This week, former The Drill Down co-host (and current co-host of TARDISBlend) Tom Cheredar joins Dwayne and Andy to discuss how hackers pulled off one of the largest heists in history, a toy from the 50s is updated for the 21st century, the FAA grounds Amazon‘s drone plans, and…is Apple building a self-driving car?

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Headlines

• View-Master rides Google Cardboard into virtual reality
• The White House Names Dr. DJ Patil as the First U.S. Chief Data Scientist
• Apple Pay Coming To US Federal Institutions Starting In September
• WSJ: Tim Cook approved Apple electric car project a year ago, hundreds of employees working on it

Audible Book of the Week

• Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges
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Music Break: Take the Money and Run by The Steve Miller Band

Hot Topic: Cybersecurity

• Hackers rob US and global banks of millions in one of the largest heists ever

• Obama Signs Executive Order on Cybersecurity Information-Sharing
  • Facebook, Google Will Be Noticeably Absent At Obama’s Stanford Cybersecurity Speech Amid Ongoing Privacy Battle
• Russian researchers expose breakthrough U.S. spying program

Music Break: Duel of the Fates from Star Wars: The Phantom Menace by John Williams

Final Word

• The FAA just took a huge step towards legalizing commercial drone flights
• Jonathan Ive and the Future of Apple (Star Wars Lightsaber design)

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• President Obama speaks at the Cyber Security and Consumer Protection Summit

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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.