This week, is Big Brother listening to you through your TV? Swatch takes on Apple Watch, Coca-Cola gets griefed, and Netflix comes to Cuba, and finds Link & Zelda.

Podcast

What We’re Playing With

Andy: An Evening with Neil deGrasse Tyson
Dwayne: Met Neil Gaiman during his Trigger Warning signing
Tosin: Elite: Dangerous

Headlines

• Your Samsung SmartTV Is Spying on You, Basically
  • Samsung rejects concern over ‘Orwellian’ privacy policy
  • Samsung TVs start inserting ads into your movies
• Swatch Plans Smartwatch to Compete With Apple Watch’s Debut
• Coca-Cola pulls Twitter campaign after it was tricked into quoting Mein Kampf

Audible Book of the Week

• Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries by Neil deGrasse Tyson
• Sign up at AudibleTrial.com/TheDrillDown

Music Break: The Dark of the Matinee by Coco Freeman (feat. Franz Ferdinand)

Hot Topics

• GCHQ mass internet surveillance was unlawful, rules UK court
• Massive breach at health care company Anthem: 80M victims
• Netflix Comes To Cuba

Music Break: The Legend of Zelda (Main Theme) by Orchestra Nova San Diego

Final Word

• Netflix Developing Live-Action “˜Legend of Zelda’ Series
• Spider-Man Coming Home To Marvel Cinematic Universe As Sony & Disney Ink Deal

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Boston Dynamics: Introducing Spot

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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.