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, 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.

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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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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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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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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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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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On this week’s The Drill Down podcast,  Uber’s banned in London, Tesla unveils its Cybertruck, Valve learns to count to three, and a plan to save the web ...and much, much more. 

What We’re Playing With

Dwayne: Philips Hue; Jabra Active 65T headphones

Andy: Luigi’s Mansion 3

Headlines

• Uber loses London license after TfL finds drivers faked identity
• Facebook built a facial recognition app for employees
• Tim Berners-Lee unveils global plan to save the web

Audible Book of the Week

• The Final Empire (Mistborn Book 1) by Brandon Sanderson
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Music Break: Truckin' by Grateful Dead

Hot Topics

• Tesla unveils Cybertruck
  • Elon Musk says Tesla has already received 200,000 orders for the Cybertruck
  • Tesla. The Cybertruck. I slept on it. Here are my thoughts: — Dwayne D.
• Half-Life: Alyx is officially coming March 2020, and here’s your first look

Music Break: A Change is Gonna Come  by Sam Cooke

Final Word

• White nationalists are openly operating on Facebook. The company won't act
• The ‘Silicon Six’ spread propaganda. It’s time to regulate social media sites. by Sacha Baron Cohen

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

• Cybertruck reveal supercut

• Sacha Baron Cohen addresses ADL

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This week on The Drill Down podcast, Google Stadia launches, and The Drill Down’s annual holiday gift guide... The holiday season is coming up and The Drill Down would like you to be ready for it. So as we do every year around this time, we’ve prepared a list of what we consider the perfect gifts to give... and get this holiday. So before you stand around for hours this Black Friday, spend some time with us. 

Headline

• Google Stadia is not the cloud gaming future we were promised
  • A day later, many Google Stadia founders still don’t have their launch codes

Holiday Gift Guide 1: Smart Home | 2: Interactive | 3: Freestyle | 4: Media | 5: Big Ticket |

Dwayne:

1. Philips Hue Smart Dimmable LED Smart Light Recipe Kit, Installation Free, no Hub Required, (Works with Alexa Apple HomeKit and Google Assistant) $35.41

2. Arcade 1Up Pacman Countercade, Tabletop Design $199.99

   1. Upright Classic Arcade Machine $2,699.00

3. Apple AirPods with Wireless Charging Case (Latest Model) (AMAZON ONLY) $164.99

4. Sonos One (Gen 2) - Voice Controlled Smart Speaker with Amazon Alexa Built-in - Black $200

5. Google Nest Wifi $170 to $350 and $150 for every extra module

Tosin:

1. Dyson Pure Hot + Cool Air Purifier ($477)
2. Codenames (12.99)
3. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse -The Art of the Movie ($23.49) / The Stormlight Archive ($24.78 kindle)
4. Control Video Game ($44.99)
5. Milwaukee Drill Set ($200+)

Andrew:

1. IKEA Symfonisk
2. Nintendo Switch/Ring Fit Adventure
3. Escape Room / Journal 29
4. Red Dead Redemption II on PC
5. Oculus Quest

Classic Honourable Mentions:

• Any mainstream streaming service
  • Netflix
  • Hulu
  • HBO Now/Max
  • Disney+
  • Spotify Premium
  • Google Music
• Audible
  • Not quite a streaming service, but an online content nonetheless.
• Streaming Devices 
  • Apple TV 4K
  • Roku
  • Amazon Fire TV 4K
• Smart Speaker
  • Echo Dot
  • Google Home Mini

Audible Book of the Week

• I Am C-3PO by Anthony Daniels
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On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, Disney Plus launches with snags, Instagram hides likes, does the Apple Card gender discriminate?, Google secretly collects health data,  ...and much, much more. 

What We’re Playing With

Andy: Disney+ (The Mandalorian, The World According to Jeff Goldblum)

Headlines

• Disney+ launches, then crashes
  • Disney+ surpasses 10 million sign-ups since launch
• Instagram Will Test Hiding 'Likes' in the US
• Sources: Apple is aiming to release an AR headset in 2022 and a sleeker pair of AR glasses by 2023

Audible Book of the Week

• Go Like Hell by A.J. Bairne
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Music Break: Life is a Highway by Rascal Flatts

Hot Topics

• Viral Tweet About Apple Card Leads to Probe Into Goldman Sachs
• Google reportedly collects health data on millions of Americans without informing patients
• Your DNA Profile is Private? A Florida Judge Just Said Otherwise

Music Break: Octopus' Garden  by The Beatles

Final Word

• 90 Minutes a Day, Until 10 P.M.: China Sets Rules for Young Gamers

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Incredible footage captures a sleeping octopus changing colour while dreaming

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On this week’s The Drill Down podcast Number 600, Is it time up for TikTok?, AT&T gets throttled for throttling, lasers hack your smart speaker, a way to preserve big data on glass, how well did Blade Runner predict 2019 ...and much, much more.

Headlines

• The Real Reason Google Is Buying Fitbit
• U.S. opens national security investigation into TikTok
  • Inside TikTok: A culture clash where U.S. views about censorship often were overridden by the Chinese bosses
• AT&T fined $60 million for throttling ‘unlimited’ data plans

Audible Book of the Week

• Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
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Music Break: The Shining by Wendy Carlos

More Headlines

• Hackers Can Use Lasers to ‘Speak’ to Your Amazon Echo
• Waze thinks it can get Americans carpooling again
• Project Silica proof of concept stores Warner Bros. ‘Superman’ movie on quartz glass

Music Break: Tears In Rain by Vangelis

Final Word

• Blade Runner's vision of tech in November 2019

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Teenager solves car blind spots using a webcam and projector

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On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, Microsoft gains JEDI powers, Google may get FitBit, the facts on HBOMax, Facebook makes news--literally, rats who drive, ...and much, much more. 

