On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, a high-rise helicopter crash casts doubts on Uber‘s new service, one hundred thousand travelers’ IDs hacked, all the highlights from this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3 2019), and much more.

Podcast

What We’re Playing With

Andrew: Pig0ut plant-based chips
Dwayne: Automatic Pro

Headlines

• Helicopter Crashes Into NYC High-Rise, Causes Two-Alarm Fire
  • Corey Johnson questions safety of Uber Copter after fatal helicopter crash
  • Uber’s air taxis will resemble really nice helicopters on the inside
• Hackers steal 100,000 traveler photos from border patrol database

Audible Book of the Week

• Getting Gamers by Jamie Madigan
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Music Break: MEGALOVANIA from ‘Undertale’ by Toby Fox

Hot Topic: E3 2019

• The 14 biggest announcements for Microsoft Xbox at E3 2019
  • Keanu Reeves Reveals Cyberpunk 2077 Release Date During Microsoft’s Xbox Conference
• The 9 biggest announcements from Bethesda’s E3 2019 keynote
• The 7 biggest announcements from Square Enix’s E3 2019 press conference
• The 9 biggest announcements from Ubisoft’s E3 2019 press conference
• The 14 biggest announcements from Nintendo’s E3 2019 presentation
• The five best games from the PC Game Show
• Geeks Of Doom’s coverage of E3 2019

Music Break: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate theme  by Hideki Sakamoto

Final Word

• Police Use of DNA Leads to Backlash, Changes to Big Database

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Cyberpunk 2077 cinematic trailer

• Cyberpunk 2077 – Mike Pondsmith about Cyberpunk World

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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.