446: 'Made By Google' Event 2016
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10/07/16 • 76 min
This week, Google’s new toys, Yahoo let the US read your email, Facebook takes on craigslist, Amazon challenges students to get conversational... and much, much more!
What We're Playing With
Andy, Dwayne & Tosin: HBO’s Westworld / Violent Delights
Headlines
- Yahoo secretly scanned customer emails for U.S. intelligence
- With Its Newest Feature, Facebook Takes on Craigslist
- Amazon’s $2.5M ‘Alexa Prize’ seeks chatbot that can converse intelligently for 20 minutes
- Google Translation Breakthroughs
- How Google Used to Translate: Crowd (22 June 2010)
- How Google Translates Now: Neural Machine Learning (03 October 2016)
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- The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
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Music Break: Come Talk to Me by Peter Gabriel
Hot Topic: 'Made by Google' event 2016
- These are the features that make Google's new Pixel phones special
- Google’s “Daydream View” VR headset is smartphone-powered VR for $79
- Google WiFi is a router that simplifies whole-home wireless
- Google Chromecast Ultra brings 4K video and HDR support for $69
- Google Home will be cheaper than the Amazon Echo, available in November
Music Break: Tiny Machine by The Darling Buds
Final Word
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This week, Google’s new toys, Yahoo let the US read your email, Facebook takes on craigslist, Amazon challenges students to get conversational... and much, much more!
What We're Playing With
Andy, Dwayne & Tosin: HBO’s Westworld / Violent Delights
Headlines
- Yahoo secretly scanned customer emails for U.S. intelligence
- With Its Newest Feature, Facebook Takes on Craigslist
- Amazon’s $2.5M ‘Alexa Prize’ seeks chatbot that can converse intelligently for 20 minutes
- Google Translation Breakthroughs
- How Google Used to Translate: Crowd (22 June 2010)
- How Google Translates Now: Neural Machine Learning (03 October 2016)
Audible Book of the Week
- The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
- Sign up at AudibleTrial.com/TheDrillDown
Music Break: Come Talk to Me by Peter Gabriel
Hot Topic: 'Made by Google' event 2016
- These are the features that make Google's new Pixel phones special
- Google’s “Daydream View” VR headset is smartphone-powered VR for $79
- Google WiFi is a router that simplifies whole-home wireless
- Google Chromecast Ultra brings 4K video and HDR support for $69
- Google Home will be cheaper than the Amazon Echo, available in November
Music Break: Tiny Machine by The Darling Buds
Final Word
The Drill Down Video of the Week
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The Drill Down on iTunes (Subscribe now!)
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
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Music Break: Burning Down the House by Talking Heads
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Music Break: Drops of Jupiter by Train
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