On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, Apple drives itself, reason on social media trumps hate, Americans choose asteroids over mars...and Raspberry Pi... YUM!, and much more. 

What We’re Playing With

Andy: Masterclass

Dwayne: Anker’s ROAV

Tosin: Oculus Quest

Headlines

• $35 Raspberry Pi 4 announced with 4K support and up to 4GB of RAM
• Apple acquires self-driving startup Drive.ai

Audible Book of the Week

• Alien III: An Audible Original Drama by William Gibson
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Music Break: Bishop's Countdown from 'Aliens' by James Horner

Hot Topics

• YouTube lets you hide channels from your recommendations
• Knitting social network bans all posts supporting Trump and his administration
  • Reddit quarantines Trump subreddit r/The_Donald for violent comments
  • Highlights For Children — Yes, That Highlights — Is Blasting The Trump Administration’s Immigration Policies
• Rivals Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo join forces to come out against Trump tariffs

Music Break: Life on Mars? by David Bowie

Final Word

• Poll: Asteroid watch more urgent than Mars trip

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Bill Gates on Startups, Investing and Solving The World's Hardest Problems

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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.

On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, Andrew goes to the edge of the galaxy, leaked Radiohead tracks, Facebook’s Zuckerbucks, counterfeits & fakes, robots are taking your jobs & fighting back, and much, much more. 

What We’re Playing With

Andy: Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge

You can’t wear Star Wars costumes in Galaxy’s Edge — not even the ones on sale

Headlines

• The Ambitious Plan Behind Facebook’s Cryptocurrency, Libra
  • Facebook's New Libra Coin: How Does It Work, and Should You Buy It?
• Radiohead Release 18 Hours of ‘OK Computer’ Material After Leak

Audible Book of the Week

• To Pixar and Beyond by Lawrence Levy
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Music Break: Paranoid Android by Radiohead

Hot Topics

• Millions Of Jobs Have Been Lost To Automation. Economists Weigh In On What To Do About It
  • States Where Jobs Are Most Vulnerable to Automation
  • By 2025, machines will do more work than humans, a new report says
• Bodies in Seats [Interviews with 12 former Facebook content moderators from Tampa, three on the record, where working conditions are appalling and many experience PTSD]

Music Break: Everything in its Right Place  by Radiohead

Final Word: Counterfeits & Fakes

• Congress grapples with how to regulate deepfakes
  • New software designed to help media detect deepfakes – but it's just a "drop in the bucket"
• Lyrics Site Accuses Google of Lifting Its Content

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• TRUCKLA: The world's first Tesla pickup truck

• Boston Dynamics: New Robots Now Fight Back

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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 high-rise helicopter crash casts doubts on Uber’s new service, one hundred thousand travelers’ IDs hacked, all the highlights from this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo, and much, more.

What We’re Playing With Andrew: Pig0ut plant-based chips Dwayne: Automatic Pro

Headlines

• Helicopter Crashes Into NYC High-Rise, Causes Two-Alarm Fire
  • Corey Johnson questions safety of Uber Copter after fatal helicopter crash
  • Uber’s air taxis will resemble really nice helicopters on the inside
• Hackers steal 100,000 traveler photos from border patrol database

Audible Book of the Week

• Getting Gamers by Jamie Madigan
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Music Break: MEGALOVANIA from 'Undertale' by Toby Fox

Hot Topic: E3 2019

• The 14 biggest announcements for Microsoft Xbox at E3 2019
  • Keanu Reeves Reveals Cyberpunk 2077 Release Date During Microsoft's Xbox Conference
• The 9 biggest announcements from Bethesda’s E3 2019 keynote
• The 7 biggest announcements from Square Enix’s E3 2019 press conference
• The 9 biggest announcements from Ubisoft’s E3 2019 press conference
• The 14 biggest announcements from Nintendo’s E3 2019 presentation
• The five best games from the PC Game Show

Music Break: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate theme  by Hideki Sakamoto

Final Word

• Police Use of DNA Leads to Backlash, Changes to Big Database

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Cyberpunk 2077 cinematic trailer

• Cyberpunk 2077 - Mike Pondsmith about Cyberpunk World

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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.

On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, Tech giants under scrutiny for antitrust, Tesla’s new pickup truck, What is 5G exactly?, and Engadget Senior Editor Devindra Hardawar joins us to review Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference.

Headlines

• Facebook, Google and other tech giants to face antitrust investigation by House lawmakers
  • Congress Just Said Tech’s Least Favorite Words: Antitrust Investigation

Audible Book of the Week

• Artificial Intelligence in Practice by Bernard Marr, Matt Ward - contributor
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Music Break: In the Dark by Nina Simone

Hot Topic: Apple WWDC 2019

• The 9 biggest highlights from Apple WWDC 2019
  • A $999 monitor stand is everything wrong with Apple today
• Apple WWDC 2019 keynote in 13 minutes

Music Break: Truckin'  by The Grateful Dead

Final Word

• Tesla Pickup truck to cost less than $50,000, 'be better than F150', says Elon Musk

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• If You Don’t Know, Now You Know: 5G

• Spotify - Time to Play Fair

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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.