On this week’s podcast, the first-ever audience-free Apple WWDC, eliminating racial bias in tech jargon, and the first facial recognition wrongful arrest, ...and much more.

Apple WWDC 2020

• Apple WWDC 2020: the 18 biggest announcements
  • Apple Details iOS 14, Its Next Major Software Update
  • More Varied Memoji Are Coming With iOS 14
  • Apple Maps Is Getting A Dedicated Map View For Cycling And Ev Users
  • Apple Is Debuting Its Digital Car Key, Coming In iOS 13 And iOS 14
  • App Clips Are Coming In iOS 14
  • A Few Changes Coming To iPadOS 14
  • Handwriting With Apple Pencil Is About To Get Better With iPadOS 14
  • Airpods Will Soon Be Able To Seamlessly Switch Devices
  • The Airpods Pro Are Getting Spatial Audio
  • WatchOS 7’s Face Swapping Feature Makes It Easy To Share And Get New Watchfaces
  • The Apple Watch Will Track Dancing In WatchOS 7
  • Sleep Tracking Is Coming With WatchOS 7
  • WatchOS 7 Can Track Handwashing
  • Apple Develops A New Smart Home Standard Alongside Google, Amazon, And Others
  • Apple Tv Is Getting Multiuser Support For Apple Arcade
  • Apple Tv Is Getting Picture-in-picture In tvOS 14
  • Apple’s New MacOS Big Sur Software Looks A Lot Like iOS
  • Apple Is Announcing Its New Silicon For Its Future Computers

Audible Book of the Week

• An Antiracism Listening List
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Music Break:  The Revolution Will Not Be Televised by Gil Scott-Heron Hot Topics

• Microsoft's Github is removing coding terms like 'master' and 'slave'
  • Tech terms face scrutiny amid anti-racism efforts
    • “'whitelist'/'blacklist'
    • "white hat"/"black hat"
• A black man was wrongfully arrested because of facial recognition

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• WWDC 2020 Special Event Keynote

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On this week’s podcast, our weekly COVID-19/tech sector update, Sony's Playstation 5 is revealed, Twitter adds audio tweets  ...and much more.

COVID-19 Update

• Coronavirus: Dexamethasone proves first life-saving drug
• FUTURE COVID-19 TREATMENTS COULD BE THANKS TO COWS, LLAMAS, AND PANGOLINS
• EPA Tells Amazon, EBay to Stop Shipping Unproven Covid Goods
• VergeSense grabs $9M for its people-counting sensor tech as offices eye COVID changes
• Google bans website ZeroHedge from its ad platform over comments on protest articles

Audible Book of the Week

• Digitize and Punish: Racial Criminalization in the Digital Age by Brian Jefferson
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Music Break: Horizon Zero Dawn: Aloy's Theme by Julie Elven

Hot Topic

• Twitter starts rolling out audio tweets on iOS

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• • Playstation 5 event in 22 minutes (hardware + games)

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On this week’s podcast, our weekly COVID-19/tech sector update, the way Amazon and IBM are halting their facial recognition programs... and much more.

On this week’s podcast, our weekly COVID-19/tech sector update, social media and social responsibility in 2020,  ...and much more.

COVID-19 Update

• Red Dead Redemption 2 Is Now Being Used To Host Work Meetings
• EV and COVID
  • Sweden’s EV Market Share At 23% In April, Doubles Year On Year
  • Australian car sales fall by half in April, but consumers still interested in electric and hybrids
  • Electric vehicles show more resilience than conventional cars during Covid-19 shock
  • Tesla is on the verge of breaking into the S&P 500 index. Here's the last thing it needs to do to be eligible. (TSLA)
• Bots Are Likely Responsible For Nearly Half Of COVID-19 Tweets, Say Researchers

Audible Book of the Week

• Slowdown: The End of the Great Acceleration - and Why It’s Good for the Planet, the Economy, and Our Lives by Danny Dorling
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Music Break: Would I Lie to You by Eurythmics

Social Media and Social Responsibility in 2020

• Twitter flags Trump tweet with fact-checking label for first time
• Trump lashes out at social media companies after Twitter labels tweets with fact checks
• Facebook Executives Shut Down Efforts to Make the Site Less Divisive

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Making History: NASA and SpaceX Launch Astronauts to Space!