What We’re Playing With

Dwayne: Owlet Smart Sock Baby Monitor

Tosin: Winix C535 Air Cleaner with PlasmaWave Technology

Headlines

• Microsoft beats Amazon for Pentagon's $10 billion cloud computing contract
• Exclusive: Google owner Alphabet in bid to buy Fitbit
• Details on HBOMax streaming service

Audible Book of the Week

• The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
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Music Break: Dirty Laundry by Don Henley

Hot Topics

• Facebook Launches News Section to Compensate Publishers
• Over 250 Facebook employees have signed a letter visible on an internal forum that says letting politicians lie in ads is “a threat” to the company 
• Twitter to stop accepting all political ads on the platform globally

Music Break: Rat Race by The Specials

Final Word

• Racial bias in a medical algorithm favors white patients over sicker black patients
• Scientists taught rats to drive little rat-sized cars. It could advance human mental health treatment

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Facebook alters video to make people invisible to facial recognition

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On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks out on freedom of speech and gets grilled in Congress, has Google achieved “quantum supremacy”?, a real working invisibility cloak, women walking in space, ...and much, much more.

What We’re Playing With

Dwayne: Elvie

Tosin: raise3d pro2

Andy: Watchmen on HBO

Headlines

• Google confirms ‘quantum supremacy’ breakthrough

• WeWork's had a terrible month, and now the company may be getting bailed out by SoftBank — here's everything that has happened since the embattled company filed to go public

Audible Book of the Week

• The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science by J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
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Music Break: Cosmic Girl by Jamiroquai

Hot Topics

• Defiant Zuckerberg Says Facebook Won’t Police Political Speech
  • Mark Zuckerberg doubles down on free speech
  • Mark Zuckerberg took on China in a speech defending free expression
  • The Internet and the Third Estate
• Congress isn’t buying Mark Zuckerberg’s pitch for Libra
  • AOC Blasts Mark Zuckerberg in Testy House Hearing

Music Break: I'm Looking Through You  by The Beatles

Final Word

• NASA’s all-female spacewalk makes history: ‘One giant leap for WOMANkind!’

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• A Canadian company has developed a bloody full blown invisibility shield

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On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, Google unveils new Pixel, Nest & Stadia products, Facebook launches its cryptocurrency without some major players, Apple & Hong Kong, Fortnite gets sucked into a black hole, ...and much, much more.

What We’re Playing With

Dwayne: iPhone 11 Pro (addendum)

Tosin: Star Wars D-O Interactive Droid (Target Exclusive)

Andy: Gemini Man in IMAX 3D+ in HFR

Headlines

• Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, and eBay all quit Facebook’s Libra in one day
  • Facebook and partners move forward with Libra cryptocurrency after string of exits
• Apple removes app used in Hong Kong protests after pressure from China
  • Tim Cook’s Company-Wide Memo on HKmap.live Doesn’t Add Up
• Apple Safari browser sends some user IP addresses to Chinese conglomerate Tencent by default
  • Here's Apple's statement on Safari Fraudulent Website Warning and Tencent

Audible Book of the Week

• Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America by Christopher Wylie
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Music Break: Chinese Democracy by Guns n' Roses

Hot Topic: Google Pixel Event 2019

• The biggest announcements from Google’s 2019 Pixel event
  • Pixel 4 Cameras
  • Nest WiFi
  • Nest Mini
  • Pixelbook Go
  • Pixel Buds
  • Stadia
• Google Pixel 4 event in 10 minutes

Music Break: Supermassive Black Hole  by Muse

Final Word

• The entire Fortnite ecosystem has been sucked into a virtual black hole, and the game is down

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Fortnite "THE END" Full Live ROCKET Event

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On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, technology meddles in global politics, new platforms for Apple & Instagram, Facebook’s cash loses support, the Playstation 5, ...and much, much more. 

What We’re Playing With

Dwayne & Andy: Using the iPhone 11

Headlines

• Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency loses backing from PayPal
• Instagram launches Threads, a Close Friends chat app with auto-status
• Apple releases macOS Catalina
  • What's new in Catalina

Audible Book of the Week

• The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli
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Music Break: Clocks by Coldplay

Hot Topics

• US, UK & Australia pressure Facebook to halt end-to-end encryption plans
• Microsoft says Iranian hacking group targeted a 2020 US presidential candidate
• U.S. Blacklists Eight Chinese Tech Companies on Rights Violations
• Blizzard Bans Gamer, Rescinds Money, on Hong Kong Protest Support
  • Blizzard Employees Staged a Walkout to Protest Ban of Pro-Hong Kong Gamer

Music Break: Fly Away by Lenny Kravitz

Final Word

• Exclusive: A Deeper Look at the PlayStation 5

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Meet Alice, the battery-powered plane that could herald the age of electric air travel
• Are Electric Planes Possible?

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On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, Net Neutrality loses in the nation, but all hope may not be lost, Mark Zuckerberg becomes a bit more transparent than he expected, what Amazon Go means for the world, and new gadgets from Microsoft...and much, much more. 

