This week, the tech world responds to BREXIT, Microsoft revises Asimov’s laws of robotics, Facebook and YouTube filter out extremist content, Facebook wants you to see more of your friends’ content, why the car in that ad may not be what you think it is, Boston Dynamics brings a robot to the home, and much, much more.

Podcast

What We’re Playing With

Andy: Mr. Robot, season 1 (on Amazon Prime video)
Dwayne: Sling TV on Apple TV

Headlines

• Follow-up: Industry Out of Harmony With YouTube on Tracking of Copyrighted Music
• Google, Facebook quietly move toward automatic blocking of extremist videos
• Facebook implements News Feed ranking changes favoring friends and family over publishers, lists the “cores values” underlying this move
• Tesla’s Model S just smashed the Pikes Peak hillclimb
• Sources: dozens of new brands get Dash buttons this week; companies pay $15 for each branded button sold and 15% of each product sale, atop normal commission

Audible Book of the Week

• Maestro Mario: How Nintendo Transformed Videogame Music into an Art by Andrew Schartmann
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Music Break: Get Busy by Saigon

Hot Topic: Tech in the EU

• Brexit: The tech world reacts to UK’s withdrawal from EU
• Amid Housing Shortage, Berlin Bans Short-Term Rentals

Music Break: Robots (The Humans Are Dead) by Flight of the Conchords

Final Word

• Microsoft’s CEO explores how humans and A.I. can solve society’s challenges — together
  • Nadella lays out 10 Laws of AI (and Human Behavior)
• Apple and Microsoft are fighting a secret war for the future of technology

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Introducing SpotMini

• The Mill BLACKBIRD

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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.