This week, Facebook Live‘s growing pains as real-time news dominates livestreaming, the first use of lethal robots by a domestic police force, a robot stingray made from living cells, and Pokemon Go is here, and it’s super effective! …and much more on The Drill Down podcast!

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Headlines

• SEC probing Tesla for potential securities breach with Autopilot fatality
• “˜Secret Conversations:’ End-to-End Encryption Comes to Facebook Messenger
• Controversial livestreams become more frequent on Facebook Live, putting the company’s rules and judgment under scrutiny
  • Facebook CEO Comments on Video Showing Aftermath of Police Shooting Philando Castle
  • Use of police robot to kill Dallas shooting suspect believed to be first in US history

Audible Book of the Week

• A History of Ghosts: The True Story of Seances, Mediums, Ghosts and Ghostbusters by Peter Aykroyd
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Music Break: Ghostbusters (For Orchestra) by Walt Ribeiro

Hot Topic: Pokémon GO

• On July 7, one day after its release, Pokémon Go had more Android installations than Tinder in US, and by July 8 it was on 5.16% of US Android devices  
• Nintendo’s stock rises over 22% in Tokyo trading
• What We’re Playing With:
  • Andy, Dwayne, Tosin: Pokémon GO
• Pokémon Go shouldn’t have full access to your Gmail, Docs and Google account “” but it does
• Pokémon Go Is Having an Effect on Players’ Mental Health
• Wyoming teen playing Pokemon GO discovers body
• Teens used Pokémon Go app to lure robbery victims
• Safety tips for playing Pokemon GO

Music Break: Pokémon (For Orchestra) by Walt Ribeiro

Final Word: Apple: App Stores & e-Books

• This Swimming Stingray Robot Is Powered by Real, Living Rat Cells

The Drill Down Video of the Week

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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.