• What’s the difference between...HBO GO, HBO NOW, & HBO MAX?

• According to Eli Blumentahl at CNET, Millions of HBO Now customers will be upgraded to HBO Max automatically. After the service launches, many of those users will get an app update that simply transforms the HBO Now app into the HBO Max app.

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On this week’s podcast, our weekly COVID-19/tech sector update, a bikini with a built-in face mask, how animation production works from home, Unreal Engine 5 ...and much more.

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COVID-19 Update

• The havoc wrought by covid-19 will spark new concern over bio-weapons
  • Covid-19 being used as weapon in attacks on US police and grocers
• Llama antibodies could help fight coronavirus, study finds
• Apple releases final iOS 13.5 with coronavirus exposure alert support
• Meet the trikini, beach fashion’s answer to coronavirus

Audible Book of the Week

• Girl Decoded by Rana el Kaliouby (with Carol Colman)
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Music Break: Girls in Bikinis by Poppy

Hot Topic

Interview with editor Andrew Sorcini about Animation Production working from home

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Unreal Engine 5 Revealed! Next-Gen Real-Time Demo Running on PlayStation 5

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On this week’s podcast, our weekly COVID-19/tech sector update, a basketball backboard that won't let you miss, we say farewell to Double Rainbow Guy  ...and much more.

COVID-19 Update

• White-Collar Companies Race to Be Last to Return to the Office
• Twitter Will Allow Employees To Work At Home Forever
• How My Boss Monitors Me While I Work From Home
• Tesla sues California county in virus factory closure fight, threatens to leave
• Uber is trying to buy Grubhub
• Spot the robot is reminding parkgoers in Singapore to keep their distance from one another
• New Genre Emerges In Hollywood: Do-It-Yourself TV
• Jeffrey Katzenberg Blames Pandemic for Quibi’s Rough Start
• The pandemic is giving people vivid, unusual dreams. Here's why.

Audible Book of the Week

• How Innovation Works by Matt Ridley
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Music Break: Double Rainbow!! by The Gregory Brothers (ft. Paul "Bear" Vasquez)

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

• Double rainbow!

• My robotic basketball hoop won't let you miss

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On this week’s podcast, our weekly COVID-19/tech sector update, we compare our work from home experiences  ...and much more.

COVID-19 Update (Good news edition!)

• Report: Amazon Uses Marketplace Seller Data to Make Its Own Competing Products
• Amid pandemic, U.S. renewable power sources have topped coal for 40 days
• Lyft shares jump 15% as company reports more riders than last year despite coronavirus
• With No Tourists, Australian Scuba Tours Are Planting Coral Instead

• Tom Cruise Plots Movie To Shoot In Space With Elon Musk’s SpaceX
• NASA, SpaceX set date for historic launch of astronauts to ISS

Audible Book of the Week

• The Ultimate Engineer by Richard Jurek
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Music Break: Starman by David Bowie

Hot Topic

• Facebook Names the 20 People Who Can Overrule Mark Zuckerberg

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

• United States Space Force recruitment video

• Space Force - Netflix

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On this week’s podcast, our weekly COVID-19/tech sector update, we compare our work from home experiences,  ...and much more.

Podcast

COVID-19 Update

• "No evidence" that recovered COVID-19 patients cannot be reinfected: WHO
  • Nearly All Patients Hospitalized With Covid-19 Had Chronic Health Issues, Study Finds
• French workers use 'right to walk out' as defence against coronavirus
• Portable 'cold plasma' wand prototype could destroy germs in seconds
• Bill Gates’s vision for life beyond the coronavirus
• MS, TSLA, FB report positive earnings despite pandemics and lock downs.
• Messenger Rooms are Facebook’s answer to Zoom and Houseparty for the pandemic
• Boston Dynamics’ Spot robot is helping hospitals remotely treat coronavirus patients
• YouTube to Host Free Virtual Film Festival With 20 Partners Including Cannes, Tribeca, Sundance
  • As Hollywood Maps Out Its Return, New On-Set Protocols Take Center Stage

