This week, Wikileaks leaks DNC emails, Verizon buys Yahoo, the future for Tesla & Facebook, can police unlock your iPhone by 3D-printing your fingerprint?  ..and much, much more!

Headlines

• Nintendo Slumps By Most Since 1990 on Dashed Pokemon Go Hopes
• WikiLeaks Emails Show DNC Favored Hillary Clinton Over Bernie Sanders During The Democratic Primary
  • Facebook admits blocking WikiLeaks’ DNC email links, but won’t say why
• Apple Helped Feds Seize World's Largest Torrent Site, Arrest Alleged Owner

Audible Book of the Week

• The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
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Music Break: Extreme Ways by Moby

Hot Topic: The Future of Tech Giants

• Yahoo Cuts $4.8 Billion Deal to Sell Core Business to Verizon
  • Verizon Explains Exactly Why It's Spending $4.8 Billion to Buy Yahoo!
  • Mayer to Yahoos: 'I'm planning to stay'
• Elon Musk's Master Plan, Part Deux
• Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook's next ten years

Music Break: Elevation by U2

Final Words

• Police 3D-printed a murder victim's finger to unlock his phone
• A Plane Just Flew Around The World Without A Single Drop Of Fuel
• Amazon begins testing delivery drone fleets in the UK

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• ‘Star Trek’ TV Series Official Title & New Ship Name Revealed

• Meet Farmbot

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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, Pokemon fever continues, Social media reacts to an attempted coup in Turkey, an open letter from tech leaders to Donald Trump, Facebook's diversity problem, Netflix boldly goes where noone has gone before ..and much, much more!

What We're Playing With

Dwayne: Ghostbusters

Andy: Ghostbusters; Leslie Jones Leaves Twitter in Tears After Attacks, Twitter CEO Responds; Stranger Things

Tosin: Stranger Things

Headlines

• Niantic CEO says the company is going to add “sponsored locations” to Pokémon Go
  • T-Mobile Is Giving Customers a Year of Free Data to Play Pokemon Go
• Nintendo's Classic Mini is a tiny NES with 30 games
• Twitter now lets anyone request a verified account
• SoftBank to grab chip designer ARM for $32 billion

Audible Book of the Week

• The Fifty-Year Mission: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Star Trek: The First 25 Years by Edward Gross & Mark A. Altman
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Music Break: 'Star Trek' main title by Alexander Courage (arr. Michael Giacchino)

Hot Topics

• Turkey’s President Hated The Internet Until It Helped Save Him From A Coup
  • WikiLeaks Dumps ‘Erdogan Emails’ After Turkey’s Failed Coup
• An open letter from technology sector leaders on Donald Trump’s candidacy for President
• Facebook shows little progress in diversity report, blames lack of available talent
  • The Big Lie: Tech Companies and Diversity Hiring

Music Break: Star Trek: The Motion Picture by Jerry Goldsmith

Final Word

• Netflix Gets the International Rights to All the Star Trek TV Series, Including the New One

The Drill Down Video of the Week Vaporeon Stampede, Central Park, NYC

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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, Facebook Live’s growing pains as real-time news dominates livestreaming, the first use of lethal robots by a domestic police force, a robot stingray made from living cells, and Pokémon Go is here, and it’s super effective! ..and much more this week!

Headlines

• SEC probing Tesla for potential securities breach with Autopilot fatality
• ‘Secret Conversations:’ End-to-End Encryption Comes to Facebook Messenger
• Controversial livestreams become more frequent on Facebook Live, putting the company's rules and judgment under scrutiny
  • Facebook CEO Comments on Video Showing Aftermath of Police Shooting Philando Castle
  • Use of police robot to kill Dallas shooting suspect believed to be first in US history

Audible Book of the Week

• A History of Ghosts: The True Story of Seances, Mediums, Ghosts and Ghostbusters by Peter Aykroyd
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Music Break: Ghostbusters (For Orchestra) by Walt Ribeiro

