This week’s Drill Down podcast, U.S. border guards may demand your passwords, Apple‘s first TV show, Yahoo! gets a markdown, PewdiePie gets canned, robot bees save the environment, and more.

Podcast

What We’re Playing With

Andy: Legion
Tosin: iMessage GamePigeon
Dwayne: Norse Mythology By Neil Gaiman ; 2016 Lexus RX 350

Headlines

• U.S. proposal to collect travelers’ passwords alarms privacy experts
  • NASA scientist detained at US border until he unlocks his phone
• Matt Mitchell Is Arming Underserved Communities With Anti-Surveillance Tools
• MIT develops a speech recognition chip that uses a fraction of the power of existing technologies

Audible Book of the Week

• It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
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Music Break: The Hunt (from ‘Planet of the Apes’) by Jerry Goldsmith

Hot Topic

• Verizon is close to negotiating a new deal with Yahoo for about $250M
• Apple’s First TV Show Looks Like a Cry for Help
• PewDiePie loses Disney deal as a result of anti-Semitic imagery
  • YouTube cancels PewDiePie’s original series following Nazi controversy

Music Break: Honey to the Bee by Billie Piper

Final Word

• Pollution Has Worked Its Way Down To The World’s Deepest Waters
• Robot bees: Plans for artificial pollinators

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Dog Wick

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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.