Money Talks with Chris Tucker and Charlie Sheen. Look it up.
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83: Sociology 101
Tech companies are changing the way we learn and think. We are slowly, but surely, shifting our entire lives digitally. In some ways, they resemble our physical lives, but more often than not they’re able to take the best parts and meld them together into something greater. That’s what we talked about today. BTW, the “Y” in Sociology is invisible, but it’s totally there. That’s phycology!
Blue seed wants to make a boat to solve immigration, the Wii outsold the Wii U, Nintendo will skip the E3 keynote, Facebook has sociology data, Phablets aren’t a phad, Netflix is dominating again, online education is just getting started, Google Fiber is happening, NASA is shooting phones into space.
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- This Floating Barge City Is the Most Far-Flung Immigration Solution Yet
- Nest Introduces Rush Hour Rewards and Seasonal Savings, powered by Auto-Tune
- I think Netflix has officially changed the game
- NASA launches three phones into orbit to be used as satellites
- Wii outsold Wii U
- The secret to a good online course (Hint: It’s not technology)
- Why online education is mostly a fantasy
- Data Science of the Facebook World
- Apple is starting to sound like Nokia Circa 2007
- And then there were two? Nintendo skipping E3 press conference this year
- Phablets aren’t a Phad
- The Force of Google Fiber
- Gigabit ethernet coming to Vermont
82d: Eyes on with Google Glass
You know, because we couldn’t get our hands on one. Plus, it made a pun which made you click.
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82: The Next Wearable Tech: The Thunder Belt
Wearable and interactive computing is all the rage on this week’s podcast. Companies and coming up with more and more ways to meld our digital lives with our physical lives. It’s an exciting time! Great examples include the Oculus Rift Omi Treadmill, Google’s Glass, Pebble’s Watch, and Leap Motion’s integration with HP PCs.
We also discuss Netflix’s switch to HTML5 video, Microsoft’s next steps with Windows 8, Funny or Die’s iSteve movie, David’s adiction to Kickstarter board games, and James’ crush on Yahoo’s new weather app.
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- Virtuix hooks up Oculus Rift to its Omni treadmill, shows off ‘True VR’ (video)
- Glass Explorer Edition gets unboxed, photographed
- Steve Jackson raised almost $1 million to create the ultimate board game, and that was a problem
- Turn a Printed Page Into a Touchscreen With This Brilliant Concept
- HTML5 Video at Netflix
- Microsoft’s Windows 8 Plan B(lue): Bring back the Start button, boot to desktop
- Leap Motion and HP to embed gesture controls in PCs
- Funny or Die’s Steve Jobs Movie ‘iSteve’ Now Available Online
- Google Glass not fully functional when used with iPhone
- Yahoo Weather for iOS May Be the Most Beautiful Weather App Yet
81f: What happens to you when you die?
For starters, you won’t have to worry about what happens to your Google account because they’ve got you covered with a new inactive account manager.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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