This week, we recover from Black Friday, the NSA ends mass-surveillance, the private information of 200,00+ kids get hacked, a $5 computer, and the largest cloning factory in the world …All this and more … on The Drill Down.

Podcast

What We’re Playing With

Andy: Steam Link; Steam Controller; The Message podcast
Dwayne: Automatic
Tosin: Apple Watch, iPad Pro

Headlines

• Thanksgiving/Black Friday Online Sales Hit $4.5B, 34% Of Purchases Made On Mobile
• NSA to shut down bulk phone surveillance program by 11/29
• Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan pledge 99 percent of their Facebook shares to charity

Audible Book of the Week

• Mastery by Robert Greene
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Music Break: Give It Away by Red Hot Chili Peppers

Hot Topic

• One of the Largest Hacks Yet Exposes Data on Hundreds of Thousands of Kids
  • Hacker Obtained Childrens’ Headshots and Chatlogs From Toymaker VTech
• Raspberry Pi’s latest computer costs just $5
• Sony confirms official PS4 Remote Play app for Windows and Mac

Music Break: I Think I’m a Clone Now by “Weird Al” Yankovic

Final Word

• China plans to clone everything from beef cattle to the family dog in this giant factory

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Amazon Shows Off New Prime Air Drone With Hybrid Design

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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.