This week, POTUS tweets, an Apple television is officially dead, hacking a planes controls from a passenger seat, amazing timelapses from still photos … and much much more.

Podcast

What We’re Playing With

Andy: The Sailor’s Dream; Time Lapse / Project Almanac
Tosin: Maker Faire: Hovership, InMoov
Dwayne: Wink Spotter by Quirky

Headlines

• Behind Apple’s Move to Shelve TV Plans
• This was Sony Music’s contract with Spotify
• Reddit’s New Harassment Policy Aimed At Creating A ‘Safe Platform’
• California Auto Dealers Sue TrueCar for Operating Without a License

Audible Book of the Week

• Tomorrowland: Our Journey From Science Fiction to Science Fact by Steven Kotler
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Music Break: Learn to Fly by Foo Fighters

Hot Topic

• Feds Say That Banned Researcher Commandeered a Plane
• Tech giants don’t want Obama to give police access to encrypted phone data
• Obama Used Someone Else’s iPhone To Tweet His First Presidential Account Tweet

Hello, Twitter! It’s Barack. Really! Six years in, they’re finally giving me my own account.

“” President Obama (@POTUS) May 18, 2015

• If You Type ‘N—- House’ Into Google Maps, It Will Take You To The White House

Music Break: Funky President by James Brown

Final Word

• Google researchers create amazing timelapses from public photos

The Drill Down Video of the Week

First Trailer For “˜Steve Jobs’ Starring Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen

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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.