179: Wrist Neutrality
There were lots of colors this week. White & Gold dresses. Red, White & Blue FCC decisions. 64 color watches and much more. It was good having Matthew back behind the microphone as we dove into this week’s top stories.
178: Apple’s Frustration with Electric Cars
This week Matthew is off on a business trip, and so I decided to do an experimental format. The show is only 30 minutes as a consequence, but it’s a completely different style than we’ve ever done before. I’d love to get your feedback which you can leave in the comments below. Thanks for listening!
177: A Totally Legit And Definitely Not Fraudulent Episode
Here’s what we’ll do. You give us $10 to invest in Furlo Bros Inc. We’ll then turn that money into $20 – which is a 100% return. It’s virtually guaranteed. If you refer 4 friends to also invest in Furlo Bros Inc. We’ll double your return to $40. It’s totally Legit, just like Hong Kong’s MyCoin. We even predict that if we keep doubling every so often, we’ll become a $700 billion dollar company just like Apple.
FYI: That’s a joke.
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- Apple Records
- The Future Of Beats Starts To Resolve
- Zane Lowe To Leave Radio 1 For Apple
- Forget everything you thought you knew about the homepage
- 64 Different Homepage Ideas
- Why Sony Called in Marvel’s Big Gun to Reboot ‘Spider-Man’
- Hong Kong’s MyCoin Disappears With Up To $387 Million, Reports Claim
- Samsung TVs start inserting ads into your movies
- Lockiton transitioning to it’s next generation lock: Bolt
- This image of a Chinese worker with close to 100 iPhones reveals how App Store rankings can be manipulated
- Install the best new iPhone and iPad apps from Pinterest
- Haptics Take Another Step Closer To Reality
- It’s official: GM’s 200-mile, $30K electric Bolt car will be produced
- Wink Fail: Why Is My Smart Home So Dumb?
- Why Elon Musk thinks Tesla will be worth as much as Apple in a decade
- iWorks Beta Now Free For Everyone
- Apple Appears To Be Making A Car
- Nerf Is Growing Up
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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
165: Sharing News, Money and Smashes
Google’s Inbox is just plain strange, Toshiba is growing lettuce in a factory, Eric Schmidt wants to grow more food through AgTech, sharing on social media sites and Facebook and Twitter is getting more difficult, turns out the internet is not dead, Toyota is investing in fuel cells, Snapchat and Square team up to make snapCash, Samsung is showing restraint with the number of phones they make, the Apple Watch SDK is available, Super Smash Brothers is unbalanced, and Ruby on Rails is the best paying programming skill.
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- Farms of the future
- Eric Shmidt’s Farm2050
- Toyota Pushes In To Fuel Cell Cars
- Snapchat Will Send Cash
- Native Apps Are Part of the Web
- The Web, Still Dying After All These Years
- Facebook at Work makes sense for Facebook and no one else
- Facebook Launches An App That Focuses On Groups
- And it’s kind of dumb
- Samsung Will Make Substantially Fewer Phone Models
- 11 things we just learned about how the Apple Watch works
- Taxis Cause Gridlock At SFO
- Mashable editor Jim Roberts on how he approaches the news
- Forrester Says Marketers Are Wasting Resources on Facebook, Twitter
- Re/Code Removes Comments
- Unbalanced Design of Super Smash Bros
- Corning’s New Gorilla Glass Can Now Survive A Fall
- These programming skills will earn you the most money
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161: The Oligarchy Of The Internet
“We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars, but we won’t.” – Tyler Durden
On that happy note, we talked about everything this week. The Giants are playing well, Matthew completed another Tough Mudder, IO is an app for finding good restaurants, Samsung got on the CSFC list for a little while, Apple Pay is causing problems for CurrentC, the Internet is ruled by an Oligarchy, the Avi-on Switch makes turning on lights easy, iPad sales are just fine, Google decides to remake emails Inbox again, Facebook clones Room Inc, Air New Zealand makes an epic flight safety video, Microsoft ditches the Nokia name, Procter & Gamble don’t see much growth from Duracell, AT&T remans predictably mean, Amazon sneaks in the Android app store on their their Fire devices, and the Hoverboard is real.
