On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks out on freedom of speech and gets grilled in Congress, has Google achieved “quantum supremacy,” a real working invisibility cloak, women walking in space…and much, much more.

Podcast

What We’re Playing With

Dwayne: Elvie
Tosin: raise3d pro2
Andy: Watchmen on HBO

Headlines

• Google confirms “˜quantum supremacy’ breakthrough

• WeWork’s had a terrible month, and now the company may be getting bailed out by SoftBank “” here’s everything that has happened since the embattled company filed to go public

Audible Book of the Week

• The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science by J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
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Music Break: Cosmic Girl by Jamiroquai

Hot Topics

• Defiant Zuckerberg Says Facebook Won’t Police Political Speech
  • Mark Zuckerberg doubles down on free speech
  • Mark Zuckerberg took on China in a speech defending free expression
  • The Internet and the Third Estate
• Congress isn’t buying Mark Zuckerberg’s pitch for Libra
  • AOC Blasts Mark Zuckerberg in Testy House Hearing

Music Break: I’m Looking Through You  by The Beatles

Final Word

• NASA’s all-female spacewalk makes history: “˜One giant leap for WOMANkind!’

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• A Canadian company has developed a bloody full blown invisibility shield

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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.