This week, a global Internet apocalypse is upon us!... or is it? Twitter turns seven, Blizzard’s next Warcraft is not an RPG but a card game, streaming video heats up, the iPhone’s on T-Mobile, Scientists plan a real Jurassic Park, and a dongle joke that spiraled way out of control.

What We're Playing With

Andy:In The Flesh
Tosin:PAX East

Dive Kick

Children of Liberty

Johann Sebastian Joust

ShootMania

Daylight

Headlines

• Biggest DDoS attack in history slows Internet
  • That Internet War Apocalypse Is a Lie
• Blizzard Announces Next Warcraft Game, But It's A Card Game
• Yahoo Acquires Hipster Mobile News Reader Summly
• T-Mobile to carry the iPhone 5 for $99 up front

Audible Book of the Week

• Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg
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Music Break: Respect by Aretha Franklin

More Headlines

• A Dongle Joke That Spiraled Way Out Of Control
  • Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost
  • Fired SendGrid Developer Evangelist Adria Richards Speaks Out
• HBO starting to think letting people without cable have access to HBO GO might be a good idea
• Spotify Plans To Take On Netflix And HBO With Streaming Video Service
• 3 Hurdles Twitter Has To Clear To Last Another 7 Years

Music Break: Journey to the Island from "Jurassic Park" by John Williams

Final Word

• Scientists want to bring 22 animals back from extinction
  • Bringing Extinct Species Back to Life

Viral Video of the Week

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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), VentureBeat editor Devindra Hardawar, marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Startup Digest CTO Christopher Burnor. Occasionally joining them is Box tech consultant Tosin Onafowokan.

This week, Dropbox acquires superstar app Mailbox, Google shuts down Reader (and the internet goes berserk), Netflix goes social, Samsung launches the S4 and Apple goes on the defensive, and Veronica Mars is back...thanks to Kickstarter.

What We're Playing With
Dwayne: Logitech Wireless Solar Keyboard
Andy: Mailbox app

Headlines

• Dropbox Buys Mailbox, All 13 Employees Joining And App Will Remain Separate
  • Dropbox Bought Mailbox Because It Wants To Be More Than A Cloud Storage Company
  • Five Best Google Reader Alternatives
• Netflix introduces ‘Netflix Social’ to display videos you watch on Facebook
  • Redbox Instant launches publicly, CEO calls original content talk premature

Audible Book of the Week

•  A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
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Musical Interlude:  It’s the End of the World As We Know It (and I Feel Fine) by R.E.M.

More Headlines

• Google Reader to shut down July 1st
  • How The Shutdown Of Google Reader Threatens The Internet
  • Digg says it is building a Google Reader replacement
• Google Keep Takes Aim At Evernote — And Also Apple
  • What's the price of free in Google Keep
• Samsung Galaxy S 4 Beats The Best With 5-inch, 1080p Display, 1.9GHz Processor, Gesture Controls And A Q2 2013 Release
  • Apple Launches New ‘Why iPhone’ Page Following Galaxy S4 Announcement
  • Samsung Preparing Wristwatch as It Races Apple for Sales

Musical Interlude:  We Used to Be Friends by The Dandy Warhols

Final Word: Veronica Mars

• Veronica Mars Movie Raises $1M in Four Hours on Kickstarter (Update: $2M, Fully Funded)
  • PUSHING DAISIES, TERRIERS, CHUCK: What Defunct Property is Next to Hit Kickstarter?
  • Joss Whedon On Kickstarter And “Firefly”

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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), VentureBeat editor Devindra Hardawar, marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Startup Digest CTO Christopher Burnor. Occasionally joining them is Box tech consultant Tosin Onafowokan.

This week, the first businesses start to ban Google Glass-- before it’s even out! The US reinforces our right to videotape the police, Samsung poised to beat Apple, SimCity players speak out against draconian DRM and dead servers, and the world’s coolest gamer dad hacks Donkey Kong so the girl rescues Mario!