Audible Book of the Week

• Heroes by Stephen Fry
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Music Break: School's Out by Alice Cooper

Hot Topic: Distance Learning

• "I just can't do this." Harried parents forgo home school
  • Addressing California students’ loss of learning shapes plan to reopen schools

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

• Every Covid-19 Commercial is Exactly the Same

• How I'm Handling Online Teaching

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On this week’s podcast, our weekly COVID-19/tech sector update, and the latest reviews of the newly released Tesla Y,  ...and much more.

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COVID-19 Update

• Sewage analysis suggests a New England metro area with fewer than 500 COVID-19 cases may have exponentially more
• Free-Falling: U.S. Oil Drops Below $3 Per Barrel As Demand Disappears
• Facebook removes some events calling for protests of stay-at-home orders
  • YouTube will remove any coronavirus content that goes against WHO recommendations
  • Twitter will remove misleading COVID-19-related tweets that could incite people to engage in ‘harmful activity’
• Verizon will buy video conferencing company BlueJeans
• WarnerMedia Sets Late May HBO Max Launch
• Netflix Experiences Incredible Growth Under Pandemic Lock Downs
  • Netflix Plans to Raise $1 Billion Through Debt Offering

Audible Book of the Week

• Robot, Take the Wheel by Jason Torchinsky
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Music Break: Why by Annie Lennox What We’re Playing With:

Andy: The Lab by Valve

The Drill Down Video of the Week

The Tesla Model Y Is the Tesla Everyone Is Waiting For

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On this week’s podcast, our weekly COVID-19/tech sector update, we find time to have fun and game from home  ...and much more.

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COVID-19 Update

• The Pandemic Is Turning the Natural World Upside Down
• China factories go to extremes to fend off virus
• Amazon to add 75,000 more jobs amid coronavirus pandemic
• It's Time to Delete Your Delivery Apps
• Google and Apple launching coronavirus contact-tracing system for iOS and Android
• Coronavirus quarantines have made our dreams even weirder

Audible Book of the Week

• Soldiers of Science An Interview with Dr. Anthony Fauci
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Music Break: Break My Stride by Matthew Wilder What We’re Playing With: Dwayne: The Nintendo Switch 

• Accessories
  • SanDisk Ultra 400GB MicroSDXC (366GB)
  • Nintendo Joy-Con Charging Grip
  • Nintendo Switch Pro Controller

• amFilm Tempered Glass Screen Protector for Nintendo Switch 2017 (2-Pack)
• Downloading games vs Cartridges 
• Games
  • Cat’s Quest
  • Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - Nintendo Switch 

Andy: 

• SNL At Home
• Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey
• Animal Crossing: New Horizons
• Half-Life: Alyx
• We Happy Few / ‘cosy catastrophe’ fiction

Tosin:

• Anova Culinary Sous Vide Cooker Cooking container
• Gears of War 5
• FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE
• Announcing the Play At Home Initiative
  • UNCHARTED: The Nathan Drake Collection Game
  • Journey™ Game

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On this week’s podcast, our weekly COVID-19/tech sector update highlights everyday heroes, and media expert Tom Cheredar helps us escape into the fantasy world of superheroes,  ...and much more.

COVID-19 Update

• Why Are Music Streams Down If Everyone’s Home? Experts Weigh in
• These 'disease hunters' developed a novel technique for tracking pandemics after 9/11, but lost funding right before COVID-19
• Disney pushes the release dates of all Marvel movies in the next two years
• Brands turn to livestreaming as China stays home
• Twitter CEO sets aside $1 billion in Square equity for charity, coronavirus relief
• Tesla is cutting salaries and furloughing workers to ‘manage costs’ during pandemic
• UK cell towers torched amid bogus conspiracy theories that link 5G with coronavirus
• An EU coalition of techies is backing a ‘privacy-preserving’ standard for COVID-19 contacts tracing
• After walkouts, Amazon pledges temperature checks and masks in all warehouses
• Tiger tests positive for coronavirus at Bronx Zoo, first known case in the world
• You can’t use ventilators without sedatives. Now the US is running out of those, too.

