This week, Greg Davies from the Blendover podcast joins Dwayne & Andrew as we discuss Turkey trying to terminate Twitter, Netflix cries “not fair”, the IRS weighs in on Bitcoin, President Obama backpedals on NSA collection, Apple, Google & dozens more collude in wage-fixing, and will Facebook’s purchase of Oculus create a rift amongst gamers? All this and more...

What We're Playing With

Andy: Device 6; Maytag Maxima X washer/dryer

Headlines

• Turkish citizens use Google to fight Twitter ban
  • Turkey blocks Google public DNS, eliminating popular backdoor used to circumvent Twitter ban
  • Turkish court lifts Twitter ban
• Netflix: We’ll pay Comcast’s ransom, but we shouldn’t have to
  • Guess what: AT&T doesn’t agree with Netflix on peering and net neutrality
• IRS declares that bitcoin will be taxed as property

Audible Book of the Week

• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
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Music Break: Anna from Device 6 by Jonathan Eng

Hot Topics

• Obama to Call for End to N.S.A.’s Bulk Data Collection
  • Some links from Greg:
    • The Public-Private Surveillance Partnership is still going strong
    • NSA reform proposals fail to fully protect privacy
    • Section 2.3 of Executive Order 12333
• Revealed: Apple and Google’s wage-fixing cartel involved dozens more companies, over one million employees
• Apple in Talks with Comcast About Streaming-TV Service
• Facebook To Buy Oculus VR, Maker Of The Rift Headset, For Around $2B In Cash And Stock
  • Palmer Luckey, Founder, Oculus: The Future of Virtual Reality
  • ​Notch Says He's Canceled Oculus Rift Minecraft Because Of Facebook

Music Break: Fire by Ohio Players

The Drill Down Video of the Week

Fire Rescue Near AIG Campus

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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 Box tech consultant Tosin Onafowokan. Occasionally joining them is Startup Digest CTO Christopher Burnor.

This week: When exactly did Target know about last year’s security breach?, Amazon raises the price of Prime and ponders a Chromecast-style set-top box, Sony reveals a VR helmet, Google’s smartwatch OS, and Tech’s biggest leaders, both living and dead, have an opinion to share on big issues this week.

Headlines

• Target Knew About Credit Card Hack For 12 Days Before Reacting
• Amazon raises price of Prime to $99/year, citing increased fuel and transportation costs
• Amazon’s Set Top Box Will Be A Dongle Like Chromecast, Could Feature OnLive-Style Streaming
• Sony reveals Project Morpheus, its VR headset for PlayStation 4
• Google reveals Android Wear, an operating system for smartwatches
  • Motorola's Smart Watch Looks Pretty Sweet

Audible Book of the Week

• The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone
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Music Break: Secretby OMD

Hot Topic: Tech Leaders Speak Out

• VC Marc Andreessen: “Naughty Fun” Leads to “Ruined Lives” in Anonymous Apps
• Mark Zuckerberg - As the world becomes more complex...
• Zuckerberg Called Obama To “Express Frustration” Over Spying’s Threat To Internet Security
• Steve Jobs Told Top Employees "No" To Television
• Bill Gates: Bots Are Taking Away Jobs

Music Break: Mr. Roboto by Styx

Final Word / The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Quirky and GE cook up a smarter, prettier air conditioner

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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 Box tech consultant Tosin Onafowokan. Occasionally joining them is Startup Digest CTO Christopher Burnor.

This week, Top Cow Comics President & CEO Matt Hawkins joins our roundtable think tank as we ponder the true identity of the founder of Bitcoin, the NSA’s plans to infect millions of computers with malware, Neil Young’s high-fidelity MP3 player, the holy grail of wireless, a Netflix for pirated films, The Last of Us on the big screen, and the 25th anniversary of the web.

What We're Playing With
Andy: Think Tank; Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
Dwayne: GoPro Hero 3 (Black Edition)
Tosin: Star Wars Machete Order

Hot Topics

• Hackers Hit Mt. Gox Exchange's CEO, Claim To Publish Evidence Of Fraud
• Japan Says Bitcoin Not a Currency
• The Face Behind Bitcoin
  • Dorian S. Nakamoto denies he's Bitcoin founder, heard of Bitcoin 3 weeks ago
  • “Real” Satoshi Claims He Is Not Dorian Nakamoto
• How the NSA Plans to Infect ‘Millions’ of Computers with Malware

Audible Book of the Week

• Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries by Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Music Break: Alphaby Vangelis

More Headlines

• Neil Young's high-fidelity iPod competitor will cost $399
• Is pCell the Holy Grail of wireless networking?
• Popcorn Time Is So Good at Movie Piracy, It’s Scary
• Video Game ‘The Last Of Us’ To Become A Movie; Sam Raimi Producing

Music Break: Blow Me (One Last Kiss) by P!nk

Final Word

• On the 25th anniversary of the web, let’s keep it free and open
• An online Magna Carta: Berners-Lee calls for bill of rights for web

The Drill Down Video of the Week

We asked twenty strangers to kiss for the first time...

First Handjob

• More Matt Hawkins: Comics of Doom: Episode 127: Top Cow’s Matt Hawkins

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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 Box tech consultant Tosin Onafowokan. Occasionally joining them is Startup Digest CTO Christopher Burnor.

This week, the British NSA (GCHQ) snoops on millions of webcams, Apple’s CarPlay, Google’s modular cellphone, Microsoft’s version of Siri, Facebook to launch drones,  the selfie that broke Twitter, and much more.

What We're Playing With
Dwayne: Harmony adapter for PS3

Headlines

• Bitcoin Exchange Mt. Gox Files for Bankruptcy Protection; Says It Lost 750,000 of Customers' Bitcoin to Fraud
  • Fred Wilson: A Letter To Senator Manchin (on Bitcoin)
  • Bitcoin bank Flexcoin closes after hack attack
• Ellen's Oscars selfie now the most retweeted post ever -- a huge win for Samsung
• GCHQ, aided by NSA, intercepted and stored webcam images of millions of global Yahoo users

Audible Book of the Week

• Minecraft: The Unlikely Tale of Markus "Notch" Persson and the Game that Changed Everything by Linus Larsson & Daniel Goldberg
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Music Break: Dog (from Minecraft)by C418

Hot Topics

• Apple CarPlay debuts with Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz and Volvo
• Project Ara: Inside Google's Modular Smartphone
• This is Cortana, Microsoft’s answer to Siri
• Microsoft experimenting with free version of Windows 8.1
• Facebook In Talks To Acquire Drone Maker Titan Aerospace

Music Break: Something in the Air by Thunderclap Newman

Final Word

• Roku's new Streaming Stick works with most TVs, drops price to $50
• Getty Images makes 35 million images free in fight against copyright infringement

The Drill Down Video of the Week

Comcast Doesn't Give a Fuck

Comcast Doesn't Give a F*CK from Tarik Ellinger

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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 Box tech consultant Tosin Onafowokan. Occasionally joining them is Startup Digest CTO Christopher Burnor.