451: Trump Trumps Tech?

This week, Elon Musk says AI can take down the internet, China enacts cybersecurity... and it’s concerning, how a Trump presidency will affect Silicon Valley, there's something fishy with Amazon Alexa, and much more.

What We're Playing With

Andy: Echo Dot; Wacom Intuos 2 0912-U 

Dwayne: Star Wars, The Old Republic - The Comics

Tosin: Samsung Gear VR

Headlines

• Elon Musk Says Advanced A.I. Could "Take Down the Internet"
• Tesco Bank freezes all online transactions after money stolen from 20,000 accounts

Audible Book of the Week

• Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
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Music Break: American Idiot by Green Day

Hot Topics:

• China’s new cybersecurity law is bad news for business
• What does a President-elect Trump mean for Silicon Valley? Nothing very good.
  • Silicon Valley investors call for California to secede from the US after Trump win
  • Tech groups may bring cash piles home under Trump

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Man hacks Alexa into singing fish robot, terror ensues

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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.