This week, we put current news aside in order to review the year was 2017, and this year, as we did last year, Instead of merely having a stack-ranked list of top news of the year, we’re gonna make tech news compete for awards, affectionately called The Drill Bits. So put on your tuxes, get in the limo, and roll out the red carpet, ‘cause the show’s about to begin!

2016 Predictions for 2017

• • DWAYNE: Twitter Goes into Acquisition Talks (Incorrect)
  • TOSIN: Silicon Valley Vs Traditional Business (Incorrect)
  • ANDY: Model 3 Will Not Ship in 2017 (Somewhat Correct)
  • TOSIN: Nintendo Switch will bring the game company back from the brink (Correct)
  • ANDY: Net Neutrality Naysayers Strike Back (Correct)
  • DWAYNE: Bitcoin will be something to watch (Correct)

• Andy w/ 1.5 points
• Tosin w/ 1
• Dwayne w/ 1

The Drill Bit Awards 

Audible Book of the Week

• Molly’s Game by Molly Bloom
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Music Break: Take A Bow by Madonna

Music Break: I.G.Y. by Donald Fagen

Predictions for 2018

• DWAYNE: Twitter Goes into Acquisition Talks
• TOSIN: AR is going to blow up
• ANDY: Net Neutrality defenders strike back
• TOSIN: Disney will announce an Original, unEdited Star Wars trilogy
• ANDY: Model 3 *will* finish shipping in 2018 (all pre-ordered reservationists only)
• DWAYNE: Clean, green tech will go mainstream in building codes.

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This week, Net neutrality is down but perhaps not out yet; Disney buys Fox, Facebook admits it’s bad for you, gene therapy to restore sight and hearing... and much more.

What We're Playing With

Andy: Doki Doki Literature Club

Tosin: Amazon Cloud Cam

Dwayne: Beyond Meat debut’s their Fake Sausage. And it’s GOOD

Headlines

• Facebook just admitted that using Facebook can be bad for you
• How a Dorm Room Minecraft Scam Brought Down the Internet
• Apple admits slowing older iPhones, says it's to prevent battery issues

Audible Book of the Week

• The Peripheral by William Gibson
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Music Break: A Whole New World by Brad Kane & Lea Salonga

Hot Topics: Net Neutrality repeal & Disney/Fox

• F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules
  • The next front in the net neutrality war: Feds versus the states
  • Congress could bring net neutrality back, but it won’t be easy
  • Motherboard & VICE Are Building a Community Internet Network
• Disney to Buy 21st Century Fox Assets for $52.4 Billion in Historic Hollywood Merger
  • Everybody Should Be Very Afraid of the Disney Death Star
  • Congressional Democrats Call For Disney-Fox Hearings Amid Antitrust Concerns

Music Break: Listening To You ('See Me, Feel Me') by The Who

Final Word

• Gene therapy for rare form of blindness wins US approval
• This gene therapy stopped mice from going deaf — and could save some humans’ hearing too

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

• Doki Doki Literature Club trailer

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This week, Budweiser autopilots its way to you via Tesla, why we’re losing a class of potential Einsteins, How Facebook won the election...in the Philippines, drones to call quitting time and shoot ferrets with peanut butter ... and much more.

What We're Playing With

Andy: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology (CAVE Lab)(Qlone 3D photogrammetry); Counterpart on Starz

Dwayne: Doona Stroller Carseat

Tosin: SNES Classic Headlines

• Anheuser-Busch (Budweiser) Pre-Orders 40 Tesla Semi Trucks
• Study: Rich kids 10 times as likely to become inventors, creating 'lost Einsteins'

Audible Book of the Week

• The City & The City by China Miéville
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Music Break: Eddie's Dead from 'Kafka' by Cliff Martinez Hot Topics

• Rodrigo Duterte Turned Facebook Into a Weapon, With a Little Help From Facebook
• Apple confirms Shazam acquisition; Snap and Spotify also expressed interest

Music Break: Closing Time by Semisonic Final Word

• Firm to use drone on overtime workers
• Biologists With Drones And Peanut Butter Pellets Are On A Mission To Help Ferrets

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• reMarkable - The paper tablet (2017)

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This week, Net Neutrality may have a fighting chance, Facebook for kids, cryptocurrency in the news, Tesla powers Australia and goes to Mars... and much, much more.

What We're Playing With Andy: Photive Hydra bluetooth speaker Tosin: Fitbit Charge 2

Headlines

• Group of senators calls on FCC to delay net neutrality vote
• Facebook “Messenger Kids” lets under-13s chat with whom parents approve
• Tesla mega-battery in Australia activated
  • Hyundai is building a battery 50% larger than Tesla’s megabattery in South Australia

Audible Book of the Week

• Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made by Jason Schreier
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Music Break: Cool For Cats by Squeeze

More Headlines

• More US Airlines Follow AA's Lead in Banning Smart Luggage
• People have spent over $1M buying virtual cats on the Ethereum blockchain
  • Steam drops Bitcoin support due to volatility and $20 transaction fees

Music Break: Radar Rider by Riggs

Final Word

• Elon Musk Isn’t Joking About Sending a Tesla to Mars
• 'Soft Landing' from "Heavy Metal" (1981)

The Drill Down Video of the Week

'Orbit Ever After'

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This week, is Tesla the greatest getaway car ever, The Force is not with EA, Fake comments flood the FCC, how wi-fi can read your lips, and much, much more.

What We're Playing With

Andy: iPhone X

Dwayne: Marvel Studios' Avengers: Infinity War Official Trailer

Headlines

• Uber paid $100,000 to cover up the 2016 hack of 57 million customers
• Science Confirms: New Tesla Roadster Will Be the Greatest Getaway Car Ever
  • Tesla Is Reportedly Spending Almost $500,000 Every Hour, Could Go Broke Next Year
• EA’s day of reckoning is here after ‘Star Wars’ game uproar, $3 billion in stock value wiped out

Audible Book of the Week

• From a Certain Point of View (Star Wars) by 40 contributors
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Music Break: Cantina Band #2 by John Williams

Hot Topic: FCC & Net Neutrality

• More than a Million Pro-Repeal Net Neutrality Comments were Likely Faked
  • FCC Got 444,938 Net-Neutrality Comments From Russian Email Addresses
  • The 265 members of Congress who sold you out to ISPs, and how much it cost to buy them
  • Why the Courts Will Have to Save Net Neutrality
  • Comcast deleted net neutrality pledge the same day FCC announced repeal

Music Break: 'Westworld' theme by Ramin Djiwadi

Final Word

• How Wi-Fi Lets People Read Your Lips, Identify You, and Read Your Writing
• Quantum encryption is now fast enough for voice calls

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

• Boston Dynamics Spot Mini

• What’s new, Atlas?

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This week, Tesla unveils an electric, autonomous semi-truck, and version 2.0 of the Tesla Roadster. We break down Tesla's impact on commerce and  transportation, and much more!

What We're Playing With

Andy: Rise of the Tomb Raider

Tosin: iPhone X, Xbox One X, Fitbit Charge 2

Dwayne: Echo Plus and Whole Foods:Union Station

Headlines: Tesla Semi

• This is the Tesla semi truck
  • Everything You Need to Know About Tesla's New Electric Semi Truck
    • This ex-trucker has some questions about the Tesla Semi
• One More thing
  • Tesla unveils the new Roadster
    • TESLA’S NEW SECOND-GENERATION ROADSTER WILL BE THE FASTEST PRODUCTION CAR EVER MADE
  • Can they pull this off?
    • Forget the Roadster and the Semi — Tesla’s fate still hinges on the Model 3
    • Bold move a good move
      • Tesla is seemingly taking a big risk with the Semi and new Roadster — but it just might work
    • Some call it a distraction
      • Tesla is getting dangerously distracted
    • SUPERB Early Adoption
      • (Walmart will test Tesla Semi trucks for transporting merchandise
      • One of Tesla's first Semi truck buyers is a Canadian grocery chain

Audible Book of the Week

• The Rise, the Fall, and the Resurgence of the Electric Car By John Fialka
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Music Break: Truckin' by Grateful Dead

• Tesla faces a fight on electric trucks from engine maker Cummins

Music Break: East Bound and Down by Jerry Reed

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Verge Supercut: Tesla Unveils Semi Truck and Roadster

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This week, iPhone glitches, trouble at Tesla, the end of Net neutrality by Christmas, and The Drill Down’s annual holiday gift guide. The holiday season is coming up and The Drill Down would like you to be ready for it. So as we do every year around this time, we’ve prepared a list of what we consider the perfect gifts to give... and get this holiday. So before you stand around for hours this Black Friday, spend some time with us.

