This week, Facebook bans White Nationalism, will Europe’s new laws make memes illegal, YouTube can’t compete with Netflix, Amazon & Hulu,... All the highlights from Apple’s new services, and much more.

Headlines

• McDonald’s is announcing an agreement to acquire personalization company Dynamic Yield.
• Boeing will drop it’s Software update
• Europe’s controversial overhaul of online copyright receives final approval
• Facebook Bans White Nationalism and White Separatism

Audible Book of the Week

• Tim Cook: The Genius Who Took Apple to the Next Level By Leander Kahney
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Music Break: Throw Away Your Television by Red Hot Chili Peppers

Hot Topic: Apple's "It's Showtime" Event

• The 5 biggest announcements from Apple’s March event
  • Apple News +
    • The danger of ‘I already pay for Apple News+’
  • Apple Card
    • What the New Apple Credit Card Offers Consumers
  • Apple Arcade
  • Channels
  • Apple TV +

Final Word

• YouTube Bows Out of Hollywood Arms Race With Netflix and Amazon

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Apple’s TV event 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 Vudu product manager Tosin Onafowokan.

This week, social media contends with the tragic shooting in New Zealand, Google’s sued for billions and also launches a gaming service, new toys from Apple & Tesla,... and much more.

What We’re Playing With Andy: sous vide’ing sourdough starter Dwayne: Xycel Powerline, Apple Watch EKG daily.

Headlines

• Facebook, YouTube and Twitter struggle to deal with New Zealand shooting video
  • Inside YouTube’s struggles to shut down video of the New Zealand shooting — and the humans who outsmarted its systems
• Facebook Halts Ad Targeting Cited in Bias Complaints

Audible Book of the Week

• The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
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Music Break: Why by Annie Lennox

Hot Topics

• EU regulators hit Google with $1.7 billion fine for blocking ad rivals
• Google unveils Stadia cloud gaming service, launches in 2019
• Instagram will now let you buy products directly inside the app
• Apple launches new iPad Air and iPad mini
  • Apple Updates iMac Lineup
  • New Apple AirPods now available: H1 chip, wireless charging case, hands-free Hey Siri

Music Break: 2000 Light Years From Home  by The Rolling Stones

Final Word

• Tesla Model Y Revealed; Set To Go On Sale In Late-2020
  • Elon Musk Snuck a Teaser of the Tesla Truck into the Model Y

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

• • Tesla Model Y Unveil in 8 minutes

• • Google's Stadia Announcement at GDC 2019 in Under 14 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, Tesla reverses course, Boeing’s 747’s control software issues, the potential dangers to Facebook’s pivot, our hangup with robocalls ,... and much, much more.

What We’re Playing With

Dwayne: Amazon Echo Buttons

Tosin: Lulzbot Taz 6

Andy: Tesla Model 3 order process

Headlines

• Tesla reverses plan to close all stores, will raise the price of higher-end cars
• Boeing is going to update the control software on the 737 Max that may cause the plane to nosedive
• Trump Announces Ban of Boeing 737 Max Flights

Audible Book of the Week

• A Human's Guide to Machine Intelligence By Kartik Hosanagar
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• Algorithms: Almost Human?

Music Break: Smiling Faces Sometimes by The Undisputed Truth

Hot Topics

• • How Facebook stands to profit from its 'privacy' push
  • Your phone and TV are tracking you, and political campaigns are listening in
  • Elizabeth Warren's new plan: Break up Amazon, Google and Facebook
    • Senator Warren's proposal would create massive new problems, have significant unintended consequences, and not address the issues she is concerned about

• • Facebook deletes, and then restores, Elizabeth Warren’s ads criticizing the platform, drawing her rebuke

Music Break: Telephone  by Pomplamoose

Final Word

• John Oliver fights robocalls… by robocalling Ajit Pai and the FCC

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 Vudu product manager Tosin Onafowokan.

This week, a Privacy pivot for Facebook?, the $35K Tesla is finally here, Do women make more than men at Google?, HIV is cured for the second time ever, robots are taking over our jobs!... and much, much more. 

Headlines

• Google Finds It’s Underpaying Many Men as It Addresses Wage Equity
• Facebook won’t let you opt-out of its phone number ‘look up’ setting
• A Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking by Mark Zuckerberg

Audible Book of the Week

• Paradox The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics  By Jim Al-Khalili
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Music Break: Driver's Seat by Sniff 'n' the Tears

Hot Topics

• Tesla’s promised $35,000 Model 3 is finally here
  • 5 takeaways from Tesla's Model 3 announcement
• Volvo unveils Tesla Model 3 rival Polestar 2
• BMW and Daimler team up to develop self-driving technologies

Music Break: Shake the Disease  by Depeche Mode

Final Word

• HIV patient seemingly cured in second remarkable case, London doctors report
  • A third person may have become HIV-free after a bone marrow transplant

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Automation: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

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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, pedophiles invade YouTube, the lives of Facebook moderators, Chinese funded genetic babies, how Spiderman: Into the Spider-verse was made... and much, much more. 

Headlines

• • Advertisers Boycott YouTube After Pedophiles Swarm Comments on Videos of Children

• 'We did not sign up to develop weapons': Microsoft workers protest $480m HoloLens military deal
  • Microsoft CEO defends US military contract that some employees say crosses a line

Audible Book of the Week

• Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport
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Music Break: Internet Friends by Knife Party

Hot Topics

• • The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America
    • Facebook pays reviewers filtering porn and murder tiny fraction of its median salary, report says

• • You Give Apps Sensitive Personal Information. Then They Tell Facebook.

• • Facebook decided which users are interested in Nazis — and let advertisers target them directly

• After A Year Of Unprecedented Backlash, Facebook Promised A New Privacy Tool. Where Is It?

Music Break: Sunflower  by Post Malone and Swae Lee

Final Word

• Chinese government may have funded 'CRISPR babies' project - STAT

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• How 'Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse' Was Animated

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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.