This week, the Tesla gets downgraded, Amazon sells books… from a building, privacy concerns rise in the U.S. & UK, and we’re boldly going back where no one has gone before… All this and more on The Drill Down podcast!

Podcast

What We’re Playing With

Dwayne: Dark Matter
Tosin: Dell U2415 Black 24.1″ 6ms(GTG) Dual HDMI Widescreen

Headlines

• Consumer Reports Stops Recommending the Tesla
• Google says there are ‘no plans to phase out’ Chrome OS
• Amazon is opening its first physical bookstore this week
  • Amazon Killed the Bookstore. So It’s Opening a Bookstore
• Activision Blizzard buys Candy Crush maker King for $5.9 billion

Audible Book of the Week

• How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy by Stephen Witt
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Music Break: Too Late to Apologize by One Republic

Hot Topic: US & UK Privacy Issues

• The CISA Act Passed Last Week and Here’s Why You Should Care
• U.K. Users’ Online Activity To Be Logged Under New Surveillance Law

Music Break: Main Theme (from ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’) by Michael Giacchino

Final Word: Rebooted Sci-Fi

• New “˜Star Trek’ TV Series Officially On The Way
• “˜Six Billion Dollar Man’ Release Date for Mark Wahlberg Film

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

• CODEGIRL http://www.codegirlmovie.com/

• Girls Can Code – BBC Documentary

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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.