Headlines

• Apple
  • iPhone X Issues Till Date: Green Line, Frozen Screen, ItoA And More
  • Apple Watch will soon connect with your gym equipment to more accurately track how you work out
• Tesla
  • Bernstein analyst finds Tesla Model 3’s fit and finish ‘relatively poor’ after test drive
  • Tesla Is a ‘Hotbed for Racist Behavior,’ Worker Claims in Suit
• FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules
• Firefox Quantum arrives with faster browser engine, major visual overhaul, and Google as default search engine

Audible Book of the Week

• Artemis by Andy Weir
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• “The Egg” by Andy Weir

Music Break: Black Friday by Steely Dan

Let’s start off by saying what NOT to buy: Battlefront II

• Early reviews are not great
• Developer DICE says they are saddented
• Don’t disappoint your holiday loved ones - stay away until there’s an update to fix these issues
• Star Wars game in U-turn after player anger
• Star Wars Battlefront II game faces further backlash
• Battlefront II Review

1: Big Ticket | 2: Smart Home | 3: Video Game | 4: Freestyle | 5: Media

Dwayne:

1. iPad Pro 9.7” ($425 -128GB) or 10.5” ($620 - 64GB)
2. Sonos One ($200)
3. Nintendo Switch ($300) - Zelda Breath of the Wild
4. Automatic Pro Gold ($130)
5. Firefly Complete Series: 15th Anniversary ($20)

Tosin:

1. LG OLED TV
   1. LG Electronics OLED65B6P Flat 65-Inch 4K Ultra HD Smart OLED TV (2016 Model) - $2,700
   2. LG Electronics OLED65C7P 65-Inch 4K Ultra HD Smart OLED TV (2017 Model) - $2,700
2. Sous Vide (Andy uses Anova ($200), Dwayne uses Joule ($180) - both sound great)   + Sous Vide at Home Book ($25) + Sous Vide Bags Kit ($24)
3. Nintendo Switch ($300) - Mario Odyssey ($60) & Zelda Breath of the Wild
4. Tire air compressor pump ($40)
5. Think tank photo perception bag + Capture camera clip + suite

Andrew:

1. iPhone X ($1099)
2. Home Digital Assistant (Google Home ($130) or Amazon Echo ($100))
3. Nintendo Switch ($300)
4. Phaiser BHS-730 Bluetooth Headphones  ($35)
5. Westworld Season One: The Maze ($100 - 4k & $30 - 1080p)

Favorites:

• ANDY: Movies Anywhere
• DWAYNE: Streaming Devices (Apple TV 4K/ Roku/Amazon Fire TV 4K)
• TOSIN: Donate to a charity on behalf of a friend

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This week, The Drill Down celebrates our 500th episode! Andy, Dwayne, & Tosin reminiscence over the past ten years in tech and social media-- since July 2007-- with original TDD co-hosts Reg Saddler & Muhammad Saleem, and past co-hosts Lidija Davis, Tom Cheredar, Devindra Hardawar and Christopher Burnor!

Discussed:

• Facebook admits to nearly as many fake or clone accounts as the U.S. population
• Two popular conservative Twitter personalities were just outed as Russian trolls

Audible Book of the Week

• Soonish by Kelly Weinersmith & Zach Weinersmith
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The Drill Down Video of the Week

• FLASHBACK: The Drill Down 108: LIVE From Blogworld Expo 2009

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This week, Social media comes before congress, tech finds fake fish, what jobs will be hot in the next 5 years, in-depth look at the Tesla 3, do chimps possess imagination?,  and much more. 

What We're Playing With

Andy & Dwayne: Stranger Things 2

Tosin: Oxenfree, Pixel XL 2

Headlines

• Why Nerds and Nurses Are Taking Over the U.S. Economy
• Fish Fraud’ Is Rampant. Here’s How to Fix It

Audible Book of the Week

• The White Song: Chronicles of the Black Gate, Book 5 by Phil Tucker
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Music Break: From Russia With Love by Matt Munro

Hot Topic: Social Media on Trial

• Twitter is banning all ads from Russian news agencies RT and Sputnik effective immediately
  • Twitter Offered RT 15% Of Its Total Share Of US Elections Advertising
• 5 things we learned when Facebook, Google and Twitter testified to Congress about Russia’s election meddling
  • Trump and Clinton spent $81M on US election Facebook ads, Russian agency $46K
  • Facebook: preventing abuse will cut into future profits
  • Representatives From Facebook, Twitter And Google Testify About Russia's Election Influence
• Forget Washington. Facebook’s Problems Abroad Are Far More Disturbing

Music Break: Monkey Man by The Maytals

Final Word

• Chimp "Girls" Play With "Dolls" Too—First Wild Evidence

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

• First In-Depth look at the Tesla Model 3

• It's Mueller Time! Trump Administration Season Ending

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This week, Google floats the internet over Puerto Rico, Twitter comes clean with political ads, Snapchat’s big fail, Amazon gets fresh inside your front door, tons of Tesla news, Netflix's ‘Binge racing’? and much more.

Headlines

• Google parent turns on internet balloons in Puerto Rico
• Twitter will now label political ads
• It Sounds Like Snap Spectacles Turned Into a Massive Boondoggle
• Amazon Key takes deliveries to new level: Inside your home
  • How Amazon trains its AI

Audible Book of the Week

• The Iron Circlet (Chronicles of the Black Gate, Book 4) by Phil Tucker
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Music Break: She Drives Me Crazy by Fine Young Cannibals

Hot Topic: Transportation Tech

• Tesla strikes another deal that shows it's about to turn the car insurance world upside down
• Geohot: Tesla Autopilot = Apple iOs, Comma.ai = Android (CleanTechnica Exclusive)
• Tesla hit with another lawsuit, this time alleging anti-LGBT harassment
• Report: Tesla fired hundreds of California employees this past week

Music Break: Stranger Things by Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein

Final Word

• Facebook translates 'good morning' into 'attack them', leading to arrest

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

• Netflix reveals viewers' favorite 'binge-racing' series: 'Gilmore Girls'

• Reporting on Las Vegas, Pixel by Pixel

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This week, speaking out on sexual harassment, Tesla sends power to Puerto Rico, protected WiFi is now vulnerable to eavesdropping, the battle for the net, giant robots duke it out!, and much more. 

What We're Playing With

Andy: Local Library e-media resources (Kanopy)

Dwayne: Amazon in Denver?

Headlines

• Tesla starts shipping Powerpacks to Puerto Rico
• Movies Anywhere App Launches With Joint Studio Backing
• Severe flaw in WPA2 protocol leaves Wi-Fi traffic open to eavesdropping

• Qualcomm Seeks China iPhone Ban, Expanding Apple Legal Fight
  • Apple to appeal five-year-long patent battle after $439.7 million loss
• Battle for the Net

Audible Book of the Week

• The Siege of Abythos (Chronicles of the Black Gate, Book 3) by Phil Tucker
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Music Break: Fighter by Christina Aguilera Hot Topic: #MeToo

• Celebrities Join Twitter Boycott in Solidarity with Rose McGowan
  • Twitter CEO promises to crack down on hate, violence and harassment with “more aggressive” rules
  • A Black Woman Created the “Me Too” Campaign Against Sexual Assault 10 Years Ago
    • Sexual Assault Movement #MeToo Reaches Nearly 500,000 Tweets
  • On harassment in the film world: where do we go from here?
  • Amazon Studios exec Roy Price resigns after sexual harassment claim

Music Break: A Cruel Angel's Thesis by Yoko Takahashi

Final Word

• How Google’s Quantum Computer Could Change the World

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

• The Giant Robot Duel: Megabots vs. Suidobashi

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This week, Russian hackers use antivirus software to steal US secrets, Oculus’ new headset, AOL Instant Messenger says, “Goodbye”, the end of Windows phone, and much more.