What We’re Playing With

Dwayne: OCOMMO 2 in 1 Qi Wireless Charging Station for Apple Watch and iPhone XS 

Andy: Tesla's 'biggest-ever' software update: V10 brings Smart Summon, Netflix, YouTube

Headlines

• All Hands On Deck
• Court upholds repeal of Net Neutrality, but rejects FCC attempt to block state laws.

Audible Book of the Week

• Hello World by Hannah Fry
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Music Break: Two Sides by Tobu & Axero

Hot Topic: Microsoft Surface Event 2019

• Here's everything Microsoft announced at its Surface event
  • Surface Laptop 3
  • Surface Pro 7
  • Surface Pro X
  • Surface Earbuds
  • Surface Neo
  • Windows 10X
  • Surface Duo

Music Break: Been Caught Stealing  by Jane's Addiction

Final Word

• Amazon Go, goes mainstream. (What are the implications for the future of work?)
  • We tried to pay $1 in cash for a soda at Amazon’s cashier-less convenience store of the future, and it took way longer than expected
  • An NBA arena is opening an Amazon Go-style store where fans can grab beer and food in under 30 seconds — and never wait in line
  • Trigo raises $22M for an automated grocery check-out platform, similar to Amazon Go

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Microsoft Surface 2019 event in under 11 minutes

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On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, new products from Amazon & Oculus, Google challenges Apple Arcade, WeWork loses its CEO, Boston Dynamics utility robots are now commercial ...and much, much more.

Headlines

• Google Play Pass bundles 350 Android games and apps for $4.99 per month

Oculus Connect 2019

• Everything announced at Oculus Connect 6
  • Oculus Link
  • Facebook Horizons
  • Hand Tracking
  • Oculus Go Apps on Quest
  • Facebook Building AR Glasses

Audible Book of the Week

• Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber by Mike Isaac
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Music Break: Echoes by Pink Floyd

Hot Topic: Amazon Hardware Event 2019

• The top 8 Echo products Amazon announced today

• In the Home

• • Echo Studio
  • Echo Show 8
  • Echo (3rd gen)
  • Echo Dot (w/ Clock)
  • Echo Flex

• On the Go

• • Echo Buds
  • Echo Frames
  • Echo Loop
• The biggest announcements from Amazon’s fall 2019 hardware event
  • Alexa Communications for Kids
  • Echo Glow
  • Alexa Smart Oven
  • Home Mode
  • Ring indoor camera
  • All-New Eero
  • Celebrity Voices on Alexa

Music Break: Working Day and Night  by Michael Jackson

Final Word

• WeWork CEO Adam Neumann steps down
  • WeWork has become poster child for everything wrong with tech unicorns

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

• Boston Dynamics Spot launch

• More Atlas parkour

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On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, news from Amazon & Facebook, a drone-silencing gun, Uber & Lyft contractor drivers may need to become employees, AI learns how to play hide & seek...and much, much more.

What We’re Playing With

Tosin: Echo Auto

Headlines

• Amazon Changed Search Algorithm in Ways That Boost Its Own Products
• Amazon Music rolls out a lossless streaming tier that Spotify and Apple can’t match
• California Governor Signs Law Protecting Gig Economy Workers

Audible Book of the Week

• The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
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Music Break: Girl on Fire by Alicia Keys

Hot Topics

• Facebook Expands Definition of Terrorist Organizations to Limit Extremism
• Facebook launches Portal TV, a $149 video chat set-top box
• Facebook’s second-generation Portal devices are cheaper, smaller, and support WhatsApp

Music Break: Nowhere to Run  by Martha Reeves and the Vandellas

Final Word

• This 'Gun' Can Down Rogue Drones With the Pull of a Trigger

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Emergent Tool Use from Multi-Agent Interaction
  • Open AI: Multi-Agent Hide-and-Seek

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On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, Facebook & Google get hit with antitrust probes, vinyl beats CD sales, new iPhones, iPads, Apple watches ...and much, much more! 

What We’re Playing With

Dwayne & Tosin: Amazon Echo Auto

Headlines

• Attorneys General for 48 States Open Sweeping Anti-Trust Probe into Google
• Facebook is under investigation by state attorneys general for antitrust violations

• Facebook Dating launches in the US

Audible Book of the Week

• Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
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Music Break: I Turn My Camera On by Spoon

Hot Topic: Apple Fall Event 2019

• The 5 biggest announcements from Apple’s September 2019 event
  • Apple TV+ One-year Trial Comes With Every Apple Device Purchase
    • AT&T anti-conglomerate share holders
  • The Upgraded Seventh-gen Ipad Has A 10.2-inch Display
  • Apple Watch Series 5 Has An Always-on Display
  • iPhone 11 Improves On The Xr In Every Way, Costs $699
  • iPhone 11 Pro And Iphone 11 Pro Max: They’re Here

Music Break: You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) by Dead or Alive

Final Word

• Vinyl set to outsell CDs for first time since 1986

The Drill Down Video of the Week

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On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, the Twitter CEO’s Twitter gets hacked, YouTube fined for violating child privacy laws, Apple finally lets you leave the Genius Bar, how do Hong Kong protestors organize when the State blocks texts? Highlights from PAX West...and much, much more.

