273: The Balcony is Closed

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

Headlines

• Anonymous takes control of North Korea’s Twitter and Flickr accounts, defaces websites
• Intel announces next-gen Thunderbolt with 20 Gbps throughput, 4K support
• Google Fiber heads to Austin
• Bitcoin bubble begins to burst, price plunges 60%
• When cancer stole Roger Ebert’s voice, Twitter gave him a new one
  • Video games can never be art - Roger Ebert

Audible Book of the Week

• Life Itself: A Memoir by Roger Ebert
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Music Break: Gone to the Movies by Semisonic

More Headlines

• Facebook Home revamps any Android phone to make it about 'people, not apps'
  • Why Facebook Home bothers me: It destroys any notion of privacy
• WikiLeaks' 'PLUS D' Aims To Digitize America's Secret Diplomatic History
• Microsoft planning Xbox event for May

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.