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Trends with Benefits: Indiegogo scams, Microsoft’s AI takeover, $50 for a movie?

The Trends with Benefits round-table of experts dives into Microsoft's latest announcements coming from Build 2016.
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FBI enlists mobile forensic firm to crack terrorist’s iPhone

The latest developments in the Apple vs FBI saga have the FBI asking Israeli forensic firm Cellebrite to hack into the iPhone of one of the San Bernadino shooters.
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Trends with Benefits: We’re freaking out about VR, and you should be too

This week on Trends with Benefits, the DT crew discuss their favorite cereals, the merits of the HTC Vive circulating the office, and go in-depth on Apple's upcoming March 21st event.
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Trends with Benefits: Detroit-style pizza, 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray, robot back rubs

KBIS brings us bear-proof glass, glow-in-the-dark toilet seats, and pizza ovens, Caleb's eagerly anticipating 4K Ultra HD Blu-rays, Google build a drone to take deliveries from other drones, and Softbank's Pepper robot will sell you a phone but won't give you a back rub.
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Trends with Benefits: At Super Bowl 50, drones are out and 360-degree cams are in

In a very Super Bowl-centric episode, we discuss why this year's game won't stream in 4K Ultra HD, Microsoft vision of how the HoloLens could change the way we watch in the future, and why drones will not be welcome.
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Trends with Benefits: Behind the scenes at CES, VR porn, Comcast’s covert ads

We're back from CES 2016 and eager to talk about our Top Tech of CES 2016 award winner, the Chevy Bolt, along with VR porn, Vegas people watching, Comcast's latest idiotic move, and The CW striking out with a standalone app.
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Trends with Benefits: Ride your hoverboard to the VR arcade, drinking a 40

Would you hop in a driverless car with no wheel to grab in an emergency? They're coming, along with VR arcades, drones that can follow hiking trails to find lost hikers, and hopefully the first real hoverboard.
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Trends with Benefits: Apple vs. FBI, space archaeology, the ultimate hard drive

Controversy is raging over Apple's refusal to crack a terrorist's iPhone, an indestructible glass disk can store 360TB, and space archaeology is coming soon to your desktop! Ain't the future grand?
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Trends with Benefits: Robot abuse, Star Wars drone wars, best of MWC 2016

Apple and the FBI are still locking horns, measures are being set up to prevent drones from spying on Star Wars filming, the Oscars are almost here, and the best tech from Mobile World Congress 2016.
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Trends with Benefits: VR roller coasters, Amazon’s new Echo, Nickelodeon nostalgia

Amazon has a new, smaller Echo that connects to your stereo, a Six Flags roller coaster is getting a dose of VR, and Legends of the Hidden Temple is getting made into a TV movie. No, seriously.
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Trends with Benefits: Watching sports in VR, civilian space travel, real-life cyborgs

You can finally watch sports in VR (but you might feel like a peeper), Blue Origin plans to start sending people into space as soon as 2017, and DARPA wants to make cyborgs a reality.
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Apple appeals judge’s iPhone unlocking order, FBI error locked the device

New details shed light on how investigators made a mistake in handling the terrorist’s iPhone 5c. In an attempt to access the device they tried to change its iCloud account password, stopping its iCloud backup.
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Google expands right to be forgotten across all Its domains

Caving to European pressure, Google agrees to expand its 'right to be forgotten' efforts to all Google domains including Google.com. While this is a win for privacy seekers, open Internet advocates are painting a different picture.
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India’s ban of Facebook’s Free Basics over net neutrality has ripple effect

India's decision to essentially ban Facebook's "Internet Lite" program, Free Basics, is having a ripple effect across the globe
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Alphabet comes before Apple: Google’s parent now most valuable company in the world

Alphabet's stock soared on the heels of an earnings statement that exceeded projections, edging it past a struggling Apple by $20 Billion.
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Trends with Benefits CES Edition: Rollable OLED TVs, elderly exoskeletons, and more

The technology world poured out all its latest innovations this week at CES 2016 in Las Vegas, and Digital Trends was there live to soak it all in and report back. Hear about all of our favorite tech, and all the amusing anecdotes that inevitably pop up in Vegas.
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Trends with Benefits: CES 2016 behind-the-scenes preview and the best products of 2015

Listen in as the DT experts back up their picks for the top tech of 2015. Our list of winners is ranges from a VR headset, to a talking Bluetooth speaker.
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Trends with Benefits: Autonomous taxis, X-ray vision, and the VR gold rush

Star Wars just keeps raking it in, VR is the next gold rush, Google wants taxis to drive themselves, and X-ray vision is on the way, for better or worse.