Hot Topic: Pokémon GO

• On July 7, one day after its release, Pokémon Go had more Android installations than Tinder in US, and by July 8 it was on 5.16% of US Android devices  
• Nintendo's stock rises over 22% in Tokyo trading
• What We’re Playing With:
  • Andy, Dwayne, Tosin: Pokémon GO
• Pokémon Go shouldn’t have full access to your Gmail, Docs and Google account — but it does
• Pokémon Go Is Having an Effect on Players' Mental Health
• Wyoming teen playing Pokemon GO discovers body
• Teens used Pokémon Go app to lure robbery victims
• Safety tips for playing Pokemon GO

Music Break: Pokémon (For Orchestra) by Walt Ribeiro

Final Word: Apple: App Stores & e-Books

• This Swimming Stingray Robot Is Powered by Real, Living Rat Cells

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, the FBI verdict on the Sen. Clinton email scandal, Apple to buy Tidal while fighting Spotify, A fatality using Tesla autopilot, Air Force AI beats human drone pilots, NASAs Juno probe reaches Jupiter ..and much more this week on The Drill Down.

What We're Playing With

Dwayne: Mr. Robot, season 1 (on Amazon Prime video)

Andy: Steam Summer sale purchases

Tosin: Her Story

Headlines

• Android N is now Android Nougat
• 2nd Hacker involved in ‘Celebgate’ pleads guilty, faces max 5 years in prison
• The FBI recommends not to indict Hillary Clinton for email misconduct

Audible Book of the Week

• Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution: 25th Anniversary Edition by Steven Levy
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Music Break: Mr. Robot by Mac Quayle

Hot Topic

• Apple in Talks to Acquire Jay Z’s Tidal Music Service
  • Spotify says Apple won’t approve a new version of its app because it doesn’t want competition for Apple Music
  • Apple Slams Spotify, Says App Already Violates App Store Rules
• Comcast will let customers get Netflix on its set-top box (which is a very big deal)
• Tesla driver killed in crash with Autopilot active, NHTSA investigating
• Electric car pioneer Tesla misses production targets

Music Break: Jupiter from "The Planets" by Gustav Holst

Final Word

• AI bests Air Force combat tactics experts in simulated dogfights
• NASA's Juno space probe arrives at Jupiter

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Self-driving tractors sow the seeds for high-tech farming (CNET News)
• 20th Anniversary of cloning Dolly the Sheep

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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, the tech world responds to BREXIT, Microsoft revises Asimov’s laws of robotics, Facebook & YouTube filter out extremist content, Facebook wants you to see more of your friends content, why the car in that ad may not be what you think it is, Boston Dynamics brings a robot to the home, and much, much more.

What We're Playing With

Andy: Mr. Robot, season 1 (on Amazon Prime video)
Dwayne: Sling TV on Apple TV

Headlines

• Follow-up: Industry Out of Harmony With YouTube on Tracking of Copyrighted Music
• Google, Facebook quietly move toward automatic blocking of extremist videos
• Facebook implements News Feed ranking changes favoring friends and family over publishers, lists the “cores values” underlying this move
• Tesla's Model S just smashed the Pikes Peak hillclimb
• Sources: dozens of new brands get Dash buttons this week; companies pay $15 for each branded button sold and 15% of each product sale, atop normal commission

Audible Book of the Week

• Maestro Mario: How Nintendo Transformed Videogame Music into an Art by Andrew Schartmann
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Music Break: Get Busy by Saigon

Hot Topic: Tech in the EU

• Brexit: The tech world reacts to UK's withdrawal from EU
• Amid Housing Shortage, Berlin Bans Short-Term Rentals

Music Break: Robots (The Humans Are Dead) by Flight of the Conchords

Final Word

• Microsoft’s CEO explores how humans and A.I. can solve society's challenges -- together
  • Nadella lays out 10 Laws of AI (and Human Behavior)
• Apple and Microsoft are fighting a secret war for the future of technology

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Introducing SpotMini

• The Mill BLACKBIRD

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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.