This week, how Apple Music stands up to competitors, warrantless surveillance expands, new hardware from Valve & Xbox, DIY lethal weapons, and a selfie that killed — literally … all that and much more.

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Headlines

• US Air Force Targets and Destroys ISIS HQ Building Using Social Media
• White House Invites Millennials To Thwart ISIS’ Recruitment Efforts
• Hunting for Hackers, N.S.A. Secretly Expands Internet Spying at U.S. Border

Audible Book of the Week

• The Martian by Andy Weir

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Music Break: #SELFIE by The Chainsmokers

Hot Topics

• The Strengths And Weaknesses Of Apple Music
• Spotify plans to match Apple Music’s very cheap family plan
  • Spotify Raises $526 Million Amid Battle With Apple
• Valve is finally opening preorders for the first official Steam Machines
• Microsoft updates Xbox One with 1TB of storage, improved controller, permanent price drop for 500GB model

Music Break: We Were Set Up from “Grand Theft Auto V” by Tangerine Dream & Woody Jackson

Final Word: DIY Lethal Weapons

• This DIY Double-Bladed ‘Stun Sword’ Shocks and Slices Simultaneously

• This 40W Homemade Laser Shotgun Is Pure Insanity

The Drill Down Video of the Week

GTA V in real life

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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.