This week, Samsung‘s got its finger on the pulse, Kickstarter‘s been hacked, Candy Crush reaches a new level, Facebook adds more pronouns and knows WhatsApp, Bitcoin falls due to a glitch, the biggest game of Pokémon ever, and more…

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What We’re Playing With

Andy: House of Cards, season 2; Whisper
Dwayne: Secret

Headlines

• Samsung Galaxy S5 might come with a fingerprint sensor
• Kickstarter hacked, with data stolen for an unknown number of customers
• Here Comes the Candy Crush IPO!
• BioShock developer Irrational Games ‘winding down’
• Facebook Drops $16 Billion To Snatch Up WhatsApp

Audible Book of the Week

• It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens by Danah Boyd
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Music Break: Girls and Boys by Blur

More Headlines

• Facebook Opens Up LGBTQ-Friendly Gender Identity And Pronoun Options
• FCC’s Wheeler unveils new proposed rules for network neutrality
• Bitcoin’s largest exchange is dying. Here’s why that’s not a problem for Bitcoin.
  • Mt. Gox: Bitcoin Withdrawals Will Resume Soon

Music Break: Pokémon Red/Blue theme by Kanto Symphony

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Here’s What Happens When 80,000 People Simultaneously Play One Game of Pokemon

Watch live video from TwitchPlaysPokemon on www.twitch.tv

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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.