518: #deletefacebook

This week, a self-driving car kills a pedestrian, a burger robot is fired, Does space travel alter our DNA? And experts Tom Cheredar & Gina Lee De Freitas help us decide if it's time to delete Facebook... and much, much more.

Headlines

• Theranos CEO Holmes and former president Balwani charged with massive fraud
• Self-Driving Uber Car Kills Arizona Pedestrian
  • Tempe police chief says early probe shows no fault by Uber
• Humans Couldn't Keep Up with This Burger-Flipping Robot, So They Fired It

Audible Book of the Week

• A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
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Music Break: Face the Face by Pete Townshend

Hot Topic: Facebook & Cambridge Analytica

• FAQ: Interview with IMM President Gina Lee De Freitas
• Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach
• How Trump Consultants Exploited the Facebook Data of Millions
• Cambridge Analytica caught on tape proposing blackmail, propaganda
• #deletefacebook
• Facebook's Stock Is Plummeting Amid the Company's Latest Crisis. Here's What's Going On
  • Facebook’s value destruct-o-meter: $50 billion and counting
• #DeleteFacebook movement gains steam after 50 million users have data leaked
• Mark Zuckerberg responds to the Cambridge Analytica scandal
• Wrapup: Interview with Tom Cheredar

Music Break: Life on Mars? by David Bowie

Final Word: Space Exploration

• Scott Kelly Spent a Year in Space, and Now He Has Different DNA Than His Identical Twin Brother
• What Trump's 'Space Force' might look like – and when it would be ready
• Visionary physicist Stephen Hawking dies

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

• Elon Musk Surprises ‘Westworld’ Panel With SpaceX Falcon Heavy Launch Trailer

• Robot flipping Robot

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The Drill Down on Twitter 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.