445: Blowing Up Your Phone
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09/30/16 • 86 min
This week, the largest hack of all time, Twitter & SoundCloud may have new owners, Apple plans its own version of the Echo, Snapchat makes a Spectacle of itself, Humans are one flight closer to Mars ... and much, much more.
Headlines
- Yahoo confirms major breach — and it could be the largest hack of all time
- Twitter may soon get formal bid, suitors said to include Salesforce and Google
- Spotify in Talks to Acquire SoundCloud
Audible Book of the Week
- Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era by James Barrat
- Sign up at AudibleTrial.com/TheDrillDown
Music Break: Telephone by Pomplamoose
Hot Topic: The Decline of Mobile
- Apple Stepping Up Plans for Amazon Echo-Style Smart-Home Device
- Apple iPhone 7 Sales Hide a Serious Problem
- The global smartphone boom is over — sorry Apple
- BlackBerry bails on building its own phones
- Snapchat unveils $130 connected sunglasses and rebrands as Snap, Inc.
Music Break: Mars: The Bringer of War by Gustav Holst
Final Word: To Mars!
The Drill Down Videos of the Week
- SpaceX Interplanetary Transport System
- PPAP Pen Pineapple Apple Pen
- How a 'Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen' earworm took over the internet
- Internet goes crazy for pineapple pen
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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), mark...
This week, the largest hack of all time, Twitter & SoundCloud may have new owners, Apple plans its own version of the Echo, Snapchat makes a Spectacle of itself, Humans are one flight closer to Mars ... and much, much more.
Headlines
- Yahoo confirms major breach — and it could be the largest hack of all time
- Twitter may soon get formal bid, suitors said to include Salesforce and Google
- Spotify in Talks to Acquire SoundCloud
Audible Book of the Week
- Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era by James Barrat
- Sign up at AudibleTrial.com/TheDrillDown
Music Break: Telephone by Pomplamoose
Hot Topic: The Decline of Mobile
- Apple Stepping Up Plans for Amazon Echo-Style Smart-Home Device
- Apple iPhone 7 Sales Hide a Serious Problem
- The global smartphone boom is over — sorry Apple
- BlackBerry bails on building its own phones
- Snapchat unveils $130 connected sunglasses and rebrands as Snap, Inc.
Music Break: Mars: The Bringer of War by Gustav Holst
Final Word: To Mars!
The Drill Down Videos of the Week
- SpaceX Interplanetary Transport System
- PPAP Pen Pineapple Apple Pen
- How a 'Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen' earworm took over the internet
- Internet goes crazy for pineapple pen
Subscribe!
The Drill Down on iTunes (Subscribe now!)
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), mark...
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444: Electric Avenue
This week, Google takes a road trip, North Korea leaks all over the internet, new rules for self-driving cars, GIANT ROBOT DUEL!! ... and much, much more
What We're Playing With
Tosin: Asus Chromebook Flip
Andy & Dwayne: geek Culture and the Emmys Headlines
- Google launches Trips, trip planner and travel guide app, with custom itineraries
- The App economy is slowing down.. Or is it speeding up?
- North Korea Has Accidentally Leaked its Propaganda Websites
Audible Book of the Week
- Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
- Sign up at AudibleTrial.com/TheDrillDown
Music Break: Cloud Atlas end title by Tom Tykwer, Reinhold Heil, Johnny Klimek
Hot Topic: Vehicle Tech
- Apple in talks with luxury supercar carmaker McLaren
- We warned Tesla about hands-free Autopilot use
- New rules of the road for self-driving cars have just been released
- Lyft says robots will drive most of its cars in five years
Music Break: Electric Avenue by Eddy Grant
Final Word
The Drill Down Videos of the Week
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Next Episode
446: 'Made By Google' Event 2016
This week, Google’s new toys, Yahoo let the US read your email, Facebook takes on craigslist, Amazon challenges students to get conversational... and much, much more!
What We're Playing With
Andy, Dwayne & Tosin: HBO’s Westworld / Violent Delights
Headlines
- Yahoo secretly scanned customer emails for U.S. intelligence
- With Its Newest Feature, Facebook Takes on Craigslist
- Amazon’s $2.5M ‘Alexa Prize’ seeks chatbot that can converse intelligently for 20 minutes
- Google Translation Breakthroughs
- How Google Used to Translate: Crowd (22 June 2010)
- How Google Translates Now: Neural Machine Learning (03 October 2016)
Audible Book of the Week
- The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
- Sign up at AudibleTrial.com/TheDrillDown
Music Break: Come Talk to Me by Peter Gabriel
Hot Topic: 'Made by Google' event 2016
- These are the features that make Google's new Pixel phones special
- Google’s “Daydream View” VR headset is smartphone-powered VR for $79
- Google WiFi is a router that simplifies whole-home wireless
- Google Chromecast Ultra brings 4K video and HDR support for $69
- Google Home will be cheaper than the Amazon Echo, available in November
Music Break: Tiny Machine by The Darling Buds
Final Word
The Drill Down Video of the Week
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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
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