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239: Everyone Told You Apple Virtually Had A Ton Of Gold, The Truth Will Break Your Heart

239: Everyone Told You Apple Virtually Had A Ton Of Gold, The Truth Will Break Your Heart

Apple's Ton of Gold

Ever wonder how recycling of old tech products work? This week we explore what it means for Apple to reclaim a ton of gold through recycling. Unfortunately, it’s not as glamorous as everyone wants, but it’s still pretty cool. We also talk about the future of buying groceries, DJI’s new drone, Magic Leap’s mystery product, virtual desktops, audio technology, and Snapchat’s reasonable reaction. Check at the notes and links below.

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238: James And Matthew Hit Peak Tangent, You Won’t Believe Where We End Up!

238: James And Matthew Hit Peak Tangent, You Won’t Believe Where We End Up!

The Probe Droid Reaches Peak Tangent

Matthew and I hit peak tangent in this episode. It starts out easy enough with Instagram photos and Facebook’s f8 developer’s conference. Then we get deep into camera technology, texting, the future of books, drone sports, and end with a rant against making 4 sequels to Avatar. All the tangential show notes are below.

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237: You Won’t Believe Where Elon Musk Landed His Rocket

237: You Won’t Believe Where Elon Musk Landed His Rocket

Tired James After Musk Landed His Rocket

I’m back on the podcast! And what a week to be back. For starters, Elon Musk landed his rocket on a barge. How cool is that?! We’ve got all the other show note below. Enjoy!

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236: We Visit A Dangerous American Site, Our Experience Will Make You Glow

236: We Visit A Dangerous American Site, Our Experience Will Make You Glow

We Visit A Dangerous American Site, Our Experience Will Make You GlowWeek three without James, we’re almost through this people. Helping me hold down the fort this week is Brian Nelson in Los Alamos New Mexico. In this explosive episode, we heat things up while talking about our visit to the Trinity Bomb test site. Microsoft made some really exciting announcements and Tesla took an amazing amount of preorders. We give you the best (and worst) April Fools pranks on the internet, we explain how you’ll end up with a smart fridge and blow your mind with some expert Super Mario World play. We Finally wrap it up with some dating advice.

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235: You Won’t Believe What This Adorable AI Turned Into

235: You Won’t Believe What This Adorable AI Turned Into

You Won't Believe What This Adorable AI Turned Into We’re in the second week without James and nothing seems to be on fire yet, so that’s good news. Things don’t seem to be going as smoothly for Microsofts AI, though. Join Alex Grivette and I as we talk about Apple’s big announcement this week, the collapse of Pebble and the struggles of Nintendo. We also take a look at the soon delivering Oculus, the shake up at Tinder and the success of Spotify. Finally we round out the with the future of smart TVs and the imminent financial collapse of the Silicon Valley.

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234: The Movie Industry Is Changing, The New Direction Will Blow Your Mind

234: The Movie Industry Is Changing, The New Direction Will Blow Your Mind

IMG_0496This is the first week that James is gone, but never fear! We have on two guest hosts: Tim Madden and Kyle Clark (@kylemartinclark). We discuss the future of sports competitions with the Drone Grand Prix We take a look at the evolving movie industry and how we’ll soon be watching block busters. We even wonder about Tidal and the future of Jay Z’s platform.

We also talked about video games. Sony’s Play Station VR announcement in depth and Microsofts new policy on cross platform play. We also talk about giant time-sucking games and how they could be bad for the industry.

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233: A Machine Fights A Human, You’ll Be Rooting For This Unexpected Underdog!

233: A Machine Fights A Human, You’ll Be Rooting For This Unexpected Underdog!

A Machine Fights A Human

This week there was an exciting match up between Lee Sedol and AlphaGo, a Google designed neural network built to do one thing: Beat the best at Go. We talked about the match up, the game and the implication in depth.

We also talked about the struggles of VR, the end of PageRank and the shortcomings of Tesla’s business model. But it’s not all doom and gloom, we also cover exciting photo sharing apps, the biggest acquisitions of the last year and the silver lining of surveillance capitalism.

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232: You Won’t Believe The Bus That DJI Avoided

232: You Won’t Believe The Bus That DJI Avoided

Drone

What a week! It felt like all the big annual themes got hit this week. Clearly this is the year of VR, drones, and the IoT.

Google’s autonomous cars hit something, Bold talks about credibility, Microsoft shares more on the HoloLens, VR heats up for HTC, Oculus and Sony, DJI introduces the next generation of Phantom drones, Raspberry pushes out a new Pi, and Amazon ramps up their Echo offerings.

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231: Facebook Came Up With Something New, Our Reaction Will Make You Angry

231: Facebook Came Up With Something New, Our Reaction Will Make You Angry

Facebook Reactions

For the first time, my reaction to robots taking over the world and killing humans falls right in line with Elon Musk. It’s after watching the Boston Dynamics video of humans being mean to their atlas robot that prompts my concern. If Facebook had the reaction of scared, that’s the one I would choose.

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230: The 6 D’s of Growth. The 3rd D Will Blow Your Mind.

230: The 6 D’s of Growth. The 3rd D Will Blow Your Mind.

Tumblr Growth

This week we talk about the book Bold and the 6 D’s of growth. Specially, what does it take for a technology to generate exponential growth? It’s great discussion we think you’ll love.

We also hit on Samsung’s new products, why Alphabet’s X tries to kill projects, Apple’s fight against the FBI, how teens use Tumblr, Kanye’s Tidal of troubles, new VR headsets, publishing with Reedsy, and saying thank you with ThankView.

All the show notes are below. Enjoy the show!

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