From the look of it, I will be seeing through one sooner rather than later.
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74: The Future of Cyborgs and Supercapacitors
In classic Furlo Bros fashion, we wax philosophically about just how awesome the future is going to be. Here’s what we talked about in episode 74:
The first artificial hand with feeling is to be installed, Sunrise redefines the iOS calendar app, Supercapacitors come closer to reality with a way to cheaply print Graphene, Sony fails to show the PlayStation 4 console at their PlayStation 4 event, Google announces the Chromebook Pixel and Google also shows off more of Glass.
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- The first artificial limb with feeling to be installed
- The Super Supercapacitor
- More Good News On Those Carbon Supercapacitors
- Sunrise Brilliantly Redefines Calendar Apps On iOS
- Sony fails to show PlayStation 4 console at PlayStation 4 event
- Did the PS4 miss the mobile bandwagon?
- Google announced the Chromebook Pixel
- The Chromebook Pixel shows that Chrome OS is for more than Google-branded netbooks
- I used Google Glasses
- Google Finally Shows Off Google Glass UI, Announces #ifihadglass Purchase Campaign
- No One Is More Excited For Google Glass Than Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg
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70c: Vine captures of future of video in 6 seconds
At least Twitter is hoping that Vine captures the future of mobile video.
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70: A Very Controversial Episode
We attempt to create some controversy in episode 70 because clearly it’s working for Kim Dotcom’s new Mega site. Microsoft also creates some controversy over their poor Windows 8 sales, Twitter creates controversy with Facebook over finding friends in their new Vine app, and Apple’s stock goes down it has too much cash.
On the positive side, Simplenote got bought by Automattic, H.265 got approved, we’re experimenting with storing data with DNA, and the new Moves iPhone app can help track your steps.
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- Now witness the firepower of this fully ARMED and OPERATIONAL MegaUpload!
- Microsoft Surface Pro on sale February 9th in the US and Canada, starts at $899
- THQ will be broken apart and sold to Sega, Ubisoft, and others
- Simplenote supercharged
- Moves: An iPhone app that tells you exactly how lazy you’ve been today
- Twitter officially announces Vine, a ‘new way to share video’ on the iPhone
- Vine hands-on: Twitter’s game-changing take on social video
- Facebook Cuts Off Friend-Finding Access to Vine
- Storing data in DNA
- Some good old fashion drama: Who’s to blame for Windows 8
- Microsoft won’t break Surface sales out from overall Windows 8 sales
- Lenovo a potential BlackBerry buyer
- Apple’s Stock plunge: What the heck happened?
- Apple made a ton of money last quarter
- Suddenly, Apple’s iPhone 4 Is a Major Point of Interest
- Some good old fashion rumor mill: the iPhone Plastic and the IGZO iPad
- Next-Gen Video Format H.265 Is Approved, Paving The Way For High-Quality Video On Low-Bandwidth Networks
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69b: CBS attempts to kill the Hopper by drawing massive attention to it
Well… That didn’t go exactly as planned…
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69: Search, Security and CNET
Good news! AT&T expands FaceTime to everyone, a man outsourced his job to China, CBS tries to downplay Dish’s “Hopper” by calling attention to it, Facebook introduces Graph Search, Java exploit is bad, and Google tries to re-engineer the password.
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- CBS forced CNET staffers to remove Dish’s “Hopper” from the best of CES
- Introducing Graph Search Beta
- Facebook Announces Its Third Pillar “Graph Search” That Gives You Answers, Not Links Like Google
- Facebook reveals how its new Graph Search feature works with your privacy settings
- Java should go the way of the Dodo… and Flash
- The exploit that started the conversation
- AT&T Expands FaceTime Over Cellular Support to All Tiered Data Plans
- Man outsourced his job to China
- Google’s trying to re-engineer the password
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The Annual Prediction Show – Part 2
It’s that time of year again… when it ends. So we’re back with a look at how our predictions of 2012 did, and with some new ones for 2013. It was such a long show that we split it into two parts. Look for the first from yesterday.
This part deals with the future: Our predictions for 2012. The first part looked at the past.
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The Annual Prediction Show – Part 1
It’s that time of year again… when it ends. So we’re back with a look at how our predictions of 2012 did, and with some new ones for 2013. It was such a long show that we split it into two parts. Look for the second half tomorrow.
This part deals with the past: The big events of 2012 and how our predictions did. The second part will look to the future.
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The Top 2012 Stories
- Yahoo got a new CEO from Paypal: Thompson
- Yahoo got a new CEO from Google: Mayer
- RIM Gets a new CEO from Within: Heins
- Facebook goes public
- Facebook bought Instagram
- Encyclopedia Britannica dies
- Digg Dies… kinda
- Google Wave Dies
- WebOS Dies
- Zune Dies
- The Daily Dies
- Neil Armstrong Dies
- Nintendo Power Dies
- Apple releases iPad gen 3 and gen 4
- Apple releases iPad Mini
- Apple releases iPhone 5
- Microsoft releases the Surface and Windows 8
- Google Teases Project Glass
- Google releases Nexus Tablets
- Google turns on the Fiber
- Amazon releases new HD Kindle Fires, Paperwhte ereader
- SOPA!
- Higgs Boson discovered
- Curiosity Lands On Mars, mostly watched online
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Why Is This Fun?
Episode 65! Mayans were wrong! Netflix encodes each movie 120 times, Kodak sells their patents to everyone, Facebook copies Snapchat with Poke, IBM predicts what will happen in 5 years, the new SimCity requires an Internet connections, Instagram changes their TOS.
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- Real “touch” screens and tasteful computers: IBM predicts the future
- The new SimCity game looks awesome, as long as you have an internet connection
- To stream everywhere, Netflix encodes each movie 120 times
- The Great Instagram Kerfuffle of 2012
- I’ve been putting all my stuff in Chad’s garage…
- Kodak to sell their patents to… pretty much everybody
- Facebook releases Snapchat competitor app called Poke
- Youtube views take a sudden and dramatic drop
- 50kw lasers
- Facebook’s Poke app, a Snapchat app clone designed to obliterate the independent company
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A Fully Automated Show
Episode 64. Russian YotaPhone adds an e-ink display to the back of a smart phone, Google combats accidental mobile ad taps, the Guardian kills its Facebook social reader, Google Fiber may actually be cheap, Samsung Galaxy S3 gets CNET’s top device of the year, we ask why we still have to work, and Google Maps comes to the iPhone.
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- It may cost $140 billion dollars to build out Google Fiber… but that’s relatively cheap
- CNET: Samsung Galaxy S3 beats iPhone 5 for device of the year
- Why Do We Still Have To Work?
- The dual LED/e-ink screen solved…in the simplest way possible
- Google maps on the iPhone
- Petition to build a Death Star by 2016 passes 25,000 signatures, White House is required to respond
- Combating accidental clicks in mobile ads
- Guardian kills its Facebook social reader, regains control over its content
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