474: A Womb With A View

This week, a wiki for fake news, An Amazon Echo with a camera, The Pope gives a TED Talk, an artificial womb, and... yes, Uber’s shenanigans are in the news again,  all this and much much more.

What We're Playing With

Andy, Dwayne, Tosin: American Gods

Headlines

• Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales launches Wikitribune, a large-scale attempt to combat fake news
• Survey: Most Millennials Both Pay For Streaming Services And Use Pirate Streams When Content Isn't Legally Available
• Amazon’s new Echo Look
• As Rooftop Solar Challenges Utilities, One Aims For A Compromise

Audible Book of the Week

• The Circle by Dave Eggers
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Music Break: Private Eyes by Lenachka

Hot Topic

• Uber's Kalanick got caught for tricking Apple, risking expulsion from Apple Store
• Unroll.me CEO says it's “heartbreaking” that users are upset Unroll.me sold their anonymized email data to Uber
• The Pope gave a TED Talk and asked tech companies to do better

Music Break: Plug In Baby by Muse

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• An artificial womb successfully grew baby sheep — and humans could be next

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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.