Not really. PC sales are plunging because of Windows 8. Bitcoin is just weird.
Download #81c: PC sales plunge just as Bitcoin takes off. Causation? Correlation?
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81b: A new breakthrough in nanowires will speed up solar’s disruption of the energy market
Sol Voltaic’s new nanowires could be a cheap way to improve solar efficiency. The trend of people getting off the grid is growing.
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81a: Life is about to get a lot faster in Austin Texas
Google’s attempt to disrupt the ISP market is working! Facebook’s attempt to disrupt the smartphone market will half work.
Download #81a: Life is about to get a lot faster in Austin Texas
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81: Pardon The Disruption
Disruptions are everywhere this week! Solar panels are disrupting the energy market, Google is disrupting the ISP market, Microsoft is disrupting the PC market, Bitcoin is disrupting the currency market, and Facebook is disrupting the mobile phone market. It’s a world gone crazy!
We also talk about 3D printing, the FBI’s surveillance tool, MIT’s DNA-patterned graphene, Samsung’s superior global Galaxy S4, Blackberry’s horrible Z10 sales, shallow texters, Foursquare’s $41 million investment, Internet Explorer vs. Murder Rates, Google’s inactive account manager, iPhone’s India sales, an attack upon WordPress, and regulated commercial drones.
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- 3D printers in the operating room
- Tiny wires could be a breakthrough for cheap solar panels
- US electric utilities predict their own downfall—thanks to solar panels
- Secrets of FBI Smartphone Surveillance Tool Revealed in Court Fight
- AT&T announces 1Gbps internet coming to Austin… to compete against Google Fiber
- MIT using DNA to pattern graphene, eventually hoping to make Integrated Circuits
- Global version of the Galaxy S4 is way faster if you buy the global phone
- PC sales plunging, Microsoft’s Windows 8 to blame
- Bitcoin value plunges 40% in a few hours
- This Trippy Video Explains Bitcoin in Under 4 Minutes
- Yahoo Stock rebounding finally
- Z10 doing terrible, Returns exceeding sales
- You’re shallow if you text more than 100 times per day
- Foursquare Gets $41 Million Investment, Time to Grow
- Internet Explorer vs. Murder Rates
- Google’s inactive account manager
- Hours in, Facebook Home suffering from poor Google Play reviews as 48% of users award it 1 star
- iPhone sales in India skyrocket
- Major brute force attack on WordPress
- Eric Schmidt wants government to regulate commercial drones
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80e: Michael Dell’s dream of taking Dell private is quickly fading
All he wants to do is pay you pennies for your investment so he can turn it around. Is that too much to ask?
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80d: The new Facebook Phone feels right at Home
It looks like a great product that’s only mired by the fact that Facebook created it.
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80c: CMA Communications injects ads into your browser via your ISP
This just feels wrong on so many levels. Not that it matters what we think.
Download #80c: CMA Communications injects ads into your browser via your ISP
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80b: Webkit dies in a Blink along with LucasArts
Tesla expects to be profitable this year, which is great. Google forks Webkit, which is OK. Disney kills LucasArts, which is a bummer.
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80a: Furlo Bros will be shutting down. April Fools!
Listen to our round-up of all the cool April Fools pranks around the web.
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80: A Timeline On and Of Your Cell Phone
Last week Facebook revealed the new “Facebook Phone” called Facebook Home – an Android launcher that puts your friend’s updates front and center. To commemorate the occasion, we also take a look back at the most important phones in history.
We also do a round-up of April Fools pranks, talk about Tesla’s success, LucasArts’ termination, Google forking Webkit in a Blink, CMA Communications injecting ads into webpages and Michael Dell’s failing plans to take his company private.
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- Tesla Expects first profits this quarter
- April Fools 2013: The Round-up
- LucasArts being shut down
- Play DOTT and Full Throttle
- Google Forks WebKit in a Blink
- CMA communications injecting ads into webpages
- 12 cell phones that changed our world forever
- And why the 12 cell phones article is awful
- HTC First with Facebook Home hands-on
- Why Facebook Home bothers me: It destroys any notion of privacy
- Facebook Home revamps any Android phone to make it about ‘people, not apps’
- The Problem with Facebook Home: Fragmentation
- The best laid plans of mice and Michael Dell
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