Audible Book of the Week

• Shorter: Work Better, Smarter, and Less - Here's How by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
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Music Break: We Could Be Heroes by Alesso

Hot Topic: Our Favorite Comic-based Media

• ANDY- Watchmen (HBO)
• TOSIN - Sonic the Hedgehog 
• DWAYNE - Marvel’s Runaways (super-light fun). X-Men: The Animated Series, Attack on Titan, Saga.
• TOM - DMZ & Planetary

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

• Tesla Ventilator

• How a coronavirus 'infodemic' is infecting the internet - CNN Video

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On this week’s podcast, our weekly COVID-19/tech sector update, Plus, is it always necessary to wear a face covering while going out these days?  ...and much more.

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COVID-19 Update

• Streaming Continues to Grow With Viewers at Home: Nielsen
• Xerox drops $34B HP takeover bid amid COVID-19 uncertainty****
• Sales Skyrocket at Libro.fm and Bookshop.org
• Mental health care in Colorado has gone virtual thanks to coronavirus. For some patients, it’s long overdue
• Why Instacart and Amazon workers are going on strike during coronavirus
• Utilities Aim To Keep Specially Trained Employees Healthy And Working

Audible Book of the Week

• Version Control by Dexter Palmer
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Music Break: Safe and Sound by Capital Cities

Hot Topic: Masks

• Masks Save Lives - COVID-19
• #Masks4All

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On this week’s podcast, our weekly COVID-19/tech sector update, we compare our work from home experiences,  ...and much more.

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COVID-19 Update

• YouTube to Limit Video Quality Around the World for a Month
• Internet Traffic Surges As Companies And Schools Send People Home
• Uber CEO asks Trump to support gig workers impacted by the coronavirus
• Delivery workers rising to meet the pandemic
  • • Amazon workers are on the frontlines of the pandemic
    • Postal workers hoping for community donations to meet sanitizing needs
• Study reveals how long COVID-19 remains infectious on cardboard, metal and plastic
• USPS Statement on Coronavirus

Audible Book of the Week

• The Stand by Stephen King
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Music Break: Don't Fear the Reaper by Blue Öyster Cult

Hot Topic: Working From Home

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• • Zoom's Work From Home - Audio/Video Tips

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On this week’s podcast, Tom Cheredar joins us for an update on COVID-19's affect on the tech sector, what to do during a self-imposed quarantine, telecommuting tips,  ...and much, much more.

COVID-19 Update

• • Internet's largest social networks issue joint statement on COVID-19 misinformation
  • Gig workers have created a tool to offer mutual aid during COVID-19 pandemic
  • Lyft & Uber suspend pools
  • Studios releasing first-run movies as VOD
  • U.S. government reportedly in talks to use location data in COVID-19 fight

Audible Book of the Week

• Command and Control by Eric Schlosser
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Music Break: Stuck in the Middle With You by Stealers Wheel

Hot Topics

• Animal Crossing: New Horizons review: A quarantined life has never been cuter (release date 3/20)
• Shows & films to binge while in COVID-19 quarantine
• Netflix Party lets you watch with friends online
• Sofa King - Roundup of all live streaming performance activities
• Comicbooks:
  • Locke & Key (Joe Hill & Gabriel Rodriguez)
  • Lazarus
  • The Beauty
  • Sex Criminals (Matt Fraction & Chip Zsarsky)
  • The Sculptor (Scott McCloud)
  • Seconds (Brian Lee O'malley)
• Let’s name some classics
  • Game of Thrones (HBO)
  • The Wire (HBO)
  • The Sopranos (HBO)
  • Avatar the Last Airbender (Nick Hits)
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer (HULU)
  • Babylon 5 (Purchase on Amazon)
  • Stargate SG1 (HULU and Amazon Prime Video)
• Telecommuting amid coronavirus: Best tech tools for you and the kids to work from home

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On this week’s podcast, an update on COVID-19's effect on the tech sector--and everything else,  and we decrypt the mysteries of encryption...and much, much more.

