This week, SpaceX goes to Mars, a new Nintendo console, Comcast buys Dreamworks Animation, killer robots, can the Government force you to unlock your phone?…and much more this week on The Drill Down.

Podcast

What We’re Playing With

Andy & Dwayne: Microsoft WordFlow; GiphyKeys

Headlines

• Bitcoin’s creator unmasks himself…well, maybe
  • The weight of evidence indicates Craig Wright is (still) not Satoshi Nakamoto
• Hulu Is Developing a Cable-Style Online TV Service
• Nintendo NX represents a ‘new way of thinking’ about console hardware
• SpaceX plans to send a spacecraft to Mars as early as 2018

Audible Book of the Week

• Alien: Out of the Shadows by Tim Lebbon; Directed by Dirk Maggs
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Music Break: Mars from “The Planets” by Gustav Holst

Hot Topics

• U.S. high court approves rule change to expand FBI hacking power
• The government wants your fingerprint to unlock your phone. Should that be allowed?
• Comcast to Buy DreamWorks Animation for $3.8 Billion

Music Break: Test Drive from “How to Train Your Dragon” by John Powell

Final Word

• Weighing The Good And The Bad Of Autonomous Killer Robots In Battle

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Puma BeatBot

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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 product manager Tosin Onafowokan.