On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, a Privacy pivot for Facebook?, the $35K Tesla is finally here, do women make more than men at Google?, HIV is cured for the second time ever, robots are taking over our jobs!… and much, much more.

Podcast

Headlines

• Google Finds It’s Underpaying Many Men as It Addresses Wage Equity
• Facebook won’t let you opt-out of its phone number ‘look up’ setting
• A Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking by Mark Zuckerberg

Audible Book of the Week

• Paradox The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics  By Jim Al-Khalili
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Music Break: Driver’s Seat by Sniff ‘n’ the Tears

Hot Topics

• Tesla’s promised $35,000 Model 3 is finally here
  • 5 takeaways from Tesla’s Model 3 announcement
• Volvo unveils Tesla Model 3 rival Polestar 2
• BMW and Daimler team up to develop self-driving technologies

Music Break: Shake the Disease  by Depeche Mode

Final Word

• HIV patient seemingly cured in second remarkable case, London doctors report
  • A third person may have become HIV-free after a bone marrow transplant

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Automation: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

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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.