This week, AOL bought Time/Warner and now Verizon buys AOL, a $9 computer, no coffee DRM for Keurig, a new state of matter, Google‘s autonomous cars are better drivers than you, and the tenth anniversary of Leeeeeeeeeeerooooy Jenkinnnnns!… and much, much more.

Podcast

What We’re Playing With

Andy, Dwayne, Tosin: Avengers: Age Of Ultron; Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, “Scars”

Headlines

• Next Thing Co. Releases “World’s First” $9 Computer
• Keurig says it was wrong to force users to buy single-serving pods
• Lily Wants To Be The Personal Drone You Buy For Selfies

Audible Book of the Week

• Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
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Music Break: Airbag by Radiohead

Hot Topics

• Verizon to Buy AOL for $4.4 Billion in Cash
  • Last time Verizon owned a media company it allegedly banned its reporters from writing about certain subjects
• NSA’s phone spying program ruled illegal by appeals court
• Google’s self-driving car data: after 1.7M miles, just 11 minor accidents, none Google’s fault
  • Autonomous truck cleared to drive on US roads for the first time

Music Break: Run Like Hell by Pink Floyd

Final Word

• Scientists have discovered a new state of matter, called ‘Jahn-Teller metals’

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• One of gaming’s funniest viral videos, Leeroy Jenkins, turns 10 years old

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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.