This week we’re joined by Greg Davies, host of Blendover and Heavy Metal Historian podcasts, and of course, Geeks of Doom’s own TARDISBlend podcast. Our topics: Uber is driven away from France, Hacking Team gets…well, hacked, Microsoft hangs up the phone, Reddit users downvote their CEO, Han Solo gets his own anthology movie… and much much more.

Podcast

Headlines

• Uber Suspends UberPOP In France Following Turmoils And Arrests
• Hacking Team hacked, attackers claim 400GB in dumped data
• Microsoft Steps Back From Smartphone Business; Cuts 7,800 Jobs

Audible Book of the Week

• Dune by Frank Herbert
  • Dune, 50 years on: how a science fiction novel changed the world
• Sign up at AudibleTrial.com/TheDrillDown

Music Break: One Piece At A Time by Johnny Cash

Hot Topics

• Reddit Is Revolting
  • Reddit CEO Ellen Pao apologizes, announces new role of Moderator Advocate, pledges improvements to mod tools
• Check Out the World’s First 3-D Printed Supercar
  • The First 3D-Printed Supercar

Music Break: Welcome To My Nightmare by Alice Cooper

Final Word

• Chris Miller, Phil Lord To Direct Young Han Solo “˜Star Wars’ Spinoff
• Unearthed: A Sony Playstation SNES

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

• Kuratas Response to US Robot Challenge

• Google’s Dream Robot Is Running Wild Across the Internet
  • Google’s Deep Dream Is Turning Anime into Nightmares
  • Witness ‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas’ Through Google’s Deep Dream

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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.