What We’re Playing With

TOSIN: PAX West 2019

• Deleveled: 
  • Launch Date: Fall 2019, Windows, Linux, Switch, PS4, Xbox One
  • Cost: TBD

• The Devil’s Calculator: 
  • Launch Date: iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, Linux, Github
  • Cost: Free on some platforms, $2.99 on others

• Praey for the Gods: 
  • Launch Date: Available for early access: Windows, Mac, PS4, Xbox One
  • Cost: $29.99

• Creature in the Well: 
  • Launch Date: Sept 6th, Windows, Xbox, Switch
  • Cost: TBD

• Superliminal: (Best in Show - National Academy of Video Game Trade Reviewers)
  • Launch Date: Late 2019 Epic Game Store, then Consoles, then Steam in a year
  • Cost: TBD

Headlines

• Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s account has been hacked
  • Twitter disables tweeting via SMS after CEO gets hacked
• Why Won’t Twitter Treat White Supremacy Like ISIS? Because It Would Mean Banning Some Republican Politicians Too
• YouTube will pay $170 million to settle claims it violated child privacy laws

Audible Book of the Week

• It by Stephen King
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Music Break: Send in the Clowns by Judy Collins

Hot Topics

• China reportedly made an app to show people if they're standing near someone in debt — a new part of its intrusive 'social credit' policy
• Hong Kong Protestors Using Mesh Messaging App China Can't Block: Usage Up 3685%
  • FireChat: The App That Fueled Hong Kong's Umbrella Revolution
• Apple reverses stance on iPhone repairs and will supply parts to independent shops for the first time

Music Break: Light My Fire  by The Doors

Final Word

• Kiwibots win fans at UC Berkeley as they deliver fast food at slow speeds

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• BangBros bought a porn doxxing site just to literally set it on fire

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On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, Apple’s new credit card, what’s blacker than black? the first crime in space... and much, much more.

What We’re Playing With

Andy: Recreating a Vintage TV

Headlines

• Nasa said to be investigating first allegation of a crime in space
• Ex-Google and Uber engineer Anthony Levandowski charged with trade secret theft
• Apple Apologizes Over Siri Privacy and Will No Longer Retain Audio Recordings
• Amazon’s Ring offered a footage request system to more than 400 law enforcement agencies

Audible Book of the Week

• The End of Ice by Dahr Jamail
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Music Break: Melt With You by Modern English

Hot Topics

• Here’s how the new Apple Card could put pressure on Verizon and AT&T
• Alexa, who is Baidu? Chinese firm passes Google to become Amazon’s top smart-speaker rival

Music Break: Paint It, Black  by The Rolling Stones

Final Word

• India Develops the World's First Iron-ion Battery

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Carbon nanotubes built this bizarre ultrablack material

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On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, the White House wants to police social media speech, while the FBI pulls data from Facebook, should schools install facial recognition cameras? Crossing the English Channel via hoverboard and much, much more.

What We’re Playing With

Dwayne: DUST

Headlines

• Verizon agrees to sell Tumblr to owner of Wordpress
• Facebook Paid Contractors to Transcribe Users’ Audio Chats

Audible Book of the Week

• How Music Works by John Powell
  • The Feel Good Song Formula
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Music Break: Mr. Blue Sky by Electric Light Orchestra

Hot Topics

• White House proposal would have FCC and FTC police alleged social media censorship
• The FBI wants to build a data dragnet on Facebook
• School security cameras add facial recognition software

Music Break: Only Time  by Enya

Final Word

• A Tesla owner implanted the RFID chip from her Model 3’s keycard into her arm

The Drill Down Video of the Week

Flying Frenchman crosses English Channel by hoverboard

Heart-pounding video of a dying drone rescue proves everything is better with Enya

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On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, Media journalist Tom Cheredar joins us to discuss: Apple launches its credit card, Disney bundles its subscriptions, a harbor of hate on the web loses its platform, we make time slow to a crawl and much, much more. 

Headlines

• Did you say, ‘Hey, Siri’? Apple and Amazon curtail human review of voice recordings
• The Apple [Credit] Card starts rolling out this week
• Disney Announces $12.99 Bundle For Disney+, Hulu, & ESPN+ Available At Launch

Audible Book of the Week

• The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's 1984 by Dorian Lynskey
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Music Break: Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty-Four) by Eurythmics 

Hot Topics

• Cloudflare to revoke 8chan’s service, opening the fringe website up for DDoS attacks
  • 8chan loses another ally as Congress demands that the site's owner testify
• Trump, without evidence, accuses Google of 'very illegal' action ahead of election

Music Break: Time in a Bottle  by Jim Croce

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

• This fan-made, stop-motion ‘The Shining’ took 60 hours and 10,000 LEGOs to create

• • Einstein’s Camera: How one renegade photographer is hacking the concept of time

Adam Magyar - Stainless, 42 Street (excerpt) from Adam Magyar on Vimeo.

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On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, Facebook let kids get exposed to strangers, two new tech bills to help consumers, Capital One gets breached, transforming robots and much more. 

What We’re Playing With

Andy: Oculus Quest

Headlines

• Facebook design flaw let thousands of kids join chats with unauthorized users
• New bill would ban autoplay videos and endless scrolling
• A Bipartisan Bill That Could End Our Robocall Hell Just Passed the House 429-3

Audible Book of the Week

• Medieval Robots: Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art by E. R. Truitt
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Music Break: We Are the Robots by Balanescu Quartet

Hot Topics

• Capital One Says Breach Hit 100 Million Individuals in U.S.
• T-Mobile and Sprint Are Merging. What Does That Mean for You?

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Meet Aquanaut, the Underwater Transformer

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On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, Amazon grows while Netflix dwindles, Equifax pays, Hackers breach Russia’s FBI, is FaceApp giving your pics to the Russians? and much more.

