581: Paranoid About Androids

On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, Andrew goes to the edge of the galaxy, leaked Radiohead tracks, Facebook’s Zuckerbucks, counterfeits & fakes, robots are taking your jobs & fighting back, and much, much more. 

What We’re Playing With

Andy: Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge

You can’t wear Star Wars costumes in Galaxy’s Edge — not even the ones on sale

Headlines

• The Ambitious Plan Behind Facebook’s Cryptocurrency, Libra
  • Facebook's New Libra Coin: How Does It Work, and Should You Buy It?
• Radiohead Release 18 Hours of ‘OK Computer’ Material After Leak

Audible Book of the Week

• To Pixar and Beyond by Lawrence Levy
• Sign up at AudibleTrial.com/TheDrillDown

Music Break: Paranoid Android by Radiohead

Hot Topics

• Millions Of Jobs Have Been Lost To Automation. Economists Weigh In On What To Do About It
  • States Where Jobs Are Most Vulnerable to Automation
  • By 2025, machines will do more work than humans, a new report says
• Bodies in Seats [Interviews with 12 former Facebook content moderators from Tampa, three on the record, where working conditions are appalling and many experience PTSD]

Music Break: Everything in its Right Place  by Radiohead

Final Word: Counterfeits & Fakes

• Congress grapples with how to regulate deepfakes
  • New software designed to help media detect deepfakes – but it's just a "drop in the bucket"
• Lyrics Site Accuses Google of Lifting Its Content

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• TRUCKLA: The world's first Tesla pickup truck

• Boston Dynamics: New Robots Now Fight Back

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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 Vudu product manager Tosin Onafowokan.