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The Drill Down 510: PAX South 2018
On this week’s Drill Down podcast, Tosin goes to PAX South, the NSA gets to keep spying on Americans, Nintendo switches to cardboard for gaming, how AI is manipulating you into microtransactions … and much, much more.
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Topics: Apps, Computers, Conventions, Electronics, Features, Gadgets, Pax, Podcasts, Software, Technology, The Drill Down, Video Games
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Tags: Amazon, Apple, Echo. Alexa, Facebook, FISA, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Google. Google Home, Labo, National Security Agency, Nintendo, Nintendo Labo, NSA, PAX, Pax South, Pax South 2018, Penny Arcade Expo, Spying, Surveillance
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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.
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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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The Drill Down 389: Learning a New Alphabet
This week, a whistleblower gets blown off on 4Chan, Tinder and Vanity Fair are not a match, Tesla charges itself, Google teaches us a new Alphabet … and much much more!
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Tags: 4chan, Alphabet, App Store, Apple, Apple Music, Columbia Pictures, copyright infringement, DMCA, ELectric Car, Google, GoPro, GoPro Hero, Humans, Larry Page, Pixels, Sergey Brin, Spying, Tesla, Tinder, Twitter, Vanity Fair, Vimeo, whistleblowers
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The Drill Down 380: Death by Selfie
This week, how Apple Music stands up to competitors, warrantless surveillance expands, new hardware from Valve & Xbox, DIY lethal weapons, and a selfie that killed — literally … all that and much more.
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Tags: Amazon, Amazon Prime Music, Apple, Apple Music, Edward Snowden, extremism, Google, Google Music, Grand Theft Auto V, GTA V, Gun, Hackers, Hacking, ISIL, ISIS, laser, lethal weapons, Microsoft, National Security Agency, NSA, Pandora, selfie, social media, Spotify, Spying, Steam, Steam Machine, streaming music, stun, The Martian, US Air Force, Valve, Xbox One
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The Drill Down 376: At Least I Have Chicken
This week, AOL bought Time/Warner and now Verizon buys AOL, a $9 computer, no coffee DRM for Keurig, a new state of matter, Google’s autonomous cars are better drivers than you, and the tenth anniversary of Leeeeeeeeeeerooooy Jenkinnnnns!… and much, much more.
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Tags: AOL, autonomous cars, Coffee, Computer, Digital Rights Management, DRM, drone, drones, Google, Keurig, Kickstarter, Leeroy Jenkins, Lily, matter, media, National Security Agency, Next Thing Co., NSA, Privacy, Science, self-driving car, Spying, Verizon, World of Warcraft, WoW
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The Drill Down 363: The Richard Pryor of Hacking
This week, former The Drill Down co-host (and current co-host of TARDISBlend) Tom Cheredar joins Dwayne and Andy to discuss how hackers pulled off one of the largest heists in history, a toy from the 50s is updated for the 21st century, the FAA grounds Amazon’s drone plans, and…is Apple building a self-driving car?
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Tags: Alan Turing, Android, Apple, Apple Pay, cybersecurity, Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Data Policy and Chief Data Scientist, Dr. DJ Patil, drones, ELectric Car, FAA, Facebook, Federal Aviation Administration, Google, Google Cardboard, Hacking, hard drives, J.J. Abrams, JJ Abrams, Jonathan Ive, Jony Ive, Kaspersky Lab, National Security Agency, NSA, Office of Science and Technology Policy, President Obama, Seagate, Spying, Star Wars, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, TARDISblend, The White House, Tim Cook, Tom Cheredar, Toshiba, U.S. Chief Data Scientist, View-Master, VR, Western Digital, Yahoo
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The Drill Down 318: The Cost of Secrets
This week: When exactly did Target know about last year’s security breach?, Amazon raises the price of Prime and ponders a Chromecast-style set-top box, Sony reveals a VR helmet, Google’s smartwatch OS, and Tech’s biggest leaders, both living and dead, have an opinion to share on big issues this week.
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Tags: 360, Amazon, Amazon Prime, Android, Android Wear, anonymity, Apple TV, Bill Gates, Chromecast, Connected Home, Data breach, Google, hack, Marc Andreessen, Mark Zuckerberg, National Security Agency, NSA, Oculus, Oculus Rift, OnLive, Playstation, President Obama, Project Morpheus, PS4, Quirky, robots, Secret, security breaches, set top box, smartwatch. Motorola, Sony, Spying, Steve Jobs, Target, VR, VR headset, Whisper
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The Drill Down 310: Seeing The Future
This week, Apple refunds consumers whose kids clicked on mobile app purchases, President Obama reins in the NSA, the end of physical film in theaters is near, Google unveils plans for smart contact lenses, and will your next Amazon package arrive before you’ve even ordered it?
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Tags: Amazon, Amazon Prime, Apple, Digital Distribution, Google, Google Glass, Google X, HBO, HBO Go, Itunes, iTunes App store, NSA, Obama, Paramount, predictive shipping, President Obama, Privacy, Spying
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The Drill Down 304: It Whips the Llama’s Ass
This week, the NSA is up to its dirty tricks again & tech companies beef up their security in response, SOPA may be back in a secret treaty uncovered by WikiLeaks, are Amazon employees working themselves sick? and will cellphone use finally be allowed on planes?
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Tags: ACTA, Amazon, AOL, cellphone, Edward Snowden, Google, Microsoft, NSA, Nullsoft, porn, Privacy, Shoutcast, SOPA, Spying, Surveillance, TPP, Trans-Pacific Partnership, WikiLeaks, Winamp, Yahoo
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The Drill Down 282: PRISM of Secrets
This week, Greg Davies from the BlendoveR podcast and frequent Geeks of Doom contributor (including the Tardisblend podcast) joins us to discuss how the National Security Agency is eavesdropping on our phone calls, e-mails, texts, and all online activity in the name of national security. Are we overreacting, or not acting enough? Also, the NSA may have our data, but they can never patent our DNA. Microsoft does a 180 on their followup to the 360, and Google creates a network of floating balloons…
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Tags: Apple, Digg, DNA, DRM, Edward Snowden, Facebook, Feedly, Geeks of Doom, Google, Google Reader, Greg Davies, Microsoft, National Security Agency, NSA, Ouya, Patent Law, patents, PRISM, Privacy, Project Loon, Spying, Surveillance, TARDISblend, Xbox One, Yahoo
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