This week, the White House chimes in on cellphone unlocking, Samsung‘s new phone watches you watching it, YouTube takes on Spotify, Microsoft gets its wrist slapped, Six Strikes and you’re out, Han, Luke & Leia come back for Star Wars: Episode VII; and I, for one, welcome our new cinder block-hurling overlords.

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What We’re Playing With

Andy: Pebble watch, Timex DataLink (proto-forerunner to the Pebble)
Chris: Swish
Tosin: NetGear ReadyNAS Pro 4, Mailbox

Headlines

• White House: It’s Time to Legalize Cellphone Unlocking
• Samsung’s New Smartphone Will Track Eyes to Scroll Pages
  • How to use Smart Stay on the Galaxy S3
• YouTube to launch music streaming service, take on Spotify
• Why Microsoft probably couldn’t care less that the EU just fined it $732 million
  • Google tipped off EU authorities over Microsoft’s $732M browser boo-boo, report claims
• ‘Robosparrow’ created from dead bird
• Doomsday clock

Audible Book of the Week

• The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty by Simon Baron-Cohen
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Musical Interlude: Terminator Theme by Brad Fiedel

More Headlines

• Six Strikes file sharing warning system
  • Here’s what an actual “six strikes” copyright alert looks like
• In Medical First, a Baby With H.I.V. Is Deemed Cured
• George Lucas Says Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill & Carrie Fisher Were All In Talks For ‘Star Wars Episode 7’

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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), VentureBeat editor Devindra Hardawar, marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Startup Digest CTO Christopher Burnor. Occasionally joining them is Box tech consultant Tosin Onafowokan.