What We're Playing With

Tosin: Note 8,  Blade Runner 2049

Andy & Dwayne: Blade Runner 2049

Headlines

• Russian Hackers Stole NSA Data on U.S. Cyber Defense
  • How Israel Caught Russian Hackers Scouring the World for U.S. Secrets
• Google uncovers Russian-bought ads on YouTube, Gmail and other platforms
• Oculus announces new $199 self-contained VR headset called Oculus Go, shipping in 2018

Audible Book of the Week

• The Black Shriving (Chronicles of the Black Gate, Book 2) by Phil Tucker
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Music Break: Goodbye, Goodbye by Oingo Boingo

Hot Topic: "Goodbye"

• AOL Instant Messenger is shutting down after 20 years
  • The Rise and Fall of AIM, the Breakthrough AOL Never Wanted
• Microsoft finally admits Windows Phone is dead

Music Break: Amazing Stories by John Williams

Final Word

• Steven Soderbergh and HBO’s mini-series Mosaic will be interactive via an app
• Apple’s big jump into original content will start with Steven Spielberg’s Amazing Stories

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

Star Wars: The Last Jedi trailer

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This week, Google updates the Pixel; If you were on Yahoo, you were definitely hacked; Ikea buys Taskrabbit; rocket to work and back, and much more.

Headlines

• Ikea has bought TaskRabbit
• IRS awards Equifax no-bid, $7.25 million contract after hack
• Yahoo Triples Estimate of Breached Accounts to 3 Billion
• Twitter details how Russian-linked accounts bought $270,000 of ads during election
  • Russia-linked Facebook ads seen by 10 million users

Audible Book of the Week

• The Path of Flames Chronicles of the Black Gate, Book 1 by Phil Tucker
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Music Break: Bear Claws by The Academic

Hot Topic: Google Pixel Event

• Everything Google Announced Today
• Everything Google announced at its big hardware event
  • Pixel 2
  • Pixel 2 XL
  • Google Home Mini
  • Google Home Max
  • Pixelbook
  • Pixel Buds
  • Google Clips
  • Daydream View

Music Break: Rocket Man by Elton John

Final Word

• AI told Coca-Cola to make Cherry Sprite. So it did
• Elon Musk proposes city-to-city travel by rocket, right here on Earth

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• The Academic - Bear Claws (Live Looper Version)

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This week, Amazon surprises us all with new products for the holidays, The President’s inciting tweets may be twice as annoying in the future, Uber is told to steer clear of London, Google & HTC team up , and much more.

What We're Playing With

Andy: Neo Yokio

Tosin: Bojack Horseman, American Vandal

Dwayne: Star Trek: Discovery

Headlines

• Nasty Password-Pilfering Hack Ruins Apple macOS High Sierra Launch
• Twitter pledges to update public policies after Trump threatens North Korea
  • Twitter trials expanding tweets from 140 characters to 280
• Uber Loses London Operating Licence After Shock Ruling By TfL

Audible Book of the Week

• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? By Philip K. Dick
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Music Break: Main Title from 'Blade Runner' by Vangelis

Hot Topics

• Google Paid HTC $1.1 Billion To Turn Itself Into a Phone Maker
  • Why Google is spending $1.1 billion to ‘acqhire’ 2,000 HTC engineers
• Here's Everything Amazon Announced Today
  • New Echo
  • Echo Plus
  • Echo Buttons
  • Echo Connect
  • Echo Spot
  • BMW Echo Integration
  • Big Mouth Bass
  • Fire TV 4K

Music Break: Blade Runner Blues by Vangelis

Final Word

• Nerve implant 'restores consciousness' to man in vegetative state

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Blade Runner: Black Out 2022 by Shinichiro Watanabe

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This week, Tosin’s Pax picks, iPhone updates, more Equifax fallout, can you buy hate speech ads on Facebook?, and much more. 

What We're Playing With

Dwayne: iPhone X updates; Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security

Tosin: PAX PRIME RECAP

1. Thimbleweed Park
2. Figment
3. The Gardens Between
4. Moonlighter
5. We the Revolution

Headlines

• Failure to patch two-month-old bug led to massive Equifax breach
  • Equifax Suffered a Hack Almost Five Months Earlier Than the Date It Disclosed
  • FTC probes Equifax, top Democrat likens it to Enron
  • Equifax security and information executives to retire

Audible Book of the Week

• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
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Music Break: American Errorist (I Hate Hate Haters) by NOFX

Hot Topic: Hate Speech Ads

• Facebook Enabled Advertisers to Reach ‘Jew Haters’
  • Twitter Lets You Target Ads to Millions of People Who Use the N-Word
  • Google Allowed Advertisers To Target  "Jewish Parasite," "Black People Ruin Everything"
• Reddit's ban on white nationalists led to a dramatic drop in hate speech

Music Break: Fuck You by CeeLo Green

Final Word

• Comcast, AT&T Are Paying Minority Groups To Support Killing Net Neutrality
• California Sides With Comcast, Votes To Kill Broadband Privacy Law Favored By EFF

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

• Jacksfilms iPhone X (parody)

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This week, TardisBlend host Tom Cheredar joins Dwayne, Tosin & Andy to discuss Apple’s new products, including the iPhone X, the worst leak of personal info ever, AI beats humans at gaydar, and much more. 

Hot Topic: Apple Special Event 2017

• iPhone X event: the five most important things from the Apple keynote
• Apple’s iPhone X event: Everything important Apple just announced
  • Apple iPhone 8
  • Apple Watch Series 3
  • Apple TV 4K
  • Apple iPhone X
  • Apple Retail updates

Audible Book of the Week

• It by Stephen King
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Music Break: She's Not There by The Zombies

Headlines

• Why the Equifax breach is very possibly the worst leak of personal info ever
  • Chatbot lets you sue Equifax for up to $25,000 without a lawyer

Music Break: Born This Way by Lady Gaga

Final Word

• New AI can work out whether you're gay or straight from a photograph

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

Apple iPhone X event in 15 minutes iPhone X — Introducing iPhone X — Apple iPhone 8 — iPhone in a Whole New Light — Apple

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This week, are algorithms racist? The Red Sox think different about cheating, Russians bought 2016 US election ads on Facebook, tech companies want to keep dreamers, and much more. 

What We're Playing With

Andy: Eufy Body Smart Scale

Dwayne: Clone Wars ends

Headlines

• Apple announces iPhone event on Sept. 12 in Steve Jobs Theater
• Russians Have Hacked Dozens Of US Energy Companies, Researchers Say
• Facebook says it sold political ads to Russian company during 2016 election

Audible Book of the Week

• Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark
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Music Break: Dream On Dreamer by The Brand New Heavies

Hot Topics

• Turns Out Algorithms Are Racist
• Tests show phrases like “I am a gay black woman” deemed “toxic” by Google Jigsaw's Perspective AI tool that's used by some publishers to filter abusive comments

• Tech industry calls for legislative action after Trump administration announces end DACA
  • U.S. House unanimously approves sweeping self-driving car measure

Music Break: Centerfield by John Fogerty

Final Word

• Red Sox Used Apple Watches to Help Steal Signs Against Yankees
  • Red Sox say they have video evidence of Yanks using YES camera to steal signs

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• How AI can bring on a second Industrial Revolution | Kevin Kelly

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This week, Amazon primes Whole Foods, Uber has a new head, Samsung loses its head, Half-Life comes to an end(?), Germany solves "the trolley problem", and much more. 

What We're Playing With Andy: HBO’s Room 104: Ep. 5 “The Internet”

Headlines

• Uber makes CEO pick official, Kalanick makes first comment
  • Uber says it'll stop tracking riders after they're dropped off
• Samsung Heir Is Found Guilty of Corruption in Blockbuster Trial
• 'Half Life' writer reveals what could've been Episode 3

Audible Book of the Week

• A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution by Jennifer A. Doudna, Samuel H. Sternberg
  • F.D.A. Approves First Gene-Altering Leukemia Treatment, Costing $475,000
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Music Break: Lost in the Supermarket by The Clash

Hot Topic: Amazon + Whole Foods

• Amazon Cuts Whole Foods Prices as Much as 43% on First Day
  • Amazon's Whole Foods deal will make Alexa a lot smarter
• Amazon Cortana

Music Break: Airbag by Radiohead

Final Word: The Trolley Problem

• Kill animals and destroy property before hurting humans, Germany tells future self-driving cars
• Cummins beats Tesla to EV semi truck

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• The Trolley Problem: Consequentialism as illustrated by “I, Robot”

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photo by Kirsten Jorgensen

This week, the battle for free speech on the internet, Android Oreo is here, Solar Eclipse 2017, Samsung bursts onto the scene with a new Galaxy Note, Elon Musk wants to stop killer robots, and much, much more.

