On this week’s Drill Down podcast, Tosin goes to PAX South, the NSA gets to keep spying on Americans, Nintendo switches to cardboard for gaming, how AI is manipulating you into microtransactions … and much, much more.

Podcast

What We’re Playing With:

Andy: Google Arts & Culture app
Dwayne: MacBook Pro 2017

Headlines

• House votes to extend NSA’s warrantless surveillance capabilities
  • Senate advances bill to renew NSA’s internet surveillance program
• Twenty-Two Attorneys General Sue The FCC Over Net Neutrality Repeal
• Facebook introduces massive changes to newsfeed
• It looks like Apple is bringing back home nearly all of its $250 billion in foreign cash

Audible Book of the Week

• Consider The Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat by Bee Wilson
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Music Break: Cuphead (Intro) by Kristopher Maddigan

Hot Topic: PAX South 2018 / Gaming

• Tosin’s PAX South coverage

• • The Painscreek Killing – $19.99 steam
  • Solar Purge
  • ClusterPuck 99 –  $9.99 steam (coming soon to Nintendo Switch)
• Nintendo is making a bunch of weird DIY cardboard toys for the Switch and they’re awesome
• Leaked Doc Shows How Devs Use AI to Encourage Microtransactions

Music Break: Bob-Omb Battlefield by Super Soul Bros.

Final Word

• Experts are hopeful that Google Home and Amazon Echo won’t addict kids like smartphones

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Nintendo Labo announcement

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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.