510: PAX South 2018 - a podcast by Andrew Sorcini
from 2018-01-19T12:00
This week, Tosin goes to PAX South, the NSA gets to keep spying on Americans, Nintendo switches to cardboard for gaming, how AI is manipulating you into microtransactions ... and much, much more.
What We’re Playing With:
Andy: Google Arts & Culture app
Dwayne: MacBook Pro 2017
Headlines
- House votes to extend NSA’s warrantless surveillance capabilities
- Twenty-Two Attorneys General Sue The FCC Over Net Neutrality Repeal
- Facebook introduces massive changes to newsfeed
- It looks like Apple is bringing back home nearly all of its $250 billion in foreign cash
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- Consider The Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat by Bee Wilson
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Music Break: Cuphead (Intro) by Kristopher Maddigan
Hot Topic: PAX South 2018 / Gaming
- Tosin’s PAX South coverage
- Nintendo is making a bunch of weird DIY cardboard toys for the Switch and they’re awesome
- Leaked Doc Shows How Devs Use AI to Encourage Microtransactions
Music Break: Bob-Omb Battlefield by Super Soul Bros.
Final Word
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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 Box product manager Tosin Onafowokan.
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