On this week’s Drill Down podcast, is this the end of Uber‘s downward spiral?, Amazon buys Whole Foods, most U.S. voters have been hacked, why you can’t be kicked off the Internet, a precedent-setting case of manslaughter via text, and much, much more.

Podcast

Headlines

• This Email From Elon Musk to Tesla Employees Is a Master Class in Emotional Intelligence
• Uber Founder Travis Kalanick Resigns as C.E.O.
  • Uber Starts Charging What It Thinks You’re Willing to Pay
  • Uber will finally let its drivers accept tips
• Judge finds Michelle Carter guilty of manslaughter in texting suicide case

Audible Book of the Week

• The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone
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Music Break: Lost in the Supermarket by The Clash

Hot Topics

• Amazon is buying Whole Foods for $13.7 billion
  • At Last, Jeff Bezos Offers a Hint of His Philanthropic Plans
• Massive leak of 198 million US voter records is “largest ever”
• President Trump wants a “˜sweeping transformation’ of government tech

Music Break: You Left the Water Running by Wilson Pickett

What We’re Playing With

Andy: The Witness
Dwayne: Joule sous vide cooker and Chef Steps website.
Tosin: iPad 10.5

Final Word

• Supreme Court Says You Can’t Ban People From The Internet, No Matter What They’ve Done

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Water droplets create amazing human-like animations in this Gatorade”‹ ad

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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.