514: With a Little Help From My Friends

This week, Amazon wants to undercut UPS, Facebook uses tech to guess your social class, Google comes back to Nest, the most complex drone display ever, robots that open doors, ... and much, much more.

Headlines

• Thousands of UK, US sites hijacked by hidden crypto-mining code
• Facebook patents tech to determine social class
• Tesla Lawyers Step In To Clarify Confusing Elon Musk Statement During Earnings Call

Audible Book of the Week

• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
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Music Break: Signed, Sealed, Delivered by Stevie Wonder

Hot Topic

• Uber Agrees to Pay Waymo $245 Million Equity to Settle Suit
• Amazon is launching a package-delivery service to compete with FedEx and UPS
• Google and Nest reunite in push to add AI to every gadget

Music Break: Let My Love Open the Door by Pete Townshend

Final Word

• Internet activist, Grateful Dead lyricist John Barlow dies at 70

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

• Inside the Olympics Opening Ceremony World-Record Drone Show

• Hey Buddy, Can You Give Me a Hand?

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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.