| The Drill Down 526: Polly Want A-Lexa!
This week’s The Drill Down podcast, does President Trump have a beef with Jeff Bezos? Amazon sells your face to law enforcement, Elon Musk drives journalists and reviewers crazy, a parrot who uses Amazon Echo (Alexa!) … and much, much more.
...continue reading » Tags: 2001 A Space Odyssey, Alexa, Amazon, Amazon Echo, distilleries, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, liquor, President Trump, Privacy, security, Space, SpaceX, Tesla, Tesla Model 3, US Postal Service, USPS | |
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| The Drill Down 518: #deletefacebook
On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, a self-driving car kills a pedestrian, a burger robot is fired, does space travel alter our DNA?, and experts Tom Cheredar and Gina Lee De Freitas help us decide if it’s time to #deletefacebook… and much, much more.
...continue reading » Tags: autonomous vehicles, Cambridge Analytica, data analysis, DNA, elections, Elizabeth Holmes, Elon Musk, Facebook, Jonathan Nolan, Mark Zuckerberg, NASA, politics, robots, Scott Kelly, self-driving cars, Space, SpaceX, Stephen Hawking, Theranos, Uber, US Elections | |
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| SXSW 2018: Elon Musk Surprises ‘Westworld’ Panel With SpaceX Falcon Heavy Launch Trailer
SXSW attendees who sat in on a panel last Saturday afternoon featuring HBO’s Westworld showrunners and stars were surprised when showrunner Jonathan Nolan introduced SpaceX CEO (and generally real-life Tony Stark) Elon Musk onto the Austin Convention Center stage. During the panel, Nolan had been previously lamenting at the fact that when he was a kid, he used to spend an “unhealthy amount of time” dreaming about spaceflight, but in recent years the enthusiasm for space travel had waned, so he was talking to “a friend” about how to inspire people to drive the conversation back into space exploration. The inspirational “shocking” idea they came up with was a red sportscar combined with the music of David Bowie. That “friend” was of course Elon Musk, who joined the panel on stage.
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| The Drill Down 513: So Long, Starman
On this week’s Drill Down podcast, Elon Musk sends a Tesla into space and Tesla turns Australian homes into power generators, life beyond the iPhone for Apple, Orwellian proposals from Amazon and Uber … and much, much more.
...continue reading » Tags: Altered Carbon, Amazon, Apple, Apple Music, autonomous vehicles, Cloverfield, Cloverfield Paradox, Elon Musk, Falcon Heavy, HomePod, iPhone, JJ Abrams, Netflix, Space, SpaceX, speakers, Spotify, Tesla, Tesla Roadster, The Cloverfield Paradox, Uber | |
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| The Drill Down 489: Free Speech on the Net, Solar Eclipse 2017 [Photo by Kirsten Jorgensen.]On this week’s Drill Down podcast, the battle for free speech on the internet, Android Oreo is here, Solar Eclipse 2017, Samsung bursts onto the scene with a new Galaxy Note, Elon Musk wants to stop killer robots, and much, much more.
...continue reading » Topics: Apps, Computers, Electronics, Features, Gadgets, Podcasts, Science, Software, Space, Technology, The Drill Down |
Tags: Alphabet, Android, Android O, Android Oreo, CloudFlare, data throttling, EFF, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Elon Musk, free speech, Google, Google Home, HTC, Jeff Immelt, Net Neutrality, Nexus, Oreo, robots, Solar Eclipse, Space, SpaceX, Uber, Verizon, Virtual Reality, Vive, VR, WalMart | |
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