What We're Playing With

Andy:  Halt and Catch Fire season 4

Tosin: Apple AirPods

Dwayne: Solar Eclipse 2017

Headlines

• Google reveals Android O is named Oreo, begins rollout to Nexus and Pixel devices
• Verizon to start throttling video on smartphones on all unlimited data plans to 720p, with the cheapest “Go Unlimited” plan limiting video to 480p
• Jeff Immelt has emerged as the front-runner to become Uber’s CEO
• Walmart and Google partner on voice-based shopping
• HTC cuts the Vive VR headset's price to $599

Audible Book of the Week

• Angel: How to Invest in Technology Startups - Timeless Advice from an Angel Investor Who Turned $100,000 into $100,000,000 by Jason Calacanis
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Music Break: Total Eclipse of the Heart (Dance Mix) by Nicki French

Hot Topic: Free Speech on the Internet

• Fighting Neo-Nazis and the Future of Free Expression
  • Daily Stormer Takedown Is 'Dangerous' for Free Speech, Says EFF
• How Hate Groups Forced Online Platforms to Reveal Their True Nature
  • Cloudflare CEO on Terminating Service to Neo-Nazi Site: 'The Daily Stormer Are Assholes'
• Unlikely Allies Join Fight To Protect Free Speech On The Internet

Music Break: Starman by David Bowie

Final Word

• Elon Musk leads 116 experts calling for outright ban on killer robots

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Hands-On Review

• Elon Musk Space X space Suit

 

First picture of SpaceX spacesuit. More in days to follow. Worth noting that this actually works (not a mockup). Already tested to double vacuum pressure. Was incredibly hard to balance esthetics and function. Easy to do either separately.

A post shared by Elon Musk (@elonmusk) on Aug 23, 2017 at 12:59am PDT

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This week, “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber” the memo that’s rocked Silicon Valley, Netflix poaches from Disney & Disney leaves Netflix, an AI masters DOTA 2, hacking computers with DNA, and much more.

What We're Playing With

Andy: TomTom Go 50 S Portable GPS

Dwayne: iPad Pro and “Yes, You’re Racist”

Headlines

• Netflix made its 'first ever' acquisition by buying Mark Millar's comic book publisher
  • Disney to end Netflix deal and launch its own streaming service
  • Netflix Lures Shonda Rhimes Away From ABC Studios
• OpenAI’s bot beats top Dota 2 player so badly that he quits

Audible Book of the Week

• Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku
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Music Break: Anything You Can Do from "Annie Get Your Gun" by Bernadette Peters and Tom Wopat

Hot Topic: "Google's Ideological Echo Chamber"

• Google Employee's Anti-Diversity Manifesto Goes 'Internally Viral'
• Exclusive: Here's The Full 10-Page Anti-Diversity Screed Circulating Internally at Google
• The Google Memo: Four Scientists Respond
• Former Google Engineer Yonatan Zunger on Anti-Diversity Memo
• Google Fires Author of Divisive Memo on Gender Differences
• YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki defends firing of memo writer
• Google CEO Sundar Pichai canceled an all-hands meeting about gender controversy due to employee worries of online harassment
• Why I Was Fired by Google by James Damore
• The Alt-Right Finds a New Enemy in Silicon Valley
• How Silicon Valley’s Workplace Culture Produced James Damore’s Google Memo

Music Break: Bad Blood by Taylor Swift

Final Word

• Forget Tough Passwords: New Guidelines Make It Simple
• Biohackers Encoded Malware in a Strand of DNA

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

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This week, Game of Thrones is hacked and so are US voting machines, we learn more about the Tesla Model 3, designer disease-free babies, the Rotten Tomatoes effect, and much more.

Headlines

• HBO hacked: Upcoming episodes, Game of Thrones data leaked online
  • Hackers Stole ‘Thousands of Internal Documents’
• Apple removes VPN apps from the App Store in China
  • Putin Signs Controversial Law Tightening Internet Restrictions
• It took DEF CON hackers minutes to pwn these US voting machines

Audible Book of the Week

• The Art of Invisibility by Kevin Mitnick
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Music Break: Cars by Gary Neumann

Hot Topic: Tesla Model 3 Hand Over

• Everything we just learned about the Tesla Model 3
• Gigafactory Will Produce More Batteries Than the Rest of the World Combined…by a Factor of 2!

Music Break: Take On Me by A-Ha

Final Word

• Human embryos edited to stop disease
• Studios Fight Back Against Withering Rotten Tomatoes Scores

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

• Someone made the ‘Take On Me’ music video come to life with AR and it’s glorious

• Boston Dynamics "Spot mini" demonstration 2017

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This week, the Dark Web is down, is Amazon Prime Day a ripoff, FCC buries public protests on net neutrality, the end of MS Paint & Adobe Flash, we go to Comic-con, and much more.

What We're Playing With

Andy: Comic-Con International: San Diego 2017

Headlines

• Authorities Shut Down Two Major Dark Web Markets
• Lyft launches a new self-driving division and will develop its own autonomous ride-hailing technology
  • Didi and SoftBank are investing $2 billion in ride-hail company Grab
    • U.K. Bans Gas And Diesel Cars Starting 2040: Electric Cars Are The Future
• A Wisconsin company will let employees use microchip implants to buy snacks and open doors
  • Foxconn to invest $10 billion on plant in Wisconsin plant
• Amazon jacked up Prime Day prices, misleading consumers, says vendor

Audible Book of the Week

• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
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Music Break: Tom Sawyer by Rush

Hot Topic: FCC & Net Neutrality

• FCC Now Says There Is No Documented 'Analysis' of the Cyberattack It Claims Crippled Its Website in May
  • Record 9 million comments flood FCC on net neutrality
  • Lawsuit seeks Ajit Pai’s net neutrality talks with Internet providers
• Verizon admits to throttling video in apparent violation of net neutrality

Music Break: 'Stranger Things' theme by Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein

Final Word

• Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
  • Microsoft says MS Paint will be available on the Windows Store as a free standalone app
• Get ready to finally say goodbye to Flash — in 2020

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Stranger Things Season 2 trailer

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This week, Oculus VR about  to go wireless, Google Glass comes back, Amazon challenges meal deliveries, suicidal robots, creepy walks, and much more.

What We're Playing With

Andy: Masterbuilt 30” Digital Electric Smoker + Slow Smoker attachment

Tosin: Hidrate Spark

Dwayne: Thermos 24 Ounce Hydration Bottle with Connected Smart Lid, Teal

Headlines

• Facebook Plans to Unveil a $200 Wireless Oculus VR Headset for 2018
• Amazon is already selling pre-packaged ‘Meal Kits’ as it bites into service from Blue Apron and others
• 'Despacito' Quickly Becomes The Most-Streamed Song Ever

Audible Book of the Week

• The X-Files: Cold Cases read by David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson & other X-Files cast-members
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Music Break: X-Files Theme by Mark Snow

Hot Topic: Google Updates

• Google Has Paid Thousands to Academics Writing About Google
• Google Glass 2.0 Is a Startling Second Act
• Google introduces the feed, a personalized stream of news on iOS and Android

Music Break: Despacito by Luis Fonsi (ft. Daddy Yankee)

Final Word

• Security robot 'drowns itself' in office fountain
  • Give robots an 'ethical black box' to track and explain decisions, say scientists

The Drill Down Videos of the Week: Creepy Walks

• Emergence of Locomotion Behaviours in Rich Environments

• "Going to the Store" by David Lewandowski

• Ready to Monday: Take On Me by The Band of the Bold

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This week, bad bro-grammers and the victims speaking out against them, Jawbone gives up, Alexa calls the cops, the first teleportation into space  and, much more.

Headlines

• Trump proposes joint cybersecurity unit with Russia, then backtracks as critics squawk
• Fitness-tracking company Jawbone, once worth $3 billion, is shutting down and liquidating its assets
• Smart Home Device Breaks Up Domestic Dispute By Calling the Police

Audible Book of the Week

• Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Music Break: Bad Boys by Inner Circle

Hot Topic: Bad Bro-grammers

• Silicon Valley Women, in Cultural Shift, Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment
• Dave McClure: I’m a Creep. I’m Sorry.
• Chris Sacca: I Have More Work To Do.
• Silicon Valley's 'bro culture' slammed by Harvey Mudd president
• I'm a startup founder and I had sex with an investor — and I am sorry

Music Break: Beam Me Up by CAZZETTE Final Word

• Scientists Just Teleported a Photon from Earth to Orbit for the First Time

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Net Neutrality explained and why it matters

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This week, a mega robocaller gets hung up, Tesla dances to its own beats, Alexa checks in, Google gets slammed, beware more ransomware, and, much more. 