Headlines

• FTC issues (aforementioned on this show) $5B fine against Facebook
• Amazon now fastest-growing music service, outpacing Apple & Spotify
• Netflix is losing beloved shows, subscribers, and confidence

Audible Book of the Week

• Apollo 11: The Inside Story by David Whitehouse
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Music Break: Glenn's Flight from 'The Right Stuff'  by Bill Conti

Hot Topics

• Equifax to pay $700m for breach that exposed 147 million Americans’ data
• Hackers expose Russian intelligence agency's secret internet projects in 'the largest data leak' the group has ever faced
• Panic over Russian company’s FaceApp is a sign of new distrust of the Internet
  • Probably don’t download FaceApp but also definitely don’t panic about it

Music Break: The Times They Are a-Changin'  by Bob Dylan

Final Word

• Photographers, Instagrammers: Stop Being So D*mn Selfish and Disrespectful

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

• Comic-Con Trailer For HBO’s ‘Watchmen’ Series Doesn’t Do Lollipops and Rainbows

• Supercar Blondie - Groupe Renault Trezor

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On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, POTUS’ racist tweets, trouble for Facebook’s new cryptocurrency & a 5 billion-dollar fine, Elon Musk vs. drug kingpins, tapping into the brain and much more. 

What We’re Playing With 

Andy, Dwayne & Tosin: The Gardens Between

Headlines

• Trump's Racist Tweets Aren't Racist, Twitter Decides
  • Trump’s Tweets So Clearly Racist It’s Spelled Out In Discrimination Law
• Apple will reportedly fund exclusive podcasts to challenge Spotify

Audible Book of the Week

• Talking to Robots: Tales from Our Human-Robot Futures by David Ewing Duncan
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Music Break: For the Love of Money by The O'Jays

Hot Topic: Facebook/Libra

• Facebook is staring down a record-setting $5 billion fine
• Donald Trump is 'not a fan' of cryptocurrency, Facebook Libra
  • Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says he has serious concerns about Facebook's Libra, joining Trump and other officials including the Federal Reserve chairman
  • Highlights from Facebook’s Libra Senate hearing

Music Break: Fire  by Ohio Players

Final Word

• Pablo Escobar's brother escalates flamethrower feud with Elon Musk, threatens Tesla takeover

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Elon Musk Announces Plan to 'Merge' Human Brains With AI
  • Watch Elon Musk’s Neuralink presentation

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On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, the FBI & Immigration are using our DMV records for facial recognition, new changes to Facebook & Instagram, we find out where your precious Friends are going, Tesla news, a lighter Switch, and much more. 

What We’re Playing With

Dwayne: Solar-powered Mason Jar Lights

Tosin: FoodSaver 2-in-1 Vacuum Sealing System

Headlines

• Facebook will ban ads that tell people in U.S. not to vote
• Instagram will let you know if you're about to post a hurtful comment
• IBM closes its $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat
• AT&T's WarnerMedia reveals the name, HBO Max, for its streaming service coming next spring with 10K hours of programming, including exclusive rights to Friends

Audible Book of the Week

• The Radioactive Boy Scout by Ken Silverstein
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Music Break: Radioactive by Imagine Dragons

Hot Topics

• FBI, ICE find state driver’s license photos are a gold mine for facial-recognition searches
• Elon Musk: Tesla will stop selling cars [Update: at consumer pricing] once full self-driving is solved - Electrek
  • “Close to 10%” of Autopilot software team reportedly departs after shakeup
  • No refresh. The cars will receive incremental hardware updates.
  • Elon Musk is currently the auto industry’s most tenured CEO
  • 2013 Tesla Model S Beats Chevy, Toyota, and Cadillac for Ultimate Car of the Year Honors

Music Break: Come and Get It  by Badfinger

Final Word

• H. Ross Perot, Tech Billionaire And Populist Politician, Dies Age 89
• Nintendo Switch Lite is a smaller, cheaper Switch built exclusively for handheld play

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On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, Apple’s chief designer Sir Jonathan Ive quits, China hacks visitors cellphones, Amazon keeps your Echo voice data indefinitely, why your purchased digital media may one day disappear, and much more.

Headlines

• Twitter will now hide — but not remove — harmful tweets from public figures
• China Is Forcing Tourists to Install Text-Stealing Malware at its Border
• Amazon Alexa keeps your data with no expiration date, and shares it too

Audible Book of the Week

• Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe by Serhii Plokhy
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Music Break: Hymn to Red October by Basil Poledouris

Hot Topics

• Jony Ive, iPhone designer, announces Apple departure
  • Jony Ive on leaving Apple, in his own words
  • Sources: since the Apple Watch launched in 2015, Jony Ive began to shed responsibilities, with day-to-day oversight reduced to coming to HQ twice a week
  • Report: Jony Ive was dispirited by Tim Cook's lack of interest in the product development process and frustrated inside a more operations-focused company
  • Tim Cook emails a reporter to say the WSJ report about Jony Ive's departure—and his frustration with Cook's alleged lack of interest in design—is “absurd”
• Apple moves Mac Pro production to China from U.S.

Music Break: You Don't Own Me  by Leslie Gore

Final Word

• Ebooks Purchased From Microsoft Will Be Deleted This Month Because You Don't Really Own Anything Anymore

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Warehouses: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

• Amazon Exec Fires Back at John Oliver After HBO Segment on Warehouses: ‘He Is Wrong’

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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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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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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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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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On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, China heats up the trade war, the most dangerous laptop ever, Facebook's own Bitcoin, a collision of Tesla news ... and much, much more.

