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Here’s what Michael and David talk about during the show: Blacklist of VCs who sexually harass (story) Robots are coming for old people, and it doesn't include insurance (story) Staying employed at the same company for over two years on average is going to make you earn less over your lifetime by about 50% or more. (story) Amazon Video Direct Program (story) Amazon isn't just killing broadcast TV. Now they're coming after Blue Apron (story) And Amazon isn't done. They want to bring a bookmobile meets Internet sale to your town (story) Summer Camp to be an Internet celebrity (story) NBC launches Snapchat TV shows (story) Technology to thwart facial recognition (story) Sears going to sell Kenmore products on Amazon (story) Do not play wedding songs (story) Sneaky Pete "Go Like Hell" Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights. -- Spark Media Solutions - Content is the currency for social media and search Author of "THREE FEET FROM SEVEN FIGURES: One-on-One Engagement Techniques to Qualify More Leads at Trade Shows" available at ThreeFeetBook.com. On Facebook Blog: Spark Minute Twitter: @dspark LinkedIn Skype: davidspark

Here’s what Michael and David talk about during the show: Smart Kitchen Summit coming to Japan NYTimes Sexual Harassment by VCs article set off a flurry of responses Can we even trust the security guys? Kaspersky may have connections to Russian govt (story) David’s finally cutting the cord (story) Juicero has laid off 25% of staff in wake of a really bad viral article in Bloomberg (story) In Europe, Employers can't check social media accounts (story) Drones can now go over 160 mph (story) DoNotPay - Chatbot helps with 1,000 legal issues - Same one reported on that helps you get out of parking tickets. It's completely free. Although it's only 55% successful (story) Hyperloop had its Kitty Hawk moment (story) Woman destroys $200K of art taking a selfie (video) Dennis Lehane's Since We Fell Bill Simmons and South Park guys Louis CK's 2017 Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights.

Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: Don't Recommend: Lock Artist All of Uber's culture crisis stories (43, no 55) (story) Uber CEO Travis Kalanick takes leave of absence Amazon buys Whole Foods (story) Walmart buys Bonobos (story) E3 - Stories - Forza 7 on Oct. 3rd. 4K support. XBOX One X new console will deliver (story) Original Age of Empires coming back (story) Atari is making a console (again) (story) Robot powered burger joint is getting more $ (story) Why people watch gaming content on YouTube (story) Facebook using Artificial Intelligence to find extremist posts (story) Car of the future a living room on wheels (story) Troll Cakes (story) Orange is the New Black is back Haley Joel Osment is now a Silicon Valley star RedBull Illume Photo Contest Top 45 Free games you can play Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights.

Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: IMPORTANT GROUNDBREAKING JOURNALISM: Expose into the life of waiter (story) Family throws Quincenera for their cat (story) Apple releases first original TV show, Planet of the Apps (of course) (story) Uber CEO instructions for sex at Miami party (story) Uber executive obtained medical records of a rape victim of a driver, fired (story) The cab industry is about to collapse (story) An explosion of online video could triple bandwidth consumption again in the next five years (story) The U.S. ranks 28th in the world in mobile internet speeds (story) Airbnb using platform for refugees (story) Economic value of skipping college (story) Verizon to lay off 2100 after Yahoo deal (story) Al Franken on WTF Al Franken's new book, Giant of the Senate Cool site – Generate tables 99% Invisible about origins of basketball Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights.

Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: Let's analyze what happens when a person crosses the line (Kathy Griffin) (story) Mary Meeker report (story) Walmart is looking to develop service that lets Walmart employees deliver products on way home (story) Cut throat world of toddler racing (story) Blue Apron going public (story) Ethiopia shut down the Internet to stop exam cheats (story) Twitter misinformation (story) Gmail rolls out phishing link detection (story) Pinboard buys Delicious (story) Veep WSJ: The Future of Everything Pancake Robot Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights.

Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: David saw CEO of YouTube speak about diversity and it was non-diverse Google can now track online to offline transactions through credit card data (story) Sprig - another food delivery company - shuts down today (story) Foldmate and Landroid - Robots that fold your laundry (story) There's a family friendly home router (story) Instagram is the most harmful social network for your mental health (story) How many lives does the maker of a $150 technology-laden plate have? (story) NFL relaxes endzone celebrations for 2017 season (story) Weird Peter Popoff ad on Better Call Saul Wolf it Down with Tyler Florence - New Orleans Interview with advisor to Silicon Valley on HBO, Ed McManus Wow in the World podcast Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights.

Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: Google Lens (story) Google Lens - Google is going bigtime into image recognition (story) Glucose monitor on an Apple watch - now that's a useful wearable (story) Ransomware is profitable and doesn't require expert skill (story) Uber is still top destination for job searchers, apparently (story) Suing over jokes (story) Medium launches audio versions of stories (story) Austin mans sues his date for texting (story) Target invested in a mattress company (story) Mark Zuckerberg's I got into Harvard video (story) Reply all – What kind of idiot gets phished? KEXP The Daily David’s Forbes article – You’re already sitting on the secret to successful blogging Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights.

Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: Which Tech Giant would you drop Google/Alphabet, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook (story) Comscore offering viewership # s for OTT services 76ers start an incubator offering tips for Fan sports gaming sites like FanDuel (story) Andy Rubin backed company Lighthouse debuts - an machine vision company for the home (story) Amazon Echo Show (story) WannaCry ransomware spreads to 74 countries (story) NBC buying a craft site for $230 million (story) BCBS offers free Lyft rides to the doctor (story) How I built this - NPR Golf.audio update Up first podcast Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights.

Here’s what Michael and David talk about during the show: Facebook hiring 3000 people just to monitor content, especially from live feeds. (story) Facebook launching TV as well (story) The Race to Build the world's first sex robot (story) Taxing robots (story) Amazon touch screen computer (story) The Lost Picture Show: Hollywood Archivists Can’t Outpace Obsolescence (story) Twitch is looking at choose your own adventure TV (story) REALLY poor security practices (story) Games of thrones are two-factoring their emails (story) Guardians of the Galaxy Man vs. Snake Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights.

Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: Flying car will be available at the end of this year - “hold an altitude of up to 15 feet” and is designed to fly over fresh water. (story) How Russian hackers went from credit card phishing to tilting elections (story) Amazon's "How Do We Exploit Driverless Technology" Group (story) T-Mobile's weird CEO and his unlimited plan appear to be working, while Verizon is struggling (story) SlingStudio - Tricaster competitor for $999 (story) Tim Cook supposedly threatened to pull Uber from AppStore due to privacy violating behavior (story) French presidential leading candidate (story) Obfuscation - TrackMeNot, AdNauseum Fargo Silicon Cowboys Guy bowls a 300 game in 86.9 seconds (video) Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights.

Here’s what Michael and David discuss during the show: Buzzfeeed guessed my age and height after I picked some fast food (story) Engaged to a robot (story) Airbnbn added 2 factor authentication to prevent scammers from renting out your home (story) Someone hacked every tornado siren (156) in Dallas. Went off for 95 minutes. (story) Uber booked 20 billion in rides in 2016 (story) Google's Autodraw and Quick Draw (story) Bezos: It's always Day 1 because Day 2 is the start of death (story) Dave’s video of Bezos (story) Utter uselessness of Job Interviews - Believe that it's actually harmful (story) Burger King ad launches Google Home - Google made changes to prevent it from launching their devices. Plus there were changes made to the Wikipedia entry. (story) S-Town Filmmaker IQ - How a Director Stages and Blocks a Scene (video)

On this episode of the Tear Down Show, Michael and David discuss: Walt Mossberg is retiring (story) Uber's psychological tricks (story) It's not a PR problem at Uber (story) Google is adding fact checking (story) It's also using AI to reduce spam on maps (story) Employee Cyborgs (story) There's an open source clone for twitter (story) Appearing in stock photos was the biggest mistake of my life (story) Yahoo's new name: Oath Homeland Security drops demand to unmask Twitter account (story) Michael watches LOVE on Netflix DSLR Video Shooter What will the Trump administration do to protect your digital privacy? Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights.

Here's what Michael, David, and Dave's Mom (Barbara) talk about during the show: IMPORTANT LEAD STORY –Predicting a friend’s wedding by the pizza you order (story) Twitter ditches the egg (story) Internet Privacy and ISPs – Gone (story) Robots are replacing US workers at alarming rate (story) The argument for just ONE monitor (story) 2016 was the year streaming music finally became majority of industry revenue (story) How managers can retain technical women on their team (story) ESPN is slipping. They're not prepped for the future (story) S town podcast - apparently its huge How to Get Kicked Out of an Event Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights.

Here’s what David and Michael talk about during the show: Senate votes to gut our privacy rights. Overturn Obama's regulation that required ISPs to get our permission before selling our location and browser history to third parties (story) Mnuchin: AI won't replace US jobs for 50-100 years (story) 38% of the jobs are at risk of being replaced by robots (story) Dropping out of the job market to play video games (story) GIFS are maybe coming to FB comments (story) Password Rules are BS (story) Amazon made their first drone delivery (kinda) (story) Apple iCloud Ransom demands from Turkish Crime Family (story) Eatsa being sued (story) Have phones replaced teenage drug use? (story) Latest episode of Reply All - Alex Blumberg's Uber account hacked. Apparently it happens a lot LOVE second season Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights. Creative Commons photo credit to Steve.

Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: Consumer Reports will assess cybersecurity in product reviews (story) Snapchat's $34 billion valuation. 44% increase. David said they were morons for not taking Facebook's $3billion offer. (story) Snapchat is taking a beating (story) Twitter says its timeline tweaks are a success, but won't get too specific (story) MIT Reviews 10 breakthrough technologies for 2017 (story) Reddit to Trump in 24 hours (story) Google sorry for Google Home spitting out Obama conspiracy theory (story) Facebook tests a Dislike button in Messenger (story) The Snuggie has been classified as a blanket, not clothing (story) Girls final season Logan Email us at teardownshow@gmail.com Connect with David Spark on Twitter at @dspark. His business is Spark Media Solutions. Connect with Michael Wolf on Twitter at @michaelwolf. His business is NextMarket Insights.