Well friends, this is our 300th golden episode! It’s hard to believe it’s been that many. It’s been an awesome run and we’re super excited about hitting this milestone. We talk about Kickstarter Gold, SpaceX double launches, ARKit examples, golden ages, Snap getting into maps, moving the navbar on your phone, Kalanick getting booted from Uber’s CEO spot, and Intel getting out of low end processors. It’s a great show and all the links are below.
170: The Furlo Bros 2014 Postdictions
This week represents week 1 of a 2 week series. In this part, we take a look back at 2014. What was the big news? How did we do on our predictions? Predictably, we did pretty well with Apple, Facebook and Samsung. Surprisingly, Google through us some curveballs. It’s a good show to listen to, and don’t forget to catch our predictions next week.
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167: The Escape Velocity of Marketing Campaigns
Matthew starts off by spoiling the Star Wars movie. Then we move on to real news.
Lockheed Martin is developing the N+2 supersonic jet while Aerion develops the AS2 supersonic jet, PSY breaks YouTube, the Internet of Things is real, Nevada tries to solve a taxicab problem that Uber already solved, Google Glass isn’t dead yet, Google sold more Chromebooks to school than Apple sold iPads to school last quarter, Netflix gets accused of creating a personal fast lane, Snapchat continues to innovate, Sony marketed the PlayStation by appealing to older gamers, and Yahoo passes Twitter in ad spend.
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- Google Glass To Use Intel Chips
- Google sold more Chromebooks to US schools than Apple did iPads in Q3
- Race to be the new Concorde! Supersonic jets battle to become first aircraft to cut flight times in HALF… reaching speeds of 1,200mph
- Is the IoT hitting Escape Velocity?
- FCC Alleges That Netflix Is Effectively Working To Secure An Internet Fastlane
- Snapchat’s geofilters are now open to everyone
- How To Hire When Everyone Wants To Found Their Own Startup
- Uber.gov: It’s Time to Let the Government Drive
- NASA Launches Orion: A First Step Towards Mars
- How The Sony Made The PlayStation A Thing
- Kim Kardashian Didn’t Break The Internet. But PSY Broke Youtube
- What Are The Top Most Watch Videos?
- Yahoo On Track To Pass Twitters As One Of The Biggest Online Advertisers
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152: The Dog Days Of The Tech Summer
Yo turns out to be useful, Google brings Photo Sphere to iOS, Matthew buys a PS4, Shakedown is a dumb app, Noke is a digital pad lock, Thalmic goes for the enterprise, Steve Ballmer is out of Microsoft, Samsung unveils the Galaxy Tab 4 Nook, Twitter starts showing other tweets in your timeline, Windows 9 is coming soon, Apple will help you find your car, Facebook and Pandora are the most popular smartphone apps, SpaceX blows up a rocket, the ice bucket challenges are getting crazy, and Google wants to keep their self-driving data private.
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- Noke Is A Simple, Keyless Bluetooth Padlock To Share Access To Your Stuff
- The Shakedown And Other Dumb Ideas
- Thalmic’s Push Into Enterprise
- Steve Ballmer Steps Down From MS Board
- Google Launches Photo Sphere Camera App On iOS
- The About.me Backstory Reimagines The Resume For A New Generation Of Users
- Samsung Launches Their Nook Tablet
- Twitter now officially says your timeline is more than just tweets from people you follow
- Windows 9 Reveal To Come September 30th
- Sony Doesn’t Know Why The PS4 Is Selling Great… And It’s Kinda Freaking Them Out, Man
- Apple is Solving The Greatest App Idea: Where’d I Park?
- Baby Boomers Are Still Playing Words With Friends
- Dear Brands, Here Are Some Do’s And Don’ts For Your Ice Bucket Challenge Videos
- SpaceX Performed A Rapid Mid Air Disassembly Of One Of Their Rockets
- What Google Doesn’t Want You To Know About The Google Cars
- Also, They Speed
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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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139: Apple v Google
Spoiler: They’re on the same team.
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- We’re Not The Only Ones Wondering If Glass Is Dead
- Returning Google Glass
- Google Glass Doesn’t Have a Privacy Problem. You Do.
- Survey says: Comcast, Time Warner Cable customers are still the angriest
- Microsoft Unveils Surface Pro 3
- It’s Not Meant To Compete With the iPad, It’s Meant to Compete With the Macbook Air
- Microsoft Is Trying to Think Different
- Microsoft Surface Pro 3 review
- Google Dethrones Apple As The Most Valuable Brand
- Nest Recalls 440,000 Nest Protect Smoke Alarms
- California Will Start Granting Licenses for Autonomous Vehicles
- … And It Could Lead To Crippling Law Enforcement Budget
- The Plan for WWDC
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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116b: I want to work for Google
That’s exactly what Matthew said once he found out about Google’s Robotics program.
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116: Princesses, Dragons And Technology
Matthew proposed to a princess and James sat in the front row of a theater. That about sums it up for the relative excitement in each other’s lives.
Other exciting new included comparing Snapchat to SpaceX, ITU figuring out how to get almost-Fiber into homes, Matthew’s new fitbit wrist band, Doctoc On Demand & HealthLoop’s attempts to help doctor-patient communication, the NYTimes 4th down Twitter bot, Square’s new card reader, NCTA’s horrible ads, the rise of MVPDs, Ubuntu Touch’s new hardware partner: Canonical, SteamOS going live, Oculus new funding, Tesla’s upcoming new car announcement, and a way to post away messages with Relaxed.
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- Awesome: A New York Times bot is second-guessing NFL coaches on Twitter
- Tracking Technology Sheds Light on Shopper Habits
- How Apple’s Lightning-Plug Guru Reinvented Square’s Card Reader
- The Worst anti cord cutting campaign of all time
- Why Nintendo Needs To Stay In The Hardware Business, Regardless Of The Wii U
- Doctor On Demand Launches To Bring A $40 (Virtual) House Call To Healthcare
- HealthLoop Lands $10M To Help Doctors Better Track And Engage Patients Between Visits
- Snapchat vs. SpaceX: Which gets more attention?
- Ubuntu Touch OS gets it’s first partner
- Big Media Companies Pave the Way For Cord Cutters
- 500 mbps over copper might solve fiber’s “last mile” problem
- Oculus rift raises $75 million
- Steam OS released to the world
- Model E slated for 2015 Reveal
- Google Bought Boston Dynamics
- Relaxed Sets Vacation Auto-Replies for Facebook and Twitter
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