This week, the sky falls over Russia, Apple makes their own Pebble, Bungie announces their 1st non-Halo game in over ten years, Google plans to launch stores (and a new netbook to put in them), Sony’s Playstation 4, and Tesla drives the New York Times crazy.

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What We’re Playing With

Andy: Black Mirror, Series 2, 3Doodler: The World’s First 3D Printing Pen, Spaceteam
Dwayne: Winston for iPhone
Tosin: Parrot, Artemis

Headlines

• What’s with all the Russian dashboard cameras?

• Apple Said to Have Team Developing Wristwatch Computer
  • Apple patent filing points directly to ‘iWatch’ concept with flexible touchscreen display
• Yahoo unveils new ‘personal’ homepage with news feeds and social integration
• Bungie’s ‘Destiny’ Is A Shared-World Shooter, With Journey-Style Multiplayer For Xbox 360 And PS3

• Google will open its own stores by the end of the year
• Google Launches $1,299 Chromebook Pixel
• Google debuts new Glass video, expands pre-orders
  • Google Looks to Make Its Computer Glasses Stylish

Audible Book of the Week

• Guns: An Essay by Stephen King
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Musical Interlude: Pumped Up Kicks by Foster The People

Hot Topic: TeslaGate

• Stalled Out on Tesla’s Electric Highway
• A Most Peculiar Test Drive
• Elon Musk’s Data Doesn’t Back Up His Claims of New York Times Fakery
• Test drive: DC to Boston in a Tesla Model S
• That Tesla Data: What It Says and What It Doesn’t
• Tesla, the New York Times and the levelling of the media playing field
• Volkswagen’s 261mpg Car may sneak up on Tesla

Musical Interlude: Shut Up And Drive by Rihanna

Final Word: PlayStation 4

• Everything you need to know about the PlayStation 4 (so far)
• Sony Computer Entertainment Officially Announces The PlayStation 4
• Sony fails to show PlayStation 4 console at PlayStation 4 event

Outro: Bug Hunt (Nosia Remix) by Skrillex

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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), VentureBeat editor Devindra Hardawar, marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Startup Digest CTO Christopher Burnor. Occasionally joining them is Box tech consultant Tosin Onafowokan.