Hey, this sounds like a good idea! Create an artificial intelligence that’s the incarnation of pure evil and immorality. You know, just to study it. It’ll never get out. (Ugh.) So, that’s happening today, along with Microsoft’s announcement of its cloud OS, Azure. Chevy determines that hybrid SUVs won’t make money no matter how you …

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What? What’s wrong with you people? We’re talking about Netbooks. Dell has a new Mini Note, but it’s a 12 laptop. So, the question is: what is going on in the Netbook world these days? Also, the Internet makes you both smarter AND dumber, Google Earth shows up for iPhone, and Oprah gives out a …

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On today’s show, it appears that the person who caused Apple’s stock to drop like a stone on reports of a Steve Jobs heart attack was just doing it for the lulz. So, he didn’t even short-sell the stock? Wow. Stupid trolls. Also, Oprah declares the Amazon Kindle her most favoritest gadget of all time. …

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Comcast offers faster Internet speeds, but doesn’t raise its data transfer caps, studies show that gamers aren’t that nerdy (ruining future punch lines for generations of comedians), Microsoft goes outside the lines to issue a critical security patch (yikes!), and Samsung tries to entice you to Blu-Ray by offering Netflix streams. Eh? Buzz Out Loud …

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It looks like Wii Fit will outsell Grand Theft Auto IV this year, Apple’s already sold 10 million iPhones, people are lining up for the T-Mobile G1 Android phone (much to our surprise), and just when we started to think the economy might be turning around after all, we got the news about Yahoo laying …

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Several organizations including the Electronic Frontier Foundation (aka EFF) sent public letters asking the broadcast networks and YouTube to ease up on the copyright takedown notices. Maybe this campaign season will help shed some light on the issues with the way the Digital Millennium Copyright Act is implemented. As long as it’s fixed for all …

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There’s a new smart phone from LG called the Cookie. It has a little more juice than the Palm Centro. But Natali doesn’t like juice in her cookies. But that doesn’t mean she doesn’t like this smart phone. We also cover the new mobile browsers and Apple’s attack ads against Microsoft. Buzz Out Loud episodes …

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Anything that nerdy had to come from Tom. And it did. Rafe Needleman joins the cast today to discuss waiting for Windows 7 (Steve Ballmer says it’s ok), the fury over FireWire being omitted from the MacBooks reaches a fever pitch — so much so that Steve Jobs himself sends an email in response. His …

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In today’s episode, Patrick Norton joins the gang for a rant-a-thon, IMDB turns 18, we’re surprisingly not mad about the Android killswitch, Radiohead proves it made a winner with its digital album giveaway, and YouTube gives the Queen the giggles. Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original audio form. Some metadata supplementation and/or …

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Tom couldn’t decide whether to go with the marginalized whackjob wall paint, or just get a marginalized whackjob fringe. Vote? In other news of the day, the McCain campaign discovers that the DMCA can be ANNOYING! Maybe they’ll do something about it once they’re back in politics-land! Also, EA says no one cares about DRM …

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