Aaron Swartz left behind a considerable online legacy before his suicide earlier this year at age 26. But a posthumously-released collaboration with the New Yorker might be among his most profound innovations and it might just be the first step towards guaranteeing true online anonymity. Plus, why U.S. officials froze an exchange for the online Bitcoin currency, and what happens next.

Lately, it seems like we talk about Moore’s law at least once a week on our show. It’s the idea that our computing power jumps forward by leaps and bounds every two years — so fast that soon our computers will be as smart as we are. Kevin Drum is a writer at the magazine Mother Jones. He’s just written a long piece about intelligent robots. Drum thinks by the year 2025, they’ll be smart enough to take almost all of our jobs. Don’t worry though — he says that’s a good thing.

Today marks the beginning of Google’s three day conference for developers, called Google I/O. Last year the company unveiled its tech-boosted spectacles, Google glass. It was perhaps one of the most extravagant unveilings in tech history — glass-wearing Googlers streamed live video of themselves jumping out of a plane and riding into the convention on trick bikes. Plus, a look at TV’s Upfronts, where the major networks unveil new programing for advertisers.

Cell phone and smartphone theft is a problem that only seems to get bigger. The international black market of stolen phones is huge, lucrative, and not just for the thieves. Phone makers don’t seem to be exactly in a hurry to protect customers from theft. Prosecutors in San Francisco, and most recently New York, are trying to change that. Marketplace’s Nancy Marshall-Genzer reports. And, three drone stories from China, Canada and the U.S.

It’s been ten years since the U.S. introduced the “new” color $20 bill. According to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, the average life of the 20 is just two years before it wears out. But the reason for the color 20 was introduced wasn’t just about wear and tear, it was about anti-counterfeiting technology. And, does your family have etiquette for using tech at the dinner table? Marketplace Tech speaks with a Cape Cod mother of five who is making rules to help her family navigate how to behave as a family in a high tech, interconnected world.  

Today, the head of one of the world’s largest e-commerce giants is stepping down. Jack Ma, chief executive of Alibaba says he’s too old to run an internet company at the decrepit age of 48. Plus, all this week we’re talking about the near future of tech, and today we look at what’s coming in the next decade of space exploration. Marketplace Tech talks to Adam Steltzner, a NASA engineer who navigated the incredibly challenging landing of the Mars Curiosity Rover. Steltzner says it’s about putting people on Mars. Also, he discusses looking for life on Jupiter’s moon Europa.

All this week we’re talking about the near future of tech. Not artificial intelligence and storing consciousness on computer chips, but what’s coming in the next decade. Let’s talk about hardware, and the world’s biggest chipmaker, Intel. A week ago the company named a new CEO, Brian Krzanich. But the head honcho at Intel Labs, where the company invents all sorts of cool new stuff, is CTO Justin Rattner. His army of innovators is working on something called seeing through the rain. 

All this week we’re talking about the near future of tech. Not clones and robot servants, but what’s coming in the next decade. Today we look at what’s coming in our own industry: Media. More and more it isn’t just a discussion of old forms, but new forms as well — I know one of my go to news sites these days happens to be Twitter. Kara Swisher, the co-exectuive editor of AllThingsD, says any media company that wants a future needs to be thinking about going mobile in every way.

The price of natural gas has been dropping, and it’s not just people turning off the heat for spring weather. It’s cheaper and easier than ever to extract natural gas thanks in part to advances in controversial technologies like hydraulic fracturing. What does the next ten years of our energy consumption look like? And, a tale of middle school hackers.