On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, news from Amazon & Facebook, a drone-silencing gun, Uber & Lyft contractor drivers may need to become employees, AI learns how to play hide and seek…and much, much more.

What We’re Playing With

Tosin: Echo Auto

Headlines

• Amazon Changed Search Algorithm in Ways That Boost Its Own Products
• Amazon Music rolls out a lossless streaming tier that Spotify and Apple can’t match
• California Governor Signs Law Protecting Gig Economy Workers

Audible Book of the Week

• The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
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Music Break: Girl on Fire by Alicia Keys

Hot Topics

• Facebook Expands Definition of Terrorist Organizations to Limit Extremism
• Facebook launches Portal TV, a $149 video chat set-top box
• Facebook’s second-generation Portal devices are cheaper, smaller, and support WhatsApp

Music Break: Nowhere to Run  by Martha Reeves and the Vandellas

Final Word

• This ‘Gun’ Can Down Rogue Drones With the Pull of a Trigger

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Emergent Tool Use from Multi-Agent Interaction
  • Open AI: Multi-Agent Hide-and-Seek

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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.