487: Handing Over the Teslas

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
• Sign up at AudibleTrial.com/TheDrillDown

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.