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Here’s what Michael and David talk about during the show: Trying to unsubscribe from mailing lists. It's like playing whack a mole. Peeple - Yelp for Peeple - What could go wrong? (story) Selfie-shaming at a baseball game (story) Putting mobile ad blockers to the test? (story) Amazon pulls Apple TV (story) Web Summit a scam? (story) Amazon Dash into more devices Patreon hacked (story) Bunk Beds for rent in SF - $750-$1000 (story) Business Insider acquired (story) Bill Simmons Podcast Don't watch "Minority Report" "Quantico" 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. Please send us your feedback. We want to hear from you and put your input in our show

Episode 100! Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: Our favorite playground games Mercer county school district in WA bans "tag" (story) PC sales slide. People not replacing as fast. 1% drop (story) GigaOm comes back to life (story) Netflix viewers don't get hooked on the pilot (story) Sorkin vs. Cook on Steve Jobs movie (story) CNN to broadcast debates in VR (story) VR news-$99 Samsung headset available in November 2015 - Works with Samsung Galaxy phones from 2015 (story) Oculus Ready PCs for $1K from Dell, Alienware, ASUS (story) Minecraft 10 available in 2016 plus Bullet Train Unreal Engine Demo (story) Pizza Rat (story) 360 degree videos on Facebook. Star Wars one out. (story) Snoop launches a weed site at TC (story) Limetown the podcast Control-Walt-Delete Tech CEOs on Colbert - Netflix’s Reed Hastings, Snapchat’s Evan Siegel and Airbnb’s Brian Chesky Forza 6 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. Please send us your feedback. We want to hear from you and put your input in our show

Here's what Michael and David talk about during the show: David finally sells something on eBay Tech elite on Colbert's first week: Apple, Tesla, Uber Marco pulls ad blocking software after shooting to #1 (story) The Facebook Dislike button (story) Amazon hands a gift to Shopify (story) Facebook introduces Signal for journalists (story) Matt Mullenweg talks about commercializing their home-built Slack (story) Sharp is going to sell an 8K TV. But there's no content for it. 85" version is only $133K. video has to be fed in via four separate HDMI cables, which are needed to handle the quantities of data involved. (story) It's the end of Zune. (story) Top 100 passwords on Ashley Madison (story) $50 tablets from Amazon, or get a six pack for $250. (story) TV Box Battle! Amazon releases a new one, one week after Apple TV (story) You're the worst YouTube Creators channel And we talk A LOT about Welcome Back Kotter and Three’s Company. 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. Please send us your feedback. We want to hear from you and put your input in our show

Here's what Michael and David talk about this week: Stephen Colbert launches. Can he play himself? Is he better in character? Apple announcements, iPad Pro, Apple TV, Pencil was my favorite; Live photos; iPad Pro; Apple TV Apple Pencil - Is it a mistake or a boon? (story) Only 11% of US IPOs are tech this year (story) Washington Post blocking the ad blockers (story) John McAfee is running for president (story) More Ashley Madison News. Badly encrypted passwords - 11.2 million passwords revealed (story) Android Pay debuts. Are you having a hard time paying for things that you need this? (story) Programming cheerleaders (story) Missing Podcast 39 Best Simpsons literary references Finishing Narcos GameInformer 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. Please send us your feedback. We want to hear from you and put your input in our show

Episode #97 of the Tear Down Show. We're in a hurry this week - so you get the show notes in audio version only (the podcast). Enjoy!

Here’s what Michael and David talk about during the show: New York Daily News' Headline on the reporter shooting (story) YouTube Gaming launches to compete with Twitch (story) New Apple TV coming with Wii-ish remote (story) Barely any women on Ashley Madison. What were the men paying for? (story 1) (story 2) NYC taxi drivers developing app (story) What's OK/Not OK for cell phone use (story 1) (story 2) Amazon wants into our kitchens (story) Netflix courting YouTube stars to get tweens and teenagers (story) 1 Billion on Facebook (story) Sarah Palin is interviewing Donald Trump (story) Amazon Underground - Offering a ton of apps for free, even in-app purchases (story) 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. Please send us your feedback. We want to hear from you and put your input in our show

Here’s what Michael and David talk about during the show: Ashley Madison reveals continue. This story is going to keep giving for a long time. Modern day Robin Hoods? (story) They made $2 million off of delete account service (story) Social popularity of NY Times sections and authors (story) Facebook lets advertisers use GIFs: good or bad? (story) China is cleaning the Internet (story) Flash is dead (story and Techcrunch story) Auto generated memories with Google's Remember the day, automated generated videos, and Magisto (story) This week in sad promotions: a free Rolling Stone Song to commemorate 20 years of Windows 95 (story) The Verge reviews animals (in other words, WTF is going on with the Verge?) (story) In conversation with Quentin Tarantino An Honest Guide to SF Startup Life 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. Please send us your feedback. We want to hear from you and put your input in our show.

Here’s what Michael and David talk about during the show: Ashley Madison reveals continue. This story is going to keep giving for a long time. Modern day Robin Hoods? (story) They made $2 million off of delete account service (story) Social popularity of NY Times sections and authors (story) Facebook lets advertisers use GIFs: good or bad? (story) China is cleaning the Internet (story) Flash is dead (story and Techcrunch story) Auto generated memories with Google's Remember the day, automated generated videos, and Magisto (story) This week in sad promotions: a free Rolling Stone Song to commemorate 20 years of Windows 95 (story) The Verge reviews animals (in other words, WTF is going on with the Verge?) (story) In conversation with Quentin Tarantino An Honest Guide to SF Startup Life 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. Please send us your feedback. We want to hear from you and put your input in our show.

