This week, YouTube’s new subscription service, tech execs flee Yahoo in droves, Gamergate at SXSW, some idiot Tesla drivers, and does filming the police contribute to crime? All this and more! 

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Andy: Steve Jobs (What Went Wrong)

Tosin: Nexus 5X Headlines

• Drivers are being idiots with Tesla’s new autopilot features
• Western Digital to Buy SanDisk for $19 Billion
• Netflix’s Ted Sarandos: ‘Beasts Of No Nation’ Seen By Over 3 Million Viewers
• iFixit App Pulled from Apple's Store
• Victory for Users: Librarian of Congress Renews and Expands Protections for Fair Uses

Audible Book of the Week

• Breaking the Chains of Gravity: The Story of Spaceflight Before NASA by Amy Shira Teitel
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Music Break: Space Oddity by David Bowie

Hot Topic

• Inside YouTube's new $10 per month subscription service YouTube Red, which removes ads, allows offline viewing, more, available October 28 in US
• Yahoo Talent Exodus Accelerates as Marissa Mayer’s Turnaround Flounders
• SXSW Cancels Online Harassment, GamerGate Panels Due To Unspecified Threats
  • BuzzFeed Withdrawing From SXSW
  • Vox Media and The Verge will not attend SXSW unless it takes harassment seriously
  • After Gamergate Misstep, SXSW Weighs An All-Day Online Abuse Forum

Music Break: Sound of da Police by KRS-One

Final Word: Apple

• FBI Director Blames Crime On Police Misconduct Videos
  • White House To FBI Director: No, Viral Videos Aren't Causing Crime
  • Get Stopped by the Police? There’s an App for That

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Star Wars BattleFront Trailer

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What We're Playing With Andy, Tosin & Dwayne: ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ trailer; Star Wars: The Force Awakens is obliterating all the movie pre-sale records Headlines

• A Second Snowden Has Leaked a Mother Lode of Drone Docs
• Chrome dumps “OK Google” eavesdropping extension because nobody actually uses it
• Back to the Future II: What did it get right and wrong?
  • Every Future Prediction From ‘Back to the Future Part II’

'Back to the Future Day' videos Toyota Mirai 'Fueled by the Future' The Future is Now! Audible Book of the Week

• We Don't Need Roads: The Making of the Back to the Future Trilogy by Caseen Gaines
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Music Break: Back in Time by Huey Lewis and the News Hot Topics

• Adobe Flash Player Security Vulnerability: How to protect yourself
• Facebook will warn you if you're subject to government 'attacks'
• The NYPD Is Using Mobile X-Ray Vans to Spy on Unknown Targets

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

• Computer Show

• 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Trailer Is Here!

Subscribe! The Drill Down on iTunes (Subscribe now!) Add us on Stitcher! The Drill Down on Facebook The Drill Down on Twitter 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.

This week, Amazon goes after Etsy, how posting on social media might lower your credit score, Tesla goes autopilot, how lab-grown meat is made, and the biggest tech acquisition ever, and much much more.

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Dwayne: DIY Drip Irrigation

Andy: The Beginner’s Guide; Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes

Tosin: Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, Star Wars Battlefront

Headlines

• Amazon Challenges Etsy With Strictly Handmade Marketplace
• ACLU: Orwellian Citizen Score, China's credit score system, is a warning for Americans
• Apple loses patent lawsuit to University of Wisconsin, faces hefty damages
• Pornhub thinks your smartphone choice reflects your kinks
• Tesla: Your Autopilot Has Arrived
  • Mercedes, Google, Volvo To Accept Liability When Their Autonomous Cars Screw Up

Audible Book of the Week

• Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
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Music Break: Drive My Car by The Beatles

Hot Topics

• Dell to Buy EMC in Deal Worth About $67 Billion - Largest Tech Acquisition Ever
  • What Dell-EMC merger could mean to the storage market, company employees, customers, and rivals
• Twitter Will Cut More Than 300 Employees, 8 Percent of Staff
  • The Extremely Shitty Way One Man Learned He'd Been Fired From Twitter

Music Break: I Eat Cannibals by Toto Coelo

Final Word

• Ada Lovelace Day: Celebrating the Achievements of Women in Technology

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Meat without murder: The Meat of the Future: How Lab-Grown Meat Is Made
  • If I Ate Lab-Grown Human Tissue or Organs, Would I Be Considered a Cannibal?

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This week, Twitter launches Moments, Hackers hit Patreon, Amazon shall have no other media players before it, Microsoft rolls out a slew of new products, Porsche swerves away from Google, and much much more...

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Dwayne: Chromecast Audio

Tosin: Tesla factory tour

Headlines

• Jack Dorsey named permanent CEO of Twitter
  • Twitter launches Moments, its dead-simple tab for browsing the best tweets
• Hackers breach crowdfunding site Patreon, dump nearly 15 GB of stolen data online
• Amazon to Ban Sale of Apple, Google Video-Streaming Devices

Audible Book of the Week

• Gamelife: A Memoir by Michael W. Clune
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Music Break: Final Boss by MC Frontalot

Hot Topic: Windows 10 Event

• The 10 most important things from Tuesday’s big Microsoft event

• The just-completed Trans-Pacific Partnership deal, explained

Music Break: Hey Porsche by Nelly

Final Word

• The new 911 Only Has Apple Car Play Because Google Agreement Is Nicht Gut

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

• Microsoft’s Windows 10 hardware event in 9 minutes

• The New Microsoft Surface Book

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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. 

This week, we’re once again joined by Greg Davies, host of Blendover and Heavy Metal Historian podcasts (and of course the TARDISBlend podcast hosted here at Geeks of Doom) as we discuss Google updates Nexus and shows off a Surface clone, Tesla launches an SUV, Samsung’s $99 VR rig, the Karma Police see all, and The Truth is Still Out There!... on The Drill Down.

What We're Playing With

Dwayne: Swagway

Greg: TWiT / Dvorak scandal

Andy: Apple Music 3-month trial; The LEGO Movie videogame; Pebble Time Steel (Pebble Time Round)

Headlines

• North America is out of IPv4 addresses—for really real this time
• Samsung's new Gear VR virtual reality headset only costs $99
  • Watch people try virtual reality porn for the first time
• GCHQ debuted a program called Karma Police seveon years ago to track the browsing habits and communications of “every visible user on the Internet”
  • GCHQ’s Password Recommendations
• Edward Snowden just joined Twitter. He's already creating a stir

Audible Book of the Week

• The Martian by Andy Weir
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Music Break: Karma Police by Radiohead

Hot Topics

• Google’s Nexus Event
  • The nine most important things from Google's Nexus event

• Tesla Model X
  • Tesla's Model X Is Here, and It’s as Awesome As We Hoped
  • Tesla's new Model X has a 'bioweapon defense mode' button

Music Break: Let's Get It On by Marvin Gaye

Final Word

• The Netflix and Chill Button

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

• Watch The First Trailer For ‘The X-Files’ Miniseries

• Black Mirror - Season 3 — A Netflix Original

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