This week, Twitter & LinkedIn benefit from a mobile boom, are wearables dead in the water already?, Did the FCC just hammer the final nail in Net Neutrality’s coffin? Netflix raises fees, Amazon goes for HBO-- and smartphones, what happens when a hashtag backfires on you, and much more...

What We're Playing With

Andy: Bioshock Infinite: Burial at Sea, episode 2
Dwayne: TARDIS proposal
Tosin: Broken Age

Headlines

• Twitter's New Ad Unit Is A Huge, Huge Deal. Here's Why
  • Twitter Purchases Gnip
• LinkedIn Hits 300M Members Thanks to Mobile
• Exclusive: Nike fires majority of FuelBand team, will stop making wearable hardware
  • Why Wearables Like Nike’s FuelBand Aren’t Working

Audible Book of the Week

• This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works by John Brockman
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Music Break: Clara? by Murray Gold

More Headlines

• FCC to propose net neutrality rules that would let broadband providers give some traffic preferential treatment
• Netflix to raise prices for new members $1-2 this quarter, existing members will stay at current pricing “for a generous time period”
• Amazon Will Now Offer Old HBO Content For Prime Customers
• Amazon Smartphone Specs, Details on Software Revealed — Exclusive
• Amazon Point of Sale system may hit too close to home

Music Break: Sound of da Police by KRS One

Final Word

• #myNYPD: Police Department Asks Fans to Upload Photos With Cops, Didn't See This Coming

Do you have a photo w/ a member of the NYPD? Tweet us & tag it #myNYPD. It may be featured on our Facebook. pic.twitter.com/mE2c3oSmm6

— NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) April 22, 2014

MT @NYPDnews: Do you have a photo w/ a member of the NYPD? Tweet us & tag it #myNYPD pic.twitter.com/epG5E9cUBF — DefendedInTheStreets (@KimaniFilm) April 22, 2014

Sure thing! MT @NYPDnews: Do you have a photo w/ a member of the NYPD? Tweet us & tag it #myNYPD pic.twitter.com/mdWqoHiij5

— DefendedInTheStreets (@KimaniFilm) April 22, 2014

just photos? ok fine, @NYPDnews #MyNYPD pic.twitter.com/CrXcILqXWE — DefendedInTheStreets (@KimaniFilm) April 22, 2014

• Danny Boyle in Talks to Direct Steve Jobs Movie, Leonardo DiCaprio Eyed to Star (Exclusive)

The Drill Down Video of the Week

HBO GO spots show how awkward is it to watch HBO with your parents

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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, Google Glass opens to the public for one day, Did the NSA know about Heartbleed...and exploit it?, Google invests in drones, nature docs come to the Oculus Rift, lab vaginas, space twins and much more...

What We're Playing With

Andy: Goat Simulator
Dwayne: Dyson DC44 Animal
Tosin: PAX East

Headlines

• Google sells Glass to anyone in the US on April 15
  • Google Glass post sale report
• IRS misses XP deadline, pays Microsoft millions for patches
• NSA Said to Have Used Heartbleed Bug, Exposing Consumers
  • Obama Lets N.S.A. Exploit Some Internet Flaws, Officials Say
• Adding Condoleezza Rice To Dropbox's Board Seems Incredibly Tone Deaf Following NSA Concerns
  • Dropbox CEO defends adding Condoleezza Rice to board
• Health Secretary Resigns After Woes of HealthCare.gov

Audible Book of the Week

• Hollow World by Michael J. Sullivan
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Music Break: Time Machine by Robyn

More Headlines

• Google buys Titan Aerospace, the maker of high-altitude drones Facebook was considering
• Report: 44% of Twitter Accounts Have Never Sent a Tweet
• Sir David Attenborough shooting “Conquest of the Skies” documentary for Oculus Rift
  • James Cameron on VR technology
• Finally, stats on what's really going on with Steam games

Music Break: Space Oddity by David Bowie

Final Word: Science Tech

• Laboratory-grown vaginas offer help for girls born with rare genetic condition
• NASA to conduct unprecedented twin experiment

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

Game Videos from PAX East

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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 heart of internet security is bleeding, stock traders game the system, a Twitter to destabilize Cuba, Game of Thrones pushes piracy to a new high, & are we at 3D printing’s tipping point? All this and more...

What We're Playing With
Andy: Monument Valley, Silicon Valley

Headlines

• Mozilla Co-Founder Brendan Eich Resigns as CEO, Leaves Foundation Board
  • Brendan Eich resignation: Politics necessarily creates divisions
• The Heartbleed Bug, explained
  • Bruce Schneier: Heartbleed is a 'catastrophic' bug
  • Heartbleed vulnerable websites on the Alexa top 10000
  • The Heartbleed Hit List: The Passwords You Need to Change Right Now
• Attorney general announces investigation into high-speed stock trades
  • On A 'Rigged' Wall Street, Milliseconds Make All The Difference

Audible Book of the Week

• Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis
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Music Break: Chan Chanby Buena Vista Social Club

Hot Topics

• US secretly created 'Cuban Twitter' to stir unrest
• Microsoft Goes Hollywood in Amazon-Like Programming Push
• Game of Thrones Premiere Triggers Piracy Craze
• Micro 3D printer Kickstarter funding: $1 million in just one day
• Uber announces UberRUSH, a bicycle courier service, launching first in Manhattan

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Silicon Valley, Season 1, Episode 1

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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, Amazon launches the Fire set-top box, OKCupid takes a political stance and blocks Firefox, news from Microsoft's Build conference, DVD/CD ripping is finally legal in the UK, April Fools on the web, and much more...

What We're Playing With
Andy: Disney Movies Everywhere / iTunes Digital copy
Dwayne: WWI Tech: Air Traffic Control

Headlines

• San Francisco Giants (and most of MLB) adopt Apple's iBeacon for an enhanced ballpark experience
• Twitter rolls out photo tagging, ability to share up to four photos in a tweet
• So You Think You're Smarter Than A CIA Agent
• UK Govt: DVD and CD Ripping Will Be Legalized This Summer

Audible Book of the Week

• Foundation by Isaac Asimov
• Sign up at AudibleTrial.com/TheDrillDown

Music Break: It's a Fireby Portishead

Hot Topics

• Amazon announces Fire TV streaming set top box
  • Amazon may have used a shell company to keep the leaks to a minimum
• OkCupid Blocks Firefox Over Anti-Gay CEO
• Microsoft releases Office for iPad, subscription required for editing docs

• Microsoft Build Conference news:
  • Microsoft's new universal Windows apps run everywhere, from phones to the Xbox One
  • Windows Phone 8.1 adds voice assistant Cortana, gesture typing

Music Break: Won't Get Fooled Again by The Who

Final Word: April Fools Day on the Web

• April Fools' 2014 roundup
• ThinkGeek April Fool's Products
• Geeks of Doom's complete April Fool's Day coverage

The Drill Down Video(s) of the Week

• April Fools Day Prank: Netflix Streams Rotisserie Chicken Movie
• YouTube Announces Upcoming Viral Video Trends #newtrends

*This week's show title is also the name of a really bad Sandra Bullock film.

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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.