Here's what David and Michael talk about during the show: Abuse at Amazon (story) Jeff Bezos' reaction (story) Comcast offering 70% rev share to content creators. Much higher than Facebook or YouTube. It won't make a blip though. (story) Slate says: People should be able to marry robots (story) Why comment sections fail (story) If your website is full of a-holes, it's your fault - Anil Dash (story) Midroll and Maron launch Howl (story) Google Project Sunroof (story) Newest frontier in sharing economy: Manservants (story) Lawrence Lessig's Presidential Bid (story) Psych John Stewart's last show. His plea to call BS when you see it. 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. Please send us your feedback. We want to hear from you and put your input in our show.

Here's what David and Michael talk about during the show: Black Hat Conference - What went down (End of Show Report) Vulnerability management (story) Hack of a rifle (story) Tour of the NOC (story) Forget hacking cars, we can hack skateboards (story) What should you be scared of right now? (video) What should the users of Ashley Madison Do? (video) Watch sales fell most in 7 years, NPD blames Apple Watch (story) Report for determining the quality of local news (story) Gimlet Memberships Tinder Plus and Tinder for 30 under 30 (story) Lexus makes hoverboard (story) Lots of people think Twitter is acquisition target - who should buy them? (story) Shaun the Sheep NextDraft 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. Please send us your feedback. We want to hear from you and put your input in our show.

Here’s what David and Michael talk about during the show: Ashley Madison Hack - Is this the public wake up call? (story) Identity revealed. They're not bluffing. (story) Car completely hacked...remotely - Watch it (story) Recall by Chrysler (story) Comcast facing midlife crisis, may try to buy way into cool crowd (story) Vidcon conference. It's changed a lot from six years ago when I went. (story) Apple yanks Nest: What does it mean? (story) How to rage quit a media job. In light of Gawker media mess. (story) Apple music apparently sucks (story) $1 billion of mobile ads are never seen (story) Twitter frat party deemed poor taste - PC culture becoming rampant to the point of becoming a joke. (story) Midroll acquired (story) Ballers on HBO Most recent episode of The Startup. Kind of an amazing story going from 0 to $2 million in revenue in one year for a podcast media company. (listen) Hot Girls Wanted on Netflix 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. Please send us your feedback. We want to hear from you and put your input in our show.

Here's what David and Michael talk about on the show. Reddit fallout (story 1) (story 2) Gawker removes a post outing a CFO at Conde Nast, but there's still so much other coverage. (story 1) (story 2) (story 3) Neil Young pulls music from services, citing quality (story) Huffington Post is covering Trump's presidential campaign as "Entertainment" (story) Apple updates the lowly iPod Touch (story) Cameras that follow you - Soloshot and Lilydrone (watch video) First commercially available flamethrower (story) Fake site constructed to look like Bloomberg to manipulate Twitter stock price (story) Netflix preferred TOP network over most demos (story) Password sharing of Netflix and HBO costing possibly $500 Million (story) News sites are slow-loading, bloated pieces of junk (story) Trainwreck El Narco Killing Pablo 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. Please send us your feedback. We want to hear from you and put your input in our show.

Here's what David and Michael talk about on the show: -Skateboards are the new combovers. Any youthful efforts you're chasing? (story) -Windows 10 is coming. Do you care? I do sort of (story)(story) -Using technology to solve the problems technology has introduced into our lives. (story) -Prince is pulling music off of Pandora, Spotify (story) -Zuckerberg says we'll communicate by thought (story) -Gawker opens the financial kimono ahead of Hulk lawsuit (story) -LEGO Robot solves Rubick's Cube in 3.4 seconds - World Record (story) -Record Breaking LEGO Ball Contraption - Rube Goldberg machine (story) -Alexa is now Amazon's competitor to Siri (story) -End of Slot car with Anki Overdrive (story) -Google tags black people as Gorillas (story) -Freescale wants to use RF technology to reinvent cooking (story) -Ready Player One -Love and Radio -Zoe Nightengale 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. Please send us your feedback. We want to hear from you and put your input in our show.

Here’s what David and Michael talk about on this episode: Amid protests, French government tries to shut down Uber (story) Marc Maron's interview, and his follow up discussion with his producer. (podcast) Treasure Truck is on its way (story) Google's Undo Send Feature - All this is putting a timer on when you hit the send button. (story) Fred Wilson's sick of startups focused on growth, not profitability (story) Netflix bigger than the networks? I don't buy the math. (story) Disney bans the selfie-stick (story) Structured stories - Structured Stories is a news database that empowers everyone to collect, use and improve a permanent record of news events. (story) TumblrTV, a GIF search engine (story) Why join a big VC when you can roll your own? (story) Cooking Issues Podcast The Late Show 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. Please send us your feedback. We want to hear from you and put your input in our show

Here’s what David and Michael talk about during the show. -Twitter Project Lightening (story) -How the Uber full time employee decision might affect the sharing economy (story) -In the future, employees won't exist (story) -Obama heads into Marc Maron's garage (story) -Texting and Walking lane at Utah Valley University (story) -Ebay-Craigslist legal battle ends - fascinating story of corporate spying and duplicity (story) -Blocking ad blockers (story) -A shakeout for smart home? (story) -Cuba getting Internet WiFi hotspots. Problem is a Netflix subscription is about 1/3rd of a month's salary (story) -Google removing nude photos that you don't want up there. Or revenge porn (story) -Tech-aided human telepathy - how far away? (story) -Banana slicer review on Amazon UnREAL 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. Please send us your feedback. We want to hear from you and put your input in our show