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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

Subscribe! The Drill Down on iTunes (Subscribe now!) Add us on Stitcher! The Drill Down on Facebook The Drill Down on Twitter The Drill Down is a roundtable-style audio podcast where we discuss the most important issues of the week, in tech and on the web and how they affect us all. Hosts are social media enthusiast Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Vudu product manager Tosin Onafowokan.

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

• 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

• 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

• Twitter starts rolling out audio tweets on iOS

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

The Drill Down on iTunes (Subscribe now!) Add us on Stitcher! The Drill Down on Facebook The Drill Down on Twitter The Drill Down is a roundtable-style audio podcast where we discuss the most important issues of the week, in tech and on the web and how they affect us all. Hosts are social media enthusiast Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Vudu product manager Tosin Onafowokan.

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

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• Tesla Ventilator

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

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The Drill Down is a roundtable-style audio podcast where we discuss the most important issues of the week, in tech and on the web and how they affect us all. Hosts are social media enthusiast Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Vudu product manager Tosin Onafowokan.

This week, AT&T can now merge with Time Warner, FCC chair Ajit Pai lied to the American public, Net Neutrality is dead...now what?, our favorite gaming picks from E3, ... and much, much more.

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What We're Playing With

Andy & Tosin: The VOID - Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire; Upgrade

Dwayne: #mprraccoon

Headlines

• Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access to Data on Users and Friends
• AT&T’s Time Warner Takeover Wins Judge’s Approval in Defeat for Justice Dept
• Ajit Pai’s FCC lied about “DDoS” attack, ex-chair’s statement indicates

Audible Book of the Week

• Medium Raw by Anthony Bourdain
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Music Break: Spoiler by Hyper

Hot Topic: E3 2018

• The 5 biggest announcements from EA’s E3 2018 keynote
• The biggest announcements for Microsoft Xbox at E3 2018

• The biggest announcements and trailers from Bethesda’s E3 2018 keynote
• All the trailers from Square Enix at E3 2018
• All the biggest news from Ubisoft at E3 2018
• All the biggest announcements and trailers from Sony PlayStation at E3 2018

• The nine biggest announcements from Nintendo’s E3 2018 presentation

• 10 most exciting PC games spotted at the PC Gaming Show 2018

Music Break: The Last of Us by Gustavo Santaolalla 

Final Word

• Inside Palmer Luckey’s Bid to Build A Border Wall

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

• Net neutrality is dead, now what?

• Skyrim: Very Special Edition

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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, California attempts to save Net neutrality, Microsoft buys coding repository GitHub, all the highlights from Apple’s developer conference, ... and much, much more. 

What We're Playing With Dwayne: Philips Hue Labs / Real or Fake 4K Tosin: Anova Sous Vide

Headlines

• California Senate votes to restore net neutrality
• MS Buys Github
  • Ballmer: “Linux is a cancer” Contaminates all other software with Hippie GPL rubbish
  • Everyone complaining about Microsoft buying GitHub needs to offer a better solution
• ZTE and the Trade War

Audible Book of the Week

• Galaxy Girls: 50 Amazing Stories of Women in Space by Libby Jackson
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Music Break: Interplanet Janet by Man or Astro-man?

Hot Topic: Apple WWDC 2018

• Everything Apple Announced at WWDC Today

Music Break: Telephone by Pomplemoose

Final Word

• What Google isn't telling us about its AI demo

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

• Apple WWDC 2018 keynote in 14 minutes

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This week, Netflix is bigger than Disney (briefly), is Amazon secretly recording your conversations? Has your internet router been hijacked by Russian hackers, why you’re seeing all those pesky privacy notices... and much, much more. 

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Dwayne: BABYBJORN Bouncer Balance Soft - Rust/Orange, Cotton

Andy: Vudu Disc to Digital service

Tosin: VRV

Headlines

• Jury finds Samsung owes Apple $539M in patent case stretching back to 2011
• Netflix briefly tops Disney as the biggest pure media company in the world by market value
• Why Uber’s self-driving car killed a pedestrian

Audible Book of the Week

• A History of Video Games in 64 Objects by The World Video Game Hall of Fame
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Music Break: I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire by Ink Spots

Hot Topics

• Why you’re getting flooded with privacy notifications in your email
• An Amazon Echo Recorded a Couple’s Private Conversation and Sent It to a Contact. What the What?
  • Here’s Amazon’s explanation for the Alexa eavesdropping scandal
• U.S. seeks to take control of infected routers from hackers
  • FBI: Kindly Reboot Your Router Now, Please

Music Break: Crawl Out Through the Fallout by Sheldon Allman

Final Word

• Tesla Model 3 Gets CR Recommendation After Braking Update

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

• ‘Fallout 76’ Announced By Bethesda With First Trailer
• Sources: Fallout 76 Is An Online Survival RPG

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This week, Does President Trump have a beef with Jeff Bezos? Amazon sells your face to law enforcement, Elon Musk drives journalists & reviewers crazy, a parrot who uses Amazon Echo... and much, much more. 

