This week, broadband gets a new definition, Edward Snowden on Cyber Warfare, ISIS may have hacked US Central Command‘s Twitter, Experts call for tighter AI safeguards, and those shoes from Back to the Future are finally going to happen. All this, and much much more…

Podcast

What We’re Playing With

Andy: Saints Row IV; “˜Transparent’ Wins Golden Globes
Dwayne: Pet Cube
Tosin: Waze

Headlines

• Only 25Mbps and up will qualify as broadband under new FCC definition
• Edward Snowden on Cyber Warfare
• Hackers claiming to be ISIS “Cyber Caliphate” seize US Central Command’s Twitter and YouTube accounts
• Obama calls for federal legislation that would protect student privacy, require that companies disclose breaches that involve consumer data
• Obama calls for government-run high-speed internet

Audible Book of the Week

• The Science of Interstellar by Kip Thorne
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Music Break: The Humans Are Dead by Flight of the Conchords

Hot Topics:

• Following Microsoft’s new Skype Translator, Google releases major update to Translate app
• Google Loses Most Search Share Since 2009 While Yahoo Gains
• Experts pledge to rein in AI research

Music Break: Back to the Future by Alan Silvestri

Final Word:

• Nike aims to launch Back to the Future shoes in 2015

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• “My first day with my drone”

“Love Edition”

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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.