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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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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, “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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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, 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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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.