This week, is your cellphone safe from unwarranted searches?, a new ruling on mobile rebroadcasting of over-the-air video, another major player enters the smart home market, a late-night show on Netflix? and all the best from Google’s I/O developer conference.

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Andy: Apple TV
Dwayne: Two Dots

Headlines

• LAW
  • Aereo’s Business Model Rejected By Supreme Court
  • Cell Phone Data Requires a Warrant Before Law Enforcement Can Search It
• CORPORATE
  • Quirky to Create a Smart-Home Products Company
  • Online Education is taken seriously as Starbucks pledges to educate employees
• PRODUCT
  • Nest Opens Up to Developers, Launching a Full Google Smart Home Takeover

Audible Book of the Week

• In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives by Steven Levy
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Music Break: Paranoid Android by Radiohead

Hot Topic: Google I/O 2014

• The 17 most important things Google announced at I/O
• Google Cardboard

Music Break: Bring on the Night by The Police

Final Word

• How Chelsea Handler Changes Our Understanding of Netflix

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Team Fortress 2: Expiration Date

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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 unveils the 3D interface Fire Phone and launches Prime Music, Google wants to go to space and keep you healthy, Tesla gives its patents away, and drones that follow your every move.... all this and more...

Headlines

• Exclusive: Google Wants To Collect Your Health Data With 'Google Fit'
  • Google Vs. Death (Time)
• Google In Talks To Take Virgin Galactic Stake
• Priceline to Buy OpenTable for $2.6 Billion
• Apple Settles E-Books Pricing Case With States, Consumers

Audible Book of the Week

• Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality by Max Tegmark
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Music Break: On the Road Again by Canned Heat

Hot Topics

• All Our Patent Are Belong To You - Tesla Motors
• Amazon Turns On Prime Music Streaming, Sans Current Hits
• Amazon Fire Phone to arrive July 25 at $199 for 32GB, $299 for 64GB on AT&T
  • Amazon's Fire Phone uses multiple front-facing cameras to offer dynamic 3D perspective
  • Firefly: Amazon's Fire Phone Can Identify Almost Anything

Music Break: Follow You Follow Me by Genesis

Final Word: Autonomous Drones

• Airdog drone serves as your loyal action sports cameraman

• HEXO : Your Autonomous Aerial Camera by Squadrone System

The Drill Down Video of the Week

How Sony's Betamax lost to JVC's VHS Cassette Recorder

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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, streaming video will beat blu-rays by 2015, Google boosts their maps while Apple’s maps team sweats, Vodaphone admits its users are being snooped on, a chatbot has fooled humans for the first time ever, and all the latest from this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo.

Headlines

• Cable companies are reportedly funding fake consumer groups to attack net neutrality
• Vodafone reveals existence of secret wires that allow state surveilance
• Digital Home Entertainment to Exceed Physical by 2016, Study Finds
• Apple plans October launch for watch-like health-monitoring device
• Reach For The Sky, YouTube: Music Service In Standoff
• Google Pays $500M for Satellite Maker Skybox, for Photos and Eventually Internet Access
  • Lack of Maps Updates in iOS 8 Said to Be Caused by 'Internal Politics', Developers Leaving

Audible Book of the Week

• How to Train Your Dragon (series) by Cressida Crowell
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Music Break: The Last of Us by Gustavo Santaolalla

Hot Topic: E3 2014

• E3 2014: Microsoft press conference – the key points

• E3 2014: EA press conference – Mass Effect 4, Star Wars Battlefront, Hardline beta

• Ubisoft E3 Press Conference 2014

• Sony shows off ‘Uncharted 4,’ ‘Mortal Kombat’ ‘GTA V’ and more at E3
  • Vita TV becomes PlayStation TV in the US, Europe and Canada for $99 this fall

• Open-world Zelda, new multiplayer shooter IP lead Nintendo’s E3 lineup

• Geeks of Doom's full E3 coverage

Music Break: Mona da Vinci by Tangerine Dream Final Word

• A Chatbot Has 'Passed' The Turing Test For The First Time

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

• Legend of Zelda Wii U

• No Man’s Sky

• The Division Cinematic

• Rise of the Tomb Raider

• Dead Island 2

• Metal Gear Solid V: Phantom Pain

• Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End

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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 jumps on streaming music, an Oculus Rift for Samsung mobiles? the co-founder of the Pirate Bay is arrested, the NSA collects millions of faces online Google to launch satellites for global broadband ...and all the latest from Apple’s World Wide Developer’s conference...

Hot Topic: Apple WWDC 2014

• Everything you want to know about OS X Yosemite
  • OS X Yosemite Overview
• Apple Introduces iOS 8
• The 22 most important things Apple announced today
  • Continuity
  • Mail Markup
  • Safari’s Updates
  • Humour
  • Extensions
  • Healthkit
  • Swift

Audible Book of the Week

• All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka
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Music Break: I've Just Seen a Face by The Beatles

Headlines

• Amazon Prime To Offer Music Streaming Service
• Samsung is working with Oculus on a media-focused VR headset
• Pirate Bay co-founder arrested in Sweden to serve copyright violation sentence
• Google Plans To Launch An Easy-To-Use Chrome Plug-In For Email Encryption
• N.S.A. Collecting Millions of Faces From Web Images for Facial Recognition
• Google Invests in Satellites to Spread Internet Access

Music Break: Computer Love by Kraftwerk

Final Word

• HBO's Silicon Valley

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

• Kids React to Old Computers

• Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Net Neutrality

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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.