This week, eBay splits with PayPal, your game console is your new TV, Windows 10 is the new Nine (or Eight)?, say hello to Ello, and Netflix wants to shake up movie distribution.

Podcast

What We’re Playing With

Tosin & Dwayne: iPhone 6 / 6 Plus

Headlines

• Steam Music Player Launches with Free Game Soundtracks
• Judge Rules Against Grooveshark in Copyright Infringement Case
• Gaming Consoles are the biggest Cord Cutting Devices

Audible Book of the Week

• Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture by David Kushner
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Music Break: Quake Theme by Nine Inch Nails

Hot Topics

• eBay to Spin Off PayPal With New CEOs for Two Publicly Traded Companies
• Microsoft Skips Windows 9, Heads Straight to Windows 10
  • Windows 10: Top 6 New Features
  • Windows 10 Preview and OS X Yosemite Look More Alike Than Ever Before
• Inside Ello, the Invitation Only Social Network That Bills Itself as the Anti-Facebook
  • The big problem with “˜Facebook-killer’ Ello: It’s hopelessly, irredeemably naive
  • Social network Ello gets boost after Facebook boots drag queens
  • Facebook Apologizes To LGBT Community For Controversial Name Change Policy

Music Break: Night Fight from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon by Tan Dun

Final Word: Netflix / IMAX Day & Date Release

• With “˜Crouching Tiger’ Sequel, Netflix Takes Aim at Hollywood
  • AMC, Regal, Cinemark Theaters Refuse to Show Netflix’s Crouching Tiger Sequel
  • Why the Crouching Tiger Sequel Won’t revolutionize the way movies are released

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Here’s a look at Windows 10

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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.