This week, Greg Davies from the Blendover podcast joins Dwayne & Andrew as we discuss: Chinese hackers break into US gov't employee records, Hulu gets South Park, a shakeup at Microsoft, Apple & IBM join forces, a new vehicle from Tesla, and...Worst. Con. Ever. All this and much more...

What We're Playing With

Andy: iTunes Extras on Apple TV; Video Games: The Movie

Greg: Soundscape 8 by photive

Dwayne: Google Drive

Headlines

• Chinese hackers accessed personal details of US federal employees, targeted applicants for top-secret security clearances
• Google grappling with 70,000 'right to be forgotten' requests
• Hulu receives exclusive rights to stream South Park immediately after broadcast and entire back catalog in deal worth $80M+
• Call to cancel Comcast service descends into desperate, hysterical fireworks

Audible Book of the Week

• Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Novelization by Alex Irvine
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Music Break: You'll Never Make a Monkey out of Me from The Simpsons

More Headlines

• Microsoft CEO readies big shakeup, drops devices and services focus
  • Microsoft to Announce Job Cuts as Soon as This Week
• Apple-IBM Partnership is a Direct Challenge to Microsoft
• Novartis and Google connect on contacts
• Tesla announces new, smaller electric vehicle named Model 3

Music Break: Tacky by "Weird Al" Yankovic

Final Word

• Over the course of a weekend, DashCon 2014 descended into chaos
• http://www.dashcon.org/

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• “Weird Al” releases 8 new videos in 8 days
• WeirdAl.com (All videos posted here)

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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 fights on Amazon’s turf, the collateral damage behind NSA target searches, the TSA’s new rule for electronic gadgets, we think we know what the iPhone 6’s screen looks like, and more...

What We're Playing With

Dwayne: Knights of Sidonia

Tosin: trip to Japan

Headlines

• Inside Google Shopping Express’ Big Plan to Race Amazon to Your Door
• Amazon offers some Hachette authors 100% of ebook sales while dispute is ongoing
• Tim Draper: the Bitcoin auction winner who wants to split California in six

Audible Book of the Week

• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
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Music Break: End Titles from Blade Runner by Vangelis

Hot Topics

• In NSA-intercepted data, those not targeted far outnumber the foreigners who are
• NSA and FBI covertly monitored emails of several Muslim-Americans, including a political candidate and civil rights activists
• TSA blocking uncharged mobile devices from flights at some international airports

Music Break: Mistaken For Strangers by The National

Final Word

• Bent, scratched and stabbed: Apple's iPhone 6 'indestructable' sapphire display tested on video - and new curved screen emerges unscathed

The Drill Down Video of the Week

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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 buys into music and shuts down their oldest social network, Did T-Mobile swindle customers out of millions of hidden fees?, Facebook’s secret mood manipulation study, and is the NSA’s first transparency report just one big oxymoron?

Headlines

• Google in Deal for Songza, a Music Playlist Service
• Google Is Shutting Down Orkut, Its First Social Network, On September 30
• Yahoo Shuts Down Unpopular Services
• FTC Alleges T-Mobile Made Millions From Allegedly Bogus Text Message Charges
• Microsoft to launch cross platform fitness wristband this fall, will work with Android, iPhone and Windows Phone

Audible Book of the Week

• Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era by James Barrat
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Music Break: The Humans Are Dead by Flight of the Conchords

Hot Topics

• Everything We Know About Facebook's Secret Mood Manipulation Experiment
  • Facebook Doesn't Understand The Fuss About Its Emotion Manipulation Study
  • Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg apologizes for poorly communicating controversial News Feed study
• New Snowden documents show FISA court authorized NSA to spy on all but four foreign countries
• The NSA just posted its first full transparency report

Music Break: At Least It Was Here by The 88

Final Word

• Yahoo Picks Up 'Community' for Streaming Video Site, Screen
• Reading Rainbow is back!! And on Android!

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Glen Keane - Duet - Google ATAP

• Glen Keane - making of 'Duet'

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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.