This week, YouTube launches subscription channels, Amazon mints its own digital currency, BlackBerry messaging comes to iOS & Android, the Tesla S gets the highest praise, and all the latest from Google’s I/O developer conference.

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What We’re Playing With

Andy: Fez, Google Glass
Dwayne: Bioshock Infinite
Tosin: Pebble watch

Headlines

• YouTube begins paid subscription pilot
• Biometric Database of All Adult Americans Hidden in Immigration Reform
• Amazon launches virtual currency Coins
• Microsoft drops the Blue codename, confirms Windows 8.1 will be a free upgrade available later this year

Audible Book of the Week

• Star Trek: The Eugenics Wars: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh By Greg Cox
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Music Break: Surprise Attack from “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” by James Horner

Hot Topic: Google I/O Conference

• The best of Google’s I/O 2013 keynote

• Google takes on Spotify with Google Play Music All Access subscription service, priced at $9.99 per month
• Cross-platform Google Play games services unveiled with cloud saving, achievements and multiplayer
• Google to Sell Its Own Version of Samsung’s Galaxy S4
• New Google+: Stream, Hangouts, and Photos
• Next-gen Google Maps brings better imagery, tailored results, and more
• Google Introduces Conversational Search For The Desktop With “Hotwording,” Prompting It With “OK Google”
• Larry Page wants to ‘set aside a part of the world’ for unregulated experimentation

Music Break: Major Tom (Völlig losgelöst) by Peter Schilling

Final Word

• BlackBerry bringing BBM to Android and iOS this summer
• Consumer Reports: The Tesla Model S is our top-scoring car, ever

Viral Video of the Week

Space Oddity, recorded by Commander Chris Hadfield on board the International Space Station

Outro: Space Oddity by David Bowie

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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 Startup Digest CTO Christopher Burnor. Occasionally joining them is Box tech consultant Tosin Onafowokan.