This week, “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber” the memo that’s rocked Silicon Valley, Netflix poaches from Disney and Disney leaves Netflix, an AI masters Dota 2, hacking computers with DNA, and much more.

Podcast

What We’re Playing With

Andy: TomTom Go 50 S Portable GPS
Dwayne: iPad Pro and “Yes, You’re Racist”

Headlines

• Netflix made its ‘first ever’ acquisition by buying Mark Millar’s comic book publisher
  • Disney to end Netflix deal and launch its own streaming service
  • Netflix Lures Shonda Rhimes Away From ABC Studios
• OpenAI’s bot beats top Dota 2 player so badly that he quits

Audible Book of the Week

• Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku
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Music Break: Anything You Can Do from “Annie Get Your Gun” by Bernadette Peters and Tom Wopat

Hot Topic: “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber”

• Google Employee’s Anti-Diversity Manifesto Goes ‘Internally Viral’
• Exclusive: Here’s The Full 10-Page Anti-Diversity Screed Circulating Internally at Google
• The Google Memo: Four Scientists Respond
• Former Google Engineer Yonatan Zunger on Anti-Diversity Memo
• Google Fires Author of Divisive Memo on Gender Differences
• YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki defends firing of memo writer
• Google CEO Sundar Pichai canceled an all-hands meeting about gender controversy due to employee worries of online harassment
• Why I Was Fired by Google by James Damore
• The Alt-Right Finds a New Enemy in Silicon Valley
• How Silicon Valley’s Workplace Culture Produced James Damore’s Google Memo

Music Break: “Bad Blood” by Taylor Swift

Final Word

• Forget Tough Passwords: New Guidelines Make It Simple
• Biohackers Encoded Malware in a Strand of DNA

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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.