183: Facebook Has a New Message About Video
Matthew joins us after running a Tough Mudder and getting virtually zero sleep the day/night before. Still, we soldier on and cover all of Facebook’s latest plans to take over the Internet. The crazy part: we think it just might work.
175: The Biggest Competitions In The World
This week we talk about competitions happening in the tech space. For example, Twitter takes on group messaging, Snapchat takes on the media, Tumblr takes on simple design and Microsoft takes on Gmail through the iPhone.
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- The Nexus 6 Should Have Had A Fingerprint Scanner
- How Google Is Leveraging Youtube To Force Music Key To Be A Success
- NFL Video Highlights — And More — Come to YouTube and Google
- Now on Twitter: group Direct Messages and mobile video camera
- Twitter tries to up its game with group messages and native video
- Snapchat Launches Discover
- Snapchat does what Facebook couldn’t: Get publishers to trust it with their content
- Snapchat Outgrows The Friend Zone
- DJI Firmware Now Prevents Drones From Going Into No-Fly Zones
- TI Announces Ti-84 Plus CE
- A Graphics Demo Using The Unreal 4 Engine
- Why Apple Is Continually Underestimated
- Apple, The Oil Company?
- Tumblr Takes On Medium With Upgrades To Its Writing Interface And More
- Microsoft Is Investing in Cyanogen Mod
- MileIQ raises $11M to take the pain out of mileage tracking and put more cash in users’ pockets
- The best Gmail app for the iPhone is now made by Microsoft
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174: You Won’t Believe the 9 Things You Didn’t Know About This Company’s Mind Blowing Announcement
This is definitely not click bait, though we do start off talking about the most popular Buzzfeed headlines. Then we move onto the most popular passwords and all of Microsoft’s announcements: Windows 10, Cortano integration, Project Spartan, Xbox integration, the Surface Hub and the HoloLens. We finish up with Xiaomi’s ability to make cheap phones, the Myo’s impending release, NBC streaming the Super Bowl, Blackberry whining about nobody making apps for them and Google investing in SpaceX to bring the Internet via satellites.
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- How Xiaomi Manages To Keep Cost Low
- Amazon Is Gonna Make Movies
- The Myo Gesture Armband Will Go On Sale On Amazon This Quarter
- The Top Buzzfeed Click Bate Titles
- NBC Will Live Stream The Super Bowl
- Google Invest $1B in SpaceX
- The 25 Most Popular Passwords of 2014: We’re All Doomed
- The 9 biggest announcements from Microsoft’s Windows 10 event
- Windows 10 Will Be A Free Upgrade, Mostly
- Windows 10 Will Finally Bring About The Universal App For The Windows Ecosystem
- XBOX ONE is Heading To Windows 10
- The Official Beginning Of The End Of IE
- Microsoft’s Far Less Embarrassing Big ol’ Surface
- Microsoft Is Building A Universal Chat Client
- Microsoft Unveils The HoloLens
- A Reminder Of How This Sort Of Thing Has Gone In The Past
- BlackBerry CEO Wants Legislators To Make Developing BlackBerry Apps Mandatory
- 16 Tech Trends
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172: Everything is Getting Smarter And I’m Not Getting Any Richer
This is the week of CES! We talk about tons of different products. Check out the list and links below to see all the different ones that we covered.
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- iCelsius Wireless BBQ
- Nvidia’s New 64-bit Mobile CPU With A 256 Core GPU
- Nvidia’s Two New Car Platforms
- Sharps Any Size, Any Shape Screen
- Parrot Gets A Green Thumb with an Automated Watering Pot
- Making Your Traditional Fish Tank A Smart Fish Tank!
- VR Streaming Cameras
- Works With Nest Expands To Included Hue
- A Wireless Transmitter That Works From 20ft Away
- And Then There Were Two: Wireless Power Standards Merge From Three To Two
- HP’s Really Very Cool VR Monitor, And Other High Tech Screens
- Steam Machines Hardware Come Back Without The Software
- Audi’s Self Driving Car Drives To Las Vegas
- Cannon Is Getting Wifi To Stop You From Just Using Your Phone
- A Battery BackUp That Will Charge An iPhone 6 In 15 Minutes
- A Smart Pacifier With Temperature Sensing And Proximity Monitoring
- A Teenager’s View on Social Media
- You Can Finally Get ESPN on the Web, for $20 a Month
- Microsoft’s new Nokia phone can go for a month without being recharged, costs just $29
- Sony Demos The New HD Audio Walkman
- Razer Debuts An Open Source Virtual Reality (OSVR) Headset
- Sony’s HUD Strap On
- Apple’s next major Mac revealed: the radically new 12-inch MacBook Air
- Fitbit Announces Two New Smart Watch Competitors
- Razer Entered The Smart TV Foray
- Intel Announced A Windows 8.1 HDMI Stick
- OneWheel Is Better Than Four
- AT&T will let customers carry over unused data to the next month
- KraftWerk Is A Butane Fuel Cell For Your Phone
- Keurig Will Make Dr. Pepper
- MakerBot Makes Composite Materials For Your 3D Printer
- And Chocolate Printing Too!
- PicoBrew Automates Home Beer Brewing
- Best Of CES
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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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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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168: A Stocking Stuffed With Articles
This week is a crazy week for stories. We just couldn’t decide what to talk about, so we talk about everything. Below is the list of all the articles. Yep, there’s a lot of them. Enjoy!