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- IO Feels Like A Human Friend Who Gives Great Restaurant Recommendations
- A Dude Built A Legit Hoverboard
- Stick this battery-powered Bluetooth light switch anywhere you want
- Tim Cook, in his own words, on why the iPad has a bright future
- Inbox is a total reinvention of email from Google
- Facebook Goes Private
- Creators of ‘Room’ say Facebook copied their chatroom app, threaten legal action
- Ouch: Amazon takes $170M write-down on Fire Phone
- Air New Zealand Releases a New ‘Hobbit’-Themed Safety Video Featuring Sir Peter Jackson and Elijah Wood
- Microsoft Finally Drops Nokia
- Procter & Gamble To Spin Off Duracell
- That Carrier Free SIM by Apple? Yeah, AT&T Broke It And Locked It Down
- James’s Pebble Can Control His Nest!
- Approved For Commercial Solutions for Classified (CSfC) Program Component List…Then Promptly Shown To Be Fundamentally Flawed
- Amazon Hid A Full App Store In Their Android App
- How We Get What We Deserve And The Death Of The Internet
- Rite Aid and CVS Have Stopped Apple Pay From Working, Shining Light On Walmart’s Payment Plans
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159: Watching Crystals Grow
James gets a Nest Thermostat and Protect, Matthew gets an LG G3 and Moto 360, Mr. Rogers is the man, HP is officially not better together, GT Advanced files for bankruptcy, the NFL bans Beats from the cameras, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella doesn’t think women need a raise, Samsung is declining in revenue, Squarespace makes a pretty cool update, Airbnb is now legal in San Francisco, Lego gets called out by Greenpeace for their partnership of Shell, Jonny Ives talks about the Apple Watch, and Tesla releases a new car.
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- NFL Bans Beats Headphones On Camera
- May the strong survive: Why spin-offs are the new go-to play for struggling Wall St. boards
- GT Advanced Files For Chapter 11
- Investors Are Stunned
- CEO Sold $160,000 Worth Of Stock The Day Before The iPhone 6 Event
- Apple Withheld Final $125 million Payment For Failure To Meet Objectives
- Apple Says They Were Surprised Too
- GT Won’t Give Details Because Of A Confidentiality Agreement With Apple
- GT Advanced Is Blaming Apple Specifically For Being Too Burdensome To Continue Operations
- Where does Apple Go From Here
- Samsung Sees Largest Fall In Quarterly Profits Since 2009
- This Is The New Squarespace
- San Francisco Legalizes, Regulates Airbnb
- The End Of The “.com” Tyranny
- Microsoft CEO Opens Mouth, Inserts Foot On Gender Pay Gap
- Crude spoof worked: Lego ends 50-year deal with Shell after Greenpeace video
- Musk Unveils His New Model D Teslas
- Jonny Ives Just Quoted Matthew
- Beats And Bose Settle Noise Cancellation Patent Dispute
- …Hours After Rumors Leak Of Apple Will Be Removing Bose From Apple Stores. Coincidence?
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157: Bending Under The Weight Of Bad PR
James is still enjoying his TOTALLY FLAT iPhone.
We talk about “Hey Siri!” which is helping to usher in the future for HomeKit. We then talk about semantic satiation for naming brands. Create a shortcut of @@ to be your email. Apple deals with a PR nightmare from Bendgate and iOS 8.0.1. Apple contemplates getting rid of the Beats brand for streaming music. Cirque Du Soleil uses quadcopters to create an awesome flying lamp performance. Robinhood raised $13 million but has yet to launch. Samsung moves 500 engineers from their mobile phone division to other IoT devisions. Shellshock rocks the security world.
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- Apple TV Got A HomeKit Update, It’s Ready To Be The Hub
- Apple’s Beats Music Brand May Go Away. Apple’s Beats Music Service Is Sticking Around.
- Cirque Du Soleil Using Quadcopters
- Microsoft’s Big Cube
- What’s In A Name: “Semantic satiation” and the art of choosing a perfect company name
- Enter Your Email Address Quickly on Your Phone with the @@ Shortcut
- Robinhood Raises $13M To Democratize Stock Market With Zero-Commission Trading App
- Apple’s PR Problems
- The PR Team Starts To Fight Back: Bent iPhone Complaints, Less Than 10
- I Once Broke a Phone in Half With My Bare Hands
- iOS 8.0.1 breaks your iPhone 6
- Bug Testers Get Their iPhone 6 At The Same Time You Do
- Inside the building where Apple tortures the iPhone 6
- Consumer Reports test results find iPhone 6 and 6 Plus not as bendy as believed
- Samsung Moves 500 Engineers From Mobile Phones To Other IoT Divisions
- The Bash ‘Shellshock’ Bug
- Why It Matters Beyond The Normal “Bugs”
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