This week a bidding war starts (and ends) over Waze, Yahoo wants Hulu, Tim Cook spills the beans about...well, nothing, Blizzard drops its new MMO from the schedule, backlash against Microsoft’s XBox One, a 3D food printer, and the possible look of the next Playstation.

What We're Playing With

Andy: Arrested Development, Season 4

Headlines

• Google and Facebook in bidding war over Waze
  • Facebook Acquisition Talks With Waze Fall Apart
• Yahoo Bids $600M-$800M for Hulu
• Lambda Labs Is Launching A Facial Recognition API For Google Glass
• Tim Cook at AllThingsD

Audible Book of the Week

• NOS4A2: A Novel by Joe Hill
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Music Break: Selections from "Arrested Development" soundtrack by David Schwartz

More Headlines

• How Microsoft screwed itself for the next generation of video game consoles
  • Blow: Microsoft's lying about Xbox One cloud power
  • Sony execs respond to #PS4NoDRM online campaign
  • Xbox One and Used Games: The Real Reason Everyone's So Mad
  • Microsoft Blames Gaming Media For Xbox One Consumer Rage?
• Blizzard delays unannounced MMO until 2016, resets whole project
• Pizza making 3D Food Printer Being Funded By NASA

Viral Video of the Week

• Sony's PS4 Teaser Video

• Reddit user constructed model of PS4 based on screenshots

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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.

This week, Google buys a quantum computer, Yahoo buys instant cool with Tumblr and spruces up tired old Flickr, Aereo & Arrested Development disrupt Big Media, and Microsoft launches the next-generation of XBox. Plus, our review of Star Trek: Into Darkness!

What We're Playing With
Andy: Google Conversational Search (on Chrome)
Andy, Dwayne & Tosin: Star Trek: Into Darkness
(Our spoiler-filled review immediately follows the end of the podcast)

Headlines

• Google Buys a Quantum Computer
• New Apps Arrive on Google Glass
• EA Has No Games in Development For Nintendo's Wii U
• Aereo Internet TV Expands To Atlanta, Boston Despite Lawsuit From Major Broadcasters
• 'Arrested Development' Leads The Charge For Old Brands In New Media

Audible Book of the Week

• How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
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Music Break: One by Aimee Mann

Hot Topic: XBox One

• Microsoft Officially Unveils The Next-Gen Xbox, Named The XBOX ONE

• Exclusive First Look at Xbox One
• How Xbox One Plans to Fight Sony, Steam, and Everything Else
• Xbox One Reveal: Live-Action ‘Halo’ TV Series With Steven Spielberg Announced

Music Break: I Want You Back by The Jackson Five

Final Word: Yahoo's Revamps

• Yahoo confirms $1.1B Tumblr acquisition, CEO Marissa Mayer promises ‘not to screw it up’
  • Yes, Yahoo Will Put More Ads On Tumblr
• Flickr Gets A Huge Revamp With Hi-Res Image-Filled UI, New Android App, And 1TB Of Free Storage

Viral Video of the Week

• XBox One Reveal highlights in under two minutes

Spoiler-filled review of Star Trek: Into Darkness

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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.

This week, YouTube launches subscription channels, Amazon mints its own digital currency, BlackBerry messaging comes to iOS & Android, the Tesla S gets the highest praise, and all the latest from Google’s I/O developer conference.

What We're Playing With
Andy: Fez, Google Glass
Dwayne: Bioshock Infinite
Tosin: Pebble watch

Headlines

• YouTube begins paid subscription pilot
• Biometric Database of All Adult Americans Hidden in Immigration Reform
• Amazon launches virtual currency Coins
• Microsoft drops the Blue codename, confirms Windows 8.1 will be a free upgrade available later this year

Audible Book of the Week

• Star Trek: The Eugenics Wars: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh By Greg Cox
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Music Break: Surprise Attack from "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" by James Horner

Hot Topic: Google I/O Conference

• The best of Google's I/O 2013 keynote

• Google takes on Spotify with Google Play Music All Access subscription service, priced at $9.99 per month
• Cross-platform Google Play games services unveiled with cloud saving, achievements and multiplayer
• Google to Sell Its Own Version of Samsung’s Galaxy S4
• New Google+: Stream, Hangouts, and Photos
• Next-gen Google Maps brings better imagery, tailored results, and more
• Google Introduces Conversational Search For The Desktop With “Hotwording,” Prompting It With “OK Google”
• Larry Page wants to 'set aside a part of the world' for unregulated experimentation

Music Break: Major Tom (Völlig losgelöst) by Peter Schilling

Final Word

• BlackBerry bringing BBM to Android and iOS this summer
• Consumer Reports: The Tesla Model S is our top-scoring car, ever

Viral Video of the Week

Space Oddity, recorded by Commander Chris Hadfield on board the International Space Station

Outro: Space Oddity by David Bowie
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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.

This week, SNL skewers Google Glass, lots of upcoming gaming news, the FBI’s plan to wiretap web users, iOS 7 is going flat, Facebook and SMS loses millions of users, the world’s first 3D printed gun, and a man who quit the internet for a year (and lived to tell about it)...

Headlines

• Robert Scoble: My two-week review of Google Glass: it all depends on the price
  • SNL: Weekend Update - Google Glass

• 35-Minute ‘Beyond: Two Souls’ Gameplay Demo Is All You Need To See

• Three New Trailers For Rockstar Games’ ‘Grand Theft Auto 5′ Released

• Disney Gives Electronic Arts Exclusive Rights to Star Wars Games
• What happens when pirates play a game development simulator and then go bankrupt because of piracy?
• Adobe's Creative Cloud Move Causes Outcry And Confusion

Audible Book of the Week

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Music Break: Everybody Wants to Rule The World by Scott Bradlee

More Headlines

• Obama May Back F.B.I. Plan to Wiretap Web Users
  • DOJ: We don't need warrants for e-mail, Facebook chats
• Jony Ive paints a fresh, yet familiar, look for iOS 7
• Facebook Is Losing Millions Of Users In The US And Other Mature Markets
  • Text messaging is on decline in US, says report
• I’m still here: back online after a year without the internet

• This Is The World's First Entirely 3D-Printed Gun
  • State Department Demands Takedown Of 3D-Printable Gun Files For Possible Export Control Violations

Music Break: The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad by Bernard Herrman

Final Word

• Special Effects Legend Ray Harryhausen Dies At 92
• ‘Ender’s Game’ Trailer: The Unfilmable Sci-Fi Story Finally Gets Big Screen Adaptation

Viral Video of the Week

• Short Film Created Using Only Atoms Magnified Over 100 Million Times

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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.