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The Drill Down 365: Like Tears In Rain: Remembering Leonard Nimoy and More
This week, Dwayne and Andy are again joined by Greg Davies (from TARDISBlend, Blendover, and Heavy Metal Historian podcasts) as we discuss: Valve’s VR headset is unveiled, the most funded project on Kickstarter, the FCC defends Net Neutrality, Blade Runner 2, and we say goodbye to sci-fi legend Leonard Nimoy…
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Tags: Apple, Avengers: Age of Ultron, FCC, Google, HBO, HBO Now, Hilary Clinton, House of Cards, HTC, iPad, iPhone, Leonard Nimoy, Macbook, Marvel, Mobile, Modern Family, Mr. Spock, MVNO, Net Neutrality, Pebble, Pebble Time, Pebble Time Steel, President Obama, Re Vive, Smart Watch, Star Trek, Tom Wheeler, Twitter, Valve, Vive
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The Drill Down 345: Windows 7 Ate 9
This week, eBay splits with PayPal, your game console is your new TV, Windows 10 is the new Nine (or Eight)?, say hello to Ello, and Netflix wants to shake up movie distribution.
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Tags: Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Ebay, Ello, Facebook, game console, gaming, Grooveshark, IMAX, LGBT, LGBTQ, Microsoft, Netflix, paypal, Playstation, Steam, Steam Music Player, Valve, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 8, Xbox
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What A Shootout Using ‘Portal’ Guns Would Look Like (Video)
Valve’s Portal is one of the all-time great puzzle games ever made—a first-person shooter in which you use a gun that fires in and out portals you’ll need to work with in order to try to escape the facility you’re being held in.
But what if word of Aperture Science’s gun got out and a consumer version was made available to the masses? Surely YouTube would benefit the most, with countless funny or mind-boggling videos made using the devices being uploaded as people experimented. Then there’s the less positive side of things…
In an impressive and hilarious new video, a heated confrontation escalates quickly into an all-out portal gun firefight, and it’s to no one’s benefit. You can watch it below.
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The Drill Down 332: Google I/O 2014
This week, is your cellphone safe from unwarranted searches?, a new ruling on mobile rebroadcasting of over-the-air video, another major player enters the smart home market, a late-night show on Netflix?, and all the best from Google‘s I/O developer conference.
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Tags: Aereo, Android, Android Auto, Android L, Android TV, Android Wear, Apple, Apple TV, Cardboard, cellphones, Chromecast, GE, General Electric, Google, Google Cardboard, Google Fit, Google I/O, Google Play, Nest, Privacy, Quirky, smart home, Starbucks, Steam, Team Fortress 2, TF2, Valve, Wink
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The Drill Down 309: Slicing Salami
This week, the NSA uses radio waves to spy on offline PCs, credit-card hacking comes to luxury retail, Google buys into home automation, and is Net Neutrality on the chopping block?
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Tags: Canada, Communications Security Establishment Canada, CSEC, Google, Hacking, home automation, Neiman Marcus, Nest, Net Neutrality, NSA, physical graph, Privacy, Steam, Steam Machine, Valve
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What It Will Look Like To Play Games On Valve’s Steam Box (Videos)
For those who are not yet aware, the popular digital PC gaming platform from Valve Corporation, Steam, is making the jump to consoles in what hopes to be the future of gaming. A console for PC gamers with PC graphics that is known as Steam Box or Steam Machine.
It won’t be until sometime next year when we can get our hands on one, and it’s not yet known how much one will run you, but early versions of the system have been sent out for testing to current Steam users. One such user has been documenting their experience on YouTube, giving us a solid look at multiple games and what they could look like on the console, as well as what it looks like using the Steam Box controller.
Click on over to the other side now to see the Steam Box/Steam Machine and its controller in action, and be sure to share your thoughts on how the system is looking and if you’ll buy one!
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The Drill Down 298: The Spaceship Is Landing
[Photo credit: Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group]
This week, the NSA most likely has your address book & contacts, Google’s new terms of service put you in their ads, your Playstation 4 may be made by unpaid interns, Netflix on your cable box, former Valve employees launch Augmented Reality goggles, and Apple‘s spaceship gets clearance to land in Cupertino. All this and more…
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Tags: Android TV, Apple, castAR, Chromecast, Foxconn, Gabe Newell, Google TV, Jeri Ellsworth, Kickstarter, National Security Agency, Netflix, New York Comic Con, NSA, NYCC, Playstation, PlayStation 4, Rick Johnson, Sony, Steve Jobs, Terms of Service, Twitter, Valve
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The Drill Down 296: Han ALWAYS Shoots First.
This week, Steve Ballmer says goodbye, and investors want Bill Gates out next, Valve makes a new gamepad, Apple’s the number one brand worldwide, the NSA follows you on Facebook (whether you want it to or not), the internet’s black market is raided, and four rules to make Star Wars great again.
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Tags: Apple, Bill Gates, Facebook, FBI, J.J. Abrams, John McAfee, Microsoft, NSA, Ross Ulbricht, Silk Road, Star Wars, Steam, Steam Controller, Steve Ballmer, The Drill Down, The IT Crowd, Valve
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The Drill Down 264: The Singularity Is Near
This week, Chinese hackers infiltrate U.S. newspaper networks, Twitter also gets hacked, Oreo takes advantage of the Super Bowl blackout, is Netflix’s full season release schedule the future of television…or a big mistake, will your body be the next unlimited storage device, and if you thought J.J. Abrams hit the motherlode last week for helming both Star Trek and Star Wars franchises, you ain’t heard nothin’ yet!
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Tags: body tech, CES, CNET, Consumer Electronics Show, Gabe Newell, Hacking, Half-Life, Half-Life 2, HL2, House of Cards, J.J. Abrams, Kevin Spacey, Netflix, New York Times, Peter Sciretta, Slashfilm, social media, Social Media Marketing, storage, Streaming, Television, The New York Times, transhumanism, Twitter, Valve, Viral Marketing, Wall Street Journal
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‘Star Wars Episode 7’ Director J.J. Abrams Developing ‘Half-Life,’ ‘Portal’ Movies
If you pay attention to entertainment news headlines even just a little bit, then you’ve noticed the name J.J. Abrams quite often lately. Whether it’s his upcoming mega-sequel Star Trek Into Darkness, the recent announcement that after Trek he’ll hop over to Star Wars Episode VII, or various other bits that may be reported, it’s a name we see often.
Now Abrams is adding to this run in the spotlight and looking to fortify his status amongst the geeks of this world.
At the D.I.C.E. Summit for video game designers and developers in Las Vegas recently, Abrams and Valve Software co-founder and president Gabe Newell announced that they are working on movie adaptations of two massively popular Valve games, Half-Life and Portal.
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