This week, a million Beautiful People get hacked, the FCC & cable boxes, racist apps & services?, how driverless trucks will change the economy, Tron comes to VR gaming … and much more this week on The Drill Down podcast.

This week, we celebrate all that is Star Wars, TIDAL is a wash-out, Netflix is bigger than CBS, Google becomes a mobile carrier, and is Nokia coming back from the dead? …and much much more.

This week, some retailers ban Apple Pay in favor of an upcoming service that’s already been hacked, YouTube to offer ad-free subscriptions?, AT&T misled millions and the feds are taking them to court, Fitbit joins the smartwatch race, Marvel plans out its next five years of superhero movies, and much more.

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, the NSA hacks El Presidente, Windows 8.1 launches (and unlaunches), Nokia‘s new Lumia and Apple‘s Fall cornucopia of product offerings. All this and more…