This week, more updates in the Edward Snowden/NSA case, Instagram adds video, the FAA relaxes rules on gadgets during travel, Barnes & Noble quits making the Nook, is Pandora ripping its artists off?...and much more.

What We're Playing With
Andy & Dwayne: Pebble

Headlines

• Ouya launches for $99; already sold out on Amazon, GameStop
• U.S. charges Snowden with espionage
  • Edward Snowden to seek asylum in Ecuador
  • Snowden extradition depends on politics
• Web’s Reach Binds N.S.A. and Silicon Valley Leaders
• Revealed: the top secret rules that allow NSA to use US data without a warrant
• Introducing Aaron's Law, a Desperately Needed Reform of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

Audible Book of the Week

• Under the Dome: A Novel by Stephen King
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Music Break: Pictures of You by The Cure

More Headlines

• Instagram Launches 15-Second Video Sharing Feature, With 13 Filters And Editing
  • Instagram Video Vs. Vine: What’s The Difference?
  • Instagram users upload 5M clips in vid-sharing feature's first day
• As FAA moves to relax device rules, ridership on gadget-friendly trains and buses surges
• Pink Floyd: Pandora's Internet radio royalty ripoff
• Barnes & Noble quits Nook tablets, stays focused on eReaders
• Apple TV Finally Gets HBO GO And WatchESPN
• Fan TV revealed: is this the set-top box we’ve been waiting for?
• AOL is launching a Google Reader replacement

Viral Video of the Week

Your WTF Video Of The Day: John McAfee Shows You How To Uninstall McAfee

Outro: Pictures of You by The Cure

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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, Greg Davies from the BlendoveR podcast and frequent Geeks of Doom contributor (including the Tardisblend podcast) joins us to discuss how the National Security Agency is eavesdropping on our phone calls, e-mails, texts, and all online activity in the name of national security. Are we overreacting, or not acting enough? Also, the NSA may have our data, but they can never patent our DNA. Microsoft does a 180 on their followup to the 360, And Google creates a network of floating balloons...

What We're Playing With
Dwayne & Andy: Ouya

Headlines

• Microsoft to Pull Complete Reversal on Xbox One DRM Policies
  • Your Feedback Matters – Update on Xbox One
• Introducing Project Loon: Balloon-powered Internet access
• Why Google Reader Really Got the Axe
  • Feedly Cloud Goes Live To Replace Google Reader’s Backend
  • Digg's Google Reader replacement beta opens on June 26th
• Supreme Court rules human genes cannot be patented

Audible Book of the Week

• The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America by James Bamford
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Music Break : Spies by Coldplay

Hot Topic: NSA Eavesdropping/PRISM

• Timeline of NSA Domestic Spying
• NSA collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily
  • NSA admits listening to U.S. phone calls without warrants
• President Obama on NSA spying: Congress has known about it and approved for years
• U.S. intelligence mining data from nine U.S. Internet companies in broad secret program
  • Google denies PRISM involvement, says secrecy 'undermines the freedoms we all cherish'
  • Mark Zuckerberg responds to PRISM allegations
  • Apple’s Commitment to Customer Privacy
  • The Latest to Disclose Government Requests, Yahoo Reveals the Least
  • Google, Facebook & Microsoft Ask US Gov’t For Permission To Report FISA Data Requests
    • Google challenges U.S. gag order, citing First Amendment
  • WaPost backtracks on claim tech companies ‘participate knowingly’ in PRISM data collection
  • Doublespeak Denials Of PRISM Hid The Truth About Participation
  • The real story in the NSA scandal is the collapse of journalism

Music Break: Somebody's Watching Me by Rockwell

• Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations
  • Edward Snowden: US government has been hacking Hong Kong and China for years
  • 3 NSA veterans speak out on whistle-blower: We told you so
• U.S. Agencies Said to Swap Data With Thousands of Firms
  • Secret Court Ruling Put Tech Companies in Data Bind
• Expanded '2-person rule' could help plug NSA leaks
• Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have 'Nothing to Hide'
  • Woz: This is not my America
• Don't ask your government for your Privacy, take it back: Here's How

Viral Video of the Week

Tap It: The NSA Slow Jam

Outro: Spying Glass by Horace Andy

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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, at Apple's WorldWide Developer Conference, Apple rolls out new updates for Macbooks, OSX, iOS 7, and a new Mac Pro! Also at E3, we find out more about the XBox One, the PS4, and all the great games you’ll be playing on them. Plus Google buys Waze, and cloud storage with real clouds!

