337: Monkey Selfie

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

Global Headlines

• U.S. Moves Closer to Formal Rules Barring In-Flight Cellphone Calls
• Russian Gang Amasses Over a Billion Internet Passwords
  • Firm That Exposed Breach Of 'Billion Passwords' Quickly Offered $120 Service To Find Out If You're Affected
• British Cabinet hopes to turn UK into bitcoin capital

Audible Book of the Week

• Superheroes!: Capes, Cowls, and the Creation of Comic Book Culture by Laurence Maslon & Michael Kantor
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Music Break: Hooked on a Feeling by B.J. Thomas/Blue Swede

Hot Topic

• Security researchers: USB security fundamentally broken; hard-to-detect malware can take over Macs/PCs, no easy fix
• The Sprint And T-Mobile Mega Merger Is Dead And Both Stocks Are Tanking
• Fox Decides to stop Pursuit of Time Warner
• Foursquare reboots with a mission to destroy Yelp
• Tesla Gigafactory Could Change Everything

Music Break: Monkey Man by Toots and the Maytals

Final Word

• Wikipedia refuses to delete photo as 'monkey owns it'
  • Celebes crested macaque - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Drill Down Video of the Week

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.