On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, Pokemon fever continues, social media reacts to an attempted coup in Turkey, an open letter from tech leaders to Donald Trump, Facebook’s diversity problem, Netflix boldly goes where no one has gone before … and much, much more!

Podcast

What We’re Playing With

Dwayne: Ghostbusters
Andy: Ghostbusters; Leslie Jones Leaves Twitter in Tears After Attacks, Twitter CEO Responds; Stranger Things
Tosin: Stranger Things

Headlines

• Niantic CEO says the company is going to add “sponsored locations” to Pokémon Go
  • T-Mobile Is Giving Customers a Year of Free Data to Play Pokemon Go
• Nintendo To Release Mini NES Console With 30 Games This Year
• Twitter now lets anyone request a verified account
• SoftBank to grab chip designer ARM for $32 billion

Audible Book of the Week

• The Fifty-Year Mission: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Star Trek: The First 25 Years by Edward Gross & Mark A. Altman
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Music Break: ‘Star Trek’ main title by Alexander Courage (arr. Michael Giacchino)

Hot Topics

• Turkey’s President Hated The Internet Until It Helped Save Him From A Coup
  • WikiLeaks Dumps “˜Erdogan Emails’ After Turkey’s Failed Coup
• An open letter from technology sector leaders on Donald Trump’s candidacy for President
• Facebook shows little progress in diversity report, blames lack of available talent
  • The Big Lie: Tech Companies and Diversity Hiring

Music Break: Star Trek: The Motion Picture by Jerry Goldsmith

Final Word

• Netflix Grabs Exclusive International “˜Star Trek’ Rights

The Drill Down Video of the Week

Vaporeon Stampede, Central Park, NYC

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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.