Trends with benefits: Don’t swear in front of your mom’s friends on Facebook
In our latest episode of Trends with Benefits, we dive into VR cinema, are joined by comedian Gabe Dinger, and discuss the good and bad of Facebook's new AI for offensive content.
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: Tidal in trouble, boombox luggage, dirty VR daydreams
Tidal is in trouble, VR porn could kill old-school porn, smart contact lenses are going to freak everyone out, and Google has way too many chat apps. Guests include Ezra Cimino-Hurt and Chris Regis.
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: 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Trends with Benefits: Sassy robots, NASA’s planetary defense force, and Netflix
The Digital Trends crew chats about Netflix, robots, NASA's new planetary defense plan, and the next industrial revolution.
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.
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.
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.
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.