On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, a tragedy at YouTube HQ, Facebook’s woes get worse, Spotify goes public, an app publicly reveals users’ health status, a clone army of news readers… and much, much more.

This week, GM buys big into driverless cars, Google AI beats a Go grandmaster, Amazon Echo repeats itself, Oculus won’t be on the Mac, Tech encryption vs. the Feds in the news again, and Nike self-lacing shoes are here!

All this and more on The Drill Down.

This week on The Drill Down, Windows 10 is blowing up, a killer Mac exploit, Yahoo is attacked, what does an engineer look like?, the end of Hitchbot, and the hoverboard is back — yes, again…but this time it really works (kinda)…and much much more.

This week, darknets go dark, Obama backs Net Neutrality, Internet satellites, To Spotify or not to Spotify, A new game from Blizzard, and much much more.

This week, Apple‘s got new iPads & Macs, Whisper’s not keeping your secrets, Facebook wants to know you’re safe, and the hoverboard comes back…to our future.

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?).

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This week, Google sells Motorola and gets one step closer to SkyNet, NetFlix and Nintendo aren’t going to give up that easily, the Macintosh turns 30, and one more reason to be angry at Angry Birds…

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This week, the UN meets to decide the fate of the Internet & the U.S. pushes back, will your cellphones cost full price in the future?, Twitter & Instagram fight for your photo data, Apple is ‘Made in the USA’ again, Tesla takes Motor Trend‘s Car of the Year, and Will ‘The Hobbit’ make you nauseous?

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Tiny Troopers is a squad based war strategy and critical thinking game from Finnish company Kukouri. It uses great graphics, South Park-esque characters and humor to deliver hours of action packed fun.

The game is available for Mac, PC, and iOS.

Right now, Amazon is selling the 11.6-inch Apple MacBook Air laptop for $939.94* – that’s $59 off the regular price of $999.

The sale is for the newest version of the Apple MacBook Air MC968LL/A 11.6-Inch Laptop with 1.6 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 2GB RAM, and 64GB Hard Drive (weight is only 2.38 pounds!).

The MacBook Air 11.6-inch 4GB laptap is also reduced $60 at $1,138.99 if you want something with more RAM.