This week, the NSA tracks your cellphones and knows where you are, Americans boost Black Friday & Cyber Monday to record highs, and the future of commerce is in drones and robots, and it’s not that far off…

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What We’re Playing With:

Andy: UltraViolet/Vudu, The Stanley Parable
Dwayne: Doctor Who Official 50th Celebration
Tosin: R2-D2 Builders

Headlines

• Google Acquires Seven Robot Companies, Wants Big Role in Robotics
• Cyber Monday Sales Soar to Record as Amazon to EBay Win Shoppers
• NSA tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden documents show
• 1/3 enrolled through HealthCare.gov affected by system errors
• Under Armour’s latest acquisition proves that all fitness companies are now technology companies
• Apple Buys Twitter Analytics Startup Topsy Labs

Audible Book of the Week

• I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
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Music Break: Robocop by Basil Poledouris

Hot Topic: The Future is Drones & Robots

• Amazon Experimenting With Drones That Will Deliver Packages In 30 Minutes

• Amazon Prime Air preview
• First Victim of Amazon Drones: The Credibility of CBS and 60 Minutes
• UPS researching its own delivery drones to compete with Amazon’s Prime Air

Music Break: Terminator 2 by Brad Fiedel

Final Word

• This 6-Foot, 330-Pound Robot May One Day Save Your Life

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Boston Dynamics Atlas (formerly Petman)

Outro: Blade Runner by Vangelis

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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.