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200: Accelerating The Next 200 Revolutions In China
200 episodes! An amazing ride! Here’s the deal: We want to invite you to celebrate with us and so we’re giving away 2 $100 gift cards to one of your favorite tech companies (2 x $100, get it?). Head on over to http://furlobros.com/giveaway to sign up.
This week, we start out talking about Pixels and Ant Man (don’t worry, no spoilers). Then we get into the meat of show where we talk about the PlayStation winning this generation’s console war, Zillow buying DotLoop to take on DocuSign, the next industrial revolution, Google admitting the Microsoft’s Office is actually pretty good, Ashley Madison’s hack, GoPro’s new video service, Apple’s quarterly results, NASA’s new earth, Vizio going public, Apple’s car plans (if any), how drones impact emergency situations, and drug testing eSport athletes.
By the way, we did have an alternate show title: “The integral of x cubed from 0 to 5.318296”
185: Is The Apple Watch Worth It?
Is the Apple Watch going to change the wearables landscape? We don’t know for sure, but that doesn’t stop us from making bold proclamations. We also talk about Star Wars being released on iTunes, Daimler’s incredible results of the SuperTruck Challenge, Twitter’s better handling of the Quote Tweet, Taylor Swift and the impact of exclusives in the music industry, Chinas Great DDOS Cannon, YouTube’s future subscription plan, how to make antennas a lot smaller, BlueTooth LEGOs, all-electric Aston Martins, and Square’s email product to help brick and mortar retailers send better email.
150: Watching Rumored Conspiracy Theories On Youtube
Rumors are that there is a secret space program that is at least 50 years ahead of NASA. Totally true.
Matthew shows off his new Philips Hue light, Apple sets the date to announce the iPhone 6, AOL sues an employee of selling them services they didn’t need for want, NASA is going to Mars using the EmDrive or Cannae Drive, Xiaomi is outselling Samsung in China, Samsung doesn’t want to pay Microsoft anymore for Android, Variety discovers that Youtube stars have more influence than Hollywood stars, Windows 8 is selling slower than Vista, BlackBerry is no longer cratering, and Foursquare is the new personalized Yelp.
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- Windows 8 Uptake Slower Than Vista
- BlackBerry Stops Retracting And Begins Modest Growth
- Xiaomi Overtakes Samsung In China
- Windows is Cheaper Than Android For Samsung
- iPhone 6 will be announced September 9th
- Smart Buildings And The New Breed Of Cyber Attack
- Foursquare 8.0 review: the ultimate food-finder
- Today in irony: AOL sues former employee for billing them for bad services they didn’t want, need
- Coming of age: YouTube stars now rate higher than Hollywood celebs among teen influence
- 10 Questions About Nasa’s ‘Impossible’ Space Drive
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142: 5 Unbelievable Technologies That Will Change The World Forever Today
In the search for viral content, we find viral technology.
Despite Matthew’s travel schedule, we talk about all sorts of things. The Word Cup, Tangled EarBuds, Set Godin’s thoughts on creating problems, Tesla’s crazy idea to open up, The Onions new ClickHole, The Internet of Things, HP’s The Machine, and Microsoft’s smart watch.
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- I used Microsoft’s Surface watch
- Tesla Wins Back Right To Sell In NJ
- Tesla Will Open Up Super Charge Stations Patents, So Competitors Can Recharge Too
- Tesla Open Sources Their Patents
- China Is Leading With The Internet Of Things
- HP’s Machine
- Are you solving a problem or creating a problem?
- It’s getting harder to tell what’s satire these days, and The Onion’s new site Clickhole isn’t helping
- 7 Photos Of Harrison Ford’s Ankle In Its Prime
- 5 Iconic Movie Scenes That Were Actually Fake
- France training rocked by spying claims
- The Reason You Headphones Tangle
- I Was Promised Flying Cars
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115: No Puns Intended
Here’s the trick: when you make a pun on purpose, say “no pun intended” anyways to point out to people that made the pun without directly telling them they should notice you made one. Works every time.
Amazon uses drones for PR only, Yahoo shares their top search results, Apply buys Topsy, LG shows off the G Flex, Apple inks a deal to sell subsidized iPhones with China Mobile, Apple also reveals that iBeacons is already in every phone, SmartCharge is a light with a battery, VASIMR makes plasma rockets cheaper to run, Homejoy gets $34 million to clean your home, Offline tries another iPad magazine business model, Medium updates to also become more magazine like, and the PS4 outsells both the Xbox and Wii U.
