This week, more blowback on Bloomberg’s Chinese spy chip story, Saudi Twitter trolls, a new Tesla Model 3, The President’s leaky iPhone, electronic arousal sensors... and much, much more. 

What We’re Playing With Andy: Zyxel NAS320 (repair)

Headlines

• Apple CEO Tim Cook Is Calling For Bloomberg To Retract Its Chinese Spy Chip Story
  • Amazon exec and Super Micro CEO call for retraction of spy chip story
• Tim Cook warns of ‘data-industrial complex’ in call for comprehensive US privacy laws
• iPhone XR released

Audible Book of the Week

• How the Internet Happened by Brian McCullough
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Music Break: Ayo Technology by 50 Cent (ft. Justin Timberlake)

Hot Topics:

• Saudis’ Image Makers: A Troll Army and a Twitter Insider
• When Trump Phones Friends, the Chinese and the Russians Listen and Learn
• Tesla introduces a $45,000 Model 3 variant with a 260-mile range
  • Tesla's fabled $35,000 Model 3 on target for first half of 2019
  • Tesla removes ‘Full Self-Driving Capability’ package from its options due to ‘confusion’

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

• SHE BON: Sensing the Sensual

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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 Vudu product manager Tosin Onafowokan.

This week, studies prove the FCC lied about Net Neutrality comments, and NY state will investigate, Twitter releases Russia & Iran meddling tweets, Fortnite fights climate change, and Microsoft’s co-founder passes on... and more. 

Headlines

• 99.7% Of *Original* Comments Opposed FCC Repeal Of Net Neutrality
  • New York Attorney General Subpoenas Industry Groups, Lobbyists Over Fake Net Neutrality Comments
• Twitter Posts Millions of Tweets Linked to Russia, Iran Meddling

Audible Book of the Week

• Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft By Paul Allen
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Music Break: Little Wing by Jimi Hendrix

Hot Topic: Paul Allen Dies

• Paul G. Allen, Microsoft’s Co-Founder, Is Dead at 65
  • Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen helped change the world
  • Interview with Laura Rich, author of The Accidental Zillionaire: Demystifying Paul Allen

Music Break: Uptown Funk  by Mark Ronson (ft. Bruno Mars)

Final Word

• How a Fortnite squad of scientists is hoping to defeat climate change

The Drill Down Videos of the Week: Boston Dynamics

• Parkour Atlas

• Uptown Spot

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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 Vudu product manager Tosin Onafowokan.

This week, new products from Google, How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies,  ... and much, much more.

Headlines

The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies

Bloomberg stands by Chinese chip story as Apple, Amazon ratchet up denials

Google+ social network is being killed, because of a privacy breach (and because people just don't use it)

Music Break: Invent It All Again by Faded Paper Figures

Hot Topics:

Facebook's Portal camera is an Echo Show rival focused on video calls, but will anyone trust it?

The 5 biggest announcements from the Google Pixel 3 event

The Drill Down Video of the Week

Google Pixel 3 event in 12 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 Vudu product manager Tosin Onafowokan.

This week, new products from Microsoft, a Facebook breach exposes 50M users, Amazon hopes to raise minimum wage, bold California tech laws, endless possibilities ... and much, much more. 

What We’re Playing With

Andy & Tosin: iOS 12

Dwayne: iPhone XS

Headlines

• Facebook Network is Breached, Putting 50 Million Users’ Data at Risk
• Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 for all US employees
  • Living Wage Calculator

New California Tech Laws

• US Justice Department moves to sue California in order to quash its new net neutrality law
  • Can't spot the bot? In California, automated accounts have to reveal themselves
  • These CA Tech Companies Will Need More Women on Their Boards

Audible Book of the Week

• AI Superpowers China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order by Kai-Fu Lee
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Music Break: California by Phantom Planet

Hot Topic: Microsoft Surface Event 2018

• The 5 biggest announcements from the Microsoft Surface event

Music Break: Drive by Cars

Final Word: Tesla SEC settlement

• SEC charges Tesla CEO Elon Musk with fraud
  • Elon Musk and SEC settle; Musk admits no guilt, will remain Tesla CEO, has to resign as Chairman for 3 years, appoint 2 new independent directors, pay $20M fine

Tesla general news

• Tesla confirms that Model 3 production hit its ambitious target last quarter
• Tesla Model 3 = 4th Best Selling Car In USA* (Maybe)

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

• Highlights from Microsoft’s October 2018 event

• Possibilia on Eko

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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 Vudu product manager Tosin Onafowokan.