On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, the FBI and Immigration are using our DMV records for facial recognition, new changes to Facebook and Instagram, we find out where your precious Friends are going, Tesla news, a lighter Switch, and much more.

Podcast

What We’re Playing With

Dwayne: Solar-powered Mason Jar Lights
Tosin: FoodSaver 2-in-1 Vacuum Sealing System

Headlines

• Facebook will ban ads that tell people in U.S. not to vote
• Instagram will let you know if you’re about to post a hurtful comment
• IBM closes its $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat
• AT&T’s WarnerMedia reveals the name, HBO Max, for its streaming service coming next spring with 10K hours of programming, including exclusive rights to Friends

Audible Book of the Week

• The Radioactive Boy Scout by Ken Silverstein
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Music Break: Radioactive by Imagine Dragons

Hot Topics

• FBI, ICE find state driver’s license photos are a gold mine for facial-recognition searches
• Elon Musk: Tesla will stop selling cars [Update: at consumer pricing] once full self-driving is solved – Electrek
  • “Close to 10%” of Autopilot software team reportedly departs after shakeup
  • No refresh. The cars will receive incremental hardware updates.
  • Elon Musk is currently the auto industry’s most tenured CEO
  • 2013 Tesla Model S Beats Chevy, Toyota, and Cadillac for Ultimate Car of the Year Honors

Music Break: Come and Get It  by Badfinger

Final Word

• H. Ross Perot, Tech Billionaire And Populist Politician, Dies Age 89
• Nintendo Switch Lite is a smaller, cheaper Switch built exclusively for handheld play

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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.