With Donald, Darren, and Benito at the helm, there’s nothing stopping us from devoting a third of the show to outer space. NASA has 19 billion dollars to burn, humanity gets a new planet to play with, and space flights get their own special beer. It’s good thing too, because life on earth is getting …

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Alien coverage week continues on Buzz Out Loud, with testimony from U.S. Air Force pilots that aliens want us to disarm our nukes. For world peace, or to make sure we don’t have any guns when they get here? But in actual news, a study finds that texting-while-driving bans don’t reduce crashes and might even …

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It turns out that you all totally disagree with us about $30 being too high a price to pay for movie rentals with a shorter release window than DVDs. But I’m sticking to my guns here: don’t pay them to stop punching you in the face. In other news, we examine the PlayBook and agree …

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The movie studios seem to be encouraging piracy by launching $30 movie-streaming rentals. RIM preparing marathon Blackberry announcement. Stuxnet virus successfully infects nuclear plant computers in Iran. Who to call on Earth if you’re a space alien. And a bonus: Two robot stories! Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original audio form. Some …

Read the full post →“BOL 1316: Robo-hairdresser meets Bionic soldier”

On today’s show, we bid an only slightly passive-aggressive farewell to Jason Howell on his last day here at CNET. Jerk. Love you, babe! Also, we’re beret without the Bookface, Netflix apologizes for rightly calling Americans self-absorbed, and did you really think the Apple TV was going to ship on time? –Molly Buzz Out Loud …

Read the full post →“BOL 1315: Galaxy Tab does a tech striptease”

Today: Mark Zuckerberg clouds the air further on the FacePhone. Verizon squashes iPhone rumors flat. Netflix blames bad actors. and Peek gets it right for a change. Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original audio form. Some metadata supplementation and/or correction has been done for SEO, clarification, or as a product of data …

Read the full post →“BOL 1314: Weaponized viruses and overclocking your pacemaker”

Microsoft tries — again — to bribe users to Bing it while Blockbuster goes bankrupt and Blackberry bets on BlackPad. Also: Blogger bounced from bar. Bye! Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original audio form. Some metadata supplementation and/or correction has been done for SEO, clarification, or as a product of data migration. …

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A nasty worm spreads quickly through Twitter.com but is quickly smashed. Intel wants you to pay $50 to make the CPU in the PC you just bought run at full speed. Facebook hides the ignore option on friend requests. And Germans say nein! to Street View. With special guest John Falcone. Buzz Out Loud episodes …

Read the full post →“BOL 1312: Poor little Tweetiebird gets a worm”

Facebook denies that it’s building its own phone, despite its own claims of how great it would be.Captchas get replaced with ads (evil?). HP invents the tablet-powered printer. And Jason joins us on the other side of the board! Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original audio form. Some metadata supplementation and/or correction …

Read the full post →“BOL 1311: Facebook’s not building a phone, or is it?”

The news that Windows Phone 7 won’t be coming to any CDMA carriers just yet has some of you close to suicide. That’s extreme. Just wait for LTE. It’ll happen. Also, the HDCP master key turns out to be legit (whoa!), notebook sales growth goes negative in a widespread iPad fallout pattern, and there’s a …

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