Podcast

What We’re Playing With

Dwayne: TONOR Mic and Behringer UCA222 Amp Andy: Oculus Link / Westworld Awakening

COVID-19 Update

• • Pandemic
  • Stock Market Volatility but not mainstreet volatility
  • Campus closings
  • NCAA tournament and Presidential Debates without live audiences
  • Travel ban on people and items from Europe

COVID safety links

• About Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) | CDC
• Coronavirus | WHO

Audible Book of the Week

• Star Trek: Picard: The Last Best Hope By Una McCormack
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Music Break: Shake the Disease by Depeche Mode

Hot Topic:Encryption and Surveillance

• Leaked documents reportedly show the CIA secretly bought an encryption company and used it to spy on clients — while turning a profit
• Huawei and US surveillance
• Trump Administration Targets Your 'Warrant-Proof' Encrypted Messages
• Canada's cyber intelligence agency working on 'Holy Grail' of encryption
• New flaw in Intel chips lets attackers slip their own data into secure enclave

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On this week’s podcast, Andy & Tosin examine how COVID-19 is affecting tech conferences & supply chains, and how the tech landscape will look as COVID-19 spreads..

Hot Topic: COVID-19

• All the ways China’s coronavirus outbreak is affecting tech
  • The world’s biggest phone show has been canceled due to coronavirus concerns
  • Coronavirus 2020 tech conference cancellations list
  • Facebook, Twitter pull out of SXSW citing coronavirus concerns
  • Google cancels ‘physical’ I/O 2020 due to coronavirus concerns

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

• • How does Coronavirus compare to Ebola, SARS, etc?

• • Ghen Cô Vy' - NIOEH x KHẮC HƯNG x MIN x ERIK (Coronavirus parody of ‘Jealous’)

• Last Week Tonight Segment

Audible Book of the Week

• The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History by John M. Barry
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Music Break:Ghen Cô Vy' by NIOEH x KHẮC HƯNG x MIN x ERIK

Hot Topic (cont): COVID-19

• Google, Coinbase, Twitter telling employees to work from home amid spread of coronavirus
• Google moves all job interviews to Hangouts ‘for the foreseeable future’ due to coronavirus
• Microsoft asks staff in Seattle area, Silicon Valley to work from home

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On this week’s podcast, a shakeup at the the highest levels of the Disney and Lucasfilm  Empires...and much, much more.

Podcast

What We’re Playing With

Tosin: Droid building update Andy:  Star Wars: The High Republic is Disney's new Star Wars saga

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Star Wars: The High Republic announce trailer
• The Virtual Production of The Mandalorian

Audible Book of the Week

• A Long Time Ago, in a Cutting Room Far, Far Away By Paul Hirsch
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Music Break: Into the Trap by John Williams

Hot Topics

• Bob Iger’s Disney Exit Surprised More Than Just Industry Analysts, and He Leaves Some Uncertainty in His Wake

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On this week’s podcast, media expert Tom Cheredar helps us examine the cutting edge of deepfaked video and speech... and its potential benefits and dangers.

What We’re Playing With

Andy:  The Simpsons: The Miseducation of Lisa Simpson

Tosin: live edge slab table

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• • Video Deepfake: Robert Downey Jr and Tom Holland in Back to the Future

• Audio Deepfake: Various celebrities reading “Navy Seal copypasta”
  • Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • John F. Kennedy
  • Alec Guinness
  • A Guide to Speech Synthesis with Deep Learning

Audible Book of the Week

• The Reality Game by Samuel Woolley
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Music Break: Lies by Thompson Twins

Hot Topic: Deepfakes

• Twitter Just Released Its Plan To Deal With Deep Fakes
• We've Just Seen the First Use of Deepfakes in an Indian Election Campaign
• Deepfakes, videos manipulated by face-swapping technology, are showing up on the wildly popular 60-second video app TikTok
• Deepfakes and deep media: A new security battleground

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On this week’s podcast, impressions on Samsung's new flip foldable, are digital movie cameras really as good as film?, China hacked Equifax, Tesla giveth...and Tesla taketh away,  ...and much, much more.

