467: Watching You Watching Me

This week, How Uber is deceiving the authorities, Wikileaks’ secret trove of CIA hacks, How much is Snapchat worth?, Twitch takes on Twitter, using our DNA as near infinite memory storage and much much more.

 

What We're Playing With

Andy: Kensington Wired Mouse For Life (a ‘do not buy’); Abstract on Netflix Tosin: Tales by Light

Dwayne: Logan & Get Out

Headlines

• Snapchat stock finishes up 44% on first day
  • Snap stock suffers first major selloff since going public
• Twitch replaced its home page with a Twitter clone for gamers

Audible Book of the Week

• Animal Farm by George Orwell
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Music Break: Pigs (Three Different Ones) by Pink Floyd

Hot Topic

• How Uber Used Secret Greyball Tool to Deceive Authorities Worldwide
• WikiLeaks Releases Trove of Alleged C.I.A. Hacking Documents
  • The CIA is hacking Samsung Smart TVs, according to WikiLeaks docs
  • WIKILEAKS FILES SHOW THE CIA REPURPOSING HACKING CODE TO SAVE TIME, NOT TO FRAME RUSSIA

Music Break: Can't Hold Us Down by Christina Aguilera

Final Word

• Computer operating system and short movie stored on DNA
• Google's Deep Learning AI project diagnoses cancer faster than pathologists

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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.