389: Learning a New Alphabet

This week, a whistleblower gets blown off on 4Chan, Tinder and Vanity Fair are not a match, Tesla charges itself, Google teaches us a new Alphabet ... and much much more!

What We're Playing With

Andy: Humans on AMC

Dwayne: GoPro Hero 4 Black

Headlines

• Apple Music has 11M trial subscribers with 2M on family plan; App Store has record month in July with $1.7B in transactions
• Spy agency whistle-blower posts top secret report to 4chan but users dismiss it as 'fake and gay'
• Inside the hookup culture accelerated by the rapid rise of Tinder
  • Tinder's PR just went ballistic on Twitter over a Vanity Fair exposé

Audible Book of the Week

• I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59 by Douglas Edwards
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Music Break: ABC by The Jackson 5

Hot Topic

• Google Announces Plans for New Operating Structure
  • Google to reorganize into new company called Alphabet
  • A,B,C as Easy as 1,2,3 — Follow the Money in the Google Renaming
  • There's an Easter Egg in Larry Page's Alphabet Letter

Music Break: Electric Feel by MGMT

Final Word

• Anti-Piracy Group Hits Indie Creators For Using the Word 'Pixels'
  • Columbia Pictures copyright claim results in own Pixels trailer being taken down

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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.