On this week’s Drill Down podcast, fighting terrorist drones… with eagles, Facebook’s vision for the future, should the robot that takes your job pay your taxes?, newly discovered planets that may contain life, and much much more.

Podcast

What We’re Playing With

Dwayne: Atlas Obscura and website
Tosin: Lightroom

Headlines

• Fitbit Has ‘Zero Interest’ In Building A Pebble Smartwatch
  • Fitbit reveals it paid $23 million to acquire Pebble’s assets
• Verizon revises deal with Yahoo to $4.48 billion
• Terrorists are building drones. France is destroying them with eagles.
• Bill Gates: The robot that takes your job should pay taxes

Audible Book of the Week

• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
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Music Break: Fly Like An Eagle by The Steve Miller Band

Hot Topics

• A former Uber employee’s disturbing claims of workplace sexism reignite calls to #deleteUber
• Mark Zuckerberg’s humanitarian manifesto

Music Break: Planet Claire by The B-52s

Final Word

• Newly discovered network of planets could harbor water and life, scientists say

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Modding a Porsche 911 to run Doom

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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.