This week, The Drill Down crew looks back at the year in tech and the web for the year 2013. We’ll discuss our favorite tech events of the past year, and what we can expect in 2014.

Before that, however, we discuss a recent discovery that the NSA sought to spy on gamers, eight top tech companies ban together to reform surveillance laws, and is Apple‘s iBeacon just a marketing gimmick or are there bigger plans in store?

This week, no silver lining for cloud services in the wake of NSA leaks, Blackberry looks for a buyer, Bitcoin gets subpoenaed, Tesla‘s Elon Musk wants us all to be in the loop, and more…