Tech News Today

Aug 23rd 2017

Tech News Today 1838

Free the Hashtag!

Palo Alto to Infinity and Beyond

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Guests: Vidya Narayanan
Category: News

The Note 8 is here and it will cost you some serious cabbage.

Attention Walmart customers, you can now buy stuff with your Google Home. Google Home has partnered with Walmart to compete against Amazon in the race to buy stuff with your voice. Starting in September, hundreds of thousands of Walmart products will be available to purchase using your Google Home device.

DJI announced that it is issuing a firmware update for its new series of Spark drones to address a small number of incidents where the drone suddenly turned off and fell from the sky.

And Happy Birthday Hashtag! We discuss the invention of the hashtag, not by Twitter, but by Chris Messina.

  •  Vidya Narayanan from UrbanAMA joins us to talk about connecting with people to ask questions about anything.

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