On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, Disney votes to buy Fox, is Amazon‘s facial recognition racist?, a big loss for Facebook, is Moviepass dead?, robot Segways … and much, much more.

Podcast

What We’re Playing With:

Dwayne: Feiyen Outlet Wall Mount Hanger Holder Stand Only For Amazon Echo Dot 2nd Generation
Tosin: Empire Strikes Back with SF Symphony

Headlines

• Apple sold 41.3 million iPhones during June quarter
• Amazon’s Rekognition messes up, matches 28 lawmakers to mugshots
• Disney, 21st Century Fox Shareholders Vote to Approve $71.3 Billion Merger
  • Here’s a List of Some Non-Marvel Properties That Disney Will Get From Fox

Audible Book of the Week

• Becoming Facebook: The 10 Challenges That Defined the Company That’s Disrupting the World by Mike Hoefflinger
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Music Break: The Duel (from ‘The Empire Strikes Back’) by John Williams

Hot Topic: Fixing Facebook

• After Facebook Stock Plunge, Mark Zuckerberg Worth Less Than Warren Buffett
  • Facebook Shares Drop Again. Zuckerberg Loses Another $660 Million
  • Facebook’s erosion problem: Digital consumption share is dropping as other platforms gain
  • Why Facebook’s Core Business Needs to Start Executing Like Instagram
• Alex Jones hit by 30-day Facebook suspension for bullying and hate speech
• Facebook Identifies an Active Political Influence Campaign Using Fake Accounts

Music Break: Everyone’s Gone to the Movies by Steely Dan

Final Word: Decline of Moviepass

• The MoviePass outage was caused by the company temporarily running out of money, and it borrowed $5 million in cash to turn the service back on
  • MoviePass blocking users from watching Mission: Impossible 6 this weekend
  • MoviePass is raising its price and cutting access to blockbusters

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Turing Video and Segway Robotics Introduce Intelligent, Affordable Security Robot NIMBO

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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 Vudu product manager Tosin Onafowokan.