This week, Apple refunds consumers whose kids clicked on mobile app purchases, President Obama reins in the NSA, the end of physical film in theaters is near, Google unveils plans for smart contact lenses, and will your next Amazon package arrive before you’ve even ordered it?

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• Apple Will Provide Full Consumer Refunds of At Least $32.5 Million to Settle Complaint It Charged for Kids’ In-App Purchases Without Parental Consent
• Obama bans spying on leaders of U.S. allies, scales back NSA program
• Paramount first major Hollywood studio to stop releasing movies on film

Audible Book of the Week

• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
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Music Break: In Your Eyes by Peter Gabriel

Hot Topic

• Google embarks on smart contact lenses for diabetics
  • Inside Google X’s Smart Contact Lens
• Man Interrogated By FBI For Wearing Prescription Google Glass At The Movies
• Amazon Wants to Ship Your Package Before You Buy It
• Amazon Considering Online Pay-TV Service

Music Break: I Know What You Want by Busta Rhymes and Mariah Carey feat. Flipmode Squad

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• HBO doesn’t mind if you use your friends’ HBO Go logins

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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.