This week’s Drill Down podcast, April Fools’ on the web, Android becomes the #1 OS online, AOL and Yahoo‘s new post-merger name, did ISPs sell your privacy rights? The FCC chairman pleads his case… and much, much more.

Podcast

What We’re Playing With

Dwayne: Rogue One Blu-Ray (Target Collector’s Edition); Pebble Classic Refurb for skiiing.
Andy: Rick and Morty Season 3 premiere
Tosin: Rick and Morty Season 3 premiere, Lootcrate & Lootwear

Headlines

• Twitter stops counting @ Replies towards its 140 characters
• Google’s Android Overtakes Windows as the World’s Number 1 Operating System
• Apple is developing its own graphics chips for the iPhone
  • Apple admits the Mac Pro was a mess
• YouTube TV review: a DVR to rule them all

Audible Book of the Week

• New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Sign up at AudibleTrial.com/TheDrillDown

Music Break: “Goodbye Moonmen” (from Rick and Morty) by Jemaine Clement

Hot Topic

• Trump has officially ended federal online privacy rules
  • No, Republicans didn’t just strip away your Internet privacy rights
• Trump Cracks Down on H-1B Visa Program That Feeds Silicon Valley
• AOL and Yahoo plan to call themselves by a new name after the Verizon deal closes: Oath

Music Break: Diggers, Dumpers and Trucks by Kidzone

Final Word

• April Fool’s Day roundup: The best tech pranks from around the web

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

• Hilarious Amazon Echo Alexa Fail! – 2016
• Quilted Northern® uSit – World’s first biometric bathroom device

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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.