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The Drill Down 477: Google I/O 2017

This week, a global ransomware hack will make you WannaCry, Google’s I/O Conference, babies made from skin cells, Apple builds a new spaceship, and a pizza box, plus much, much more.
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Topics: Apps, Computers, Conventions, Electronics, Features, Gadgets, Podcasts, Science, Software, Technology, The Drill Down
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Tags: Alphabet, Amazon, Amazon Echo, Android, Android Go, Android O, Apple, Boulder Startup Week, Echo, Google, Google Assistant, Google Home, Google I/O, Google Photos, HP, keylogger, Tensor Processing Chip, TensorGo, TPU, Uiwix, VR, WannaCry, WannaCrypt
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The Drill Down 476: On With The Show

This week on The Drill Down podcast, Hulu’s skinny bundle, Facebook fixes Live, Amazon has something new to Show, boots that keep you running, and Net Neutrality needs your help again, plus much, much more.
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Tags: #RedNoseDay, Alexa, Alexa Calling, Amazon, Amazon Echo, Apple, Blade Runner, Blade Runner 2049, Cable, cord cutting, digital Assistant, Echo Show, Facebook, Facebook Live, FCC, Federal Communications Commission, Guardians of the Galaxy, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Hulu, John Oliver, Last Week Tonight, Net Neutrality, Red Nose Day, skinny bundle, streaming Video
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The Drill Down 474: A Womb With A View

On this week’s Drill Down podcast, a wiki for fake news, an Amazon Echo with a camera, The Pope gives a TED Talk, an artificial womb, and… yes, Uber’s shenanigans are in the news again, all this and much much more.
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Tags: Amazon, Amazon Echo, biomedical, digital Assistant, Echo, fake news, Jimmy Wales, Piracy, Science, streaming Video, TED Talk, The Circle, The Pope, Travis Kalanick, Uber, Unroll.me, Video Streaming, Wikipedia, Wikitribune
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Review: Google Home – Not The Droid You’re Looking For… Yet
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By DwayneD
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Google Home is a little device that plugs into the wall and responds to your voice. It can play recorded music or the radio through services like Google Play Music and TuneIn, and it can respond to questions based on the knowledge Google has amassed throughout the 21st century. If you’ve got the correct hardware at home, like a Nest Thermostat, Samsung’s Smartthings, or Philips hue, Google Home can allow you to control some of your home’s functions with your voice.
We’ve had some time to get to know the Google Home and there are a LOT of things to like about it. Its voice recognition is robust and its audio is impressive for being a little tiny speaker. At the same time, when one looks at Google Home through the lens of a smarthome, AI, product, one quickly realizes that the device is not quite where the demonstrations were during the 2016 Google IO developers conference, nor is it a device that delivers on the promise of its advertisements.
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The Drill Down 452: If It’s On the Internet, It Must Be True

This week’s Drill Down podcast, Silicon Valley responds to the election of Donald Trump, fake news on the internet, Apple wrote the book on product design…and it’s for sale, and much more.
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Tags: Amazon Echo, Apple, Donald Trump, Echo, Edward Snowden, Election, Facebook, fake news, Google, Google Home, iPhones, LifeAfter, MacBook Pro, mashups, Panoply, podcasts, remix, Technology, Twitter
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The Drill Down 443: Where No Burrito Has Gone Before

This week, Elon Musk wants to hack the human brain, Netflix wants to bust a cap in data caps, is Facebook abusing its power as a news source?, ageism in tech, 50 years of Star Trek… 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: 1979 Revolution Black Friday, Alphabet, Amazon, Amazon Dot, Amazon Echo, Descent, Dolphin, Dot, Echo, Edward Snowden, Elon Musk, Facebook, FCC, Gamecube, Gawker, Gawker Media, Google, iPhone, iPhone 7, Mark Zuckerberg, Netflix, Open Sorcery, Overload, Oxygen Not Included, PAX, Project Wing, Tesla, Tesla Model S, Uber, Univision
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The Drill Down 429: Big Red Button

This week, the FBI wants to spy on internet history without a warrant, Snapchat beats Twitter, Facebook’s CEO gets hacked, a way to stop rampant artificial intelligence, and a machine watches Blade Runner and the results may surprise you…and much more!
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Tags: Activision Blizzard, Alexa, Amazon, Amazon Echo, Beijing, Blizzard, Core, Echo, Facebook, FBI, IconX, Mark Zuckerberg, Overwatch, Pebble, Pebble Core, Pinterest, Samsung, Samsung Gear, Scripps, Snapchat, Stitcher, The Drill Down, Twitter
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The Drill Down 427: Peter Thiel, We ♥ You (Don’t Sue)!

This week, we’re once again joined by Greg Davies, host of Blendover and Heavy Metal Historian podcasts (and of course the TARDISBlend podcast hosted here at Geeks of Doom) as we discuss Uber tests autonomous cars, Twitter lets you tweet longer, Google’s modular phone Project Ara, will Apple become the next Blackberry, are crime algorithms racist? And why you shouldn’t piss off Peter Thiel …and much more!
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Tags: Activision Blizzard, Amazon, Amazon Echo, Apple, ATAP, Blizzard, Echo, Ford, Gawker, Google, IMAX, LootCrate, Maker Faire, Marissa Mayer, Nexus 5X, Nick Denton, Overwatch, Peter Thiel, Project Ara, Project Fi, SDK, Siri, Spotify, Twitter, Uber, VR, WWDC, Yahoo, Yi Technology
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The Drill Down 420: Many Bothans Died

This week, Google’s prank backfires, the FBI flexes their new muscle, is Nest in trouble?, the largest data leak in history, a new Star Wars movie trailer, and Tesla 3 is coming!…in a couple of years …All this and more this week on The Drill Down podcast.
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Tags: Amazon, Amazon Dot, Amazon Echo, Apple, April Fool's Day, Data breach, data leak, Elon Musk, Encryption, Facebook, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Gmail, Google, home automation, iPhone, Letterboxd, Nest, Panama Papers, Revolv, Rogue One, Star Wars, Tesla, Tesla 3, Tesla motors, WhatsApp
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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.
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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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