There’s actually come pretty cool solar power innovation happening. This one involves the glue that keeps it all together.
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102: Fiscal Responsibility
Buying all the latest tech can get pretty expensive fast. Despite all our excitement for everything new coming out, we still encourage people, can companies, to practice fiscal responsibility.
Elon Musk shows off how SpaceX using Leap Motion, North Carolina University invents strong glue for solar panels, Microsoft buys Nokia, Samsung officially unveils the Galaxy Gear, we pine over Apple’s new iPhone, we try to guess which start up will be the next big thing (Spoiler: Oculus Rift), HDMI 2.0 for 3D 4K video transfer and Intel’s fiber optic breakthrough.
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- Microsoft to buy BlackBer… I mean Nokia
- MSFT Stock Drops after the Deal Announcement
- The case against Stephen Elop as Microsoft CEO
- The Deal That Makes No Sense
- Nokia Name To Go Away With Lumia
- Which Start-Up Could Be the Next Big Thing?
- Android KitKat is the next version of Google’s mobile operating system
- Samsung unveils Galaxy Gear smartwatch with 1.63-inch AMOLED touchscreen, built-in camera, 70 apps
- First look video: Samsung Galaxy Gear demonstration
- The Galaxy Watch Won’t Last A Day With Heavy Usage
- Sorry, the Future of Computing Is Not on Your Wrist
- Apple’s Other iPhone Announcement Event
- Intel’s Laser Chips
- HDMI 2.0
- Elon Musk Creates Rocket Parts With the Wave of a Hand
- New Connection Between Stacked Solar Cells Can Handle Energy Of 70,000 Suns
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84a: Prepare your application to go to Mars today
The cost is only $38… and your life.
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84: Brilliant Insights
This week we provide you brilliant insights that you could probably guess on your own.
Mars One is accepting applications now, IBM makes a movies out of atoms, we discuss superhero traits, Netflix combats piracy, AwesomenessTV gets bought by Dreamworks, LinkedIn enables engaging resumes, Google Glass haters are gonna gate, Dots for iOS looks amazing, and Facebook is doing OK.
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- Apply Now For A One-Way Trip To Mars
- What the future will undoubtedly look like
- A Boy and His Atom
- Every market Netflix expands into, piracy decreases
- Dots, The Most Beautiful Mobile Game I’ve Ever Seen
- LinkedIn turns online resumes into professional portfolios
- Facebook lost 10m US users in the last year
- Is pretty good really good enough for Facebook?
- 2,000 titles expired from Netflix’s library. No intention on renewing the contract
- DreamWorks Paying $33 Million, and Maybe Much More, for AwesomenessTV
- The Verdict Is In: Nobody Likes Google Glass
- Superhero or Supervillain?
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71a: Microsoft’s Surface Pro available storage disappoints
ALMOST as much as the 49ers losing.
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71: You Can’t Win ’em All, Though I Don’t See Why Not
Episode 71 comes after a rough loss for the 49ers. Of all the horrible things to happen in the week, this was the worst. But we pull ourselves together to talk about technology. Here’s what happened.
Elon Musk offers to help Boeing with their battery problem, Microsoft reveals that you’ll only get to use 23gb of the 64gb Surface Pro, Apple introduces a 128gb iPad, RIM changes to Blackberry along with a new mobile OS, researchers figure out how to print 3D moon bases, Newegg defeats Soverain to saves the Internet, driverless cars are closer than you think, and Nintendo announces they’re going to lose money this year.
This year… Sigh… We’ll get them next year… Go 49ers!
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- Newegg beats Soverain over Shopping Cart Patents
- Elon Musk offering Space X Li-Ion batteries to Boeing for use in the grounded 787
- Apple announces 128 Gig iPad
- It’s about moving the goalpost
- Reminding Wall Street that the iPad is more than a consumer toy
- Microsoft’s 64GB Surface Pro will only have 23GB usable storage
- Blackberry Stunned As Alicia Keys Terminates 200 Employee On First Day As Global Creative Director
- RIM changes name to BlackBerry
- The problems with Blackberry 10
- Only 1 in 8 would consider a BB10
- Top 7 tech jobs of 2013
- Nintendo to post unexpected loss as Wii successor falters
- Next gen play station annoucment coming on Feb 20th
- The next frontier for 3D printing: Moon bases?
- What Intersections Would Look Like in a World of Driverless Cars
- Time frame of the Driverless car revolution
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The Annual Prediction Show – Part 1
It’s that time of year again… when it ends. So we’re back with a look at how our predictions of 2012 did, and with some new ones for 2013. It was such a long show that we split it into two parts. Look for the second half tomorrow.
