This week, Amazon goes after Etsy, how posting on social media might lower your credit score, Tesla goes autopilot, how lab-grown meat is made, the biggest tech acquisition ever, and much much more.

Podcast

What We’re Playing With

Dwayne: DIY Drip Irrigation
Andy: The Beginner’s Guide; Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes

Tosin: Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, Star Wars Battlefront

Headlines

• Amazon Challenges Etsy With Strictly Handmade Marketplace
• ACLU: Orwellian Citizen Score, China’s credit score system, is a warning for Americans
• Apple loses patent lawsuit to University of Wisconsin, faces hefty damages
• Pornhub thinks your smartphone choice reflects your kinks
• Tesla: Your Autopilot Has Arrived
  • Mercedes, Google, Volvo To Accept Liability When Their Autonomous Cars Screw Up

Audible Book of the Week

• Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
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Music Break: Drive My Car by The Beatles

Hot Topics

• Dell to Buy EMC in Deal Worth About $67 Billion – Largest Tech Acquisition Ever
  • What Dell-EMC merger could mean to the storage market, company employees, customers, and rivals
• Twitter Will Cut More Than 300 Employees, 8 Percent of Staff
  • The Extremely Shitty Way One Man Learned He’d Been Fired From Twitter

Music Break: I Eat Cannibals by Toto Coelo

Final Word

• Ada Lovelace Day: Celebrating the Achievements of Women in Technology

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Meat without murder: The Meat of the Future: How Lab-Grown Meat Is Made
  • If I Ate Lab-Grown Human Tissue or Organs, Would I Be Considered a Cannibal?

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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 tech consultant Tosin Onafowokan.