In this week’s The Drill Down podcast, new products from Google from the Google Pixel Event 2018, how China used a tiny chip to infiltrate U.S. companies, Facebook‘s Portal camera, and much, much more.

Podcast

Headlines

• The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies
• Bloomberg stands by Chinese chip story as Apple, Amazon ratchet up denials
• Google+ social network is being killed, because of a privacy breach (and because people just don’t use it)

Music Break: Invent It All Again by Faded Paper Figures

Hot Topics:

• Facebook’s Portal camera is an Echo Show rival focused on video calls, but will anyone trust it?

• The 5 biggest announcements from the Google Pixel 3 event

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Google Pixel 3 event in 12 minutes

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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.