| The Drill Down 426: Fix Yo’ Sh*t
On this week’s Drill Down podcast, the free ride for Windows 10 ends soon, shady news reporting at Facebook, Amazon challenges YouTube, a new intelligent assistant from the mind behind Siri, and can Apple Music wipe out your collection? …and much, much more!
...continue reading » Tags: AI, Alphabet, Amazon, Amazon Video Direct, Apple, Apple Music, Artificial Intellegence, Captain America, Captain America: Civil War, Disney, Disney Infinity, Elon Musk, Facebook, Google, Intelligent assistant, John McAfee, Lexi, Marvel, Microsoft, Siri, Space, SpaceX, Spotify, Toys, Vimeo, Viv, Windows, Windows 10, YouTube, Zyxel | |
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| ‘The NeverEnding Story’: Atreyu and Falkor Reunite For Spotify Ad (Video)
A new Spotify ad has been released that reunites two of the characters from 1984’s The NeverEnding Story, a childhood favorite of many. The fantasy epic was directed by Wolfgang Petersen (Das Boot, Troy), based on the novel of the same name by Michael Ende. The ad reunites Atreyu with the flying luckdragon Falkor, but even better than that, they actually got the original actors who portrayed the characters, Noah Hathaway and Alan Oppenheimer, to reprise their roles. You can see the ad, along with a behind the scenes making of video that might be even more entertaining than the ad itself, below.
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| The Drill Down 407: Here, There, and Everywhere
This week, has the glow come off Tesla‘s perfect record?, the first iPhone jailbreaker has hacked self-driving cars, it’s time for drones to be registered, a fresh batch of data breaches, and streaming music just got a little more Fab … all this and more on this week’s The Drill Down podcast.
...continue reading » Tags: Amazon Prime, Apple, Apple Music, autonomous cars, Data breach, Deezer, drones, electronic voting, Elon Musk, FAA, Federal Aviation Administration, Final Fantasy, Ford, geohot, George Hotz, Google, Google Play, Groove, Hello Kitty, iPhone, Juniper Networks, Louis Vuitton, Microsoft, National Security Agency, NSA, Rhapsody, self-driving car, Slacker, SpaceX, Spotify, streaming music, Tesla, Tesla Model S, The Beatles, Tidal | |
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| The Drill Down 403: Holiday Gift Guide 2015
The holiday season is coming up and The Drill Down would like you to be ready for it. So as we do every year around this time, we’ve prepared a list of what we consider the perfect gifts to give… and get this holiday. So before you stand around for hours this Black Friday, spend some time with us. Here’s the Drill Down’s Holiday Gift Guide 2015.
...continue reading » Tags: Amazon Echo, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Prime, Anker, Anova, Apple Music, Apple TV, Audio-Technica, Automatic, BB-8, Beats Music, Black Friday, Blu-ray, Chromecast, Chromecast Audio, Codenames, Comixology, Encryption, Exploding Kittens, Holiday Gift Guide, Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime, Netflix, Pandora, Pebble, Pebble Time, Pebble Time Round, Philips Hue, Pyro Mini, Rdio, Rhapsody, Rocket League, Roku 4, Smartwatch, Sphero, Spotify, Steam Box, SteamOS, Surveillance, Tales from the Borderlands, Telltale Games, Terrorism, The Wire, Valve, Zune | |
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| The Drill Down 390: The Cost of Convenience
This week, Gigaom columnist Tom Cheredar is our guest as we discuss hackers posting personal data from infidelity site Ashley Madison, the NSA‘s best friend is AT&T, does Amazon overwork its employees, selections from POTUS’s playlist, giant robots!… and much much more.
...continue reading » Tags: Amazon, Android, Android M, Ashley Madison, AT&T, Comcast, Data breach, edge, Felicia Day, Galaxy, Galaxy Note, Gigaom, Google, Hackers, Jeff Bezos, Megabots, Music, National Security Agency, NSA, Obama, playlist, President Obama, Privacy, robotics, robots, Samsung, smartphone, Spotify, Spying, streaming music, Surveillance, Tom Cheredar, Watchable | |
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