This week, Greg Davies of the Blendover podcast helps us explore the equally utopian & dystopian potential behind this week’s cutting-edge news: Apple sings to the tune of Beats, Amazon‘s war with publishers hits the consumer, Skype unveils a universal translator, Google designs its own self-driving cars …and much, much more…

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Headlines

• Apple Confirms Its $3 Billion Deal for Beats Electronics
• U.S. Companies Hacked by Chinese Didn’t Tell Investors
• Iran says it isn’t summoning Facebook’s Zuckerberg to court
• Here’s how Facebook can now listen to your private conversations
• Google Developing Tablet With Advanced Vision Capabilities

Audible Book of the Week

• Age of Context: Mobile, Sensors, Data and the Future of Privacy by Robert Scoble & Shel Israel
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Music Break: Paperback Writer by The Beatles

Hot Topics

• Authors complain of getting screwed over in Amazon’s fight with publisher Hachette
  • Amazon’s Tactics Confirm Its Critics’ Worst Suspicions
  • Amazon confirms its fight with publishing giant Hachette is real, and it’s far from over
• Amazon photo patent prompts Internet uproar
• Microsoft Demos Real-Time Speech-To-Speech Translation On Skype

Music Break: Drive My Car by The Beatles

Final Word

• Google Introduces New Self Driving Car at the Code Conference

The Drill Down Video of the Week

A First Drive

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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.