On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, Amazon grows while Netflix dwindles, Equifax pays, Hackers breach Russia’s FBI, is FaceApp giving your pics to the Russians? and much more.

On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, an Amazon robot injures two dozen humans, Google’s CEO testifies before Congress, China flexes its muscle against tech companies in the west, Bold statements from Elon Musk, space news… and much, much more.

On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, we review Black Panther and ‘Afrofuturism’, the Parkland, FL school shooting victims take their anger to Twitter, U.S. charges Russia with election interference, FCC’s chairman is under investigation, North Korea’s hacker army, using CG to mimic real celebrities without their permission… and much, much more.

This week, The Drill Down podcast celebrates our 500th episode! Andy, Dwayne, and Tosin reminiscence over the past ten years in tech and social media — since July 2007– with original TDD co-hosts Reg Saddler and Muhammad Saleem, and past co-hosts Lidija Davis, Tom Cheredar, Devindra Hardawar, and Christopher Burnor!

People recording their reactions to a trailer has become a part of the geek/social media culture. Depending on said reaction, it may even go viral. Of course not all trailers warrant a video recorded reaction, but in the case of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, everyone seems to be doing it, and it looks like film stars Daisy Ridley and John Boyega have caught onto the latest craze.

Last night the first full trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens aired during halftime of Monday Night Football. As you can imagine, many fans were just waiting for the game clock to reach to zero, or just hoped that Sam Bradford would run out the clock. But when the time came to air that trailer. And as you can expect, the trailer drew quite an emotional reaction. But it’s Ridley and Boyega’s priceless reactions that really says it all. Check them out in the videos below.

This week, Amazon goes after Etsy, how posting on social media might lower your credit score, Tesla goes autopilot, how lab-grown meat is made, the biggest tech acquisition ever, and much much more.

This week we’re joined by Greg Davies, host of Blendover & Heavy Metal Historian podcasts (and of course the TARDISBlend podcast hosted here at Geeks of Doom) as we discuss escalating developments in the Ashley Madison hack, Twitter cuts off deleted political tweets, Facebook launches its own virtual assistant, YouTube takes on Twitch, ILM’s experimental lab… and much much more.

This week, how Apple Music stands up to competitors, warrantless surveillance expands, new hardware from Valve & Xbox, DIY lethal weapons, and a selfie that killed — literally … all that and much more.

This week, Google Glass is dead, police can see inside your homes by remote, Virgin & Google want to send satellites into space, Microsoft unveils Windows 10 and holograms!!!

This week, Chinese hackers infiltrate U.S. newspaper networks, Twitter also gets hacked, Oreo takes advantage of the Super Bowl blackout, is Netflix’s full season release schedule the future of television…or a big mistake, will your body be the next unlimited storage device, and if you thought J.J. Abrams hit the motherlode last week for helming both Star Trek and Star Wars franchises, you ain’t heard nothin’ yet!

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