House of Cards of just one example of how Netflix uses data to make content.
Download #75d: Netflix is watching you
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75: Computers, Computers Everywhere
Computers are showing up all over the place. I’m not just talking about tablets and phones, but also unexpected places like HDMI cables. This is the future: computers everywhere. The only real question is going to be how much it costs us.
This week Andrew Mason gets fired from Group, Corning confirms iWatch, HP releases Sate 7, Firefox announces their phone OS, Matthew searches for 3D glasses, Netflix watches you, SpiderSense helps you feel what’s coming, iPhones HDMI is a computer.
We then round up the show with a bunch of really short headlines.
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- HP Slate 7 hands-on with Video
- HP building multiple tablets this year: ‘we want to be the number one computer vendor’
- HP’s Slate 7 is an “entertainment solution” stained by printer ink
- The Magazine: now with full-article sharing, web subscriptions
- For ‘House of Cards’, Netflix Uses Big Data to Guarantee Its Popularity
- webOS Finds New Life Yet Again, This Time in LG Televisions
- Penny Arcade review of Surface Pro
- SpiderSense Suit
- Firefox OS
- Google+ Sign-In takes on Facebook Connect and frictionless sharing
- There was a 26% drop in music piracy last year
- Apple Versus Wall Street: Don’t Pity the Hedgies
- Andrew Mason’s letter to Groupon employees following his ouster
- Corning confirms Apple’s wrist watch project
- DARPA’S Big Dog throwing bricks
- Why the HDMI connector for the iPhone cost $50
72e: Vine gets rated NC-17 and House of Cards would be rated R
72: The Slight Edge of Tech
Sudden breakthroughs are the results on small regular actions over time which slowly compound into something amazing. Save $10 per day and you’ll be able to retire a millionaire 40 years later. Start with a phone, improve upon it slowly every day and you’ll have breakthrough smart phones. That’s what we talk about today – the result of those simple actions compounded over time.
Today’s focus is on Google glass and bone vibration, Zillow’s home improvement app, Dell going private, Mailbox for iPhone, iWatch for Apple, Vine for adults, House of Cards on Netflix, EA’s Origin coming to Mac, and Apple’s iPhone India sales.
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- Google Glasses to use bone vibration for sound
- Dell officially a private company
- Microsoft’s 2 billion dollar tether
- Vine officially for NC-17
- Zillow moves into the next most logical market – home improvement
- The future of TV: Netflix and House of Cards
- Thanks EA, Now Mac users get subjected to the horror of Origin too!
- More Hangouts love for different bandwidth environments
- Inbox Unchained: Mailbox just fixed email on the iPhone
- The Apple iWatch
- Steve Job’s ghost returns to India… with the iPhone
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