On this week’s The Drill Down podcast Number 600, Is it time up for TikTok?, AT&T gets throttled for throttling, lasers hack your smart speaker, a way to preserve big data on glass, how well did Blade Runner predict 2019 ...and much, much more.

Headlines

• The Real Reason Google Is Buying Fitbit
• U.S. opens national security investigation into TikTok
  • Inside TikTok: A culture clash where U.S. views about censorship often were overridden by the Chinese bosses
• AT&T fined $60 million for throttling ‘unlimited’ data plans

Audible Book of the Week

• Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
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Music Break: The Shining by Wendy Carlos

More Headlines

• Hackers Can Use Lasers to ‘Speak’ to Your Amazon Echo
• Waze thinks it can get Americans carpooling again
• Project Silica proof of concept stores Warner Bros. ‘Superman’ movie on quartz glass

Music Break: Tears In Rain by Vangelis

Final Word

• Blade Runner's vision of tech in November 2019

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Teenager solves car blind spots using a webcam and projector

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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.