This week, HBO answers cord-cutters prayers, new gadgets from Google & Apple, hackers hit Snapchat & Dropbox, bad news and good for women in tech, and the new Tesla D.

Podcast

What We’re Playing With

Tosin: Shadow of Mordor

Headlines

• Standalone Cable-Free HBO GO Service Confirmed For 2015
• Google Roundup
  • L is for Lollipop
  • Nexus 6
  • Nexus 9
  • Nexus Player is the first Android TV device
• Amazon to Open First Brick-and-Mortar Location
• Apple 2014 iPad Releases Leaked
• Billionaire investor Carl Icahn urges Tim Cook to buy back Apple shares, make TVs
  • Apple Responds To Carl Icahn’s Letter
• Hackers Access At Least 100,000 Snapchat Photos And Prepare To Leak Them
  • Snapchat pledges to improve security, calls to ban apps using its API
• Hundreds of Dropbox passwords leaked online but Dropbox denies it was hacked
  • Dropbox Blog: Dropbox Wasn’t Hacked

Audible Book of the Week

• Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success by Shane Snow
• Sign up at AudibleTrial.com/TheDrillDown

Music Break: I’m In Love With My Car by Queen

Hot Topic: Tesla D

• This is Tesla’s D: an all-wheel-drive Model S with eyes on the road
• How important is Tesla’s P85D to America’s Future? To Tech?
  • MotorTrend 2013 Car of the Year
  • Consumer Reports Top Rated Car Ever
  • Most aggressive finance option in its class (It’s like a cell phone)
  • NTSA Safest Car
  • Fastest Acceleration (Quickest) of any 4-Door Production Vehicle in history
  • 8 year, infinite mile warranty

Music Break: Can’t Hold Us Down by Christina Aguilera ft. Lil’ Kim

Final Word: Women In Tech

• The Bad News
  • Another Woman In Gaming Flees Home Following Death Threats
  • I’ve Been Forced Out Of My Home And Am Living In Constant Fear Because Of Relentless Death Threats From Gamergate by Brianna Wu
  • The Future Of The Culture Wars Is Here, And It’s Gamergate
  • Gamergate in Posterity
• The Good News
  • Facebook and Apple to cover up to $20K in egg-freezing treatments for female employees

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

• Tesla D Event – The full 13 minute video

• Riding in the Tesla D

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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.