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What We’re Playing With

Andy:  Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet; Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)

ALL: Impressions on Samsung Galaxy Z Flip (and the future of foldable)

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• The cinematographer of Knives Out wants to end the film-vs.-digital debate
• Steve Yedlin: Display Prep Demo

Audible Book of the Week

• Every Tool's a Hammer by Adam Savage
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Music Break: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger by Daft Punk

Hot Topics

• Tesla Remotely Removes Autopilot Features From Customer's Used Tesla Without Any Notice
• U.S. Charges Chinese Military Officers in 2017 Equifax Hacking

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On this week’s podcast, what we've been watching at the movies, an 125 year-old film looks like it was shot yesterday, the app that crashed the Iowa Caucus, and much more.

What We’re Playing With

Dwayne: Knives Out/The Gentlemen

Andy:  Suicide Squad (Extended Cut)

Tosin: Parasite/1917/Ford v Ferrari

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Neural Networks Upscale Film from 1896 to 4K, Make It Look Like It Was Shot on a Modern Smartphone

Audible Book of the Week

• Forward: Stories of Tomorrow by Various Authors
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Music Break: Crazy Train by Ozzy Osbourne

Hot Topic: Electronic Voting in 2020

• Election tech was supposed to clean up the Iowa caucus — instead, it may have killed it
• The App That Broke the Iowa Caucus

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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 social media enthusiast Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Vudu product manager Tosin Onafowokan.

On this week’s podcast, media expert Tom Cheredar joins us to check out: a fan-made shot-for-shot recreation of Toy Story 3, News Corp's new Knewz site, Facebook cuts back on original video content ...and much, much more.

What We’re Playing With

Andy: A Fisherman’s Tale VR game

Tom: Mario Kart Tour for iOS

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• A Fan Remade All 103 Minutes of ‘Toy Story 3’ in Stop-Motion

Audible Book of the Week

• Agency By William Gibson
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Music Break: Hay un Amigo en Mi by Gipsy Kings

Hot Topics

• KNEWZ press release
  • Murdoch's News Corp. launches 'Knewz' aggregation platform as alternative to Google, Facebook
• Facebook Cuts Back on Original Programming for Watch Video
  • Facebook’s new metrics show it’s still a one-trick pony

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In this The Drill Down extra, culled from our outtakes, media expert Tom Cheredar chats with Dwayne about glory that was Babylon 5, and their reactions to CBS All Access' Picard series.

Picard premiere episode (limited time)

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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 social media enthusiast Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Vudu product manager Tosin Onafowokan.

On this week’s podcast, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos gets hacked, Sonos makes its older speakers obsolete, a quiz on Dem candidates, Tesla self-driving, Star Trek & Doctor Who...and much, much more.

What We’re Playing With

Dwayne: Which of these 2020 Democrats agrees with you most? Andy: Tesla self-driving mode; Star Trek: Short Treks; Doctor Who (“New Who” season 12) Audible Book of the Week

• Uncanny Valley: A Memoir By Anna Wiener
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Music Break: Doctorin' the TARDIS by The Timelords (KLF)

Hot Topics

• Sonos will stop updating its 'legacy' products in May
• The Jeff Bezos hack could happen to anyone
  • 1) Free Speech and Khashoggi
  • 2) The rich use what we use (car phones and Concordes)
  • 3) This exploit can get anyone

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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 social media enthusiast Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Vudu product manager Tosin Onafowokan.

On this week’s podcast, we change our format, talk with media expert Tom Cheredar about Quibi, discuss highlights of CES 2020, ...and much, much more.

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Show Notes

• Notes on new distribution, change of format, what’s in store for The Drill Down ahead.

• Thoughts on the past decade in tech, and what to look forward to in the future

• Special guest Tom Cheredar on Quibi
  • Quibi versus the world
  • Quibi's secret weapon: Videos that work in portrait and landscape mode

Audible Book of the Week

• The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil
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• CES Highlights with Tosin & Dwayne

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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 social media enthusiast Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Vudu product manager Tosin Onafowokan.