Trends with Benefits: Does the Yahoo data breach mean Russia knows your Final Four picks?
While all the news surrounding the breach of 500 million Yahoo accounts is about Russian hackers, we want to know if Yahoo Fantasy Sports is secure. Is your bracket safe? How about your Fantasy Football league?
Trends with Benefits: The latest Wikileaks revelations and Airbus wants to change your commute
Just how credible are the latest round of CIA hacking allegations coming from Wikileaks? Should you change up how you use technology? Our roundtable of experts has answers.
Trends with Benefits: Is the Nintendo Switch worth the hype & how to buy a pizza with your shoe
This week on Trends with Benefits our roundtable of tech experts dives into the new Nintendo Switch, Space X's Moon mission, and Pizza Hut's 'Pietop' shoes.
Trends with Benefits: 5G may allow you to cord cut everything & home exoskeletons are becoming a reality
The next evolution of wireless connectivity is starting to take shape. 4G LTE will be a thing of the past when 5G finally arrives, and wireless carriers are starting pre-commercial testing this year. So when will you get to use it?
Trends with Benefits: Elon Musk is boring a hole under LA, would you take a pilot-less flying taxi?
Why is Elon Musk digging a tunnel underneath LA? Is The Boring Company really legit? Will either tunneling or flying taxi's be a true solution to congested traffic? We have answers on this week's episode of Trends with Benefits.
Trends with Benefits: Hyperloop testing at Space X, The Hater dating app
Last weekend Elon Musk hosted a Hyperloop Testing event at the Space X facility in Los Angeles, and Digital Trends got an inside look at how the next revolution in travel is unfolding.
Trends with Benefits: Facebook’s latest VR move and the Tostitos breathalyzer
Facebook hired Hugo Barra away from Xiaomi to bolster its VR and AR efforts, so what will this mean for Facebook users? Also, why is Tostitos putting breathalyzers in bags of chips?
DT Daily: CES 2017 is all about cars, drones, smart devices, TVs, and drones
Digital Trends' experts share their thoughts about smart home devices, new display technologies, Dolby Atmos Surround Sound, self-driving cars, drones, VR, AR, Alexa, and the mad, mad, walkathon world of CES itself.
Trends with Benefits: Should Amazon’s Alexa talk to law enforcement?
Homicide detectives in Arkansas think a homicide was overheard by Amazon's Alexa assistant. Obviously they want Amazon to release any recordings Alexa made, but should Amazon comply?
DT Daily: Amazon patents a flying warehouse for drone delivery
Add this to the list of crazy patents awarded to tech companies: Amazon wants to suspend a warehouse and drone delivery center from a blimp. The idea is pretty far fetched, but it may just work.
Trends with Benefits: Will 2017 be the year you ride in a driverless car?
Every week this year, news about driverless cars crossed Digital Trends. So will 2017 be the year you actually ride in one?
Trends with Benefits: Star Wars meets Columbia & Amazon’s Alexa hits Vegas
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story hits theaters the weekend, and you can look like a rebel fighter with Columbia Sportswear's line of Rogue One Rebel clothing. Also, if you're staying at the Wynn in Vegas, you might be rooming with Amazon's Alexa.
Trends with Benefits: Netflix lets you watch offline, Apple plans to map with drones
Netflix will finally allow users to download shows to watch offline, but there's a catch. On this week's podcast, we'll be diving into that.
Trends with Benefits: The Facebook fake news fallout and what to look for on Black Friday
In the aftermath of last week's election, Facebook is being skewered for allowing fake news to bubble up into user's feeds. In fact, over the last 3 months, more fake news was shared than real news.
Amazon’s Black Friday starts early with Alexa ‘voice shopping weekend’
Black Friday deals kick off early this year. With special Alexa only deals, Amazon kicks off the first 'voice shopping weekend' exclusively for owners of Alexa enabled devices.
Why you might want to wait until 2017 to buy an Android smartphone
Faster is always better when it comes to smartphones. Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 835 processor is expected to deliver both quicker performance and faster charging to smartphones in 2017.
Trends with Benefits: Google Daydream VR challenges Samsung, also Snapchat Sunglasses?
On this week's podcast we compare the top mobile VR headsets, Google Daydream View and Samsung Gear VR. Snapchat also wants a place on your face, they're hoping the convenience of Snapchat Sunglasses will get more users on Snapchat.
Trends with Benefits: The Google Project Tango revolution, Uber gets an upgrade
This summer Pokemon Go brought augmented reality to the masses, at least for a couple of months. Now Google's Project Tango aims to take AR to the next level, but are we ready for that? Also, Uber wants you yo Snapchat about your ride.
Trends with Benefits: Growing drones, life on Autopilot, robot security guards
On this week's episode of DT's live podcast Trends with Benefits we look into the two recent crashes that are being blamed on Tesla's Autopilot. What does it mean to the future of self driving cars?
Trends with Benefits: Pokéspiracies, NES Classic, augmented reality gets real
On this week's episode of Trends with Benefits the Pokemon Go phenomenon takes center stage, from all the strange Pokemon related occurrences, to how this game will shape the future of augmented reality.
Trends with Benefits: ‘Pokémon Go’ will make Apple billions, and a suitcase that’s a scooter
Portland's Funniest Person for 2016, Nariko Ott, joins in our discussion of how Pokémon Go is augmenting our reality. We also have hands-on impressions of Sony's game-changing Z series TV, and chat about the world's most absurd suitcase.
Trends with Benefits: Around the world on solar, Apple AR, military hoverboards
Pokemon go has Apple interested in AR, a military contractor just bought a hoverboard company, and a plane has successfully flown around the world on nothing but solar power.
Trends with Benefits: Rio fever, retro gaming, and that bizarro Chinese bus
The 2016 Rio Olympics are going to fill your DVR to the brim, Facebook has an insane new lab, the next-gen console race is underway, everyone loves old games, and that straddling Chinese bus seems really problematic, but we all want to ride it.
Facebook Messenger unveils Secret Conversations and self-destructing messages
Facebook starts the roll out an end-to-end encryption feature for Messenger, but how long will it be until all users have access?
Samsung rides Galaxy S7 sales to record profits
Samsung's impressive Q2 profits are another indication that the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge are huge successes, but will that record pace hold when Apple unveils the iPhone 7?
Trends with Benefits: Raptor robots, VR coasters, Beast Mode loves lemonade
This week's tech roundtable looks at the quickest car in the world, which happens to be electric, plus we recap all the fun had at the 2016 Digital Trends Car Awards with guest judge Marshawn Lynch.
Google dodges $9 Billion lawsuit, Oracle to appeal
Thursday's Federal Court ruling dealt a huge blow to Oracle and reinforced the "fair use" status of open source API's.
Trends with Benefits: Faking diabetes, tech for cats, and more vintage DT tales
We dive deep into the Digital Trends vaults – and invite back a special guest – to reminisce about the site’s early days, from CES debauchery to daily Dawn of War.
Trends with Benefits: Snacks via drone, Tazer robots, Caleb’s space colony
The DT crew discusses the Hover selfie Drone, delivery drones on the golf course, SpaceX going to Mars, China’s new Tazer bot, and Caleb’s poorly considered name for a space colony.
Trends with Benefits: Is the Flyboard Air hoverboard legit, or a big hoax?
Is the Flyboard a real life hoverboard, or a hoax? Plus other top tech.
Trends with Benefits: Celebrating TechfestNW and nano bots, mourning Prince
TechfestNW founder Mark Zusman joins the Trends with Benefits crew to talk about Portland’s premier tech event, plus Prince, augmented reality, synthetic skin and nano bots.
