On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, Dwayne and Andy are joined by Greg Davies (from TARDISBlend, Blendover, and Heavy Metal Historian podcasts) as we discuss: Edward Snowden answers almost anything, Reddit wants you to keep your clothes on, how to keep drones out of your backyard, a new Pebble watch… and much much more.

Podcast

What We’re Playing With

Andy: The Innovators; Raspberry Pi 2
Dwayne: Homeworld Remastered Collection
Greg: Something a little different to discuss, seeing as I’ve quit smoking
– Aspire BDC with Ego CTwist
– QuitNow! app by FewLaps

Headlines

• Apple Told by Jury to Pay $532.9 Million in Patent Trial
• Apple will fight iOS bugs with first-ever iOS Public Betas
• Reddit finally takes a stand against nonconsensual porn
• Now You Can Sign Up To Keep Drones Away From Your Property

Audible Book of the Week

• The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Wanted Man by Luke Harding
• Sign up at AudibleTrial.com/TheDrillDown

Music Break: Love in the Sky by The Weeknd

Hot Topics

• Lenovo’s Response to Its Dangerous Adware Is Astonishingly Clueless
  • Lenovo CTO on Superfish: “˜We Messed Up’
  • Class Action Lawsuit news
• How US and UK spies hacked into world’s largest maker of SIM cards and stole encryption keys
  • Gemalto: NSA/GCHQ Hack “˜Probably Happened’ But Didn’t Include Mass SIM Key Theft
• We are Edward Snowden, Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald from the Oscar-winning documentary CITIZENFOUR. AUAA
  • Edward Snowden just answered all your big NSA questions

Music Break: Power Rangers by Eric Calderone

Final Word

• Pebble Unveils Color-Screen Time Smartwatch as Apple Threat Looms
  • Pebble’s new smartwatch breaks Kickstarter records, raising $1M in just 34 minutes
  • Kickstarter’s ‘Zach Braff’ problem gets worse with the Pebble Time

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Watch Joseph Kahn’s Darker Take On “˜Power Rangers’ Starring Katee Sackhoff

Saban just pulled POWER/RANGERS off Youtube. Bad day for free speech, fair use, and Fandom in general.

“” Joseph Kahn (@JosephKahn) February 26, 2015

• Why Bootleg The Power Rangers?

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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.