This week, all the best from Google‘s developer conference, Twitter lets you tweet longer, an artificially intelligent lawyer (make up your own jokes there), 50 times faster storage from IBM.

Podcast

What We’re Playing With

Andy: Gboard, Google Spaces
Dwayne: Boulder Start-Up Week
Tosin: Echo Dot

Headlines

• Facebook’s Zuckerberg to meet conservatives on political bias flap
• Twitter to Stop Counting Photos and Links in 140-Character Limit
• Apple updates iTunes with a ‘simpler’ design that doesn’t really help
  • Sources: iTunes 12.4, released on Monday, addresses widely reported music deletion issue

Audible Book of the Week

• The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Music Break: Daydreaming by Radiohead

Hot Topic: Google I/O 2016

• The 10 biggest announcements from Google I/O 2016

• Daydream is Google’s VR platform of the future
• Google made a VR headset”¦ sort of
• Allo is a messaging app with a resident chatbot
• Duo is Google’s FaceTime competitor
• A smart speaker for the smart home
• Google’s assistant is getting smarter and more chatty
• Android N is smarter, faster, better
• Android Wear 2.0
• Android reaches deeper into your car
• Running Android apps without downloading them

Music Break: Lawyers in Love by Jackson Browne

Final Word

• Artificially Intelligent Lawyer “Ross” Has Been Hired By Its First Official Law Firm
• IBM’s optical storage is 50x faster than flash, cheaper than RAM

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• How “˜The Simpsons’ Used Adobe Character Animator To Create A Live Episode

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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.