This week, the head of the NSA channels Captain Kirk, Is Linux the future of gaming?, Twitter goes public, and now that it’s conquered search, Google‘s next challenge is…mortality itself.

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What We’re Playing With

Andy: iOS 7 (A Few Tricks All The New iOS 7 Users Should Know), The Last of Us, GTA V (GTA 5 Makes $800 Million in One Day)
Dwayne: Zeal Optics
Tosin: BoxNotes

Headlines

• NSA Spies on International Bank Transactions
  • Inside the mind of NSA chief Gen. Keith Alexander
• Gabe Newell: Linux is the future of gaming, new hardware coming soon

Audible Book of the Week

• The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive by Brian Christian
• Sign up at AudibleTrial.com/TheDrillDown

Music Break: Live Foreverby Oasis

Hot Topic

• Twitter Files For Initial Public Offering
  • Twitter’s internal 2013 growth target was 400m users, sources say it now has 240m
• Pandora
  • Microsoft Exec moving to Pandora
  • Pandora’s Growth and Challenges
  • Tom on Pandora’s New app
  • Tom on Pandora’s challenges
• Bump Mobile Contact Sharing App Acquired By Google
• Google vs. Death
• Netflix Uses Pirate Sites to Determine What Shows to Buy

Music Break: Pure Imagination by Fiona Apple

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Chipotle’s The Scarecrow by Moonbot Studios

• INTERVIEW: The brilliant minds behind Chipotle’s haunting scarecrow ad

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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.