This week, another milestone in AI, your smartphone will replace your ATM card, Obama pledges to reboot tech education, everything we know about the new Tesla … all this and more on The Drill Down podcast.

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What We’re Playing With

Andy: Grease! LIVE

Headlines

• In a Huge Breakthrough, Google’s AI Beats a Top Player at the Game of Go
• Google parent Alphabet passes Apple market cap at the open
• Android & Apple Pay ATMs coming to Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and Chase this year
• Apple Said Developing Wireless-Charged Phone for as Soon as 2017
• Oral Roberts University Requires Students To Wear Fitbit

Audible Book of the Week

• The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
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Music Break: Grease (Is The Word) by Jessie J (from Grease! LIVE)

Hot Topics

• Obama seeks $4 billion to reboot tech education
• Everything We Know About Tesla’s Secret Model 3…And Model Y

Music Break: I Feel Fine by Riddlin’ Kids

Final Word

• Fine Brothers react when backlash over ‘React’ videos licensing gets heated
  • 7 of the best reactions from big YouTubers to The Fine Bros “React” meltdown.
  • Fine Bros back down, rescind trademark claim on the word “react”

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• The Paralyzed Can Walk Again With This Super-Light Robotic Exoskeleton

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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.