Headlines

• China Gears Up to Weaponize Rare Earths in Trade War
• Auction for a laptop full of malware closes at $1.3 million (updated)
• Amazon defeated Rekognition revolt by a large margin
• Facebook plans to launch 'GlobalCoin' currency in 2020

Audible Book of the Week

• Fire & Blood by George RR Martin
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Music Break: Light of the Seven by Ramin Djawadi

Hot Topic

• Elon Musk Says ‘Hyperloop’ Tunnel Is Now Just a Normal Car Tunnel Because ‘This Is Simple and Just Works’
• There's a 'crisis of confidence' in Tesla
• Tesla's Chinese-built Model 3 could cost almost $10,000 less than imported versions
  • Tesla makes people guess made-in-China Model 3 price ahead of announcement
• New lawsuit against Tesla alleges pregnant woman was pinned against the wall by her Model X, breaking her bones and sending her into premature labor
• Tesla's New Autopilot 'Violates State Laws' According To Consumer Reports

Music Break: Killer Cars  by Radiohead

Final Word

• Why It's Time To Think About Self-Driving Cars In Regards To Parking

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• • Doctored Pelosi video highlights the threat of deepfake tech

• Doctored Pelosi Video Virally Shared
  • Original Pelosi Video
  • Doctored Pelosi video is leading tip in coming disinformation battle
  • Why Facebook is right not to take down the doctored Pelosi video

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This week: Trade with Huawei is banned across the globe, unhappy with Game of Thrones? Sign the petition!, the White House launches a site to report censorship, Minecraft is launching a Pokemon Go-style mobile game, and much, much more. 

Headlines

• White House launches tool to report censorship on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and Twitter
• Spotify begins testing its first hardware: a car smart assistant
• Game of Thrones petition demands remake

Audible Book of the Week

• A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1 by George R. R. Martin
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Music Break: The Night King by Ramin Djiwadi from 'Game of Thrones'

Hot Topics

• China's Huawei, 70 affiliates placed on U.S. trade blacklist
  • Exclusive: Google suspends some business with Huawei after Trump
  • Top U.S. Tech Companies Begin to Cut Off Vital Huawei Supplies
  • Huawei: ARM memo tells staff to stop working with China’s tech giant
  • U.S. eases restrictions on Huawei; founder says U.S. underestimates.

Music Break: Cat by C418 from 'Minecraft'

Final Word

• Minecraft Earth goes a step beyond Pokémon Go to cover the world in blocks

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Minecraft Earth: Official Reveal Trailer

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This week, Amazon’s new robots can replace its warehouse workers, San Francisco bans facial recognition, spyware in your systems right now (and how to fix it), new stuff from Google's I/O web developer conference, and much more. 

Headlines

• Exclusive: Amazon rolls out machines that pack orders and replace jobs
• San Francisco Bans Facial Recognition Technology
• Silicon Valley will soon get its own stock exchange
• Update WhatsApp now to avoid spyware installation from a single missed call
• Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla release patches for ZombieLoad chip flaws

Audible Book of the Week

• Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology By Lizzie O'Shea
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Music Break: We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together by Taylor Swift

Hot Topics

• Supreme Court deals Apple major setback in App Store antitrust case
• It’s Time to Break Up Facebook
  • Chris Hughes’s Call to Break Up Facebook: 5 Takeaways
  • Breaking Up Facebook Is Not the Answer
  • Zuckerberg says breaking up Facebook “isn’t going to help”

Music Break: Let's Stay Together  by Al Green

Final Word

• The 8 biggest announcements from the Google I/O 2019 keynote

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Google I/O 2019 event in 13 minutes

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This week, we check in on CES innovations-- an all-in-one charger for iPhone, and the Impossible Burger 2.0 ... and more! 

What We’re Playing With

Andy: Tesla Wall Connector

Dwayne: Dyson customer service

CES updates

• Ampere Unravel takes on Apple’s Doomed Airpower

Audible Book of the Week

• Flavor: The Science of Our Most Neglected Sense By Bob Holmes
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Music Break: It's Impossible by Shirley Bassey

CES updates

• Intro the Impossible Burger
  • No Animal testing
  • America is running out of Impossible Burgers
  • Not without controversy

The Drill Down Video of the Week

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This week, why Game of Thrones was so dark, Amazon aims for same day shipping, a tech company makes a racist faux pas, Minecraft’s creator is banned, and all the latest from Facebook’s developer conference, and much more. 

What We’re Playing With

Andy: GoT on HBO: Why did last night's "Game of Thrones" look so bad? Here comes the science!

