On this week’s Drill Down podcast, Dwayne goes to CES 2018 and lives to tell the tale Google brings Pay together in one place, can white noise be copyright protected?… and much, much more.

Podcast

What We’re Playing With

Andy: TCL 55” 4K monitor; Sony UBP-X800 4K Blu-Ray Player
Dwayne: Macbook Pro 15” (2017)
Tosin: DropMix Music Gaming System

Headlines

• YouTube Removes Logan Paul From Preferred Program, Puts Projects on Hold
• Without Naming Trump, Twitter Says It Won’t Block World Leaders
• Google Wallet and Android Pay merge into a single service called Google Pay

Audible Book of the Week

• Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff
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Music Break: The Future’s So Bright by Timbuk 3

Hot Topic: CES 2018

• Most Interesting things Dwayne’s Seen – Dwayne’s on-site coverage
  • High Tech
    • Mobileye’s mapping ability ad chip abilities (they bea nvidia), schemes for making it official.
    • Toyota’s move to battery electric
    • Samsung’s Smarthome integration
    • Google is catching up with Alexa
    • Panasonic’s demonstration of OFFLINE Alexa
    • Overall focus on intelligence rather than connecting everything
  • Low tech
    • RC cat mouse toy.
• HTC Unveils New Higher-Resolution Vive Pro VR Headset, Wireless Adapter
• Quick summary of other major CES announcements
  • Best of CES 2018
  • 8 Mind-Blowing Tech Gadgets From CES 2018
  • CES 2018: The best gadgets and tech so far
  • 10 more of the best devices and tech (so far)

Music Break: Mr. Roboto by Styx

Final Word

• White noise video hit by copyright claims

The Drill Down Video of the Week

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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.