408: CES 2016 Preview

This week, Facebook’s CEO wants to be the next Tony Stark, GM invests in Lyft, Twitter wants you to tweet longer, Oculus Rift gets a price & date, the latest from CES ...All this and more on The Drill Down.

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Dwayne: Live report from CES

Headlines

• Zuckerberg's 2016 New Year's resolution: JARVIS
• GM Is Investing $500 Million In Lyft To Develop Self-Driving Cars
  • Thanks to Uber, San Francisco's largest yellow cab company is filing for bankruptcy
• Netflix officially arrives in India, Russia, Vietnam and more - totaling 130 new countries
• Twitter 140-Character Limit About to Change

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• The Dip by Seth Godin
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Music Break: Please Mister Kennedy by Justin Timberlake, Oscar Isaac & Adam Driver

More Headlines

• Pre-orders open for Oculus Rift consumer edition, on sale for $599, shipping in March; orders already backlogged until May
• Fitbit’s new wearable is a fitness watch called Blaze
• Activision Buys Major League Gaming to Broaden Role in E-Sports

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Please Mr. Kennedy

Honest Trailers: The Martian

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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 tech consultant Tosin Onafowokan.