What We're Playing With

Andy: Lost Spirits distillery tour; 2001: A Space Odyssey

Dwayne: HALO Bassinest Swivel Sleeper - Premiere Series Bassinet

Headlines

• Trump personally pushed postmaster general to double rates on Amazon

Audible Book of the Week

• Messing with the Enemy: Surviving in a Social Media World of Hackers, Terrorists, Russians, and Fake News by Clint Watts
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Music Break: She Drives Me Crazy by Fine Young Cannibals

Hot Topic: Tesla

• Consumer groups ask U.S. agency to probe Tesla 'Autopilot' ads
  • Controversy - The arguments for (A) (B) and against (C) (D) Elon Musk’s response
  • Purported Tesla ‘Ad’
• Tesla Model 3 Falls Short of a CR Recommendation
  • Tesla CEO Details Plans for Model 3 Brake Fix
• Tesla shares poised to rise after 'fever pitch' of bad news: analyst
• How Elon Musk's rocket company SpaceX beat Boeing to become a $28 billion aerospace juggernaut

Music Break: Talking Bird by Death Cab For Cutie

Final Word

• Amazon is selling facial recognition to law enforcement

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

• A Florida parrot conquers its household by learning Alexa commands

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This week, Facebook purges sketchy apps, net neutrality wins in the Senate, robot dogs are coming to work, congratulations...podcasting is free again!... and much, much more.

What We're Playing With

Andy: TOPGREENER TU21558A3 Ultra-High-Speed Three Port Type-A USB Outlet 5.8A-29W

Dwayne: Hatch Baby Grow

Tosin: I, Tonya

Headlines

• Facebook suspends ~200 suspicious apps out of “thousands” reviewed so far
• EFF has comprehensively killed the bullshit podcasting patent
• Hacker Breaches Securus, the Company That Helps Cops Track Phones Across the US

Audible Book of the Week

• The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World by Simon Winchester
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Music Break: Fight the Power by Public Enemy

Hot Topic: US Government Tech

• Senate approves bill in bid to retain U.S. net neutrality
• White House eliminates top cyber adviser post
• Google Employees Resign in Protest Against Pentagon Contract

Music Break: Atomic Dog by George Clinton

Final Word

• SpotMini -- the cute, agile, dog-like robot and YouTube star -- will go on sale next year

The Drill Down Videos of the Week: Boston Dynamics

• SpotMini Autonomous Navigation

• Getting some air, Atlas?

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This week, Microsoft’s Build conference & Google’s I/O conference, the fight for Net Neutrality is back on, reanimating dead brains... and much, much more. 

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Andy: Behringer XENYX Q802USB

Dwayne: Simple Parenting Doona + Hue for babies Tosin: Invisigun Heroes, Duck Game

Headlines

• California police working on DNA match for Zodiac Killer
• U.S. Senate to vote to reinstate open internet rules
• AT&T paid $200,000 to Trump’s attorney, Michael Cohen, and the payments stop right after Trump’s FCC pick Ajit Pai repealed net neutrality

Audible Book of the Week

• Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything By Kelly Weinersmith & Zach Weinersmith
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Music Break: Readings in Astrology by Curtis Mayfield Hot Topic: Microsoft Build & Google I/O 2018

• The 5 biggest announcements from Microsoft’s Build event
• The 10 biggest announcements from Google I/O 2018

Music Break: The Gonk by Herbert Chappell

Final Word

• Yale experiment to reanimate dead brains promises 'living hell' for humans

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

• Microsoft's Build 2018 keynote highlights

• Google I/O 2018 keynote in 14 minutes

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This week, Amazon & Apple have some secret projects in the works, T-Mobile buys Sprint, Facebook’s F8 developers conference, DNA catches a killer... and much, much more.

What We're Playing With

Dwayne: MoviePass - Repeat viewing is gone, but unlimited is back again.

Andy: Westworld S2, Violent Delights

Headlines

• Apple’s working on a powerful, wireless headset for both AR and VR
• Amazon to Increase U.S. Prime Annual Fee to $119, Up From $99
• Amazon Has a Top-Secret Plan to Build Home Robots
• Amazon Key In-Car delivers packages right to your car's trunk

Audible Book of the Week

• All Systems Red By Martha Wells
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Music Break: Westworld (theme) by Ramin Djawadi

Hot Topics

• T-Mobile to Buy Sprint for $26.5 Billion in Bet on Networks
• Cambridge Analytica Closing Operations Following Facebook Data Controversy
  • The power players behind Cambridge Analytica have set up a mysterious new data company
• The 5 biggest announcements from Facebook’s F8 developer conference keynote

Music Break: Psycho Killer by Talking Heads

Final Word

• GEDmatch, a tiny DNA analysis firm, was key for Golden State Killer case

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• We Sent Garlic Bread to the Edge of Space, Then Ate It

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