Episode 101 · Sep 3, 2013
Thinking Outside the Incipient Chip
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In order to keep pace with innovation, you sometimes need to get creative: when everyone else is looking left and right, you look up. We’re on the precipice of something big.
To that end, we learn about dirty little secrets thanks to a Reddit thread, we celebrate Pandora’s limitless music, we make fun of Champagne, we marvel at the possibilities of graphene, we question Nintendo’s 2DS strategy, we marvel more at Samsung’s multi-layered NAND, we predict the merge of Twitter and Facebook, we mention Betaworks & Instapaper’s new look, we watch Keven Spacey talk about the future of TV and movies, and we finish with Hugo Barra leaving Google’s Android team.
- The Graphene March Continues With New Composites
- Samsungs 24 Layer 3D NAND Flash Memory
- The tech industry’s dirty secrets (à la Reddit)
- Apple to recreate the silent disco
- Nexus 4 dropped $100
- Nintendo Announces 2DS
- Nintendo in Motion
- Instapaper gets complete redesign after Betaworks purchase, new mobile apps soon
- Why Twitter’s new Conversations view is a big deal and why it matters for its IPO
- Facebook Tests “Trending” Section in News Feed
- Google+ Hangouts goes HD as it switches from H.264 to VP8. Next up, WebRTC.
- Vadafone to sell stake in Verizon
- Hugo Barra Departs from Android
- Kevin Spacey urges TV channels to give control to viewers
- The new iPhone shouldn’t be called Champagne
- Pandora Removes 40 hour weekly limit