This week Google nixes face recognition on Glass, the US Supreme Court OKs DNA swabs, Zynga axes 250 employees, Did Apple conspire with e-book publishers?, and President Obama puts the hammer down on Patent Trolls…

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What We’re Playing With

Dwayne: Sad Cat Diary
Tosin: Google Shopping Express

Headlines

• Oculus VR co-founder, 33, killed by speeding car
• Google says it won’t approve any Glass apps with facial recognition until it has protections in place
• Sony CEO plays down “˜media hub’ and says PlayStation 4 is for gamers
• Supreme Court OKs DNA swab of people under arrest

Audible Book of the Week

• The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail by Clayton M. Christensen
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Music Break: The Game Is Over by ‘N Sync

More Headlines

• Zynga to Lay Off 520 Employees — 18 Percent — and Shutter Offices
• In e-books trial, U.S. says Apple conspired with publishers
• White House Task Force on High-Tech Patent Issues
• President Obama vs patent trolls: A tipping point in Washington
  • Why patent trolls will laugh in the face of the US government’s weak attempts to fight them
  • Apple and ITC- they stole Samsung patents
  • Podcasting to end because of one single patent

Final Word

• Atari landfill search set for old, terrible games

Viral Video of the Week

• Mad genius Rickrolls and crashes Vine with full-length music video embed
• ‘Arrested Development’ fan re-edits Season 4 in new order
• Sad Cat Diary

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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.