Cold Open

• Nintendo SNES Mini launches in September

Headlines

• Miami Man Fined $120 Million for Making 96 Million Robocalls in Three Months
• First Tesla Model 3 spotted outside the US
  • Tesla is talking to the music labels about creating its own streaming service
• Amazon rolls out Alexa intercom function, letting users “drop in” on Echo speakers remotely

Audible Book of the Week

• The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone by Brian Merchant
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Music Break: Telephone by Pomplamoose

Hot Topic

• Google hit with record £2.1bn EU fine for abusing internet search monopoly
• A new ransomware attack is infecting airlines, banks, and utilities across Europe
  • Ransomware attack spreads to 64 countries including the Asia-Pacific region, is said to originate in software from a Ukrainian tax accountancy firm

Music Break: Blister in the Sun by Violent Femmes

Final Word: Kala-not

• More than 1,000 Uber employees ask for Travis Kalanick to return
  • Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has resigned due to investor pressure, and a search for a new leader is on

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Solar-powered 3D glass printing from sand

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This week, is this the end of Uber’s downward spiral?, Amazon buys Whole Foods, most US voters have been hacked, why you can’t be kicked off the internet, a precedent-setting case of manslaughter via text, and much, much more.

Headlines

• This Email From Elon Musk to Tesla Employees Is a Master Class in Emotional Intelligence
• Uber Founder Travis Kalanick Resigns as C.E.O.
  • Uber Starts Charging What It Thinks You’re Willing to Pay
  • Uber will finally let its drivers accept tips
• Judge finds Michelle Carter guilty of manslaughter in texting suicide case

Audible Book of the Week

• The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone
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Music Break: Lost in the Supermarket by The Clash

Hot Topics

• Amazon is buying Whole Foods for $13.7 billion
  • At Last, Jeff Bezos Offers a Hint of His Philanthropic Plans
• Massive leak of 198 million US voter records is "largest ever"
• President Trump wants a ‘sweeping transformation’ of government tech

Music Break: You Left the Water Running by Wilson Pickett

What We're Playing With

Andy: The Witness

Dwayne: Joule sous vide cooker and Chef Steps website.

Tosin: iPad 10.5

Final Word

• Supreme Court Says You Can't Ban People From The Internet, No Matter What They've Done

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Water droplets create amazing human-like animations in this Gatorade​ ad

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This week, E3, the Superbowl for game developers, Uber fails again, and, much much more.

Hot Topic: E3 2017

• EA at E3 2017: the 5 biggest announcements
• Microsoft Announces Xbox One X, Will Be $500
  • Microsoft E3 2017
• Bethesda at E3 2017: the 4 most important announcements
• E3 2017: All the trailers from the PC Gaming Show
• Ubisoft at E3 2017: The 8 best announcements
• Everything Revealed at Sony's E3 2017 Press Conference
• Everything Nintendo Announced At E3 2017
• Indiecade at E3

Audible Book of the Week

• Replay: The History of Video Games by Tristan Donovan
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Music Break: The World Could Always Use More Heroes from 'Overwatch' by Derek Duke, Neal Acree, Sam Cardon, Cris Velasco

Headlines:

• Sorry humans, Microsoft’s AI is the first to reach a perfect Ms. Pac-Man score
• Gamers aren’t buying the VR hype, and game makers are quietly hedging their bets
• Intel Is Helping Amazon Build Its Alexa Artificial Intelligence Kingdom
• At 'Washington Post,' Tech Is Increasingly Boosting Financial Performance
• Scientists make biodegradable microbeads from cellulose

Music Break: Overture: Lore from 'The Last Guardian' by Takeshi Furukawa

Final Word: Über Uber Drama

• Uber CEO takes leave of absence amid crises
  • David Bonderman Resigns From Uber Board After Sexist Remark

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Dunkey's E3 2017

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This week, more trouble for Uber, a leaked NSA report on the 2016 election, great news for indie game developers, and all the best from Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference, much more.

What We're Playing With

Andy, Dwayne, Tosin: Wonder Woman

Headlines

• Top-Secret NSA Report Details Russian Hacking Effort Days Before 2016 Election
  • How The Intercept Outed Reality Winner
• Supreme Court to rule on cellphone location privacy
• Uber Fires More Than 20 Employees in Harassment Probe
  • Uber exec obtained medical records of rider raped in India in '14, and was fired only after media inquiries; Kalanick, Michael doubted victim's claims

Audible Book of the Week

• The New Analog: Listening and Reconnecting in a Digital World by Damon Krukowski
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Music Break: You Spin Me Round by Dope

Hot Topic: Apple WWDC 2017

• The 8 biggest announcements from Apple WWDC 2017
• Everything Apple Announced Today at WWDC

Music Break: Steam by Peter Gabriel

Final Word

• Want to get your game on Steam? $100 is all you need

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

• Apple WWDC 2017 keynote in 19 minutes

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This week, a virus is going around Chipolte (and this time it’s not in the food), new gadgets from Intel, Nest & others, Google’s gender pay gap, the undead comment on Net Neutrality plus much, much more.

What We're Playing With

Tosin: LG OLED-65-E6P (E6 OLED 4K HDR Smart TV - 65")

Andy & Dwayne: Alien: Covenant

Headlines

• Chipotle says ‘most’ of its restaurants were infected with credit card stealing malware
• Essential Home is an Amazon Echo competitor that puts privacy first
• Nest cams back from the dead with new home monitoring device
• Intel unveils X-series platform: Up to 18 cores and 36 threads, from $242 to $2,000

Audible Book of the Week

• Wonder Woman Unbound: The Curious History of the World's Most Famous Heroine by Tim Hanley
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Music Break: Is She With You? from 'Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice'  by Hans Zimmer & Junkie XL

Hot Topics

• Accused of underpaying women, Google says it's too expensive to get wage data
• Net neutrality: 'Dead people' signing FCC consultation
• Uber fires autonomous driving lead engineer over Waymo controversy
  • Uber’s Finance Head Leaves Amid $708 Million Loss

Music Break: Respect  by Aretha Franklin

Final Word

• Musk Joins CEOs Calling for U.S. to Stay in Paris Climate Deal

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Terry Crews explains why he decided to build his own PC

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This week, hope for WannaCry victims, FCC starts to scrap Net Neutrality, bad news for patent trolls, Facebook’s rulebook, Google's AI beats human gameplayers on their own turf,  plus much, much more.

What We're Playing With

Andy: Twin Peaks on Showtime; Disney Research Science Fair

Dwayne: Empire of the Dead, by Phil Tucker

Headlines

• More people infected by recent WCry worm can unlock PCs without paying ransom
• FCC moves ahead with plan to scrap net neutrality rules
  • There be dragons? Why net neutrality groups won't go to Congress
• The US Supreme Court just made life much harder for patent trolls

Audible Book of the Week

• The Boy on the Bridge by M. R. Carey
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Music Break: Dance of the Dream Man from 'Twin Peaks' by Angelo Badalamenti

Hot Topics

• Facebook's internal rulebook on sex, terrorism and violence
  • At Facebook we get things wrong – but we take our safety role seriously
• Wikipedia can pursue NSA surveillance lawsuit: U.S. appeals court

Music Break: Principal's Office from 'Wargames' by Arthur B. Rubenstein

Final Word

• Google’s AlphaGo Defeats Chinese Go Master in Win for A.I.
  • This is what the world’s top StarCraft players think of a potential contest with advanced AI

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Disney Research Hub on YouTube

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This week, a global ransomware hack will make you WannaCry, Google’s I/O Conference, babies made from skin cells, Apple builds a new new spaceship & a pizza box, plus much, much more.

What We're Playing With 

Dwayne: Boulder Startup Week

Headlines

• HP is shipping audio drivers with a built-in keylogger
• WannaCry ransomware: Everything you need to know
  • Massive ransomware infection hits computers in 99 countries
  • Microsoft president blasts NSA for its role in 'WannaCry' computer ransom attack
  • Cybersecurity shares surge as WannaCry ransomware continues to wreak havoc

Audible Book of the Week

• The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey
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Music Break: Cry by Godley and Creme

Hot Topic: Google I/O 2017

• The 10 biggest announcements from Google I/O 2017
  • Android surpasses 2 BN devices
  • Google Assistant can see & understand the world around you
  • Google Assistant on iPhone
  • Google Home turns into a phone
  • Home gets way more useful
  • Google Photos adds books & effortless sharing
  • Standalone VR helmets are coming
  • Android O beta is available
  • Android Go
  • Tensor Processing Unit AI Chip
• Google Wants Android and Its Assistant to Power Your Car Too

Music Break: I've Got You Under My Skin by Frank Sinatra

Final Word

• Apple’s New Campus: An Exclusive Look Inside the Mothership
  • Apple patented a pizza box, for pizzas
• Babies From Skin Cells? Prospect Is Unsettling to Some Experts

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

• Saturday Night Live: Amazon Echo Silver

• Star Trek: Discovery - First Look Trailer

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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, Hulu’s skinny bundle, Facebook fixes Live, Amazon has something new to Show, boots that keep you running,  and Net Neutrality needs your help again,  plus much, much more.

