watch Dogs, Wii, Wii U, Windows 8, Windows Phone, Wonderbook, Xbox 360 | |
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