This week, The DeLorean rides again, Twitter finds itself short a few characters, Streaming shakes up Sundance, How Google paid big money to be on your iPhone, the intelligence behind Artificial Intelligence has passed … all this and more on The Drill Down podcast!

Podcast

What We’re Playing With

Andy: Dishonored; The X-Files
Dwayne: Continuum Season 4. Marco Polo (2014)

Headlines

• Report: Google is the default iPhone search engine because it paid Apple $1 billion
• Have we reached peak iPhone? It’s complicated
• The DeLorean Motor Company may soon start building “˜new’ cars
• DeLorean: “˜Back To The Future’ Car Back In Production Over 30 Years Later
• Twitter pushes out four top executives in surprise restructuring
  • Twitter Appoints Longtime American Express Executive Leslie Berland as CMO

Audible Book of the Week

• Trust No One: X-Files, Book 1 edited by Jonathan Maberry
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Music Break: The X-Files theme by Mark Snow

Hot Topics

• PlayStation’s headquarters is moving to California with the newly created Sony Interactive Entertainment
• Sundance: How Amazon, Netflix Turned the Market on Its Head

Music Break: Power of Love by Huey Lewis & The News

Final Word

• I’m a Woman in Tech, But Even I Didn’t “Get It” Until This Week
• Marvin Minsky, “father of artificial intelligence,” dies at 88

The Drill Down Video of the Week

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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. Occasionally joining them is Startup Digest CTO Christopher Burnor.