On this week’s The Drill Down podcast 439, “The Uncanny Valley,” former TDD co-host Tom Cheredar joins us as we discuss: Intel‘s VR rig, Gawker gets a new owner, Twitter‘s harassment fails, Facebook vs AdBlock, the NSA gets hacked …and much, much more.

This week’s The Drill Down podcast… 2016 Rio Olympics – the Olympic hashtag you’re not supposed to use, when is a gun not a gun?, Who’s riding shotgun with Carpool Karaoke? Hulu says “˜Aloha’ to free streaming, You won’t believe how Facebook tweaked their algorithm … and much, much more.

On this week’s Drill Down podcast, Wikileaks leaks DNC emails, Verizon buys Yahoo, the future for Tesla & Facebook, can police unlock your iPhone by 3D-printing your fingerprint?  …and much, much more!

This week, the internet is legally free for all, but not for Gawker, Microsoft buys LinkedIn, and all the latest from Apple‘s Worldwide Developers Conference and the Electronic Entertainment Expo…and much more!

This week, Google‘s prank backfires, the FBI flexes their new muscle, is Nest in trouble?, the largest data leak in history, a new Star Wars movie trailer, and Tesla 3 is coming!…in a couple of years …All this and more this week on The Drill Down podcast.