This week, the first businesses start to ban Google Glass — before it’s even out! The U.S. reinforces our right to videotape the police, Samsung poised to beat Apple, SimCity players speak out against draconian DRM and dead servers, and the world’s coolest gamer dad hacks Donkey Kong so the girl rescues Mario!

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Headlines

• No Google Glasses allowed, declares Seattle dive bar
• U.S. weighs in favor of right to record police
• Will the Samsung Galaxy S4 eclipse the iPhone?

Audible Book of the Week

• Banished: Surviving My Years in the Westboro Baptist Church by Lauren Drain
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Musical Interlude: SimCity Theme by Chris Tilton

Hot Topic: Simcity DRM

• A Tale of SimCity: Users Struggle Against Onerous DRM
• Amazon suspends sales of SimCity video game

Viral Video of the Week

• Father Helps Daughter Play as Pauline by Hacking ‘Donkey Kong’

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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.