This week, Greg Davies from the Blendover and Geeks Of Doom’s TARDISBlend podcasts joins Dwayne and Andrew as we discuss: Facebook fights click bait, the NSA builds a Google to search your records, Amazon buys Twitch, and…is misogyny in games out of control?

Podcast

What We’re Playing With

Dwayne: Circle of 6 / White House Council on Women and Girls
Greg: gSyncIt (PC) and Metal(Android)

Headlines

• Jawbone Up data shows how many people woke up during Sunday’s Napa earthquake
• Documents and interviews reveal Uber’s sophisticated, nationwide scheme to poach Lyft drivers
• Facebook shifts its algorithm to fight clickbait. Will it kill off Upworthy and Buzzfeed?
  • SavedYouAClick
• ICREACH: How the NSA Built Its Own Secret Google
• Apple Said to Prepare New 12.9-Inch IPad for Early 2015
  • Apple iWatch could be real this time
• T-Mobile “˜Music Freedom’ adds limitless data for Songza, Rdio, Grooveshark, & others

Audible Book of the Week

• Lock In by John Scalzi
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Music Break: Video Games by Lana Del Rey

Hot Topic

• Amazon to Buy Video Site Twitch for $970 Million
  • Amazon Pounces On Twitch After Google Balks Due To Antitrust Concerns

Final Word: Misogyny in Gaming

• Gaming Misogyny Gets Infinite Lives: Zoe Quinn, Virtual Rape, and Sexism

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Hyperlapse, Instagram’s New App, Is Like a $15,000 Video Setup in Your Hand

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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.