On this week’s Drill Down podcast, the free ride for Windows 10 ends soon, shady news reporting at Facebook, Amazon challenges YouTube, a new intelligent assistant from the mind behind Siri, and can Apple Music wipe out your collection? …and much, much more!

Podcast

What We’re Playing With

Andy: Captain America: Civil War (age regression FX); (Civil War: Comic v Film)
Dwayne: Lexi. The App no one should spend $5 on right now.
Tosin: powerline: zyxel pla5456kit 1800 mbps 2 port gigabit ethernet

Headlines

• The era of free Windows 10 comes to an end on July 30
• Disney Infinity canceled; Sites “Lack of Growth” in the Toys-to-Life Market
• John McAfee’s first move as a new CEO is to rename the company after himself
• Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News
• Iron Man in SPACE! Marvel Movie Designer To Make Astronaut Outfits

Audible Book of the Week

• Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War: Marvel Cinematic Universe from Marvel Press
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Music Break: Star Spangled Man from Captain America: First Avenger

Hot Topic: The Changing Streaming World

• Apple to Revamp Streaming Music Service After Mixed Reviews, Departures
  • Apple Music’s new student membership option discounts the service by 50%
  • Apple Stole My Music. No, Seriously.
  • No, Apple Music is not deleting tracks off your hard drive “” unless you tell it to
• Spotify sees increased subscribers. Claims it’s due to Apple Music competition
• Spotify starts distributing video
• Amazon gets into the YouTube/Vimeo space with Amazon Video Direct
  • TechCrunch write-up
  • @AmznVideoDirect on Twitter

• Music Break: Derezzed from Tron: Legacy by Daft Punk

Final Word

• VIV: Beyond Siri: The World Premiere of Viv with Dag Kittlaus
  • Viv, from Siri’s creators, is the virtual assistant of your dreams
  • WIRED: SIRI Creators left Apple due to trouble with Post-Jobs Apple execs

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 product manager Tosin Onafowokan.