The 404 Show (MP3)
Summary: The 404 Show is CNET's longest-running podcast of all time. Now hosted by Jeff Bakalar and Russ Frushtick, The 404 Show is a pop-culture and tech mix covering movies, comics, video games and more. Tune in every Friday as Jeff and Russ welcome a wide variety of engaging guests for compelling conversations that can't be found anywhere else.
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Podcasts:
Find out if your Android phone is infected with a secret to mine Bitcoin, LAX baggage handlers caught red handed (plus some travel hacks and pro-tips), a Kickstarter for filthy rich cinephiles, and the X-II chip brings mixtapes back in style.
Oh, you thought weddings were expensive? You probably didn't hire a "social media concierge" for $3,000. Yes, it's a thing. That story plus the world's first cybernetics-assisted Olympics, called the Cybathlon; an app that sends someone to the post office for you; and checking in with the Million Dollar Homepage nine years after the fact.
Facebook gets their hands on the Oculus Rift VR headset for 2.3 billion, a lot of people messed up their text donations during last week's #nomakeupselfie campaign, HTC just announced the HTC One M8, and your tattoo artist may some day get replaced with a Makerbot 3D printer.
Jamin Warren from Killscreen stops by for a chat on gaming culture and the stigmas that come with it, indie vs. AAA gaming, and the long tail of virtual reality in the living room by way of Oculus Rift and Sony's Project Morpheus.
A re-cap of everything we love about "True Detective" and the whispers of the next season, then everything we hate about Taylor Swift's cameo in the trailer for "The Giver."
That story about the shipwrecked woman who was spotted and saved by Google Earth? Total BS. We'll tell you how Weblore spreads online, an app that uses 'algorithms' to transcribe any song into sheet music, how to game Spotify, and a new teen pregnancy text-message campaign sweeping the nation.
Taco Bell taps techies to market its new breakfast menu, a new app helps you dodge awkward run-ins with frenemies, robots creep their way into newsrooms, and a new gadget guaranteed to sanitize public transportation!
Aunt Jill Schlesinger's back on the show for her annual tax advice episode! We'll chat with her about how to pick the right CPA, why you shouldn't ever cancel a credit card, and why WhatsApp really is worth $19 billion.
Leaked from today's 404: the seven people that hold the keys that control the Internet, a portable printer that turns your Instagram photos into Polaroids, a open source laser tag system gets funded on Kickstarter, and more!
You probably have have better things to do, but if not, you should be watching Discovery Channel's nude survival show, "Naked and Afraid." A full report, plus the strangely specific mental disorder hitting young programmers and yet another AirBnB horror story!
Leaked from today's 404 episode: - The PonoPlayer ain't no ordinary MP3 player. - A cheaper Pono alternative: FiiO's nifty $200 portable high-resolution music player is a knockout. - Buy FLAC tracks from HDtracks.com. - Poll: What's the worst audio format?. - Follow Steve on Twitter.
Leaked from today's 404 episode: - Amazon Prime fee jumps to $99 a year. - The most legendary phone booth in the country is back, with conferencing. - Here's a map of said phone booth and one of the first transcribed conversations that took place there. - The best theater in the galaxy: now you can watch "Gravity" in zero gravity.
Leaked from today's 404 episode: - Neil Young just destroyed his funding goals for a digital music player on Kickstarter. - Meet the people making new games for Atari, Super NES, and Virtual Boy. - Funny or Die was Healthcare.gov's No. 1 traffic referrer yesterday. - Bill O'Reilly bites back at Obama's appearance on "Between Two Ferns."
Leaked from today's 404 episode: - Popcorn Time is just like Netflix, but everything is pirated. - Polygon examines everything that went wrong with the "Street Fighter" movie. - People are selling their organs on Facebook. - In which Jeff attempts to explain cloud-gaming in Titanfall to Justin.
Leaked from today's 404 episode: - An Estonian photographer discovered an abandoned movie theater in the Sinai desert. - This photographer just made $15k in one day on Instagram. - Audi's new tech can turn every traffic light green. - Banter tries to reinvent the chat room.
