| 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…
...continue reading » 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.
...continue reading » 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.
...continue reading » 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?
...continue reading » 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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