433: "Jupiter, We're Home!"

This week, the FBI verdict on the Sen. Clinton email scandal, Apple to buy Tidal while fighting Spotify, A fatality using Tesla autopilot, Air Force AI beats human drone pilots, NASAs Juno probe reaches Jupiter ..and much more this week on The Drill Down.

 

What We're Playing With

Dwayne: Mr. Robot, season 1 (on Amazon Prime video)

Andy: Steam Summer sale purchases

Tosin: Her Story

Headlines

• Android N is now Android Nougat
• 2nd Hacker involved in ‘Celebgate’ pleads guilty, faces max 5 years in prison
• The FBI recommends not to indict Hillary Clinton for email misconduct

Audible Book of the Week

• Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution: 25th Anniversary Edition by Steven Levy
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Music Break: Mr. Robot by Mac Quayle

Hot Topic

• Apple in Talks to Acquire Jay Z’s Tidal Music Service
  • Spotify says Apple won’t approve a new version of its app because it doesn’t want competition for Apple Music
  • Apple Slams Spotify, Says App Already Violates App Store Rules
• Comcast will let customers get Netflix on its set-top box (which is a very big deal)
• Tesla driver killed in crash with Autopilot active, NHTSA investigating
• Electric car pioneer Tesla misses production targets

Music Break: Jupiter from "The Planets" by Gustav Holst

Final Word

• AI bests Air Force combat tactics experts in simulated dogfights
• NASA's Juno space probe arrives at Jupiter

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Self-driving tractors sow the seeds for high-tech farming (CNET News)
• 20th Anniversary of cloning Dolly the Sheep

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Geeks Of Doom’s The Drill Down is a roundtable-style audio podcast where we discuss the most important issues of the week, in tech and on the web and how they affect us all. Hosts are Geeks of Doom contributor Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Box product manager Tosin Onafowokan.