346: Blue Light Special

This week, HP splits in two, Chase gets hacked, the DEA imitates you on Facebook, Twitter sues the US, and Redbox Instant calls it quits, and the humble blue LED gets its day. 

What We're Playing With

Andy: Raspberry Pi frustrations

Dwayne: The Intruders (BBC America)

Tosin: Star Wars: Rebels (Disney XD)

Headlines

Nobel Prize in Physics - the Blue LED LED Lights Shine In Nobel Prize; Now How About Your Home? Tesla - the P85D We don’t know what it is, but it may just be all wheel drive or (Dual-Motor)

Corporations Struggling in the Internet Age

HP plans to split into two businesses, one for PCs and printers and the other for corporate hardware and services HP to Split in 2; Meg Whitman will be CEO of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise JPMorgan Chase Says More Than 76 Million Accounts Compromised in Cyberattack

Audible Book of the Week

The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson Worth a listen: The Interview with Isaacson on the Innovators Sign up at AudibleTrial.com/TheDrillDown

Music Break: Best Imitation of Myself by Ben Folds Five

Hot Topic

AT&T Will Repay $80 Million In Shady Phone Bill Charges DOJ asserts DEA agent had right to impersonate woman on Facebook without her consent Twitter sues U.S. government over limits on ability to disclose surveillance orders Facebook working on stand-alone mobile app that will allow anonymous discussion

Music Break: Paper Planes by M.I.A.

Final Word

Verizon’s Redbox Instant dies from lack of customers, criminal activity

The Drill Down Video of the Week

3D-Printed Machine Gun Folds and Shoots Endless Paper Airplanes

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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 tech consultant Tosin Onafowokan. Occasionally joining them is Startup Digest CTO Christopher Burnor.