What We're Playing With

Andy: Blade Runner: 2049 trailer; Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2

Dwayne & Tosin: Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2

Headlines

• Hulu launches its live TV service for $40 a month
• Facebook is hiring 3,000 more people to monitor Facebook Live for murders, suicides, and other horrific video
• Apple just promised to give US manufacturing a $1 billion boost

Audible Book of the Week

• Alien: Out of the Shadows: An Audible Original Drama
• Alien: River of Pain: An Audible Original Drama
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Music Break: Show Don't Tell by Rush

Hot Topic: Amazon Echo Show & Alexa Calling

• Amazon unveils the $230 Echo Show, with a screen for calls, shipping June 28
  • Amazon enables free calls and messages on all Echo devices with Alexa Calling
  • Amazon invested millions in the startup Nucleus — then cloned its product for the new Echo

Music Break: These Boots Were Made For Walking by Nancy Sinatra

Final Word

• Check Out These Boots That Are Being Tested by the US Military — They Create Power Out of Everyday Movement
• Red Nose Day USA

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• John Oliver Just Crashed the FCC’s Website Over Net Neutrality—Again
  • Anti-net neutrality spammers are flooding FCC's pages with fake comments

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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, Dwayne & Tosin are joined by guest Tom Cheredar to discuss: the NSA quits snooping on your emails, HIV gets fried in the CRISPR, Facebook fumbles, Microsoft goes back to school, Man is going to Mars,  and much, much more.

What We're Playing With Dwayne: Aquagenie

Headlines

• N.S.A. Halts Collection of Americans’ Emails About Foreign Targets
• CRISPR Eliminates HIV in Live Animals
• It’s Official. Humans Are Going to Mars. NASA Has Unveiled Their Mission.

Audible Book of the Week

• Change Agent by Daniel Suarez
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Music Break: Moving to Mars by Coldplay

Hot Topic

• Leaked document reveals Facebook conducted research to target emotionally vulnerable and insecure youth
• Facebook’s Female Engineers Claim Gender Bias
• Everything Microsoft announced at its EDU event
  • Surface laptop
  • Windows 10 S
  • Partner laptops
  • Minecraft: Education Edition upgrades
  • Mixed reality

Music Break: Let's Call the Whole Thing Off by Harry Connick, Jr.

Final Word

• The Echo Look. Revisiting Amazon's New Thing

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

Vegetable sorters

Optical Potato Sorter

Optical French Fry Sorter

Optical Tomato Sorter

Defenders Trailer

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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, a wiki for fake news, An Amazon Echo with a camera, The Pope gives a TED Talk, an artificial womb, and... yes, Uber’s shenanigans are in the news again,  all this and much much more.

What We're Playing With

Andy, Dwayne, Tosin: American Gods

Headlines

• Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales launches Wikitribune, a large-scale attempt to combat fake news
• Survey: Most Millennials Both Pay For Streaming Services And Use Pirate Streams When Content Isn't Legally Available
• Amazon’s new Echo Look
• As Rooftop Solar Challenges Utilities, One Aims For A Compromise

Audible Book of the Week

• The Circle by Dave Eggers
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Music Break: Private Eyes by Lenachka

Hot Topic

• Uber's Kalanick got caught for tricking Apple, risking expulsion from Apple Store
• Unroll.me CEO says it's “heartbreaking” that users are upset Unroll.me sold their anonymized email data to Uber
• The Pope gave a TED Talk and asked tech companies to do better

Music Break: Plug In Baby by Muse

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• An artificial womb successfully grew baby sheep — and humans could be next

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This week, Tosin gives us the lowdown from Star Wars Celebration, Uber stalked Lyft drivers, a killer on Facebook, Facebook’s developers conference, inmates build a secret PC,  all this and much much more.

What We're Playing With Tosin: Star Wars Celebration Orlando

Headlines

• Steve Ballmer’s $10m project will surface everything you wanted to know about government spending
• Elon Musk says Tesla will unveil its electric semi truck in September
  • VW to build a ‘nationwide 150 kW+ fast charging network’ for electric vehicles as part of Dieselgate settlement

Audible Book of the Week

• The Handmaid's Tale: Special Edition by Margaret Atwood
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Music Break: East Bound and Down by Jerry Reed

Hot Topic

• Uber reportedly stalked Lyft drivers using secret ‘Hell’ software
• Facebook releases timeline of murder filmed live on platform
  • Suspected ‘Facebook killer’ found dead
• Facebook F8 Conference
  • Facebook Camera AR
  • Facebook Spaces VR
  • 360 Capture SDK
• Facebook and the Cost of Monopoly

Music Break: Rey's Theme from Star Wars:The Force Awakens by John Williams

Final Word

• Five Inmates Built Two PCs and Hacked a Prison From Within

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

• Star Wars: The Last Jedi teaser trailer

• The Last Jedi side-by-side with The Force Awakens trailer

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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, Did Russia & China attempt to interfere with the Brexit vote as well? Dallas emergency sirens hacked, Taser offers bodycams to every US police officer, Tesla tops US automakers, and, yes, we’re gonna talk about that United Airlines thing... all this and much much more.

What We're Playing With

Andy & Dwayne: Your Name

Headlines

• FCC head Ajit Pai reportedly outlines plans to roll back net neutrality rules
• Brexit: foreign states may have interfered in vote, report says
• Hackers breach Dallas warning system

Audible Book of the Week

• Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War by Fred Kaplan
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Music Break: Every Breath You Take by The Police

Hot Topic

• Taser International, now Axon, to offer free body cameras for every US police officer
• The buzz around the iPhone 8 is already hurting sales of rival smartphones
• It's time for Google and Facebook to freak out about Amazon
• Tesla passes General Motors to become the most valuable US automaker

Music Break: Come Fly With Me by Frank Sinatra

Final Word

• SpaceX Just Made History By Relaunching A Rocket Into Space For The First Time

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

• Watch Seattle's Massive Tunnel Borer Finally Emerge From the Ground

• United Airlines dominated online video this week.
  • United Airlines stock loses altitude, sheds $255 million in value

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This week, April Fools’ on the web, Android becomes the #1 OS online, AOL & Yahoo’s new post-merger name, did ISPs sell your privacy rights? The FCC chairman pleads his case... and much much more.

What We're Playing With

Dwayne: Rogue One Blu-Ray (Target Collector’s Edition); Pebble Classic Refurb for skiiing.

Andy: Rick and Morty Season 3 premiere

Tosin: Rick and Morty Season 3 premiere, Lootcrate & Lootwear

Headlines

• Twitter stops counting @ Replies towards its 140 characters
• Google’s Android Overtakes Windows as the World’s Number 1 Operating System
• Apple is developing its own graphics chips for the iPhone
  • Apple admits the Mac Pro was a mess
• YouTube TV review: a DVR to rule them all

Audible Book of the Week

• New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson
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Music Break: Goodbye Moonmen (from 'Rick and Morty') by Jemaine Clement

Hot Topic

• Trump has officially ended federal online privacy rules
  • No, Republicans didn’t just strip away your Internet privacy rights
• Trump Cracks Down on H-1B Visa Program That Feeds Silicon Valley
• AOL and Yahoo plan to call themselves by a new name after the Verizon deal closes: Oath

Music Break: Diggers, Dumpers and Trucks by Kidzone

Final Word

• April Fool’s Day roundup: The best tech pranks from around the web

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

• Hilarious Amazon Echo Alexa Fail! - 2016
• Quilted Northern® uSit – World’s first biometric bathroom device

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This week, Congress just sold your internet privacy to the highest bidder, Samsung’s Galaxy S8, AI solves traffic jams, a heart made from spinach, Elon Musk wants to download your thoughts... and much much more.

