This week, the NSA taps Yahoo! and Google data centers without their knowledge, NSA spying makes Germany want to secede from the Internet, Netflix wants to stream blockbuster movies at the same time they’re in the theaters, and Turkey builds an intercontinental tunnel linking Europe to Asia. Then, to celebrate The Drill Down‘s 300th episode, we discuss the technology that has personally moved us, from our early experiences to our most recent connections…

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Headlines

• NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, Snowden documents say
• Germany wants a German Internet as spying scandal rankles
• Netflix Floats “Day and Date” Release for “Big” Movies
• Turkey’s Intercontinental tunnel

Audible Book of the Week

• Ender’s Game: Special 20th Anniversary Edition by Orson Scott Card
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Music Break: Feels Like the First Time by Foreigner

Hot Topic: The tech that changed our lives

• Then
  • Tosin: Super Nintendo
  • Andy: Computer Rig Building
  • Dwayne: Digital Camera

• Now
  • Tosin: Netflix
  • Dwayne: Everpix
  • Andy: iPhone

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