The Drill Down

et-atari-dig

This week, Google+ may be dead, but Google self-driving cars are...on a roll, Can police search cellphones without a warrant?, Denmark in Minecraft, 3D printed prosthetics, and a long lost legend is unearthed in the desert...all this and more...

What We're Playing With

Dwayne: Eggminder by Quirky and GE
Tosin: Mother’s Clay Bar/Showtime detailer & ScratchX

Headlines

Audible Book of the Week

Music Break: Chirp by C418  from Minecraft

Hot Topics:

Music Break: Chase by John Williams from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

Final Word: Streaming Wars: Netflix on Attack

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.

Direct download: The_Drill_Down_-_Show_324.mp3
Category:technology -- posted at: 7:30am EDT

TARDIS Box

This week, Twitter & LinkedIn benefit from a mobile boom, are wearables dead in the water already?, Did the FCC just hammer the final nail in Net Neutrality’s coffin? Netflix raises fees, Amazon goes for HBO-- and smartphones, what happens when a hashtag backfires on you, and much more...

What We're Playing With

Andy: Bioshock Infinite: Burial at Sea, episode 2
Dwayne: TARDIS proposal
Tosin: Broken Age

Headlines

Audible Book of the Week

Music Break: Clara? by Murray Gold

More Headlines

Music Break: Sound of da Police by KRS One

Final Word

The Drill Down Video of the Week

HBO GO spots show how awkward is it to watch HBO with your parents

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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_323.mp3
Category:technology -- posted at: 7:30am EDT

Well, we weren't about to put up a picture of the vaginas.

This week, Google Glass opens to the public for one day, Did the NSA know about Heartbleed...and exploit it?, Google invests in drones, nature docs come to the Oculus Rift, lab vaginas, space twins and much more...

What We're Playing With

Andy: Goat Simulator
Dwayne: Dyson DC44 Animal
Tosin: PAX East

Headlines

Audible Book of the Week

Music Break: Time Machine by Robyn

More Headlines

Music Break: Space Oddity by David Bowie

Final Word: Science Tech

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

Game Videos from PAX East

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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_322.mp3
Category:technology -- posted at: 7:30am EDT

heartbleed_unsecure

This week, the heart of internet security is bleeding, stock traders game the system, a Twitter to destabilize Cuba, Game of Thrones pushes piracy to a new high, & are we at 3D printing’s tipping point? All this and more...

What We're Playing With
Andy: Monument Valley, Silicon Valley

Headlines

Audible Book of the Week

Music Break: Chan Chanby Buena Vista Social Club

Hot Topics

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.

Direct download: TDD_321_mixdown.mp3
Category:technology -- posted at: 7:00am EDT

amazon-fire-tv

This week, Amazon launches the Fire set-top box, OKCupid takes a political stance and blocks Firefox, news from Microsoft's Build conference, DVD/CD ripping is finally legal in the UK, April Fools on the web, and much more...

What We're Playing With
Andy: Disney Movies Everywhere / iTunes Digital copy
Dwayne: WWI Tech: Air Traffic Control

Headlines

Audible Book of the Week

Music Break: It's a Fireby Portishead

Hot Topics

Music Break: Won't Get Fooled Again by The Who

Final Word: April Fools Day on the Web

The Drill Down Video(s) of the Week

*This week's show title is also the name of a really bad Sandra Bullock film.

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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_320.mp3
Category:technology -- posted at: 7:00am EDT

farmville

This week, Greg Davies from the Blendover podcast joins Dwayne & Andrew as we discuss Turkey trying to terminate Twitter, Netflix cries “not fair”, the IRS weighs in on Bitcoin, President Obama backpedals on NSA collection, Apple, Google & dozens more collude in wage-fixing, and will Facebook’s purchase of Oculus create a rift amongst gamers? All this and more...

What We're Playing With

Andy: Device 6; Maytag Maxima X washer/dryer

Headlines

Audible Book of the Week

Music Break: Anna from Device 6 by Jonathan Eng

Hot Topics

Music Break: Fire by Ohio Players

The Drill Down Video of the Week

Fire Rescue Near AIG Campus

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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_319.mp3
Category:technology -- posted at: 10:01am EDT

Secret-VC

This week: When exactly did Target know about last year’s security breach?, Amazon raises the price of Prime and ponders a Chromecast-style set-top box, Sony reveals a VR helmet, Google’s smartwatch OS, and Tech’s biggest leaders, both living and dead, have an opinion to share on big issues this week.

Headlines

Audible Book of the Week

Music Break: Secretby OMD

Hot Topic: Tech Leaders Speak Out

Music Break: Mr. Roboto by Styx

Final Word / 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.

Direct download: The_Drill_Down_-_Show_318.mp3
Category:technology -- posted at: 7:30am EDT

think-tank

This week, Top Cow Comics President & CEO Matt Hawkins joins our roundtable think tank as we ponder the true identity of the founder of Bitcoin, the NSA’s plans to infect millions of computers with malware, Neil Young’s high-fidelity MP3 player, the holy grail of wireless, a Netflix for pirated films, The Last of Us on the big screen, and the 25th anniversary of the web.

What We're Playing With
Andy: Think Tank; Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
Dwayne: GoPro Hero 3 (Black Edition)
Tosin: Star Wars Machete Order

Hot Topics

Audible Book of the Week

Music Break: Alphaby Vangelis

More Headlines

Music Break: Blow Me (One Last Kiss) by P!nk

Final Word

The Drill Down Video of the Week

We asked twenty strangers to kiss for the first time...

First Handjob

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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_317.mp3
Category:technology -- posted at: 7:00am EDT

Optic-Nerve

This week, the British NSA (GCHQ) snoops on millions of webcams, Apple’s CarPlay, Google’s modular cellphone, Microsoft’s version of Siri, Facebook to launch drones,  the selfie that broke Twitter, and much more.

What We're Playing With
Dwayne: Harmony adapter for PS3

Headlines

Audible Book of the Week

Music Break: Dog (from Minecraft)by C418

Hot Topics

Music Break: Something in the Air by Thunderclap Newman

Final Word

The Drill Down Video of the Week

Comcast Doesn't Give a Fuck

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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_316.mp3
Category:technology -- posted at: 7:00am EDT

Mt-Gox

This week, is this the end of Bitcoin? a massive security flaw for Apple, Comcast strongarms Netflix, Google maps everything with a cellphone, Facebook’s WhatsApp gets VOIP,  and the internet is fucked (but is there anything we can do about it?)

Headlines

Audible Book of the Week

Music Break: For the Love of Moneyby The O'Jays

Hot Topic

Music Break: Maps by Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Final Word

The Drill Down Video of the Week

Say hello to Project Tango!

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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_315.mp3
Category:technology -- posted at: 7:30am EDT