On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, California attempts to save Net neutrality, Microsoft buys coding repository GitHub, all the highlights from Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC 2018), and much, much more.

On this week’s Drill Down podcast, Game of Thrones is hacked and so are U.S. voting machines, we learn more about the Tesla Model 3, designer disease-free babies, the Rotten Tomatoes effect, and much more.

On this week’s Drill Down podcast, Elon Musk says AI can take down the internet, China enacts cybersecurity… and it’s concerning, how a Donald Trump presidency will affect Silicon Valley, there’s something fishy with Amazon Alexa, and much more.

Okay, the good news is that Suicide Squad is tracking well and is projected to open at over $140 million. The bad news is that bad word of mouth will travel fast as critics (you can read our review here) have widely panned the movie, while those who have worked on the new film or on other DCEU projects have come to defend it. So while it may see a huge drop off in the next few weeks, Suicide Squad can make up for that loss overseas. China plays a huge part in the overseas box office, often bringing a film from the brink of death to live on to see a sequel. However, a film can also experience a huge loss in the international box office if it doesn’t get that opening in China, and that might happen to Suicide Squad.

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This week, Greg Davies of the Blendover podcast helps us explore the equally utopian & dystopian potential behind this week’s cutting-edge news: Apple sings to the tune of Beats, Amazon‘s war with publishers hits the consumer, Skype unveils a universal translator, Google designs its own self-driving cars …and much, much more…

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