On this week’s Drill Down podcast, Tosin recaps PAX South, drones at the Super Bowl, the tech world opposes President Trump‘s immigration ban, Snap goes IPO, factory robots on the rise, Tesla breaks another speed record, and more.

Podcast

What We’re Playing With

Andy: Super Bowl LI; Intel Flew 300 Drones in Sync to Create an Epic Light Show at the Super Bowl

Dwayne:  Voltron: Legendary Defender Season 2 (Netflix Exclusive)

Tosin: PAX South recap:

• Nintendo Switch/Zelda Breath of the Wild
  • Cost: $300, $60
  • Launch Date: March 3rd
  • Switch video

• Breath of the Wild video

• Merge Virtual Reality & Holo Cube
  • Cost: $60
  • Launch Date: available now

• Haimrik
  • Cost: $15
  • Launch Date: May this year steam

• Death Squared:
  • PAX South 2017: Death Squared
  • Launch Date: Death Squared will be available on March 14th on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC, and Mac. The PlayStation 4 version will feature online multiplayer via the Share Play functionality.

• Semispheres
  •    Cost: $10
  •    Launch Date: Releasing on PS4 and PC on February 14th, 2017. XBox One following Q2 2017.

• Beat Cop
  • PAX South 2017: “˜Beat Cop’ Video Game
  •    Cost: $15
  •    Launch Date: It’s currently available for pre-order on PC, Mac, and Linux, through Humble Bundle, and will be playable on Steam later this year.

• Sundered
  •    Launch Date: July 2017 although 7 days left in the kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thunderlotus/sundered-a-horrifying-fight-for-survival-and-sanit

Headlines

• Over 100 companies file opposition to Trump’s immigration order
  • Zendesk, Tesla and Adobe join amicus brief opposing Trump’s immigration aorder
  • Why some big tech giants didn’t join a brief fighting Trump’s immigration ban
  • Uber C.E.O. to Leave Trump Advisory Council After Criticism

Audible Book of the Week

• Culinary Reactions: The Everyday Chemistry of Cooking by Simon Quellen Field
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Music Break: Mr. Roboto by Styx

Hot Topics

• Snap: Everything we learned ahead of the most-anticipated tech IPO of 2017
  • Snap has financially handcuffed itself to Google Cloud
• Chinese factory replaces 90% of human workers with robots. Production rises by 250%, defects drop by 80%

Music Break: Born This Way by Lady Gaga

Final Word

• Amazon’s Alexa escapes the Echo and gets into cars
• Tesla’s top-end Model S sets Motor Trend acceleration record, beating Elon Musk’s estimate

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

• Tour Simone Giertz’s Mad Laboratory of Hilariously Awful Robots

• Intel’s 500 Drone Light Show

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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.