This week, streaming video will beat Blu-rays by 2015, Google boosts their maps while Apple‘s maps team sweats, Vodaphone admits its users are being snooped on, a chatbot has fooled humans for the first time ever, and all the latest from this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo.

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Headlines

• Cable companies are reportedly funding fake consumer groups to attack net neutrality
• Vodafone reveals existence of secret wires that allow state surveilance
• Digital Home Entertainment to Exceed Physical by 2016, Study Finds
• Apple plans October launch for watch-like health-monitoring device
• Reach For The Sky, YouTube: Music Service In Standoff
• Google Pays $500M for Satellite Maker Skybox, for Photos and Eventually Internet Access
  • Lack of Maps Updates in iOS 8 Said to Be Caused by ‘Internal Politics’, Developers Leaving

Audible Book of the Week

• How to Train Your Dragon (series) by Cressida Crowell
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Music Break: The Last of Us by Gustavo Santaolalla

Hot Topic: E3 2014

• E3 2014: Microsoft press conference – the key points

• E3 2014: EA press conference – Mass Effect 4, Star Wars Battlefront, Hardline beta

• Ubisoft E3 Press Conference 2014

• Sony shows off “˜Uncharted 4,’ “˜Mortal Kombat’ “˜GTA V’ and more at E3
  • Vita TV becomes PlayStation TV in the US, Europe and Canada for $99 this fall

• Open-world Zelda, new multiplayer shooter IP lead Nintendo’s E3 lineup

• Geeks of Doom’s full E3 coverage

Music Break: Mona da Vinci by Tangerine Dream

Final Word

• A Chatbot Has ‘Passed’ The Turing Test For The First Time

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

• Legend of Zelda Wii U

• No Man’s Sky

• The Division Cinematic

• Rise of the Tomb Raider

• Dead Island 2

• Metal Gear Solid V: Phantom Pain

• Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End

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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.