473: Star Wars Celebration 2017

This week, Tosin gives us the lowdown from Star Wars Celebration, Uber stalked Lyft drivers, a killer on Facebook, Facebook’s developers conference, inmates build a secret PC,  all this and much much more.

What We're Playing With Tosin: Star Wars Celebration Orlando

Headlines

• Steve Ballmer’s $10m project will surface everything you wanted to know about government spending
• Elon Musk says Tesla will unveil its electric semi truck in September
  • VW to build a ‘nationwide 150 kW+ fast charging network’ for electric vehicles as part of Dieselgate settlement

Audible Book of the Week

• The Handmaid's Tale: Special Edition by Margaret Atwood
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Music Break: East Bound and Down by Jerry Reed

Hot Topic

• Uber reportedly stalked Lyft drivers using secret ‘Hell’ software
• Facebook releases timeline of murder filmed live on platform
  • Suspected ‘Facebook killer’ found dead
• Facebook F8 Conference
  • Facebook Camera AR
  • Facebook Spaces VR
  • 360 Capture SDK
• Facebook and the Cost of Monopoly

Music Break: Rey's Theme from Star Wars:The Force Awakens by John Williams

Final Word

• Five Inmates Built Two PCs and Hacked a Prison From Within

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

• Star Wars: The Last Jedi teaser trailer

• The Last Jedi side-by-side with The Force Awakens trailer

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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.