Show Note: The Drill Down is planning an upcoming episode regarding recently disclosed documents showing that the National Security Agency is secretly eavesdropping on the phone and data communications of millions of American citizens. Stay tuned!

Headlines

• Google set to acquire Waze for $1.3b
• Facebook's first data center DRENCHED by ACTUAL CLOUD

Hot Topic: Apple WWDC 2013

• WWDC June 2013 Keynote Video

• Apple announces OS X Mavericks with Finder tabs, tags, and true multiple display support
  • Maps, iBooks, iCloud Keychain coming to OS X Mavericks
• Hands-on: New 11-inch MacBook Air
• Apple Gives the Mac Pro a Super-Powered, Cylindrical Update
• Apple Unveils iOS 7
  • Apple announces iOS 7, 'biggest change' since the introduction of the iPhone
  • The design of iOS 7: simply confusing
• Apple announces ‘iTunes Radio’ — its Pandora competitor

Audible Book of the Week

• Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter by Tom Bissell
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Music Break: Selections from Mass Effect 3 Soundtrack by Sascha Dikiciyan & Cris Velasco

Hot Topic: E3 2013

• Microsoft Reveals Xbox One Cost, Release Window, No More Points
  • Xbox at E3 2013: everything you need to know
• Microsoft reveals updated Xbox 360 design based on Xbox One
• An Anonymous Microsoft Engineer on XBox One

• Sony Digitally Slaps Microsoft With No Used Game Block, No Always On, $399 Price Tag
  • Sony PS4 reveals its face and its $399 price
  • Sony E3 2013 PlayStation briefing roundup
• Comprehensive 8th-Generation Console Comparison Chart
• Geeks of Doom's full E3 Coverage

Viral Video of the Week

Sony Shows Off How Much Easier Sharing PlayStation 4 Games Is Than On Xbox One

Outro: Selections from Mass Effect 3 Soundtrack by Sascha Dikiciyan & Cris Velasco

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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 nixes face recognition on Glass, the US Supreme Court OKs DNA swabs, Zynga axes 250 employees, Did Apple conspire with e-book publishers?, and President Obama puts the hammer down on Patent Trolls...

What We're Playing With
Dwayne: Sad Cat Diary
Tosin: Google Shopping Express

Headlines

• Oculus VR co-founder, 33, killed by speeding car
• Google says it won’t approve any Glass apps with facial recognition until it has protections in place
• Sony CEO plays down ‘media hub’ and says PlayStation 4 is for gamers
• Supreme Court OKs DNA swab of people under arrest

Audible Book of the Week

• The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail by Clayton M. Christensen
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Music Break: The Game Is Over by 'N Sync

More Headlines

• Zynga to Lay Off 520 Employees -- 18 Percent -- and Shutter Offices
• In e-books trial, U.S. says Apple conspired with publishers
• White House Task Force on High-Tech Patent Issues
• President Obama vs patent trolls: A tipping point in Washington
  • Why patent trolls will laugh in the face of the US government’s weak attempts to fight them
  • Apple and ITC- they stole Samsung patents
  • Podcasting to end because of one single patent

Final Word

• Atari landfill search set for old, terrible games

Viral Video of the Week

• Mad genius Rickrolls and crashes Vine with full-length music video embed
• 'Arrested Development' fan re-edits Season 4 in new order
• Sad Cat Diary

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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.