We ring in the New Year with our first new show of 2014! This week we discuss a new Pebble watch, cloud gaming on Sony PlayStation, T-Mobile wants to pay you to switch, Facebook is dead to teens, are digital music downloads already obsolete?…the legacy of the Snowden NSA leaks, and a cube that balances on its edge.

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What We’re Playing With

Andy: Tomb Raider, iMagnet mount, 12 Days of Gifts
Dwayne: Comixology
Tosin: Monaco, iPad mini, Star Wars: Machete Order

Headlines

• Massive Credit-Card Breach at Target; Millions affected
• Pebble Reveals The Pebble Steel For $249 Shipping Jan. 28; App Store Coming Soon
• Sony announces PlayStation Now, its cloud gaming service for TVs, consoles, and phones
• T-Mobile will now pay $350 for you to leave AT&T, Sprint, or Verizon
• What Intel’s Edison Means: One Card To Smarten Up Dumb Gadgets And Connect Them All

Audible Book of the Week

• Ship of Theseus by V.M. Straka (JJ Abrams/Doug Dorst)
• Sign up at AudibleTrial.com/TheDrillDown

Music Break: New Friend Request by Gym Class Heroes

Hot Topic: Lessons Learned in 2013

• Digital Music Sales Decrease For First Time in 2013
  • Spotify for iOS updated w/ previously announced free option for mobile and tablet users
• Facebook ‘dead and buried to teens’, research finds
• Edward Snowden, after months of NSA revelations, says, “I already won”
• How the NSA has destroyed trust
• How the NSA Almost Killed the Internet

Music Break: The Box by Orbital

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Cubli – A cube that can jump up, balance, and walk across your desk

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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.