On this week’s Drill Down podcast, Dwayne and Tosin are joined by guest Tom Cheredar to discuss: the NSA quits snooping on your emails, HIV gets fried in the CRISPR, Facebook fumbles, Microsoft goes back to school, Man is going to Mars, and much, much more.

Podcast

What We’re Playing With

Dwayne: Aquagenie

Headlines

• N.S.A. Halts Collection of Americans’ Emails About Foreign Targets
• CRISPR Eliminates HIV in Live Animals
• It’s Official. Humans Are Going to Mars. NASA Has Unveiled Their Mission.

Audible Book of the Week

• Change Agent by Daniel Suarez
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Music Break: Moving to Mars by Coldplay

Hot Topic

• Leaked document reveals Facebook conducted research to target emotionally vulnerable and insecure youth
• Facebook’s Female Engineers Claim Gender Bias
• Everything Microsoft announced at its EDU event
  • Surface laptop
  • Windows 10 S
  • Partner laptops
  • Minecraft: Education Edition upgrades
  • Mixed reality

Music Break: Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off by Harry Connick, Jr.

Final Word

• The Echo Look. Revisiting Amazon’s New Thing

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

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Optical Potato Sorter

Optical French Fry Sorter

Optical Tomato Sorter

Defenders Trailer

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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.