On this week’s Drill Down podcast, President Trump‘s social media strategy, President Obama‘s last act for Chelsea Manning, Nintendo‘s new console, crowdfunding’s shaky ground, and much, much more.

Podcast

What We’re Playing With

Andy: Epica Automatic Electric Milk Frother; Netflix’s A Series of Unfortunate Events
Tosin: Family Account on Nest, TP Link
Dwayne: TP Link, Hue.

Headlines

• Trump Will Maintain Personal Twitter Account and Won’t Adopt Official @POTUS Account
• Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning’s Sentence
• Google RAISR Intelligently Makes Low-Res Images High Quality

Audible Book of the Week

• Flux: Tales of Human Futures by Orson Scott Card
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Music Break: Impeach the President by Roy C & The Honey Drippers

Hot Topic: Nintendo Switch

• The Nintendo Switch will cost $300 and release worldwide on March 3
  • Nintendo Switch Presentation 2017

Music Break: The Legend of Zelda by Koji Kondo

Final Word: Crowdfunding Caveats

• How An Allegedly Fake Video Killed A Much-Hyped Drone Startup

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Peeqo – The GIF Bot

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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.