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The Drill Down 498: Strangest Things

This week’s The Drill Down podcast, Google floats the internet over Puerto Rico, Twitter comes clean with political ads, Snapchat’s big fail, Amazon gets fresh inside your front door, tons of Tesla news, Netflix‘s ‘Binge racing’? and much more.
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Tags: AI, Amazon, Amazon Key, Artificial Intelligence, autopilot, binge racing, Comma.ai, Facebook, geohot, George Hotz, Google, internet, Las Vegas, Las Vegas massacre, Netflix, politics, Puerto Rico, Snap, Snapchat, Spectacles, Tesla, translation, Twitter
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The Drill Down 467: Watching You Watching Me

This week, how Uber is deceiving the authorities, Wikileaks’ secret trove of CIA hacks, how much is Snapchat worth? Twitch takes on Twitter, using our DNA as near infinite memory storage, and much, much more.
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Tags: Abstract, AI, Artificial Intelligence, CIA, DNA, Greyball, International Women's Day, IPO, Privacy, Pulse, Snap, Snapchat, Tales By Light, Twitch, Twitter, Uber, WikiLeaks
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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.
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Tags: adobe, Amazon, Intel, IPO, PAX, Pax South, President Trump, Snap, Snapchat, Super Bowl, Tesla, Uber, Zendesk
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Xenomorph, Facehugger Come To Snapchat For ‘Aliens’ 30th Anniversary

This year movie fans around the world celebrate the 30th anniversary of director James Cameron’s blockbuster sequel, Aliens. The movie is the follow-up to Ridley Scott’s classic 1979 original, Alien, and was released in July of 1986. Costing a little under $20 million to make, it would go on to bring in over $131 million worldwide at the box office.
To help celebrate the anniversary, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment has launched a special Aliens lens for Snapchat users to enjoy. With it, you can turn yourself into a feared Xenomorph, or you can even get your very own facehugger to latch on to your skull. Adorable little guys, really. Misunderstood.
You can see how the facehugger looks in the image below.
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The Drill Down 445: Blowing Up Your Phone

On this week’s Drill Down podcast, the largest hack of all time, Twitter & SoundCloud may have new owners, Apple plans its own version of the Echo, Snapchat makes a Spectacle of itself, humans are one flight closer to Mars … and much, much more.
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Tags: Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Blackberry, cellphone, Data breach, Disney, Echo, Elon Musk, Google, hack, Hacking, iPhone, iPhone 7, Mobile, Pen Pineapple Apple Pen, PPAP, Salesforce, smartphone, Snap, Snapchat, SoundCloud, Space, SpaceX, Spectacles, Spotify, Twitter, viral video, Yahoo
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The Drill Down 437: Keepin’ It In The Family

On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, the Russians hack the DNC?, Instagram out-Snapchats Snapchat, Uber bows to China, the Samsung Galaxy Note 7, a real-world tribute to Pikachu, who’s the most tech-savvy Presidential candidate? … and much, much more.
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Tags: Democratic National Convention, Deserts of Kharak, Didi, DNC, Elizabeth Holmes, FBI, Galaxy Note, Galaxy Note 7, Homeworld, Instagram, NetSuite, oracle, Pokémon Go, Samsung, Snapchat, SolarCity, Tesla, Theranos, Uder
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The Drill Down 429: Big Red Button

This week, the FBI wants to spy on internet history without a warrant, Snapchat beats Twitter, Facebook’s CEO gets hacked, a way to stop rampant artificial intelligence, and a machine watches Blade Runner and the results may surprise you…and much more!
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Tags: Activision Blizzard, Alexa, Amazon, Amazon Echo, Beijing, Blizzard, Core, Echo, Facebook, FBI, IconX, Mark Zuckerberg, Overwatch, Pebble, Pebble Core, Pinterest, Samsung, Samsung Gear, Scripps, Snapchat, Stitcher, The Drill Down, Twitter
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The Drill Down 423: A Song Of Race and Data

This week, a million Beautiful People get hacked, the FCC & cable boxes, racist apps & services?, how driverless trucks will change the economy, Tron comes to VR gaming … and much more this week on The Drill Down podcast.
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Tags: AirBnB, Amazon Prime, Apple, FCC, Google, Nokia, Roku, Snapchat, Tron, VR, Withings
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The Drill Down 347: Giving You the D

This week, HBO answers cord-cutters prayers, new gadgets from Google & Apple, hackers hit Snapchat & Dropbox, bad news and good for women in tech, and the new Tesla D.
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Tags: Amazon, Android, Apple, Brianna Wu, Carl Icahn, Dropbox, Facebook, GamerGate, Google, Hackers, HBO, HTC, iPad, Lollipop, Motorola, Nexus, Nexus 6, Nexus 9, Nexus Player, Snapchat, Tesla, Tesla 60D, Tesla 85D, Tesla D, Tesla P85D, Tesla S, Tim Cook
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The Drill Down 307: Turning Of The Tide

On this week’s show: Google previously bought seven robotics companies, and this week it buys the Big Dog (literally), Sprint guns for T-Mobile, Instagram wants a piece of Snapchat’s action, Twitter changes blocking–then changes their mind, are the NSA’s actions unconstitutional?
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Tags: Atlas, BigDog, Boston Dynamics, Cheetah, Edward Snowden, Everything is a Remix, Google, Google Music, HFR, IMAX, Instagram, iPhone, Kirby Ferguson, Nexus 4, NSA, Obama, Pebble, President Obama, Privacy, Snapchat, Sprint, Surveillance, t mobile, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Twitter, WildCat
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