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?).

On this week’s show: Google previously bought seven robotics companies, and this week it buys the Big Dog (literally), Sprint guns for T-Mobile, Instagram wants a piece of Snapchat‘s action, Twitter changes blocking–then changes their mind, are the NSA‘s actions unconstitutional?

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This week, the NSA taps Yahoo! and Google data centers without their knowledge, NSA spying makes Germany want to secede from the Internet, Netflix wants to stream blockbuster movies at the same time they’re in the theaters, and Turkey builds an intercontinental tunnel linking Europe to Asia. Then, to celebrate The Drill Down‘s 300th episode, we discuss the technology that has personally moved us, from our early experiences to our most recent connections…

This week, the NSA cracks consumer encryption AND your smartphone data, Apple unveils two new iPhones, Sony’s new Playstation Vita set-top box, the ultimate twerking fail, and more…

This week, the man behind the biggest black market on the dark web, the biggest crowdfunding campaign ever, Mark Zuckerberg wants to give the entire world internet access, the iPhone in gold?, the Tesla Model S beats all safety records, our ongoing NSA surveillance coverage, and more…