This week, the NSA uses radio waves to spy on offline PCs, credit-card hacking comes to luxury retail, Google buys into home automation, and is Net Neutrality on the chopping block?

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What We’re Playing With

Andy: Jelly / Questions
Dwayne: PBS on Apple TV. Tesla Model S
Tosin: Box iOS App

Headlines

• The 13 Steam Machines and all of their glorious variety
• Canada’s NSA admits to ‘incidentally’ spying on own citizens
• NSA uses radio waves to monitor and alter data on computers not connected to the Internet
• Hackers Steal Card Data from Neiman Marcus

Audible Book of the Week

• Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
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Music Break: Redemption Song by Rihanna

Hot Topic

• Net neutrality is half-dead: Court strikes down FCC’s anti-blocking rules
  • Welcome To The Net Neutrality Nightmare Scenario
• Google Acquires Nest for $3.2B
  • The Eye in Your Home: Google, Nest and the Rise of the Physical Graph

Music Break: Keep It To Yourself by Sonny Boy Williamson

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Peter Pan Marriage Proposal

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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.