On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, Amazon Alexa Event – Amazon surprises us all with new products for the holidays, The President’s inciting tweets may be twice as annoying in the future, Uber is told to steer clear of London, Google and HTC team up, and much more.

Podcast

What We’re Playing With

Andy: Neo Yokio
Tosin: Bojack Horseman, American Vandal
Dwayne: Star Trek: Discovery

Headlines

• Nasty Password-Pilfering Hack Ruins Apple macOS High Sierra Launch
• Twitter pledges to update public policies after Trump threatens North Korea
  • Twitter trials expanding tweets from 140 characters to 280
• Uber Loses London Operating Licence After Shock Ruling By TfL

Audible Book of the Week

• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? By Philip K. Dick
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Music Break: Main Title from ‘Blade Runner’ by Vangelis

Hot Topics

• Google Paid HTC $1.1 Billion To Turn Itself Into a Phone Maker
  • Why Google is spending $1.1 billion to “˜acqhire’ 2,000 HTC engineers
• Here’s Everything Amazon Announced Today
  • New Echo
  • Echo Plus
  • Echo Buttons
  • Echo Connect
  • Echo Spot
  • BMW Echo Integration
  • Big Mouth Bass
  • Fire TV 4K

Music Break: Blade Runner Blues by Vangelis

Final Word

• Nerve implant ‘restores consciousness’ to man in vegetative state

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Blade Runner: Black Out 2022 by Shinichiro Watanabe

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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.