This week, Greg Davies (from TARDISBlend, Blendover, and Heavy Metal Historian podcasts) joins us as we discuss: Jay Z brings major talent into streaming music, Twitter gets into livestreaming, Gender discrimination in tech, an executive order against cyber threats, and the Doctor (as we now know him) turns ten … and much much more.

Podcast

What We’re Playing With

Andy: Super Mario 64 HD
Greg: Dell Optiplex 9030 All-In-One
Dwayne: Outlook for iOS
Everyone: Best April Fools’ Day Pranks On The Internet 2015

Headlines

• Pebble Time’s Kickstarter project raised more than $20.3 million and broke two Kickstarter records
• Jay Z re-launches Tidal with music’s biggest artists as his co-owners
  • The World’s Most Famous Musicians Just Hosted a Bonkers Press Conference
• Greg: Trent Reznor playing major role in Apple streaming service
• Amazon Home Services / Amazon Dash Button
• Periscope, Twitter’s answer to Meerkat-style live-streaming, is now available
  • Meerkat Vs Periscope: Tech journalist is a sickly mess

Audible Book of the Week

• Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader by Brent Schlender, Rick Tetzeli
• Sign up at AudibleTrial.com/TheDrillDown

Music Break: A Beautiful Mine by RJD2

Hot Topics

• Ellen Pao Loses on All Claims in Kleiner Perkins Discrimination Suit
  • Ellen Pao Disrupts How Silicon Valley Does Business
• Tim Cook: Pro-discrimination “˜religious freedom’ laws are dangerous
  • Apple CEO Tim Cook Criticizes Pro-Discrimination “Religious Freedom” Laws
• President Obama: A New Tool Against Cyber Threats
• After Snowden, The NSA Faces Recruitment Challenge

Music Break: Doctor Who / I Am The Doctor by Eric Calderone

Final Word: Doctor Who (Reboot) 10th Anniversary

• Fantastic! ‘Doctor Who’ returned to TV 10 years ago today

The Drill Down Videos of the Week: April Fools Day 2015

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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.