This week, Edward Snowden strikes again, this time with the U.S. spy “Black Budget,” a new Kindle, Samsung’s watch, Microsoft buys Nokia, Tosin’s Pax Prime experience, and more…

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What We’re Playing With

Andy: Pebble screen protector

Headlines

• Samsung’s Galaxy Gear is a smartwatch like no other
• New Kindle Paperwhite/ Kindle Matchbook
• Edward Snowden leaks U.S. spy network’s ‘black budget’
• Snowden impersonated NSA officials, sources say
• Drug Agents Use Vast Phone Trove, Eclipsing N.S.A.’s
  • DEA supplied with access to vast database of AT&T phone records
• Microsoft and Google to sue government over transparency

Audible Book of the Week

• Automate This: How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World by Christopher Steiner
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Music Break: I’m Free by Soup Dragons

Hot Topic

• The World’s End Spotify playlist
  • Label Sues Spotify Because Some Of Its Users Create Playlists Of Authorized Music In The Same Order It Did
• Microsoft to Buy Nokia’s Device Business in Deal Worth $7.17 Billion
  • Why Nokia didn’t sell its patents to Microsoft
  • Let’s get real: Nobody will license Windows Phone or Windows RT now

Music Break: Adventure from “Fez” by Disasterpeace

Final Word

• Pax Prime

The Drill Down Video of the Week

Story From South America by Garrett Davis

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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.