The Drill Down

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This week, the potential dangers of crowdsourcing a manhunt, a hacked tweet that cost economic markets billions of dollars, Twitter Music, Windows brings back the start button, Netflix’s winning strategy, and a couple of bills in the US Congress you won’t want to ignore.

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What We're Playing With

Andy: Zombieland: The Series (Amazon Studios debuts 14 pilots for free viewing)
Tosin: Google Glass (Google threatens to deactivate Google Glass if you loan it to a friend), Chromebook Pixel

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Audible Book of the Week

Music Break: Real by William Shatner

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Viral Video of the Week

Grasshopper is a 10-story Vertical Takeoff Vertical Landing (VTVL) vehicle that SpaceX has designed to test the technologies needed to return a rocket back to Earth intact. While most rockets are designed to burn up in the atmosphere during reentry, SpaceX's rockets are being designed to return to the launch pad for a vertical landing.

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

Direct download: The_Drill_Down_-_Show_275.mp3
Category:technology -- posted at: 7:30am EDT

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This week, Facebook Home on an iPhone?...well, kinda. Mark Zuckerberg pushes for immigration reform, Twitter music, Dish goes after Sprint, Google Glass specs, Google Fiber hits the slopes, and the Star Trek computer...powered by Google?

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Audible Book of the Week

Music Break: Star Trek by Deodato

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Viral Video of the Week

iSteve full movie at Funny or Die

Outro: Main Title from Star Trek: First Contact by Jerry Goldsmith

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

Direct download: The_Drill_Down_-_Show_274.mp3
Category:technology -- posted at: 4:52am EDT

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This week, Facebook Home, Anonymous hacks North Korea, Thunderbolt gets bolt-ier, Google Fiber rolls out to Austin, Bitcoin hits a bubble, Wikileaks wants to make a ‘Library of Congress’ of secret government documents, and we say goodbye to Roger Ebert.

What We're Playing With
Andy: Jurassic Park 3D IMAX, Bioshock Infinite (finished)
Dwayne: Photive 8400mAh Battery Pack

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Audible Book of the Week

Music Break: Gone to the Movies by Semisonic

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Music Break: (My 1st) Big Break by Cut Chemist

Viral Video(s) of the Week
Petman tests Camo


Finding the Visible in the Invisible


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

Direct download: The_Drill_Down_-_Show_273.mp3
Category:technology -- posted at: 7:30am EDT

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This week, April Fools...on the web, Amazon snaps up Goodreads, Bitcoin breaks a 1 Billion dollars, the elusive Facebook phone may be on Android, a new iPhone gears up for production, and a special message from The President.

Intro: BallBlazer Theme

What We're Playing With
Andy:WonderCon, Bioshock Infinite
Dwayne: Drobo 5D
Tosin:SimCity

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Google Nose

Gmail Blue

YouTube's Ready to Select a Winner

Audible Book of the Week

Music Break: The Curse of Monkey Island

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Viral Video of the Week
A Special Message From The President

Outro: Themes from Grim Fandango
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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.

Direct download: The_Drill_Down_-_Show_272.mp3
Category:technology -- posted at: 7:30am EDT

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