This week on The Drill Down podcast, Hulu’s skinny bundle, Facebook fixes Live, Amazon has something new to Show, boots that keep you running, and Net Neutrality needs your help again, plus much, much more.

Podcast

What We’re Playing With

Andy: Blade Runner: 2049 trailer; Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2
Dwayne & Tosin: Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2

Headlines

• Hulu launches its live TV service for $40 a month
• Facebook is hiring 3,000 more people to monitor Facebook Live for murders, suicides, and other horrific video
• Apple just promised to give US manufacturing a $1 billion boost

Audible Book of the Week

• Alien: Out of the Shadows: An Audible Original Drama
• Alien: River of Pain: An Audible Original Drama
• Sign up at AudibleTrial.com/TheDrillDown

Music Break: Show Don’t Tell by Rush

Hot Topic: Amazon Echo Show & Alexa Calling

• Amazon unveils the $230 Echo Show, with a screen for calls, shipping June 28
  • Amazon enables free calls and messages on all Echo devices with Alexa Calling
  • Amazon invested millions in the startup Nucleus — then cloned its product for the new Echo

Music Break: These Boots Were Made For Walking by Nancy Sinatra

Final Word

• Check Out These Boots That Are Being Tested by the US Military — They Create Power Out of Everyday Movement
• Red Nose Day USA

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• John Oliver Just Crashed the FCC’s Website Over Net Neutrality—Again
  • Anti-net neutrality spammers are flooding FCC’s pages with fake comments

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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.