A 'Game of Thrones' cinematographer defended the show's lighting: 'I know it wasn't too dark because I shot it'

Dwayne: Apple Down 2 Quarters in a row

Headlines

• Amazon to spend $800 million to make free one-day shipping the default for Prime members
• Walmart Hints at an answer to Amazon's 1-day free shipping plan
• Telecom giants battle bill which bans Internet service throttling for firefighters in emergencies

Audible Book of the Week

• Why You Like It: The Science and Culture of Musical Taste by Nolan Gasser
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Music Break: Your Racist Friend by They Might Be Giants

Hot Topics

• Microsoft excludes Minecraft’s creator from anniversary event over his ‘comments and opinions’
• Tech Company Apologizes For Requesting 'Preferably Caucasian' Job Candidates
• The 5 biggest announcements from Facebook’s F8 developer conference keynote

Music Break: Nothing Breaks Like a Heart  by Mark Ronson (ft Miley Cyrus)

Final Word

• Just relax, our robot is navigating through your heart

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• F8 2019 keynote in 12 minutes

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Netflix had an outsized presence at the 2019 Oscars despite their unconventional way of distributing films.(image Courtesy of Vulture.com) 

The 2019 Oscars or Academy Awards were like no other. There was a Superhero film up for best picture and a Superhero film actually won for Best Animated Feature. Among top films to come away a winner this year was an Alfonso Curaón film named Roma. It scored an industry first in that despite the fact that it was available for viewers to stream on Netflix even as it was still playing in theatres, Roma was not only a serious contender for competitive awards like best director and best picture, it actually won three of the four awards it was nominated for.

(Netflix developed Roma image Courtesy of Deadline.com)

For this segment we’ve turned things on their heads a bit– Andy Sorciniis a film editor by trade, as well as the Creator and Executive Producer of The Drill Down. Tosin Onafowokan, longtime Drill Down co-panelist, is a product manager at Vudu, where he spends his days working on the tech behind the streaming media that audiences can’t get enough of, and, here tonight as a special guest, we have Engadget Senior Editor Devindra Hardawar, who, in addition to writing about and being an expert in all things entertainment technology, is also the long-time co-host of the Slashfilmcast, which reviews and provides insights about the latest in film and television every week. Devindra has also launched his own technology show recently– the Know More Tech podcast, in which he answers every day users questions about technology. Examples include how to pick the best tech gifts, what you should be looking for in major technology purchases like televisions, and help whittling down the best products in a sea of options– like recommendations on fitness trackers.

I thought we’d take advantage of this vast array of tech and movie experience to see if there’s anything to be learned about where the industry is going in light Netflix’s incursion into what had been a space dominated by the studios.

This week, Australia’s elections are hacked, A Saudi app thay tracks women’s movements, Samsung unveils a foldable phone, the perils of AI & machine learning, ... and much, much more. 

Headlines

• • Australia's PM says the country's parliament and three largest political parties have been hacked by a “sophisticated state actor” ahead of a federal election

• • Senator calls for Google, Apple to drop Saudi app that monitors women

• Samsung’s foldable phone is the Galaxy Fold, available April 26th starting at $1,980

Audible Book of the Week

• The History of the Future by Blake J. Harris
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Music Break: Every Breath You Take by Police

Hot Topics

• • Machine learning 'causing science crisis'

• • A Crucial Step for Averting AI Disasters

• This Person Does Not Exist Is the Best One-Off Website of 2019
  • This Person Does Not Exist

Music Break: It's Not Unusual  by Tom Jones

Final Word

• US Copyright Office refused copyright claim for “Carlton Dance”

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Sun Flyer 2 Completes First Flight with Siemens Electric Propulsion Motor

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This week, Russia unplugs from the internet, Nintendo gives us more to switch for, President Trump supports artificial intelligence, Amazon looks for a new HQ, Jeff Bezos exposes Pecker, ... and much, much more. 

Headlines

• • Russia to disconnect from the internet as part of a planned test

• Teenage Hacker's Evil App Steals Apple Mac Passwords

Audible Book of the Week

• The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone
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Music Break: Sledgehamer by Peter Gabriel

Hot Topic: Amazon & Co.

• • Jeff Bezos essentially accused the National Enquirer of having a political motive for exposing his affair, and insinuated a Trump connection
    • • No thank you, Mr. Pecker by Jeff Bezos
    • Inside the Spy Scandal at the Heart of Jeff Bezos’ War With the National Enquirer

• • Amazon HQ2: New York headquarters project may be in jeopardy after wave of opposition, officials say

• Amazon is buying mesh router company Eero

Music Break: The Legend of Zelda  by Koji Kondo

Final Word

• • Trump administration unveils order to prioritize and promote AI

• NASA is saying goodbye to its Opportunity rover on Mars after eight months of radio silence

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• The 9 biggest announcements from today’s Nintendo Direct

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This week, Tesla news, Bitcoin keys lose their keyholder, updates from Slack & Twitter, Facebook turns 15, a watershed moment for online events, ... and much, much more.

Headlines

• • Tesla’s $218M Maxwell acquisition aims to give its batteries a boost
    • Volkswagen will use Tesla battery packs in some of its US charging stations

• • After founder’s sudden death, cryptocurrency exchange can’t access $190 million in holdings

• Stock market closes higher as tech shares rally

Audible Book of the Week

• Zucked Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe  By Roger McNamee
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Music Break: Creep by Scala & Kolacny Brothers

Hot Topics

• • Slack Files for Public Offering, Joining Silicon Valley’s Stock Market Rush

• • Facebook and Twitter removed hundreds of accounts linked to Iran, Russia and Venezuela

• On Facebook's 15th anniversary, Zuckerberg says it will spend more on safety and security in 2019 than it had revenue at its IPO, pans critics' “negative” focus
  • A defiant Mark Zuckerberg says people are focusing on the ‘negative’ aspects of Facebook's impact on the world

Music Break: Happier  by  Marshmello (ft. Bastille)

Final Word

• Attacking a Pay Wall That Hides Public Court Filings

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• 'Fortnite' Had 10 Million Concurrent Players In The Marshmello Concert Event

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This week, Facebook protects its bottom line, while secretly spying on you, a huge trove of leaked Russian documents, a possible cause--and cure for Alzheimer’s, Tosin’s report from PAX South... and much, much more.

