Mary Meeker shared her 2017 internet trends report this week. It’s super long, but we broke it down to the good stuff. We also talk about the future of AI and how it’ll get smarter in a beyond-exponential way. The rest of the stories are below.
214: Bold.ly Killing Operating Systems
The internet browser is under attack! Google is killing Chrome! Countries can shut down TLDs! It’s chaos! Thankfully, the solution already exists: Apps that are basically highly specific browsers.
171: Predicting 2015 With Astounding Accuracy
This week we predict what we expect to happen in 2015. It’s all going to be 100% accurate.
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144: Warrantless Android Searches
Google takes the spotlight this week to show off all the cool things they’ve been working on. They shared updates to Android (duh), Wear, TV, Auto, Chrome and Chromecast. Yeah, it was a lot.
We also talk about Cruise Automation for cars, Woot becoming Meh, Facebook experimenting on our emotions, Aereo dying, and GoPro living.
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- A Little Startup Called Cruise From The Socialcam, Twitch Founders Is Tackling Self-Driving Cars Too – with video
- Aereo Is A No Go
- But So is Warrantless Phone Searches
- Google Launches Android One
- Google Launches Android Wear SDK
- Google Launches Android TV
- Google Launches Android Auto
- Google Fires Back At Apple!
- Android is Putting Native Apps and Web Pages On the Same Level
- The Chromecast Update Allows Syncing Over Ultrasonic Sound
- All the Best Stuff Google Announced Today at I/O 2014
- GoPro Goes Public
- Woot! Is Back. But This Time It’s A Bit Meh
- Facebook’s science experiment on users shows the company is even more powerful and unethical than we thought
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123b: Here’s how not to lose your Twitter handle
As Matthew said, it a classic bad guy move to tell the good guy how you beat them.
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123: Flushing Away Nine Billion Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars
In the Superbowl of tech, Google punts on Motorola and Facebook goes for with their Paper iOS app.
We also talk about EVE Online’s massive battle, Naoki Hiroshima’s woes with his @N Twitter name, LEGOs Chrome experiment, Blackberry’s shutout and Pebble’s new store.
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- Google Acquires Artificial Intelligence Startup DeepMind For More Than $500M
- LEOGs in Chrome
- Lenovo nears $3 billion deal to buy Google’s Motorola unit
- Larry Page Official Post: Lenovo to acquire Motorola Mobility
- Nest is the Motorola replacement
- Why Google Was Smart to Sell Motorola For Just $3 Billion
- How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username
- PayPal denies providing payment information to hacker who hijacked $50,000 Twitter username
- GoDaddy accepts partial responsibility in social engineering attack of @N’s customer account
- Why Hasn’t Twitter Just Given @N His Name Back?
- There Was A $200,000 Dollar War Today
- Facebook Paper
- Facebook heard you like newspapers, so it decided to make a newspaper app out of your Facebook
- With Paper, Facebook just blew its own iPhone app out of the water
- Yahoo’s sleek News Digest app swims against the stream
- On BB 10’s First Anniversary, BlackBerry’s US Market Share Hits 0%
- Pebble Will Get it’s App Store for iOS
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122b: Weird interview questions and finding love on OKCupid
How lucky would you say you are? Lucky enough to be a genius that can hack OKCupid?
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122: 30 Years of Computer Aided Analytics
Congrats to Apple for making the Mac for 30 years. But what have you done for me lately?
This week we talk about Disney’s big data, Sam Matson’s Immersion heart monitor, Facebook’s response to Princeton’s research, Uber’s toppling of cabs, InDesign’s toppling of QuarkXPress, tech interview questions on Glassdoor, SK Telecomes 300gbps mobile data speeds, Google’s spammy Chrome extensions, how the iPod changed computing, AMC’s dislike of Google Glass, and how a mathematician hacked OKCupid.
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- You don’t want your privacy: Disney and the meat space data race
- The oddest tech job interview questions explained
- Korean carrier to launch 300 mbps wireless LTE
- Google Starts Banning Chrome Extensions Bought By Shady As Firms
- How the iPod will change computing
- Moviegoer wearing Google Glass yanked from Ohio theater, questioned by feds
- How a Math Genius Hacked OkCupid to Find True Love
- A headset that measures your heart rate and lets games get harder as you get more frustrated
- How QuarkXPress Became An Afterthought in Publishing
- The Classic Disruption Cycle
- Debunking Princeton
- Gigaom Review of Princeton Research
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121: A Somewhat Depressing Episode
This week, not only is James missing, but we talk about Google invading your personal bubble and privacy, the failure of the Wii U, the end of Net Neutrality and the Niners Losing. It’s seriously heartbreaking. We try to pep it back up with the future of e-wallets, next gen RTS’s, the exciting horizon of biomed and my friend Brandon Hill guest Co-hosting.
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- SimCity Will Get an Offline Mode
- Google Just Bought Nest Labs
- And Apple’s not Heartbroken About It
- The End Of Privacy?
- Next Gen RTS Lets You Control 5,000 Units
- Tesla Formally Recalls Chargers
- Courts Strike Down FCC Net Neutrality Regulations
- Google Adds Data Compression to Mobile Chrome
- The Blackphone: A Secure Smartphone
- Apple’s eWallet Solution Might Already Be in Our Hands
- Photoshop Adds 3D to Their System
- Google Introduces Smart Contact Lens Project
- Wii U Has Flopped, Slashes Sales Forecast by 70%
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Anxious Anticipation
Episode 56! Matthew has a friend who will live near Zuckerberg, Hipmunk adds fare alerts, Blue River Technology invents robots to kill weeds, Microsoft announces Surface RT prices, Apple announces the iPad Mini event, Google announces an Android event, Facebook tries new money making ideas, and Jack Dorsey shares his leadership ideas.
We also mention Zynga’s stock problem, Google’s stock woes, the trouble with Chromebooks and the Onion’s first Onion Talk.
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- Automated weeding: Caring for the environment in a old way made new
- Surface RT prices announced
- Microsoft releases first Surface TV ad
- Google hosting Android event Monday, Oct 29th in New York
- Everything that Google will unveil at its Android event on October 29
- Facebook is now pay to play. Many don’t seem to like it, but is it really horrible?
- So… Mark Zuck is gonna move into the neighborhood of one of my friends
- Is Zynga ready to throw in the towel on Wall St?
- Hipmunk Adds Free Fare Alerts to Its Flight Search
- Jack Dorsey: Leadership Secrets Of Twitter And Square
- Let’s reconsider our “users”
- Shares Fall Sharply as Google Earnings Are Released Early
- Here’s Why Google Could Disappear in Five Years
- The Trouble With Chromebooks
- First Onion Talks spoofs compost cars so awesomely