This week, a new HTC phone, Facebook‘s developer conference, a camera that’ll kill the green screen, biotech that’s improving lives, DIY braces, and… is a proposed bill the end of American privacy?…All this and more this week on The Drill Down podcast.

Podcast

What We’re Playing With

Andy: Miitomo
Dwayne: SONY SEL55210 telephoto lens Alpha/NEX – BRAVIA connectivity

Headlines

• Lytro’s 755 megapixel Cinema light field camera is going to kill the green screen
• Tesla recalls 2,700 Model X vehicles over potentially dangerous seat flaw
• HTC 10 announced: a modern phone with familiar design
  • “It’s very difficult to get excited about smartphone announcements nowadays, even flagship devices,” Stuart Robinson of Strategy Analytics

Audible Book of the Week

• The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook by Ben Mezrich
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Music Break: Welcome to My Room from Miitomo Grooves by DJ Cutman

Hot Topic

• ‘Leaked’ Burr-Feinstein Encryption Bill Is a Threat to American Privacy
• F8 conference 2016: the biggest news from Facebook’s developer event
  • This is Facebook’s gorgeous, open-source 360-degree video camera
  • Facebook will now let any camera stream to Facebook Live, even a DJI drone
  • Facebook’s buried Save feature has 250 million users a month, and a new button to help it spread
  • Facebook launches a bot platform for Messenger

Music Break: The Final Countdown by Europe

Final Word: The Cyborgs Are Coming

• Chip, Implanted in Brain, Helps Paralyzed Man Regain Control of Hand
• Just Like Human Skin, This Plastic Sheet Can Sense And Heal
• Here’s How A College Student Created His Own Braces For Less Than $60

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• SpaceX successfully lands its rocket on a floating drone ship for the first time

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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.