PAX South report

• Overland

• REZPLZ

• Skellboy

• Unstable Unicorns

• Gunnar

Audible Book of the Week

• The Gamer's Bucket List: The 50 Video Games to Play Before You Die by Chris Watters
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Music Break: The Last of Us by Gustavo Santaolalla

Hot Topics

• • Huawei Accused of Trade-Secret Theft, Defrauding Banks

• Huge Trove of Leaked Russian Documents Is Published by Transparency Advocates

• • The Facts About Facebook
    • Mark Zuckerberg’s WSJ op-ed was a message to would-be regulators: Hands off our ad business

• • Zuckerberg Plans to Integrate WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger

• Facebook pays teens to install VPN that spies on them
  • Apple blocks Facebook from running its internal iOS apps

Final Word

• We may finally know what causes Alzheimer’s – and how to stop it
• A brief word on our colleague Greg Davies

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This week, ten percent of everything watched is Netflix, Amazon, AT&T & Google vs consumers, the beauty of our planet & outer space... and much, much more.

What We’re Playing With

Dwayne:  Dyson Pure Cool, TP04 - HEPA Air Purifier and Tower Fan

Headlines

• • Amazon’s cashierless Go stores could be a $4 billion business by 2021

• • AT&T says it’ll stop selling your location data, amid calls for a federal investigation

• • French data protection watchdog fines Google $57 million under the GDPR

• Web ad giant Google to block ad-blockers in Chrome

Audible Book of the Week

• The Radical King by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Cornel West - editor
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Music Break: Spiritual High (Part III) by Moodswings

Hot Topics

• • Netflix says it has 10% of all US TV time, discloses huge numbers for its shows

• • Netflix says Fortnite is bigger competition than HBO or Hulu

• The MPAA has added Netflix as a member, the first internet-based service to be added

Music Break: Where We're Going (from Interstellar) by Hans Zimmer

Final Word

• • This 9-Gigapixel Image —With 84 Million Stars— Of the Milky Way Will Give You Goosebumps

• Lose yourself in our planet’s beauty with the winners of Wiki Loves Earth

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Sci-Fi Short Film "FTL" presented by DUST

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This week, we put current news aside in order to review the year was 2018, and this year, as we did last year, Instead of merely having a stack-ranked list of top news of the year, we’re gonna make tech news compete for awards, affectionately called The Drill Bits. So put on your tuxes, get in the limo, and roll out the red carpet, ‘cause the show’s about to begin!

Music Break: Every 1s A Winner by Hot Chocolate

The Drill Bit Awards 

Audible Book of the Week

• Raising Humans in a Digital World by Diana Graber
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Music Break: I.G.Y. by Donald Fagen

Last Year’s Predictions (2018)

• DWAYNE: Twitter Goes into Acquisition Talks NOPE
• TOSIN: AR is going to blow up NOPE
• ANDY: Net Neutrality defenders strike back NOPE
• TOSIN: Disney will announce an Original, unEdited Star Wars trilogy NOPE
• ANDY: Model 3 *will* finish shipping in 2018 (all pre-ordered reservationists only) NOPE
• DWAYNE: Clean, green tech will go mainstream in building codes. NOPE
  • SCORE
  • Andy 0
  • Tosin 0
  • Dwayne 0

We all lose

Coming Year’s Predictions for 2019

• • DWAYNE: Lots of integration into the smart home space w/ IOT encryption

• • TOSIN: Major innovate tech from locations unknown (such as africa), and we’ll see an explosion of embracing tech exploration in undeveloped regions

• ANDY: I will receive my standard battery Model 3 Tesla in 2019.

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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 Box product manager Tosin Onafowokan.

This week, Dwayne reports from CES, Apple’s iPhone problem, is your weather app spying on you? Vehicular robot-slaughter?... and much, much more. 

What We’re Playing With Dwayne: CES Update

• Nvidia launches the $349 GeForce RTX 2060
• Amazon's Ring unveils a $199 Door View Cam, which captures peephole video and detects knocks, alongside several new devices for smart outdoor lighting and more
• HTC unveils Vive Pro Eye, a new VR headset with eye-tracking capabilities, coming in April, and teases the Vive Cosmos, a new consumer-friendly headset
• Sony says its new 4K and 8K TVs launching later this year, which run Android TV, will support AirPlay 2 and HomeKit
• Google makes over a dozen announcements for Google Assistant at CES, including Google Assistant Connect for third-party developers and flight check-ins
• CES 2019: 'Award-winning' sex toy for women withdrawn from show

The Google Assistant Ride 360° Tour at CES 2019 Audible Book of the Week

• Ethical Hacking by Lakshay Eshan
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Music Break: Digital Love by Daft Punk

Hot Topics

• Apple's iPhone sales problem goes beyond China
• Lawsuit Accuses Weather Channel App of Misleading Users and Profiting From Their Location Data
• A Major Hacking Spree in Germany Gets Personal
• Album Sales Are Dying as Fast as Streaming Services Are Rising

Music Break: Get on Your Feet  by Gloria Estefan

Final Word

• A Fake Nude of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Was Debunked By Foot Fetishists

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Self-Driving Tesla Mows Down And “Kills” AI Robot At CES Tech Show

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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, luddites take aim at next-gen cars, a malware attack against the nations newspapers, a new look at the big bang, AI face technology... and much, much more.

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