This part deals with the past: The big events of 2012 and how our predictions did. The second part will look to the future.
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The Top 2012 Stories
- Yahoo got a new CEO from Paypal: Thompson
- Yahoo got a new CEO from Google: Mayer
- RIM Gets a new CEO from Within: Heins
- Facebook goes public
- Facebook bought Instagram
- Encyclopedia Britannica dies
- Digg Dies… kinda
- Google Wave Dies
- WebOS Dies
- Zune Dies
- The Daily Dies
- Neil Armstrong Dies
- Nintendo Power Dies
- Apple releases iPad gen 3 and gen 4
- Apple releases iPad Mini
- Apple releases iPhone 5
- Microsoft releases the Surface and Windows 8
- Google Teases Project Glass
- Google releases Nexus Tablets
- Google turns on the Fiber
- Amazon releases new HD Kindle Fires, Paperwhte ereader
- SOPA!
- Higgs Boson discovered
- Curiosity Lands On Mars, mostly watched online
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This Is The Way The World Ends
Episode 36! It’s all doom and gloom this week. We start off talking about the end of the Milky Way galaxy, and RIM’s downward spiral. Then we talk about the (new) Chrome OS, the Flame Virus & Stuxnet. We attempt to be positive by talking about Google+ Events and Google’s win over Oracle. An attempt!
Other things we talk about include: Amazon’s instant video on Xbox 360, Facebook’s picture vs Google’s vision, the computer’s ability to assess emotions, prepaid iPhones with Leap Wireless, Apple’s inventory turns, how Samsung’s new mini-computer looks identical to the Mac Mini, Facebook Pages administrative roles, Windows 8 Preview with crippled Flash, SpaceX Dragon awesomeness, Office for iPad coming after the Windows 8 launch, Google’s Map event/joke, NanoSIMs and Ping. Done.
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- Next step in the Chrome OS journey and a review
- Amazon Instant Video on Xbox 360
- Flame Virus, Made In America
- Confirmed, America & Israel created Stuxnet and lost control of it
- Picture vs Vision
- Computers Learn to Assess Emotions – Sometimes Better than Humans
- Leap Wireless To Sell Prepaid iPhones & AT&T to move to data only packages
- Apple Turns Over Inventory Every 5 Days
- The new mini-computer from Samsung looks pretty much identical to a mac-mini
- The end of the Milky Way galaxy as we know it?
- Spotted in the wild: Google+ Events feature on its way, with tie-in to Google Calendar
- Facebook Add Administrative Roles for Facebook Pages
- Windows 8 Release Preview: new apps, improvements, and Flash support
- SpaceX Dragon Successfully Returns To Earth
- Google vs Oracle Over. Google Wins Hands Down, Owes Oracle Nothing
- This Weeks RIM Update
- Office For iPad to launch Nov 10.
- Google to hold Maps event ahead of Apple’s switchover at WWDC
- NanoSIM follow up: Nokia says nanoSIM card is inferior, But they’ll still license essential patents
- What Went Wrong With Ping: The Genius of Mark Zuckerberg
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Lawsuits, Narcissism, & Instagram
It’s episode 29! This week Facebook buys Instagram for $1 billion, plus breeds narcissism. OSX requires as SSD & Tim Cook will be at D10. SpaceX wants their own spaceport, a new non-profit ISP will protect your privacy, Google+ looks new, ebook publishers got sued, Nokia laid an egg last quarter, B&N Nook Simple Touch Looks awesome, and Amazon overstated their number of movies & TV shows. We finish up talking about game level design, the Flashback Trojan fix, and the 5 most over-hyped “Future of TV” topics.
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- Instgram just came to an agreement with Facebook to be acquired for $1billion
- Here is why Facebook bought Instagram
- Insta-Backlash: Twitterverse Overreacts To Facebook’s Instagram Acquisition, Users Delete Accounts
- OS X Lion requires a SSD
- High Friend count and aggressive narcissism linked
- Apple CEO Tim Cook to Appear as Opening Speaker at the D10 Conference
- SpaceX considering a new ‘Commercial Cape Canaveral’ in Texas
- New non-profit ISP will put your privacy first, for only $20 a month and no data caps
- A New Google+ Interface
- DOJ Sues Apple, Publishers Colluded on E-Book Pricing
- Lumia 900 software bug causing data connection problems, engines stall right out the gates
- Nokia Cuts Forecast on Handset Competition; Shares Drop
- The B&N Nook Simple Touch With GlowLight: Pre-Order Today For $139, Hits Stores In May
- Amazon grossly over advertising the number of movies and TV shows they have
- The secret to Mario level design
- Apple released Flashback Trojan fix
- The 5 Most Over-Hyped “Future of TV” Topics
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