470: The Beat of My Spinach Heart

This week, Congress just sold your internet privacy to the highest bidder, Samsung’s Galaxy S8, AI solves traffic jams, a heart made from spinach, Elon Musk wants to download your thoughts... and much much more.

What We're Playing With

Andy: Techmoan; Logan

Dwayne: Logan

Tosin: Logan

Headlines

• Tech community "dumbfounded" by Mnuchin's dismissal of AI impact on jobs
• New AI Algorithm Beats Even the World's Worst Traffic
• Tesla Model 3 'release candidate' drives off the lot
• Elon Musk Launches Neuralink to Connect Brains With Computers
• A female Uber employee spoke out after a company trip to a South Korean escort bar

Audible Book of the Week

• All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai
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Music Break: Fifty Years After the Fair by Aimee Mann

Hot Topic

• Samsung Unveils Galaxy S8 and S8+
• Republican Senators just sold your privacy to the highest bidder
  • US House votes to let ISPs sell your browser history
  • ‘Cards Against Humanity’ Creator Just Pledged To Buy and Publish Congress’s Browser History
• How can users protect themselves?

Music Break: Hungry Heart by Bruce Springsteen

Final Word

• Spinach Leaf Transformed Into Beating Human Heart Tissue

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

• Rayna meets a "robot"

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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.