This week, an Amazon robot injures two dozen humans, Google’s CEO testifies before Congress, China flexes its muscle against tech companies in the west, Bold statements from Elon Musk, space news... and much, much more.

Headlines

• Samsung delays its $2,000 folding phone after test units break
  • iFixit: Samsung's Galaxy Fold is 'alarmingly fragile'
• TSA Agents Say They’re Not Discriminating Against Black Women, But Their Body Scanners Might Be
• Tesla’s full self-driving computer is now in all new cars and a next-gen chip is already ‘halfway done’

Audible Book of the Week

• Marvel Comics: The Untold Story by Sean Howe
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Music Break: The Avengers by Alan Silvestri

Hot Topics

• Google Walkout Organizers Say They're Facing Retaliation
• Twitter shuts down 5,000 pro-Trump bots retweeting anti-Mueller report invective
• Facebook says it 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5 million people's email contacts without their consent
• Thousands of leaked Facebook documents show Mark Zuckerberg as ‘master of leverage’ in plan to trade user data

Music Break: Back to the Future  by Alan Silvestri

Final Word

• • Researchers Just Demonstrated Nuclear Fusion in a Device Small Enough to Keep at Home

The Drill Down Videos of the Week: Tesla Autonomy Day

• Watch Tesla Unveil Its Full Self-Driving Computer In Under 5 Minutes

• Deep Analysis of the parts that put Full Self Driving into production

• Full Self-Driving POV with Tesla hardware V3

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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, Uber releases its IPO, China uses AI to profile minorities, Samsung’s new phone prospects fold after reviews, New Next gen-consoles, and all the details of Disney’s new streaming service, and much more. 

What We’re Playing With

Andy: Tesla Navigate on Autopilot

Headlines

• Uber releases its long-awaited IPO filing
• One Month, 500,000 Face Scans: How China Is Using A.I. to Profile a Minority
• Several journalists have reported their Samsung Galaxy Fold review unit's screen breaking after a day or two of use

Audible Book of the Week

• Creating Magic: 10 Common Sense Leadership Strategies from a Life at Disney by Lee Cockerell
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Music Break: Be Our Guest from Beauty and the Beast

Hot Topics

• Disney+ rolls out on November 12th for $6.99 a month
  • All of the shows and films Disney is planning for its Disney+ streaming service
  • Disney says Disney+ will support 4K and HDR video, all content on Disney+ can be downloaded and viewed offline, and that the app will be on Roku, PS4, and more
• Disney, Comcast now Hulu's only owners as AT&T exits
• Netflix says it's not worried about Disney or Apple encroaching on its turf

Music Break: Into The Trap  from Return of the Jedi

Final Word

• Xbox One S All-Digital Edition: Price, availability, games and more
• EXCLUSIVE: WHAT TO EXPECT FROM SONY'S NEXT-GEN PLAYSTATION

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• • Touchdowns! SpaceX Lands All 3 Falcon Heavy Boosters After Launching Satellite
    • SpaceX loses the center core of its Falcon Heavy rocket due to choppy seas

• Mush, Spot, Mush!

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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, Tosin goes to PAX, the UK cracks down on net safety, is Netflix killing cinemas...or buying them? Amazon send satellites into space, our first look at a black hole, and much more.

What We’re Playing With

Tosin: PAX East 2019

PAX East Picks

Moving Out:

• Become a certified Furniture Arrangement & Relocation Technician (F.A.R.T.) by learning the do’s and don'ts of moving furniture with Moving Out!
• Launch Date: 2019, Windows, Mac, Switch, maybe additional consoles

Disjunction:

• Launch Date: 2019, Windows, Mac
• Disjunction is a single-player, cyberpunk, stealth-action RPG set in the dystopian underworld of New York City. The game follows the interconnected narratives of three characters as they unravel a mystery that will change the fate of their city.

A Fold Apart:

• After career choices force them along separate paths, a Teacher and Architect vow to make their long-distance relationship work at any cost. Experience both sides of their story as the couple navigates the complexities of (mis)communication and the emotional ups and downs that separation brings. By flipping, folding, and unfolding the paper puzzles in their handcrafted worlds, you can help the couple overcome the emotional barriers of their relationship — but will love endure...?
• Launch Date: 2019, Windows, Switch, PS4, Xbox One

Trover Saves the Universe:

• Your dogs have been dognapped by a beaked lunatic named Glorkon who stuffed them into his eye holes and is using their life essence to destroy the universe. You're partnered with Trover, a little purple eye-hole monster who isn’t a huge fan of working or being put in the position of having to save the universe. He’s also not that big a fan of you quite frankly, and neither am I (Jk, you’re great).
• Only you and Trover can save everything in this bizarre comedy adventure!
• Launch Date: May 31st PS4, June 4th Windows - HTC Vive & Oculus Rift
• Cost: $27

Cyber Shadow:

• In Cyber-Shadow, the world has been taken over by synthetic lifeforms. A desperate plea for help sets Shadow on a journey to uncover what started the path to perpetual ruin. Slash through the techno hordes, leap past traps, and nimbly navigate the ruins of Mekacity.
• Launch Date: Windows, Mac, Linux, Switch, PS4, Xbox One
• Cost: TBD, Pre-order $14.99

Headlines

• India weighs ban on popular online game after deaths
• EU charges Valve and five publishers with geo-blocking games
• Fiat Chrysler joins open pool with Tesla to avoid paying EU emissions fines

Audible Book of the Week

American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race By Douglas Brinkley

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Music Break: Supermassive Black Hole by Muse

Hot Topics

• UK to unleash internet safety czar on Google, Facebook, Twitter
• Amazon Workers Are Listening to What You Tell Alexa
• Netflix isn't killing movie theaters: The audience who streams more, also goes to cinemas more
  • Netflix In Talks To Acquire Hollywood’s Historic Egyptian Theatre

Music Break: Black Hole Sun  by Soundgarden

Final Word: Space

• Amazon will launch thousands of satellites to provide internet around the world
• Bezos hired a SpaceX vice president to run Amazon's satellite internet project after Musk fired him

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

• Japan's space agency blasts crater in asteroid to study the solar system's origins

• Event Horizon Telescope researchers reveal first-ever image of a black hole

• • Black hole breakthrough: Event Horizon Telescope's landmark image

• • How to take a picture of a black hole

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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, Facebook lets your data get leaked, yet conveniently loses Mark Zuckerberg’s data, YouTube’s toxic focus on viewership numbers, Tesla updates Big Auto, robot jenga, and much more. 

What We’re Playing With

Andy: Tesla Model 3 Standard Range+

Headlines

• Apple cancels AirPower wireless charger
• Years of Mark Zuckerberg's old Facebook posts have vanished. The company says it 'mistakenly deleted' them.
• Two More Cases of Third-Party Facebook App Data Exposure

Audible Book of the Week

• Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World by Clive Thompson
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Music Break: Drive My Car by The Beatles

Hot Topics

• YouTube Executives Ignored Warnings, Letting Toxic Videos Run Rampant
• Alex Jones Testimony Exposes Pipeline Between Infowars And YouTube, 4Chan

Music Break: We Are the Robots  by Kraftwerk

Final Word

• Detroit Downloads Tesla's Software Strategy
• In Norway, electric cars outsell traditional ones for the first time

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Boston Dynamics Handle Robot Reimagined for Logistics

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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.