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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The Drill Down on iTunes (Subscribe now!) Add us on Stitcher! The Drill Down on Facebook The Drill Down on Twitter 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, 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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The Drill Down on iTunes (Subscribe now!) Add us on Stitcher! The Drill Down on Facebook The Drill Down on Twitter 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, 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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The Drill Down on iTunes (Subscribe now!) Add us on Stitcher! The Drill Down on Facebook The Drill Down on Twitter 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, our weekly COVID-19/tech sector update, we compare our work from home experiences,  ...and much more.

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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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The Drill Down on iTunes (Subscribe now!) Add us on Stitcher! The Drill Down on Facebook The Drill Down on Twitter 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.