What We're Playing With

Andy: Techmoan; Logan

Dwayne: Logan

Tosin: Logan

Headlines

• Tech community "dumbfounded" by Mnuchin's dismissal of AI impact on jobs
• New AI Algorithm Beats Even the World's Worst Traffic
• Tesla Model 3 'release candidate' drives off the lot
• Elon Musk Launches Neuralink to Connect Brains With Computers
• A female Uber employee spoke out after a company trip to a South Korean escort bar

Audible Book of the Week

• All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai
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Music Break: Fifty Years After the Fair by Aimee Mann

Hot Topic

• Samsung Unveils Galaxy S8 and S8+
• Republican Senators just sold your privacy to the highest bidder
  • US House votes to let ISPs sell your browser history
  • ‘Cards Against Humanity’ Creator Just Pledged To Buy and Publish Congress’s Browser History
• How can users protect themselves?

Music Break: Hungry Heart by Bruce Springsteen

Final Word

• Spinach Leaf Transformed Into Beating Human Heart Tissue

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

• Rayna meets a "robot"

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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, Siri & “OK Google” get new AI company from Samsung, Uber management crumbles, the US bans electronics from incoming flights, Resistbot, genetic discrimination, Amazon’s Mecha-CEO, a dartboard you’ll never miss... and much much more.

What We're Playing With

Andy: Anova sous vide Corned Beef

Dwayne: eBags Professional Slim Laptop Backpack

Tosin: Think Tank Photo Perception Pro Backpack, Peak Design CapturePRO Camera Clip

Headlines

• Netflix Replacing Star Ratings With Thumbs Ups and Thumbs Downs
• Samsung unveils its context-aware ‘Bixby’ AI assistant
• Spammy Google Home spouts audio ads without warning – now throw yours in the trash
• A.I. Is Doing Legal Work. But It Won’t Replace Lawyers, Yet.

Audible Book of the Week

• Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked by Adam Alter
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Music Break: Cars by Gary Neumann

Hot Topic: Transportation Tech

• Uber president Jeff Jones is quitting, citing differences over ‘beliefs and approach to leadership’
• Intel Joins Silicon Valley’s Race to Make Best ‘Server on Wheels’ With Mobileye Deal
• US authorities ban electronics larger than a phone from flights from 13 countries
• Hyperloop Transportation Technologies starts building its first full-size passenger pod

Music Break: Hit Me With Your Best Shot by Pat Benatar

Final Word

• Resistbot turns your text messages into daily letters to Congress
• Why We Should All Be Worried About Congress Eroding Protections Against Genetic Discrimination

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

• Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos piloted a 13-foot high robot

• Automatic Bullseye MOVING Dartboard

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This week, the culprits behind one of the largest data breaches in history, is your sexual activity being sold to marketers? how Amazon’s fake radio station pissed off Trumpsters, is this the end of privacy in the US?, and much much more.

What We're Playing With

Andy: Refun A100 Tactical Led Flashlight

Dwayne: SXSW, Last Exile

Tosin: Google Cloud Next conference

Headlines

• Google goes after Slack and splits Hangouts into Chat and Meet
• Vibrator maker ordered to pay out C$4m for tracking users' sexual activity

Audible Book of the Week

• Kindred by Octavia Butler
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Music Break: Good Vibrations by The Beach Boys

Hot Topic

• Justice Department: Russia's security services 'protected, directed, facilitated, and paid' hackers behind the massive breach of Yahoo
• The Feds Would Rather Drop a Child Porn Case Than Give Up a Tor Exploit
• FBI Director James Comey says 'absolute privacy' does not exist in the US

Music Break: This is Radio Clash by The Clash

Final Word

• Amazon launched a fake radio station to promote ‘The Man in the High Castle.’ Angry Trump supporters thought it was real

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Children interrupt live BBC News interview

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This week, How Uber is deceiving the authorities, Wikileaks’ secret trove of CIA hacks, How much is Snapchat worth?, Twitch takes on Twitter, using our DNA as near infinite memory storage and much much more.

What We're Playing With

Andy: Kensington Wired Mouse For Life (a ‘do not buy’); Abstract on Netflix Tosin: Tales by Light

Dwayne: Logan & Get Out

Headlines

• Snapchat stock finishes up 44% on first day
  • Snap stock suffers first major selloff since going public
• Twitch replaced its home page with a Twitter clone for gamers

Audible Book of the Week

• Animal Farm by George Orwell
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Music Break: Pigs (Three Different Ones) by Pink Floyd

Hot Topic

• How Uber Used Secret Greyball Tool to Deceive Authorities Worldwide
• WikiLeaks Releases Trove of Alleged C.I.A. Hacking Documents
  • The CIA is hacking Samsung Smart TVs, according to WikiLeaks docs
  • WIKILEAKS FILES SHOW THE CIA REPURPOSING HACKING CODE TO SAVE TIME, NOT TO FRAME RUSSIA

Music Break: Can't Hold Us Down by Christina Aguilera

Final Word

• Computer operating system and short movie stored on DNA
• Google's Deep Learning AI project diagnoses cancer faster than pathologists

The Drill Down Video of the Week

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This week, more tech responses to President Trump actions, Uber vs Google in a self-driving patent battle, Playstation, Xbox & YouTube in the news, SpaceX plans moon tourism, and much much more.

What We're Playing With

Dwayne: Pandemic (Board Game), Star Wars: The Power of the Costume Tosin:  Telltale Batman Series, Overcooked

Headlines

• Tech Companies Are Speaking Out Against Trump's Transgender Ruling
• Trump signs laws to promote women in STEM
• Alphabet’s Waymo is suing Otto and Uber for allegedly stealing the design of a key self-driving system
• Uber CEO Argues With Driver Over Falling Fares

• FCC to halt rule that protects your private data from security breaches

Audible Book of the Week

• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
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Music Break: Virtual Insanity by Jamiroquai

Hot Topics

• Sony's PlayStation VR turns out to be a big hit, selling close to 1 million headsets
• Xbox apes Netflix with $10 per month, 100-game unlimited “Pass”
• YouTube debuts YouTube TV, a $35/month service
  • YouTube Tops 1 Billion Hours of Video a Day, on Pace to Eclipse TV

 Music Break: Fly Me to the Moon by Frank Sinatra

Final Word

• Internet of Things Teddy Bear Leaked 2 Million Parent and Kids Message Recordings
• SpaceX to fly two space tourists around the moon in 2018

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Introducing Handle

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This week, Fighting terrorist drones... with eagles, Facebook’s vision for the future, should the robot that takes your job pay your taxes?, newly discovered planets that may contain life, and much much more.

What We're Playing With

Dwayne: Atlas Obscura and website

Tosin: Lightroom

Headlines

• Fitbit Has 'Zero Interest' In Building A Pebble Smartwatch
  • Fitbit reveals it paid $23 million to acquire Pebble’s assets
• Verizon revises deal with Yahoo to $4.48 billion
• Terrorists are building drones. France is destroying them with eagles.
• Bill Gates: The robot that takes your job should pay taxes

Audible Book of the Week

• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
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Music Break: Fly Like An Eagle by The Steve Miller Band

Hot Topics

• A former Uber employee’s disturbing claims of workplace sexism reignite calls to #deleteUber
• Mark Zuckerberg’s humanitarian manifesto

Music Break: Planet Claire by The B-52s

Final Word

• Newly discovered network of planets could harbor water and life, scientists say

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Modding a Porsche 911 to run Doom

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This week, US border guards may demand your passwords, Apple’s first TV show, Yahoo gets a markdown, PewdiePie gets canned, robot bees save the environment, and more.

What We're Playing With

Andy: Legion

Tosin: iMessage GamePigeon

Dwayne: Norse Mythology By Neil Gaiman ; 2016 Lexus RX 350

Headlines

• U.S. proposal to collect travelers' passwords alarms privacy experts
  • NASA scientist detained at US border until he unlocks his phone
• Matt Mitchell Is Arming Underserved Communities With Anti-Surveillance Tools
• MIT develops a speech recognition chip that uses a fraction of the power of existing technologies

Audible Book of the Week

• It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
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Music Break: The Hunt (from 'Planet of the Apes') by Jerry Goldsmith

Hot Topic

• Verizon is close to negotiating a new deal with Yahoo for about $250M
• Apple's First TV Show Looks Like a Cry for Help
• PewDiePie loses Disney deal as a result of anti-Semitic imagery
  • YouTube cancels PewDiePie's original series following Nazi controversy

Music Break: Honey to the Bee by Billie Piper

Final Word

• Pollution Has Worked Its Way Down To The World's Deepest Waters
• Robot bees: Plans for artificial pollinators

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Dog Wick

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This week, Tosin recaps PAX South, drones at the Super Bowl, the tech world opposes President Trump’s immigration ban, Snap goes IPO, factory robots on the rise, Tesla breaks another speed record, and more.

