This week, Greg Davies from the Blendover & TARDISBlend podcasts joins Dwayne & Andrew as we discuss: Facebook fights clickbait, the NSA builds a Google to search your records, Amazon buys Twitch, and...is misogyny in games out of control?
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Dwayne: Circle of 6 / White House Council on Women and Girls
Greg: gSyncIt (PC) and Metal (Android)
Headlines
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Amazon to Buy Video Site Twitch for $970 Million Amazon Pounces On Twitch After Google Balks Due To Antitrust ConcernsFinal Word: Misogyny in Gaming
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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.