What We're Playing With

Andy: Pebble update :(

Headlines

• No Google Glasses allowed, declares Seattle dive bar
• U.S. weighs in favor of right to record police
• Will the Samsung Galaxy S4 eclipse the iPhone?

Audible Book of the Week

• Banished: Surviving My Years in the Westboro Baptist Church by Lauren Drain
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Musical Interlude: SimCity Theme by Chris Tilton

Hot Topic: Simcity DRM

• A Tale of SimCity: Users Struggle Against Onerous DRM
• Amazon suspends sales of SimCity video game

Viral Video of the Week

• Father Helps Daughter Play as Pauline by Hacking 'Donkey Kong'

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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), VentureBeat editor Devindra Hardawar, marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Startup Digest CTO Christopher Burnor. Occasionally joining them is Box tech consultant Tosin Onafowokan.

This week, the White House chimes in on cellphone unlocking, Samsung’s new phone watches you watching it, YouTube takes on Spotify, Microsoft gets its wrist slapped, Six strikes and you’re out, Han, Luke & Leia come back for Star Wars VII; and I, for one, welcome our new cinder block-hurling overlords.

What We're Playing With

Andy: Pebble watch, Timex DataLink (proto-forerunner to the Pebble)
Chris: Swish
Tosin: NetGear ReadyNAS Pro 4, Mailbox

Headlines

• White House: It’s Time to Legalize Cellphone Unlocking
• Samsung’s New Smartphone Will Track Eyes to Scroll Pages
  • How to use Smart Stay on the Galaxy S3
• YouTube to launch music streaming service, take on Spotify
• Why Microsoft probably couldn’t care less that the EU just fined it $732 million
  • Google tipped off EU authorities over Microsoft’s $732M browser boo-boo, report claims
• 'Robosparrow' created from dead bird
• Doomsday clock

Audible Book of the Week

• The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty by Simon Baron-Cohen
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Musical Interlude: Terminator Theme by Brad Fiedel

More Headlines

• Six Strikes file sharing warning system
  • Here’s what an actual “six strikes” copyright alert looks like
• In Medical First, a Baby With H.I.V. Is Deemed Cured
• George Lucas says Luke, Han and Leia will all be back for Star Wars: Episode VII

Viral Video of the Week

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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), VentureBeat editor Devindra Hardawar, marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Startup Digest CTO Christopher Burnor. Occasionally joining them is Box tech consultant Tosin Onafowokan.

This week, Google Glass gets its first real review; will it alter the social contract? Turn any iPhone into a spycam, Groupon's CEO is fired, HP sells WebOS to LG, An Australian hacker knows the secrets of the next XBOX & Playstation, Is Reddit being gamed by marketers?, How NetFlix is using Big Data to turn us into their puppets, and How “Golden Eagle Snatches Kid” Ruled The Internet 

Headlines

• I used Google Glass: the future, with monthly updates
  • Sergey Brin: Smartphones are 'emasculating'
  • Google Glass is a giant chisel to pry me out of Apple’s ecosystem
  • Is Google Glass Bad for Society?
• Koozoo turns any old iPhone into a 24/7 spycam
• Andrew Mason is out as CEO of Groupon, here’s his sendoff letter
• HP emerges as big winner in webOS sale

Audible Book of the Week

• Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History by Antonio Mendez & Matt Baglio
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Musical Interlude: I Fought The Law by Green Day

More Headlines

• The Incredible Rise and Fall of a Hacker Who Found the Secrets of the Next Xbox and PlayStation—And Maybe More
• Hail Corporate: The Increasingly Insufferable Fakery of Brands on Reddit
• For ‘House of Cards,’ Using Big Data to Guarantee Its Popularity
  • How Netflix is turning viewers into puppets

Viral Video of the Week

• How “Golden Eagle Snatches Kid” Ruled The Internet

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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), VentureBeat editor Devindra Hardawar, marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Startup Digest CTO Christopher Burnor. Occasionally joining them is Box tech consultant Tosin Onafowokan.