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The Drill Down 334: Targeted and Profiled (preview)

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AFP Photo / Getty Images / Mario TamaThis week, Google fights on Amazon’s turf, the collateral damage behind NSA target searches, the TSA’s new rule for electronic gadgets, we think we know what the iPhone 6’s screen looks like, and more…

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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.

The Drill Down 333: Two-Faced (preview)

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This week, Google buys into music and shuts down their oldest social network, Did T-Mobile swindle customers out of millions of hidden fees?, Facebook’s secret mood manipulation study, and is the NSA’s first transparency report just one big oxymoron?

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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.

The Drill Down 328: Our Brilliant and Terrifying Future (preview)

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This week, Greg Davies of the Blendover podcast helps us explore the equally utopian & distopian potential behind this week’s cutting-edge news: Apple sings to the tune of Beats, Amazon’s war with publishers hits the consumer, Skype unveils a universal translator, Google designs its own self-driving cars …and much, much more…

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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.

EU Court Rules Google Should Edit History

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By Dwayne De Freitas

Today the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that if someone searches your name, and the results that show up list information that you don’t care to be remembered, you can request that the search engine company posting those results, remove those links or otherwise remove the data.

The Ruling that could change the face of the Web

The Court ruled this way using the principle of “right to be forgotten.” RTBF, as we’ll call it, means that when it comes to search engine results about individual people (in this case, EU citizens), those people now have the ability to request that certain bits of information about their lives be removed since they believe those results are no longer relevant. Continue reading →

The Drill Down 322: Lab Vaginas and Space Twins (preview)

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Well, we weren't about to put up a picture of the vaginas.

This week, Google Glass opens to the public for one day, Did the NSA know about Heartbleed…and exploit it?, Google invests in drones, nature docs come to the Oculus Rift, lab vaginas, space twins and much more…

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The Drill Down 316: On My Last Optic Nerve (preview)

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This week, the British NSA (GCHQ) snoops on millions of webcams, Apple’s CarPlay, Google’s modular cellphone, Microsoft’s version of Siri, Facebook to launch drones, the selfie that broke Twitter, and much more.

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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.

The Drill Down 315: The Fall of the Mountain King (preview)

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This week, is this the end of Bitcoin? a massive security flaw for Apple, Comcast strongarms Netflix, Google maps everything with a cellphone, Facebook’s WhatsApp gets VOIP, and the internet is fucked (but is there anything we can do about it?)

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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.