This week, Elon Musk wants to hack the human brain, Netflix wants to bust a cap in data caps, is Facebook abusing its power as a news source?, ageism in tech, 50 years of Star Trek… and much, much more.
Podcast
What We’re Playing With
Andy: Dolphin Nintendo emulator; Docking Bay 94 (Mos Eisley simulator); iOS 10
Tosin: PAX Titles
- Overload (Coming in 2017 to PS4/XB1/PC/MAC/LINUX)
- Open Sorcery – Available on Android, iPhone, and can be played Online)
- Echo (Spring 2017 – PC and some consoles tbd)
- Oxygen not Included: Space colony simulation game
- 1979 Revolution Black Friday
Dwayne: Uber starts autonomous vehicles in Pittsburg; iPhone 7, one week later
Headlines
- Elon Musk is Looking to Kickstart Transhuman Evolution With “Brain Hacking” Tech
- Tesla Autopilot 8.0 uses radar to prevent accidents like the fatal Model S crash
- Amazon’s connected speaker Echo Dot returns, is now only $50
- Netflix asks FCC to declare data caps “unreasonable”
Audible Book of the Week
- No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State by Glenn Greenwald
- Sign up at AudibleTrial.com/TheDrillDown
Music Break: Touch of Gray by The Grateful Dead
Hot Topic
- Mark Zuckerberg accused of abusing power after Facebook deletes ‘napalm girl’ post
- Univision deletes six controversial Gawker Media posts
- It’s Tough Being Over 40 in Silicon Valley
Music Break: ‘Star Trek’ main title by Alexander Courage (arr. Michael Giacchino)
Final Word
- Google’s Project Wing drones will deliver Chipotle burritos at Virginia Tech
- Star Trek 50th Anniversary: personal thoughts
The Drill Down Video of the Week
See the full post here at Geeks of Doom!
Subscribe!
The Drill Down on iTunes (Subscribe now!)
Add us on Stitcher!
The Drill Down on Facebook
The Drill Down on Twitter
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, autonomous Ubers invade Pittsburgh, Nougat is here, Russian hackers hit the New York Times, Mario warps down to Rio, and another earth may be closer than we thought ..and much, much more this week.
This week we’ll be looking back at the year in tech, 2015. We’ll discuss our favorite tech events of the past year, and what we expect in the year ahead.