295: Steam Effort

This week, GTA V breaks entertainment history records, Touch ID is hacked after a week, New devices from Apple, Microsoft & Amazon, Valve Software wants to change gaming from the Operating System up, and more...

What We're Playing With

Andy: GTA V
Dwayne:  Piper, iPhone 5S
Tosin: Letterman Digital Arts Center (LucasArts / Industrial Light & Magic)

Headlines

• 'Grand Theft Auto V' Crosses $1B In Sales, Biggest Entertainment Launch In History
• Pandora Falls 10% as Apple ITunes Radio Draws 11 Million
• Chaos Computer Club Bypasses Apple's Touch ID System (with copy of original fingerprint)
  • Why I Hacked Apple’s TouchID, And Still Think It Is Awesome

Audible Book of the Week

• Doctor Sleep: A Novel by Stephen King
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Music Break: Music from GTA V by Tangerine Dream

Hot Topic

• Apple TV Software v.6.0 Released
• Apple launches faster iMacs with 802.11ac WiFi, Pro graphics, improved Flash
• Microsoft revamps Surface lineup: Here’s the rundown
• Amazon Announces The Kindle HDX 7- And 8.9-Inch Tablets With High-Res Screens, 2GHz Processors
• Next for Nest: A Smoke Detector
• Valve announces SteamOS, a living room operating system for games
  • Valve announces Steam Machines, the Steam Box hardware beta

Music Break: Steam by Peter Gabriel

Final Word

• Nintendo visionary Hiroshi Yamauchi dies aged 85

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• BatDad

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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.