454: How to Hack An Election

This week, was the US election hacked?, Facebook compromises censorship to get into China, auto regulators want you off your apps, Google AI makes its own language, and much more.

What We're Playing With

Andy: Bluedio T2s Turbine Headphones; Netflix download on mobile

Dwayne: Google Home

Headlines

• Black Friday online sales to hit a record-breaking $3 billion, over $1 billion from mobile
  • Cyber Monday breaks 2015 Record.
• CNN acquires social-video startup Beme, co-founded by YouTube star Casey Neistat, for $25M
• AT&T’s DirecTV Now streaming TV service officially unveiled
  • Problems with the service.
• Amazon will truck your massive piles of data to the cloud with an 18-wheeler

Audible Book of the Week

• The Fourth Transformation: How Augmented Reality & Artificial Intelligence Will Change Everything by Robert Scobel & Shel Israel
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Music Break: Black Friday by Steely Dan

Hot Topics

• Want to Know if the Election was Hacked? Look at the Ballots
• Facebook Said to Create Censorship Tool to Get Back Into China
• Auto Safety Regulators Seek a Driver Mode to Block Apps
• Google’s AI translation tool seems to have invented its own secret internal language
• Fitbit is reportedly buying troubled smartwatch maker Pebble for around $40 million

Music Break: Come Talk To Me by Peter Gabriel

Final Word

• Grace Hopper and Margaret Hamilton awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom for computing advances

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• "SEAGULLS! (Stop It Now)" -- A Bad Lip Reading of The Empire Strikes Back

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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.