445: Blowing Up Your Phone - a podcast by Andrew Sorcini
from 2016-09-30T10:00
This week, the largest hack of all time, Twitter & SoundCloud may have new owners, Apple plans its own version of the Echo, Snapchat makes a Spectacle of itself, Humans are one flight closer to Mars ... and much, much more.
Headlines
- Yahoo confirms major breach — and it could be the largest hack of all time
- Twitter may soon get formal bid, suitors said to include Salesforce and Google
- Spotify in Talks to Acquire SoundCloud
Audible Book of the Week
- Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era by James Barrat
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Music Break: Telephone by Pomplamoose
Hot Topic: The Decline of Mobile
- Apple Stepping Up Plans for Amazon Echo-Style Smart-Home Device
- Apple iPhone 7 Sales Hide a Serious Problem
- The global smartphone boom is over — sorry Apple
- BlackBerry bails on building its own phones
- Snapchat unveils $130 connected sunglasses and rebrands as Snap, Inc.
Music Break: Mars: The Bringer of War by Gustav Holst
Final Word: To Mars!
The Drill Down Videos of the Week
- How a 'Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen' earworm took over the internet
- Internet goes crazy for pineapple pen
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Geeks Of Doom’s The Drill Down is a roundtable-style audio podcast where we discuss the most important issues of the week, in tech and on the web and how they affect us all. Hosts are Geeks of Doom contributor Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Box product manager Tosin Onafowokan.
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