Plus, Apple’s move from Samsung to TSMC for making their chips, and MIT’s optical transistor research.
Download #92c: Yahoo’s purchase of BigNoggin and their overall strategy
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93: Watching CEOs and Silicon Manufacturers
Douglas Engelbart lead the way on creating the mouse. Today, companies are pursing touch interfaces and wearable computing – especially watches.
We also talk about Yahoo’s purchase of BigNoggin and their overall strategy, Apple’s move from Samsung to TSMC for making their chips, MIT’s optical transistor research, Zynga’s new boss and the first solar-power transcontinental flight.
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- Yahoo bets big on fantasy sports, acquires one-man startup Bignoggins
- Marissa Mayer has been on a shopping spree at Yahoo, but is there any sign of a strategy?
- Best Buy apparently set to sell Pebble smart watch beginning this weekend
- Almost every major consumer electronics manufacturer is now working on a smart watch
- The stock market likes the new Zynga CEO, but it’s wrong. Here is why
- Twitter Wants to Start Tracking You on the Web, Here’s How to Opt-Out
- Google Flights
- Samsung bought Boxee
- Apple Turning to TSMC for chip production
- Douglas C. Engelbart Dies
- MIT develops an Optical transistor
- Solar Plane completes transcontinental flight
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#68: The Only CES Review That Matters
Episode 68! CES week! Nvidia shows off Project Shield, Kingston has a 1TB jump drive, LEGO shows the Mindstorm EV3, Ubuntu has a phone OS, and Corning shows off their latest creation. We also look at the biggest trends, and do a household roundup.
Some non-CES news: IBM’s Watson learns how to swear, the White House rejects the Death Star proposal, PaperTab shows how thin tablets could look, you have to be a vegetarian to go to Mars, you can fake your Internet coolness with CouchCachet, and HBO signs a 10 year deal with Universal, and Windows Phone 8 gives you a black screen of death.
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- Nvidia’s Project shield
- A 1TB jumpdrive
- HBO signs 10 year deal with Universal to keep content off Netflix
- LEGO Mindstorm EV3
- A truly open platform: Ubuntu Phone OS
- Billionaire space entrepreneur wants vegetarian-only colony on Mars
- Fake your way to Internet coolness with CouchCachet, the social media hack for lazy bums
- 4K at CES 2013: the dream gets real
- IBM’s Watson learned the entire Urban Dictionary. They then had to give it a filter
- Windows phone 8 black screen of death
- Apple’s rumored twice a year refresh
- White House rejects Death Star, promotes tech education
- Corning’s Gorilla Glass
- Five most disruptive technologies from CES 2013
- CES household roundup
- Biggest trends in CES 2013
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