This week, Budweiser autopilots its way to you via Tesla, why we’re losing a class of potential Einsteins, How Facebook won the election…in the Philippines, drones to call quitting time and shoot ferrets with peanut butter … and much more.

Podcast

What We’re Playing With

Andy: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology (CAVE Lab)(Qlone 3D photogrammetry); Counterpart on Starz
Dwayne: Doona Stroller Carseat
Tosin: SNES Classic

Headlines

• Anheuser-Busch (Budweiser) Pre-Orders 40 Tesla Semi Trucks
• Study: Rich kids 10 times as likely to become inventors, creating ‘lost Einsteins’

Audible Book of the Week

• The City & The City by China Miéville
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Music Break: Eddie’s Dead from ‘Kafka’ by Cliff Martinez

Hot Topics

• Rodrigo Duterte Turned Facebook Into a Weapon, With a Little Help From Facebook
• Apple confirms Shazam acquisition; Snap and Spotify also expressed interest

Music Break: Closing Time by Semisonic

Final Word

• Firm to use drone on overtime workers
• Biologists With Drones And Peanut Butter Pellets Are On A Mission To Help Ferrets

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• reMarkable – The paper tablet (2017)

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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.