What We're Playing With

Andy: Super Bowl LI; Intel Flew 300 Drones in Sync to Create an Epic Light Show at the Super Bowl

Dwayne:  Voltron: Legendary Defender Season 2 (Netflix Exclusive)

Tosin: PAX South recap:

• Nintendo Switch/Zelda Breath of the Wild
  • Cost: $300, $60
  • Launch Date: March 3rd
  • Switch video

• Merge Virtual Reality & Holo Cube
  • Cost: $60
  • Launch Date: available now

• Haimrik
  • Cost: $15
  • Launch Date: May this year steam

• Death Squared:
  • PAX South 2017: Death Squared
  • Launch Date: Death Squared will be available on March 14th on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC, and Mac. The PlayStation 4 version will feature online multiplayer via the Share Play functionality.

• Semispheres
  •    Cost: $10
  •    Launch Date: Releasing on PS4 and PC on February 14th, 2017. XBox One following Q2 2017.

Headlines

• Over 100 companies file opposition to Trump’s immigration order
  • Zendesk, Tesla and Adobe join amicus brief opposing Trump’s immigration aorder
  • Why some big tech giants didn't join a brief fighting Trump's immigration ban
  • Uber C.E.O. to Leave Trump Advisory Council After Criticism

Audible Book of the Week

Music Break: Mr. Roboto by Styx

Hot Topics

• Snap: Everything we learned ahead of the most-anticipated tech IPO of 2017
  • Snap has financially handcuffed itself to Google Cloud
• Chinese factory replaces 90% of human workers with robots. Production rises by 250%, defects drop by 80%

Music Break: Born This Way by Lady Gaga

Final Word

• Amazon's Alexa escapes the Echo and gets into cars
• Tesla's top-end Model S sets Motor Trend acceleration record, beating Elon Musk's estimate

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

• Tour Simone Giertz’s Mad Laboratory of Hilariously Awful Robots

• Intel's 500 Drone Light Show

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This week, Science and the National Parks go rogue, tech’s response to President Trump’s immigration ban, Oculus loses a $500M suit , a human/pig hybrid, and more.

What We're Playing With

Andy: Exact Audio Copy

Dwayne:  THE EXPANSE

Headlines

• “Rogue” Science Agencies Defy Trump Administration on Twitter
• Trump Staffers Are Reportedly Using Private Email Accounts
  • Verified: Newsweek
• The FCC won’t force cable companies to unlock their set-top boxes after all
• Oculus lawsuit ends with half billion dollar judgment awarded to ZeniMax

Audible Book of the Week

• Hitler’s Thirty Days to Power: January 1933 by Henry Ashby Turner Jr.
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Music Break: A Change Is Gonna Come by The Fugees

Hot Topic: Immigration Ban Hits Tech

• Apple, Google, Uber, Tesla, And Others React To Trump’s Refugee Ban
  • Google employees staged a protest over Trump’s immigration ban
  • Some tech executives are matching ACLU donations amid immigration ban protests
  • Lyft surges to the top 10 on Apple’s App Store following the #DeleteUber campaign
  • Trump’s Next Immigration Move to Hit Closer to Home for Tech

Music Break: Spider Pig by Hans Zimmer (from "The Simpsons Movie")

Final Word

• Human-Pig Hybrid Created in the Lab

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Stagg EKG | The Electric Pour-Over Kettle for Coffee Lovers

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This week, The Drill Down co-host emeritus Tom Cheredar joins us to discuss  President Trump’s first week as it affects the tech world, is this the end of Net Neutrality, the final word on the Samsung Note 7 and the Tesla crash, Sprint buys into TIDAL, and much, much more.

What We're Playing With

Dwayne: Pebble 2, Instant Pot

Tom: Echo’s new trigger warning? (O, I mean trigger word. Word.).

Headlines

• Twitter Apologizes for Making People Follow Donald Trump Against Their Will
• Trump is reportedly still using his unsecured Android phone
• Trump’s new FCC chief is Ajit Pai, and he wants to destroy net neutrality

Audible Book of the Week

• Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (Dramatized) by George Lucas
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Music Break: Parade of the Ewoks by John Williams

Hot Topics

• NHTSA’s full final investigation into Tesla’s Autopilot shows 40% crash rate reduction
• Samsung answers burning Note 7 questions, vows better batteries
• Sprint Purchases 33 Percent Stake in Tidal
• Google Home now works with Belkin WeMo and Honeywell smart devices
  • Westworld is full of sex and violence, but the show’s Google Home bot won’t talk about it

Music Break: Luke and Leia by John Williams

Final Word

• Episode VIII Official Title Is ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’

The Drill Down Video of the Week

The Last Padawan (fan film)

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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, President Trump’s social media strategy, President Obama’s last act for Chelsea Manning, Nintendo’s new console, crowdfunding’s shaky ground, and much, much more.

What We're Playing With

Andy: Epica Automatic Electric Milk Frother; Netflix’s A Series of Unfortunate Events

Tosin: Family Account on Nest, TP Link

Dwayne: TP Link, Hue.

Headlines

• Trump Will Maintain Personal Twitter Account and Won’t Adopt Official @POTUS Account
• Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning’s Sentence
• Google RAISR Intelligently Makes Low-Res Images High Quality

Audible Book of the Week

• Flux: Tales of Human Futures by Orson Scott Card
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Music Break: Impeach the President by Roy C & The Honey Drippers

Hot Topic: Nintendo Switch

• The Nintendo Switch will cost $300 and release worldwide on March 3
  • Nintendo Switch Presentation 2017

Music Break: The Legend of Zelda by Koji Kondo

Final Word: Crowdfunding Caveats

• How An Allegedly Fake Video Killed A Much-Hyped Drone Startup

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Peeqo - The GIF Bot

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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, CES wraps us, Yahoo makes some major changes, Apple's iPhone turns 10, and much more.

What We're Playing With

Tosin: Dremel, The People vs OJ: American Crime Story

Andy: OJ: Made In America; Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World

Dwayne: Bosch Myke Kitchen Robot, BMW Self Driving Cars

Headlines

• Razer Project Valerie is a gaming laptop with a triple-screen surprise
• Google Voice is getting an upgrade
• Apple says a bug caused Consumer Reports’ MacBook Pro battery life issues
• Scoble: Source says Apple and Zeiss are working on AR glasses TBA this year

Audible Book of the Week

• The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson by Jeffrey Toobin
• Sign up at AudibleTrial.com/TheDrillDown

Music Break: Fuck Orange Juice by The Game

Hot Topics

• Marissa Mayer is resigning from Yahoo's board
  • Contrary to reports, Yahoo is not changing its name to Altaba
• Facebook Unveils 'Journalism Project' To Strengthen Media Ties And Promote News Literacy
• BEHIND THE SCENES AT FARADAY FUTURE, AN ELECTRIC CARMAKER ON THE BRINK OF COLLAPSE
• Fitbit Acquires Vector

Music Break: Telephone by Pomplamoose

Final Word

• Apple’s iPhone turns 10
• Drill Down CES 2017 Giveaway
  • BMW Cap
  • Gibson Audio Cap
  • Swagtron T-Shirt (sized small)

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

• Our CES 2017 Video Playlist

Subscribe! The Drill Down on iTunes (Subscribe now!) Add us on Stitcher! The Drill Down on Facebook 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.

This week, the US administration is 100% certain the Russians hacked our election...but where’s the evidence, highlights from CES, the electric car to beat Tesla,  and much more.

What We're Playing With

Andy: Anova sous vide cooker; Batman: Arkham City

Dwayne: Serafim Laser Keyboard

Headlines

• White House fails to make case that Russian hackers tampered with election
  • US administration '100% certain' about Russian hacking
• Medium cuts 50 jobs, ditches ad unit

Audible Book of the Week

• A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
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Music Break: I.G.Y. (What a Beautiful World) by Donald Fagen

Hot Topic: CES Preview 2016

• Lenovo launches new Legion gaming notebooks and Alexa-powered speaker
  • Amazon Echo-Style Voice Control Is Coming To More Appliances
• All the craziest announcements from Samsung’s big CES presentation
• Acer announces new PCs for gaming, immersive 4K entertainment and virtual reality

Music Break: Fast Car by Jonas Blue (ft. Dakota)

Final Word

• 2016 Mobile Year in Review

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Faraday Future's FF91 car announcement (in 7 minutes)

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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.