In this cut we talk about what happened in 2013.
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118: The Annual Postdictions Show. Some Predictions Included.
Matthew reviewed all the news that happened in 2013 and compare it to our predictions.
We discuss news about Apple, Facebook, Google, Blackberry, Microsoft, 4k TVs, Tesla, Dell, Twitter, Xbox, Play Station, Nintendo, Steam, SimCity and a little bit about security. We graded ourselves an A- for our predictions. In the 3rd hour of the show (yes!) we got down to our 2014 predictions. There will be a cut with just this part of the show.
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116b: I want to work for Google
That’s exactly what Matthew said once he found out about Google’s Robotics program.
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116: Princesses, Dragons And Technology
Matthew proposed to a princess and James sat in the front row of a theater. That about sums it up for the relative excitement in each other’s lives.
Other exciting new included comparing Snapchat to SpaceX, ITU figuring out how to get almost-Fiber into homes, Matthew’s new fitbit wrist band, Doctoc On Demand & HealthLoop’s attempts to help doctor-patient communication, the NYTimes 4th down Twitter bot, Square’s new card reader, NCTA’s horrible ads, the rise of MVPDs, Ubuntu Touch’s new hardware partner: Canonical, SteamOS going live, Oculus new funding, Tesla’s upcoming new car announcement, and a way to post away messages with Relaxed.
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- Awesome: A New York Times bot is second-guessing NFL coaches on Twitter
- Tracking Technology Sheds Light on Shopper Habits
- How Apple’s Lightning-Plug Guru Reinvented Square’s Card Reader
- The Worst anti cord cutting campaign of all time
- Why Nintendo Needs To Stay In The Hardware Business, Regardless Of The Wii U
- Doctor On Demand Launches To Bring A $40 (Virtual) House Call To Healthcare
- HealthLoop Lands $10M To Help Doctors Better Track And Engage Patients Between Visits
- Snapchat vs. SpaceX: Which gets more attention?
- Ubuntu Touch OS gets it’s first partner
- Big Media Companies Pave the Way For Cord Cutters
- 500 mbps over copper might solve fiber’s “last mile” problem
- Oculus rift raises $75 million
- Steam OS released to the world
- Model E slated for 2015 Reveal
- Google Bought Boston Dynamics
- Relaxed Sets Vacation Auto-Replies for Facebook and Twitter
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113: Let Me Pinstagram My 3D Dinosaur
Instagram and Pinterest are looking for new ways to grow to help justify their huge valuations. One area they should look into are 3D dinosaur bones.
We also talk about 53’s new pencil, the Museum fur Naturkunde’s 3D bones, Qualcomm’s smart-things chip, Snapchat and Vine competing with Instagram, Valve’s Oculus Rift competiting product, Terrafugia’s new TF-X carplane, Philips smart bulbs, and the Xbox One.
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- Microsoft Wants To Get On The 3D Printer Train First
- Valve Is Working On An Oculus Rift Competitor
- The Moga Game Controller for iOS 7
- Logitech Also Announced Their Version
- FiftyThree, Maker Of Creativity App Paper, Gets Into Hardware With Launch Of Its ‘Pencil’ Stylus
- What’s easier than self-driving cars? Self-flying cars
- Self-driving vehicles still a decade away, experts tell Congress
- The Future Of Fossils: Printing Dinosaur Bones
- Qualcomm makes chips for the Internet of Things
- Phillips is introducing LED carpets
- Pinterest Officially Announces Its Foray Into Travel, With Place Pins
- Pinterest needs growth badly, so it is pinning places
- What is Instagram’s next big thing? Messaging, perhaps
- Instagram left out the photo capture feature of Instagram for Windows Phone
- Xbox One and Done
112: Spending Billions in a Snap
Companies are spending billions of dollars in an effort to set themselves apart from the competition. For example, Apple is spending billions in specialized manufacturing parts. Facebook is trying to spend billions of buy competing mobile apps.
We also talk about graphene’s super capacitor potential, Coin’s card that lets you hold 8 cards at once, Sony’s Playstation 4, Dropbox’s new business accounts, Android’s market share and the overall mobile fight, Facebook’s attempt to buy SnapChat, Apple’s massive investments in manufacturing, Automatic’s car data tracker, and MIT’s dynamic shape display called inFORM.
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- DDR4 and the Next Step for RAM
- Graphene Supercapacitors have the same energy density as Lithium ion batteries
- Apple spending 10.5 billion on manufacturing capital equipment
- Apple Bought PrimeSense, The Same Company That Helped Make Kinect A Reality
- Android has over 80% global market share
- MIT built an awesome shape shifting display
- Motorola CEO Dennis Woodside on How the $179 Moto G Can Change the Low-End Smartphone Game
- Is the Moto G the Goldilocks phone for spendthrifts?
- Dropbox Hits 200M Users, Unveils New “For Business” Client Combining Work And Personal Files
- Snapchat Spurned $3 Billion Acquisition Offer from Facebook
- Instagram and Youtube
- Snap Out of It: Kids Aren’t Reliable Tech Predictors
- Automatic: Your Smart Driving Assistant
- Tired of a fat wallet? Coin lets you hold all your cards in a single, connected card
- Forced Google Plus integration on YouTube backfires, petition hits 112,000
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105: Steam Cleaning Black Berry Stains
Blackberry isn’t dead quiet yet, but they’re definitely on life support. That means it’s time to turn our attention on the next space to be disrupted: your living room, compliments of Valve’s Steam Machine.
Yep, Blackberry might go private with the help of FairFax Financial, Valve makes its own OS and hardware, China Mobile is probably getting the iPhone, Microsoft’s Surface 2 doesn’t exactly wow people, Nokia thinks Elop did his job too well, Samsung obviously announces a gold Galaxy S4, Nest might be making a smoke Detector, Boeing is making drones that fly better than humans, Mint shares modern tech we can’t live without, and Google Glass actually has competition.
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- BlackBerry Enters into Letter of Intent with Consortium led by Fairfax Financial
- BlackBerry Cancels Call to Discuss Its Results
- What Does Prem Watsa See in BlackBerry?
- Steam Enters The Living Room
- Can Steam OS drag the PC game industry over to Linux?
- Nivida Will Write Drivers For Linux
- Devs like the new controller
- China Mobile Has Published Advert Material Claiming the iPhone 5s/c Is coming
- Surface 2… .People Are Less Excited This Time Around
- Nokia Wants Elop To Take Less than 25 million for selling Nokia
- Next for Nest: A Smoke Detector
- Samsung Announces Gold Galaxy S4
- Google Glass Competition
- What We Can’t Live Without: A Visual Guide to Modern “Must-Haves”
- Boeing Turns F-16’s in to QF-16’s
- Supersonic Drones can outmaneuver Humans
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