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- Samsung Is First To Market With Gear VR
- VR Movies At Sundance
- Pixelmator, Beyonce, ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ & ‘Fargo’ lead Apple’s iTunes Best of 2014 awards
- LendingClub hikes IPO target 17%, now hopes to raise up to $929M
- Loan platform operator LendingClub’s shares soar in debut
- Graph Search is finally coming to mobile, making it even easier for users to know what Facebook knows
- Big changes ahead for Windows: ‘We’ve got to monetize it differently,’ says Microsoft exec
- How Google Maps Happen
- TGIF Had A Drone With Mistletoe. They Hit Someone.
- Sony Hack Snowballs
- Sony Hack Was Shockingly Easy
- Sony Turns To The PS4 As Top Priority
- Sony Is Selling The 20th Anniversary PS4 for 19.94 pounds. But Only In London
- XBOX ONE outsold PS4 Officially
- 1 Million Deliveries Deep, Postmates Formally Launches An On-Demand API
- T-Mobile launches $100 two-line family plan with unlimited data
- The Happy Home Company Aims To Take The Headache Out Of Home Maintenance
- Glassdoor: Google dethrones Twitter as the best tech company to work for in the U.S., also tops new U.K. list
- Bose Products Back In Apple Stores
- Android Wear Gets 3rd Party Watch Face Support
- Stretchable Artificial Skin For Prosthetics
- Apple And IBM Launch First Set Of New Enterprise Apps
- Whose Your Landlord Checks Out Your Place For You Before You Rent It
- Amazon now lets developers publish HTML5 web apps for its Fire TV and Fire TV Stick
- MTailor: The Perfectly Tailored Man’s Shirt
- New Tools and Insights for Publishers
- HP Stream 11 Review: $200 and Worth Every Penny
- Instagram Passes Twitter to 300 million Users
- Army’s Laser Passes Deployment Test
- Merkel speaks out against net neutrality
- Robinhood Launches Zero-Fee Stock Trading App
- For AOL Dial-Up Subscribers, It’s Life in the Slow Lane
- Amazon Android App Quietly Removed From Play Store
- Oculus Has Acquired A Hand Tracking and AR Company
164: The Difficulty of Making Hard Decisions
Matthew is in Disneyland participating in the Avengers Half Marathon this week.
We talk about the Flux 3D printer on Kickstarter, The ESA Rosetta Mission and the Philae successfully landing on a comet, the latest of the Net Neutrality debate, Microsoft’s focus on Windows, Office and Azure while letting things like .NET free, Google’s new tune, Sony’s new Internet TV and Sharp’s new display.
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- Microsoft’s CEO Gave Us The Clearest Vision For The Company We’ve Had In Years
- Microsoft Has 3 Products: Windows, Office 365 And Azure. Everything Else Is A Feature
- Microsoft pushes its dual-use vision with $199 Work & Play Bundle
- Microsoft’s first Lumia defines Windows Phone’s future
- Obama’s plan to save the internet draws bold reactions
- The hypocrisy of Republican opposition to net neutrality
- SURPRISE! WE AGREE WITH THE PRESIDENT’S PRINCIPLES ON NET NEUTRALITY
- Politics Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things. Like The Internet.
- Google Music Purchase Increase, After Launch Of Streaming Service
- Music Key’s Shifting Definition Of Music
- Flux’s 3D Printer Is Also A Scanner, Laser Engraver And More Thanks to A Modular Design
- So, Yeah… We Landed On A Comet
- Microsoft Will Take .NET To OS X And Linux After Open Sourcing It
- Visual Studios Goes Freemium
- Sony To Launch It’s Own Internet TV
- Sharp Demoed A 736ppi Screen
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163: Excelling at Selling Albums
This week we talk about Interstellar, Google updates to material design with Inbox, Calendar, Maps and Lollipop, Flite Test makes a hellicarrier, Taylor Swift pulls her music from Spotify, Microsoft releases Word, Excel & PowerPoint on iOS the way it should be, Core Gamers are now mobile gamers, Amazon Prime allows unlimited photo storage and the ability to buy Echo on discount, Nest updates and goes free in Ireland, Apple Pay drives Google Wallet usage, OnBeep enables 2-way communication over wi-fi, and Mark Zuckerberg puts on an AMA.
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- T Swift Pulled Her Catalog From Spotify
- Why She Did It
- Core Gamers Aren’t Really The Core Of Gaming Anymore
- A new day for Google Calendar
- Google Maps: Your best accessory this season
- Android 5.0 Lollipop preview: Google’s biggest mobile update in years
- Microsoft Teams Up With Dropbox
- Amazon Wants All Your Photos
- Google’s Nest thermostat becomes a faster learner with major software update
- Google just removed the biggest obstacle to its real-world surveillance system’s spread
- This Dude Made A Drone That Launches Drones. I Have Dreamt Of This Day
- Apple Pay Causes Dramatic Increase In Google Wallet Usage
- Why Apple Drives Adoption Cross Platform
- OnBeep launches Onyx, a simple wearable two-way voice communication device that pairs with your smartphone
- Amazon Launches Echo
- Amazon Wants One Click To Become No Click
- The new Office for iPhone is everything it should have been on day one
- Mark Zuckerberg’s AMA: Messaging app, his favorite unreleased features and Social Network movie
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