This week, we’re once again joined by Greg Davies, host of Blendover and Heavy Metal Historian podcasts (and of course the TARDISBlend podcast hosted here at Geeks of Doom) as we discuss Uber tests autonomous cars, Twitter lets you tweet longer, Google’s modular phone Project Ara, will Apple become the next Blackberry, are crime algorithms racist? And why you shouldn’t piss off Peter Thiel  ...and much more!

What We're Playing With

Andy: update on computer build

Greg: Google Project Fi and Nexus 5X

Tosin: Maker Faire & LootCrate

Headlines

• Uber officially confirms testing self-driving Ford Fusion cars in Pittsburgh
• Spotify family plan is now cheaper, $14.99 for up to 6 people
• Twitter won't count photos, videos, @names in replies toward 140 characters “in the coming months”, will allow self-retweets
• Audio fingerprinting being used to track web users, study finds
• Yahoo’s False Prophet: How Marissa Mayer Failed to Turn the Company Around

Audible Book of the Week

• How Google Works by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Alan Eagle
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Music Break: Personal Jesus by Depeche Mode

Hot Topic

• Google teams with IMAX and Yi Technology on new VR cameras
• Project Ara modular phone shipping to developers in Q4 2016, to consumers in 2017; Google is spinning out Ara from ATAP team into a separate business unit
• If Google’s right about AI, that’s a problem for Apple
  • Apple opening Siri to third-party apps, preparing a Siri SDK for release at WWDC, and developing an Amazon Echo rival
• Crime prediction software, increasingly used to guide sentencing in US, found to be biased against black defendants in study of 7K cases

Music Break: Overwatch Overture by Neil Acree

Final Word

• Peter Thiel has been bankrolling Hulk Hogan's lawsuits against Gawker Media
  • How Can We Make You Happy Today, Peter Thiel?

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• What is Overwatch?

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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.

This week, all the best from Google’s developer conference, Twitter lets you tweet longer,  an artificially intelligent lawyer, 50 times faster storage from IBM, and much more!

What We're Playing With

Andy: Gboard, Google Spaces

Dwayne: Boulder Start-Up Week

Tosin: Echo Dot

Headlines

• Facebook's Zuckerberg to meet conservatives on political bias flap
• Twitter to Stop Counting Photos and Links in 140-Character Limit
• Apple updates iTunes with a 'simpler' design that doesn't really help
  • Sources: iTunes 12.4, released on Monday, addresses widely reported music deletion issue

Audible Book of the Week

• The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Music Break: Daydreaming by Radiohead

Hot Topic: Google I/O 2016

• The 10 biggest announcements from Google I/O 2016

• Daydream is Google’s VR platform of the future
• Google made a VR headset… sort of
• Allo is a messaging app with a resident chatbot
• Duo is Google’s FaceTime competitor
• A smart speaker for the smart home
• Google’s assistant is getting smarter and more chatty
• Android N is smarter, faster, better
• Android Wear 2.0
• Android reaches deeper into your car
• Running Android apps without downloading them

Music Break: Lawyers in Love by Jackson Browne

Final Word

• Artificially Intelligent Lawyer “Ross” Has Been Hired By Its First Official Law Firm
• IBM's optical storage is 50x faster than flash, cheaper than RAM

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• How ‘The Simpsons’ Used Adobe Character Animator To Create A Live Episode

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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.

Dwayne DeFreitas interviews Reza Kazemi, Product Strategist at Icontrol Networks, makers of the Piper home awareness and automation device.

This week, the free ride for Windows 10 ends soon, shady news reporting at Facebook, Amazon challenges YouTube, a new intelligent assistant from the mind behind Siri, and Can Apple Music wipe out your collection?   ...and much, much more!

What We're Playing With

Andy: Captain America: Civil War (age regression FX); (Civil War: Comic v Film) Dwayne: Lexi. The App no one should spend $5 on right now.

Tosin: powerline: zyxel pla5456kit 1800 mbps 2 port gigabit ethernet

Headlines

• The era of free Windows 10 comes to an end on July 30
• Disney Infinity canceled; Sites “Lack of Growth” in the Toys-to-Life Market
• John McAfee’s first move as a new CEO is to rename the company after himself
• Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News
• Iron Man in SPACE! Marvel Movie Designer To Make Astronaut Outfits

Audible Book of the Week

• Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War: Marvel Cinematic Universe from Marvel Press
• Sign up at AudibleTrial.com/TheDrillDown

Music Break: Star Spangled Man from Captain America: First Avenger

Hot Topic: The Changing Streaming World

• Apple to Revamp Streaming Music Service After Mixed Reviews, Departures
  • Apple Music’s new student membership option discounts the service by 50%
  • Apple Stole My Music. No, Seriously.
  • No, Apple Music is not deleting tracks off your hard drive — unless you tell it to
• Spotify sees increased subscribers. Claims it’s due to Apple Music competition
• Spotify starts distributing video
• Amazon gets into the YouTube/Vimeo space with Amazon Video Direct
  • TechCrunch write-up
  • @AmznVideoDirect on Twitter

• Music Break: Derezzed from Tron: Legacy by Daft Punk

Final Word

• VIV: Beyond Siri: The World Premiere of Viv with Dag Kittlaus
  • Viv, from Siri’s creators, is the virtual assistant of your dreams
  • WIRED: SIRI Creators left Apple due to trouble with Post-Jobs Apple execs

The Drill Down Video of the Week

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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.

This week, SpaceX goes to Mars, a new Nintendo console, Comcast buys Dreamworks Animation, killer robots, can the Government force you to unlock your phone?...and much more this week on The Drill Down.

What We're Playing With

Andy & Dwayne: Microsoft WordFlow; GiphyKeys

Headlines

• Bitcoin's creator unmasks himself...well, maybe
  • The weight of evidence indicates Craig Wright is (still) not Satoshi Nakamoto
• Hulu Is Developing a Cable-Style Online TV Service
• Nintendo NX represents a 'new way of thinking' about console hardware
• SpaceX plans to send a spacecraft to Mars as early as 2018

Audible Book of the Week

• Alien: Out of the Shadows by Tim Lebbon; Directed by Dirk Maggs
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Music Break: Mars from "The Planets" by Gustav Holst

Hot Topics

• U.S. high court approves rule change to expand FBI hacking power
• The government wants your fingerprint to unlock your phone. Should that be allowed?
• Comcast to Buy DreamWorks Animation for $3.8 Billion

Music Break: Test Drive from "How to Train Your Dragon" by John Powell

Final Word

• Weighing The Good And The Bad Of Autonomous Killer Robots In Battle

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Puma BeatBot

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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.