This week, Google+ may be dead, but Google self-driving cars are…on a roll, Can police search cellphones without a warrant?, Denmark in Minecraft, 3D printed prosthetics, and a long-lost legend is unearthed in the desert…all this and more…

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What We’re Playing With

Dwayne: Eggminder by Quirky and GE
Tosin: Mother’s Clay Bar/Showtime detailer & ScratchX

Headlines

• When it comes to net neutrality, either the FCC thinks we’re idiots, or it just doesn’t care
  • FCC’s new net neutrality proposal: What do we really know?
    • Netflix statement – Comcast is charging Twice for the same service
    • Comcast statement
• Google+ Boss Vic Gundotra Leaving Google
  • Google Won (Or Why Google Never Needed A Social Network)
• Google’s self-driving cars hit 700,000 miles, learn city navigation

Audible Book of the Week

• Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace by Nikil Saval
  • The office cubicle celebrates its 50th anniversary
• Sign up at AudibleTrial.com/TheDrillDown

Music Break: Chirp by C418 from Minecraft

Hot Topics:

• Cell Phones and Police – Should Law Enforcement have access to your entire digital life because you forgot to buckle your safety belt?
• Danish government releases geographic data by way of 1:1 Minecraft map
• Jose Delgado, Jr. Compares His $50 3D-Printed Hand to His $42,000 Myoelectric Prosthesis

Music Break: Chase by John Williams from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

Final Word: Streaming Wars: Netflix on Attack

• Microsoft’s ‘Xbox Originals’ Wades Into Netflix Territory
  • Amazon exclusively streaming critically acclaimed Orphan Black and Downton Abbey

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Treasure Trove Of Unsold Atari Video Games and Gear Unearthed In New Mexico Landfill

• Wintergreen “When I Wake Up”

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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.