275: All-Purpose Tool

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

Headlines

• Reddit owns up to its part in spreading misinformation about the Boston bombings
• False Rumor of Explosion at White House Causes Stocks to Briefly Plunge; AP Confirms Its Twitter Feed Was Hacked
• Twitter #Music wants to be your source for new tunes
• Windows 8.1 set to bring back the Start button

Audible Book of the Week

• Shatner Rules: Your Key to Understanding the Shatnerverse and the World at Large by Willam Shatner & Chris Regan
• Sign up at AudibleTrial.com/TheDrillDown

Music Break: Real by William Shatner

More Headlines

• Netflix Says Its “House of Cards” Strategy Worked, and Wall Street Agrees
  • Netflix will offer $11.99 family plan with up to four simultaneous streams
• What is CISPA, and Why Should You Care?
• Everything you need to know about the Senate’s online sales-tax bill

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.