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The Drill Down 552: Martian InSight

On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, does Facebook have a “black people” problem?, Google employees speak out against their own oppressive tech, a stealthy bombshell climate change report, NASA lands on Mars, Climate Change explained with atmospheric scientist Jeff Peischl… and much, much more!
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Topics: Apps, Computers, Electronics, Features, Gadgets, Podcasts, Science, Software, Space, Technology, The Drill Down
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Tags: algorithm, Alphabet, biotech, Boston, climate change, CRISPR, DNA, Dragonfly, Facebook, gene tech, genetics, Google, InSight, Jeff Peischl, Mark Zuckerberg, Mars, Massachusetts, minorities, NASA, police, Sheryl Sandberg, Space, Surveillance
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The Drill Down 524: Microsoft Build & Google I/O 2018

On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, Microsoft Build conference and Google I/O conference, the fight for Net Neutrality is back on, reanimating dead brains… and much, much more.
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Tags: AT&T, Build, Build developers conference, DNA, Google, Google I/O, Google I/O Conference, I/O Conference, Microsoft, Microsoft Build, Net Neutrality, Science
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The Drill Down 523: Datebooking

On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, Amazon and Apple have some secret projects in the works, T-Mobile buys Sprint, Facebook’s F8 developers conference reveals Datebooking, DNA catches a killer… and much, much more.
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Tags: alternate reality, Amazon, Amazon Prime, Apple, AR, Cambridge Analytica, DNA, F8, Facebook, Facebook F8, GEDmatch, MoviePass, Oculus, Oculus Go, robotics, robots, Science, Space, Sprint, t mobile, Virtual Reality, VR
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The Drill Down 518: #deletefacebook

On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, a self-driving car kills a pedestrian, a burger robot is fired, does space travel alter our DNA?, and experts Tom Cheredar and Gina Lee De Freitas help us decide if it’s time to #deletefacebook… and much, much more.
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Tags: autonomous vehicles, Cambridge Analytica, data analysis, DNA, elections, Elizabeth Holmes, Elon Musk, Facebook, Jonathan Nolan, Mark Zuckerberg, NASA, politics, robots, Scott Kelly, self-driving cars, Space, SpaceX, Stephen Hawking, Theranos, Uber, US Elections
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The Drill Down 475: Manned Mars Missions & More
On this week’s Drill Down podcast, Dwayne and Tosin are joined by guest Tom Cheredar to discuss: the NSA quits snooping on your emails, HIV gets fried in the CRISPR, Facebook fumbles, Microsoft goes back to school, Man is going to Mars, and much, much more.
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Tags: Amazon, AR, Augmented Reality, automation, bioengineering, CRISPR, DNA, Echo, Echo Look, education, Facebook, HIV, machines, marketing, Microsoft, Minecraft, Minecraft: Education Edition, NASA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Mars, National Security Agency, NSA, Privacy, security, Space, Surface, Virtual Reality, VR, Windows, Windows 10
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The Drill Down 467: Watching You Watching Me

This week, how Uber is deceiving the authorities, Wikileaks’ secret trove of CIA hacks, how much is Snapchat worth? Twitch takes on Twitter, using our DNA as near infinite memory storage, and much, much more.
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Tags: Abstract, AI, Artificial Intelligence, CIA, DNA, Greyball, International Women's Day, IPO, Privacy, Pulse, Snap, Snapchat, Tales By Light, Twitch, Twitter, Uber, WikiLeaks
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The Drill Down 419: Where Are the Sexbots?

This week, Microsoft’s rampant and silly AI, Google phones home, the Apple/FBI fight is over, Microsoft’s Build conference 2016, the smallest cell created, a 3D printed sonograph …All this and more on The Drill Down.
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Tags: 3D Printing, AI, Apple, Artificial Intelligence, Build, Build developers conference, Cell, Craig Ventner, DNA, Encryption, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, fiber, Fiber Phone, genome, Google, Google Fiber, Microsoft, Model 3, Science, Tesla
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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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The Drill Down 280: The Troll Hunter

This week Google nixes face recognition on Glass, the US Supreme Court OKs DNA swabs, Zynga axes 250 employees, Did Apple conspire with e-book publishers?, and President Obama puts the hammer down on Patent Trolls…
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Tags: 2600, Apple, Arrested Development, Atari, DNA, eBooks, Glass, Google, Google Glass, Kazuo Hirai, Oculus Rift, patent litigation, patent trolls, Patent wars, patents, Playstation, PlayStation 4, Podcasting, President Obama, Rick Roll, RickRoll, Samsung, Sony, Vine, Virtual Reality, VR, Zynga
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The Drill Down 271: Reps Forked By Dongle

This week, a global Internet apocalypse is upon us!… or is it? Twitter turns seven, Blizzard’s next Warcraft is not an RPG but a card game, streaming video heats up, the iPhone’s on T-Mobile, Scientists plan a real Jurassic Park, and a dongle joke that spiraled way out of control.
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Tags: Blizzard, Children of Liberty, CloudFlare, CyberBunker, Daylight, DDOS, Dive Kick, DNA, dongle, HBO Go, iPhone, Johann Sebastian Joust, Jurassic Park, PAX, PAX East, PlayHaven, PyCon, Python, RPG, SendGrid, Shootmania, SpamHaus, Spotify, Summly, t mobile, Twitter, World of Warcraft, WoW, Yahoo
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