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This week, the NSA most likely has your address book & contacts, Google‘s new terms of service put you in their ads, your Playstation 4 may be made by unpaid interns, Netflix on your cable box, former Valve employees launch Augmented Reality goggles, and Apple‘s spaceship gets clearance to land in Cupertino. All this and more…

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What We’re Playing With

Tosin: Snapchat
Dwayne: BluFit Bottle on Indiegogo

The Quantified Cat

Headlines

• NSA collects millions of e-mail address books globally
• Twitter headed to New York Stock Exchange under the symbol ‘TWTR’
• Google to sunset Google TV brand as its smart TV platform merges with Android
• FAQ: All About Google’s New “Shared Endorsement” Ads
  • Google Plus Shared Endorsements opt-out page

Audible Book of the Week

• Homeland: Phantom Pain by Glenn Gers, narrated by Damian Lewis
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Music Break: Homeland (End Theme) by Sean Callery

More Headlines

• Your Playstation 4 may be built by Chinese students in the worst internship ever
• Netflix Pursues Cable-TV Deals
• New York Comic Con using attendee Twitter accounts to send promo tweets
• Ex-Valve employees raising $400K on Kickstarter for augmented reality, 3D-projection glasses

Music Break: Mothership Connection by Parliament

Final Word

• Apple: Exclusive photos of company’s planned ‘spaceship’ campus in Cupertino
  • Cupertino council clears huge Apple ‘spaceship’ campus for liftoff

The Drill Down Video of the Week

Bad Lip Reading Turns “˜Game Of Thrones’ Into Medieval Theme Park Comedy

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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.