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- Apple bought Topsy. No one’s sure why.
- What did Apple Buy with Topsy
- Apple’s 2013 Acquisitions to date
- VASIMR and the 39 day mission to Mars… And Back
- The Amazon Drones: Brilliant PR
- Yahoo’s Year In Review Includes Top Searches For 2013 & First Ever Posting Of Top Tumblr Trends
- LG G Flex Hands-On: First Self-Healing, Flexible Smartphone
- PS 4 outselling xBox One 2:1
- PS 4 Killing xBox One in UK
- SmartCharge Wants You Not To Notice Power Outages
- China Mobile will offer iPhone 5S at the end of December
- Offline, A New Kind Of iOS Publication, Blends Text, Audio And Writer Empowerment
- Publishing Platform Medium Keeps Iterating With New Photo, Layout Tools And Collection Controls
- Homejoy Raises $38M As It Looks To Expand Beyond Home Cleaning
- iBeacons. Classic Apple
109: Candy Apples and Fun Sized OS’s
Happy Halloween! We hope you enjoyed celebrating last weekend (according to Matthew’s theory). This week we were showered with all sorts of treats from Apple, Nokia/Microsoft, and others.
Specifically, we talk Square Cash, predicting Kickstart success, MAP, China’s creative slump, the wild market of smart watches, Nokia’s Asha, Lumias, Blackberry’s BBM, Apples Mac Pro, MacBook Pro, iPad Air, iPad Mini, iLife, iWork, Mavericks, Microsoft’s reaction to them, LinkedIn’s Intro, and Samsung negative comments.
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- Square Cash Lets You Send Money Without Creating Another Account
- Statistical models can predict a Kickstarter’s success within 4 hour
- Super duper full-featured paper map
- Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming
- Fragments of time: the wild, messy state of smartwatches
- Nokia announces Asha 500 for $69, Asha 502 for $89, and Asha 503 for $99
- Nokia Lumia 1520: a first look at a 6-inch giant Windows Phone
- Nokia Lumia 2520: a closer look at Nokia’s first Windows tablet
- BBM is popular
- First look: Apple’s upcoming Mac Pro and new MacBook Pros with Retina display
- iPad Air hands-on
- Apple iPad mini with Retina display hands-on
- Apple updates iLife suite on iOS and OS X
- How a Free OS Will Pay Off For Apple
- The end of the paid OS Era
- Apples and oranges
- Mac Pro: seriously designed for pros
- Mac Pro’s cost: The ferocious GPU’s
- LinkedIn Intro: Doing the Impossible on iOS
- Samsung Fined $340K for faking negative web comments
102d: Are you ready for Tuesday?
We sure are. So is the rest of the tech community. Apple managed to wait long enough that now expectations are super high, or super low, depending on what you read.
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102: Fiscal Responsibility
Buying all the latest tech can get pretty expensive fast. Despite all our excitement for everything new coming out, we still encourage people, can companies, to practice fiscal responsibility.
Elon Musk shows off how SpaceX using Leap Motion, North Carolina University invents strong glue for solar panels, Microsoft buys Nokia, Samsung officially unveils the Galaxy Gear, we pine over Apple’s new iPhone, we try to guess which start up will be the next big thing (Spoiler: Oculus Rift), HDMI 2.0 for 3D 4K video transfer and Intel’s fiber optic breakthrough.
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- Microsoft to buy BlackBer… I mean Nokia
- MSFT Stock Drops after the Deal Announcement
- The case against Stephen Elop as Microsoft CEO
- The Deal That Makes No Sense
- Nokia Name To Go Away With Lumia
- Which Start-Up Could Be the Next Big Thing?
- Android KitKat is the next version of Google’s mobile operating system
- Samsung unveils Galaxy Gear smartwatch with 1.63-inch AMOLED touchscreen, built-in camera, 70 apps
- First look video: Samsung Galaxy Gear demonstration
- The Galaxy Watch Won’t Last A Day With Heavy Usage
- Sorry, the Future of Computing Is Not on Your Wrist
- Apple’s Other iPhone Announcement Event
- Intel’s Laser Chips
- HDMI 2.0
- Elon Musk Creates Rocket Parts With the Wave of a Hand
- New Connection Between Stacked Solar Cells Can Handle Energy Of 70,000 Suns
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79c: China’s war on Apple is nothing like the biggest DDoS in history
Good thing Google was there to help out. Now, can they help Virginia see Google Glass?
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