On this week’s Drill Down podcast, autonomous Ubers invade Pittsburgh, Nougat is here, Russian hackers hit the New York Times, Mario warps down to Rio, and another Earth may be closer than we thought …and much, much more.

Podcast

What We’re Playing With

Andy: Mr. Robot app
Tosin: Telltale Batman
Dwayne: Go90 – Transformers Combiner Wars

Headlines

• Uber’s First Self-Driving Fleet Arrives in Pittsburgh This Month
• New Tesla Model S Now the Quickest Production Car in the World
• Android Nougat comes out of beta
• Doctors can now prescribe Jabra fitness headphones to treat obesity, cancer and diabetes
• How Things Work by Nick Denton

Audible Book of the Week

• The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity by Pedro G. Ferreira
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Music Break: Mr. Robot theme by Mac Quayle

Hot Topic: Hackers and Leakers

• The NSA Leak is Real, Snowden Documents Confirm
  • Rogue Insider Could Be Behind NSA Data Dump
• FBI investigating Russian hack of New York Times reporters, others
• Private lives are exposed as WikiLeaks spills its secrets

Music Break: Super Mario 64 theme by Koji Kondo

Final Word

• Earth-Like Planet Found Orbiting the Nearest Star to the Sun

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Love Sport TOKYO 2020

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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.