This week, a million Beautiful People get hacked, the FCC & cable boxes, racist apps & services?, how driverless trucks will change the economy, Tron comes to VR gaming … and much more this week on The Drill Down podcast.

Podcast

What We’re Playing With

Andy: Game of Thrones season 6 premiere (A Song of Ice and Data; Game Of Thrones Is So Popular It Has An Effect On Porn Consumption)
Dwayne: SHARKK Bluetooth Boombox Buddy System

Headlines

• BeautifulPeople.com Leaks Very Private Data of 1.1 Million ‘Elite’ Daters — And It’s All For Sale
• Roku CEO opposes FCC plan to open up cable boxes
  • ANA to FCC: Cable-Box Competition Is Bad for Advertisers
• Nokia enters the digital health realm with $192 million acquisition of France’s Withings
• Apple on the Decline

Audible Book of the Week

• Prince: Inside the Music and the Masks by Ronin Ro
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Music Break: Computer Blue by Prince

Hot Topics 

• Snapchat comes under fire for ‘digital blackface’ filter that turns you into Bob Marley
• Analysis shows that Amazon Prime same-day delivery serves predominantly white neighborhoods better than black ones in cities like Boston, Atlanta, and Chicago
  • When Personalization Leads To Discrimination On AirBnB
• Court: Cops Need a Warrant to Open Your Phone, Even Just to Look at the Screen

Music Break: Get Up, Stand Up by Bob Marley

Final Word

• The driverless truck is coming, and it’s going to automate millions of jobs
• The Google Island

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Tron-Worthy Gaming Comes to Life in Iceland

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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.