| The Drill Down 451: Trump Trumps Tech?
On this week’s Drill Down podcast, Elon Musk says AI can take down the internet, China enacts cybersecurity… and it’s concerning, how a Donald Trump presidency will affect Silicon Valley, there’s something fishy with Amazon Alexa, and much more.
...continue reading » Tags: AI, Alexa, Amazon, Artificial Intelligence, china, cybersecurity, Data breach, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Hacking, hacks, maker, Technology, Tesco | |
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| The Drill Down 435: Boldly Go
On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, Pokemon fever continues, social media reacts to an attempted coup in Turkey, an open letter from tech leaders to Donald Trump, Facebook’s diversity problem, Netflix boldly goes where no one has gone before … and much, much more!
...continue reading » Tags: ARM, cellphones, diversity, Donald Trump, Facebook, Ghostbusters, Leslie Jones, Mobile, NES, Netflix, Niantic, Nintendo, Nintendo Classic Mini, Pokémon Go, politics, SoftBank, Star Trek, Stranger Things, t mobile, Technology, Turkey, Twitter, WikiLeaks | |
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| The Drill Down 411: Violent Reaction
This week, another milestone in AI, your smartphone will replace your ATM card, Obama pledges to reboot tech education, everything we know about the new Tesla … all this and more on The Drill Down podcast.
...continue reading » Tags: AI, Alphabet. Android Pay, Apple, Apple Pay, Artificial Intelligence, ATM, bank of America, Banking, Chase, education, exoskeleton, Fine Brothers, Fitbit, Go, Google, Grease Live!, iPhone, JPMorgan Chase, Model 3, Obama, President Obama, React, robotics, Technology, Tesla, Wells Fargo, YouTube | |
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| The Drill Down 300: The Tech That Changed Our Lives
This week, the NSA taps Yahoo! and Google data centers without their knowledge, NSA spying makes Germany want to secede from the Internet, Netflix wants to stream blockbuster movies at the same time they’re in the theaters, and Turkey builds an intercontinental tunnel linking Europe to Asia. Then, to celebrate The Drill Down‘s 300th episode, we discuss the technology that has personally moved us, from our early experiences to our most recent connections…
...continue reading » Tags: Apple, Digital photography, Everpix, Gadgets, Google, iPhone, National Security Agency, Netflix, NSA, Olympus, Privacy, Super Nintendo, Technology, The Drill Down, Yahoo | |
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| Geek Tech: A Glimpse Into The Future; Are YOU Ready For Electronic Cereal Boxes? |
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Is this the future? Some wild technology is here right now, and it could just be revving up to change the world as we know it. At the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, many demonstrations were shown off. One of them involved a new wireless technology that would deliver a whole new type of power source to our homes and beyond. For the demonstration, Fulton Innovation — the technology’s creator — brought along some shelving and surfaces that look pretty much like any other shelving or surface you might look at. What’s not seen, however, is power surging through these surfaces, which makes some very interesting things possible. The most entertaining of these, for those who aren’t interested in the scientific stuff, are cereal boxes; they look just like regular cereal boxes, naturally, but when placed on these special surfaces, the cereal boxes illuminate playfully. Something sure to catch the eye of any passing child. But that, my friends, is just the beginning. You can see a much more in-depth video of these crazy-cool cereal boxes and the even crazier technology behind them, as well as read about some more useful possibilities by heading on over to the other side now.
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