On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, Facebook purges sketchy apps, net neutrality wins in the Senate, robot dogs are coming to work, congratulations…podcasting is free again!… and much, much more.

Podcast

What We’re Playing With

Andy: TOPGREENER TU21558A3 Ultra-High-Speed Three Port Type-A USB Outlet 5.8A-29W
Dwayne: Hatch Baby Grow
Tosin: I, Tonya

Headlines

• Facebook suspends ~200 suspicious apps out of “thousands” reviewed so far
• EFF has comprehensively killed the bullshit podcasting patent
• Hacker Breaches Securus, the Company That Helps Cops Track Phones Across the US

Audible Book of the Week

• The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World by Simon Winchester
• Sign up at AudibleTrial.com/TheDrillDown

Music Break: Fight the Power by Public Enemy

Hot Topic: US Government Tech

• Senate approves bill in bid to retain U.S. net neutrality
• White House eliminates top cyber adviser post
• Google Employees Resign in Protest Against Pentagon Contract

Music Break: Atomic Dog by George Clinton

Final Word

• SpotMini — the cute, agile, dog-like robot and YouTube star — will go on sale next year

The Drill Down Videos of the Week: Boston Dynamics

• SpotMini Autonomous Navigation

• Getting some air, Atlas?

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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.