The Drill Down

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This week, Greg Davies from the Blendover & TARDISBlend podcasts joins Dwayne & Andrew as we discuss: Facebook fights clickbait, the NSA builds a Google to search your records, Amazon buys Twitch, and...is misogyny in games out of control?

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Dwayne: Circle of 6 / White House Council on Women and Girls

Greg: gSyncIt (PC) and Metal (Android)

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Music Break: Video Games by Lana Del Rey

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Final Word: Misogyny in Gaming

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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.

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bill-gates-has-the-best-ice-bucket-challenge-by-far This week, Steve Ballmer says goodbye to Microsoft, Tesla puts their money where their cars are, Google gets ready to welcome kids, YouTube plans a subscription service, and the internet gets cold and wet for charity.

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Music Break: The Kids Are Alright by The Who

Hot Topic: Google Watch

Music Break: Cold As Ice by Foreigner

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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.

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This week, Edward Snowden tells all, Uber & Lyft play dirty, Buzzfeed gets major VC love, Amazon launches a mobile card reader, Netflix passes HBO, more teens are familiar with PewDiePie than Johnny Depp, and what will you do when a robot has your job?

What We're Playing With Andy, Tosin & Dwayne: Guardians of the Galaxy; Monument Valley

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Music Break: Friend Like Me from "Aladdin"

Hot Topic: Media Watch

Music Break: Mr. Roboto by Styx

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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.

Direct download: The_Drill_Down_-_Show_338.mp3
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Celebes crested macaque self-portrait, photo by David Slater(?)This week, will cellphones be banned from airlines?, Russians hack over a billion passwords, malware in your USB, a camera that can decipher sound from silent video, the Sprint/T-Mobile merger is dead, and...if a monkey takes a selfie in the jungle, does it own the copyright?

What We're Playing With

Andy: My PS3 died this week!, Chromecast

Dwayne: William Shakespeare’s The Empire Striketh Back

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Audible Book of the Week

Music Break: Hooked on a Feeling by B.J. Thomas/Blue Swede

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Music Break: Monkey Man by Toots and the Maytals

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The Visual Microphone: Passive Recovery of Sound from Video

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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.

Direct download: The_Drill_Down_-_Show_337.mp3
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okcupid-science This week, Microsoft lays off thousands, the FCC hears from a million, Amazon follows the Netflix model, Facebook forces mobile users to switch to chat, OKCupid may have tricked people into falling in love, and does your Apple device hide a backdoor?, and much more...

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Andy: San Diego Comic-Con 2014; Extant

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Music Break: Over There by The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra

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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.

Direct download: The_Drill_Down_-_Show_336.mp3
Category:technology -- posted at: 7:00am EDT

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