334: Targeted and Profiled

This week, Google fights on Amazon’s turf, the collateral damage behind NSA target searches, the TSA’s new rule for electronic gadgets, we think we know what the iPhone 6’s screen looks like, and more...

What We're Playing With

Dwayne: Knights of Sidonia

Tosin: trip to Japan

Headlines

• Inside Google Shopping Express’ Big Plan to Race Amazon to Your Door
• Amazon offers some Hachette authors 100% of ebook sales while dispute is ongoing
• Tim Draper: the Bitcoin auction winner who wants to split California in six

Audible Book of the Week

• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
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Music Break: End Titles from Blade Runner by Vangelis

Hot Topics

• In NSA-intercepted data, those not targeted far outnumber the foreigners who are
• NSA and FBI covertly monitored emails of several Muslim-Americans, including a political candidate and civil rights activists
• TSA blocking uncharged mobile devices from flights at some international airports

Music Break: Mistaken For Strangers by The National

Final Word

• Bent, scratched and stabbed: Apple's iPhone 6 'indestructable' sapphire display tested on video - and new curved screen emerges unscathed

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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 tech consultant Tosin Onafowokan. Occasionally joining them is Startup Digest CTO Christopher Burnor.