Walmart has just launched a new way to pay for your online purchases, with cash. Yup, non-futuristic, non-shiny, regular-old dollar bills. It works like this. You go online to order something, say some towels. Then you drive to a Walmart store and pay for your towels in cash. Once you’ve paid, Walmart will ship the towels, right to your door. Or someone else’s door if they’re a gift.

The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA, seems headed for a vote on the floor of the House as early as today or tomorrow. The bill, essentially, is about easing the path for the government and private industry to share information in order to head off an online attack or deal with one taking place. The bill easily passed through committee a few weeks ago but its future appears a lot less rosy now, after a great deal of criticism has built up against it. Plus, we saddle up for the Robot Roundup.

There is yet another option for you if you have more documents, pictures, videos and what-have-yous on your computer that are taking up too much space. Google has announced Google Drive, a service that gives you five gigabytes of storage for free and offers more space for additional costs. Provided, of course, that you have a strong Internet connection. Plus, a new term to learn: liquidmetal.

President Obama chose the backdrop of the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington to announce a new policy aimed at punishing countries that practice violence after gathering information about citizens online. He’s signed an executive order specifically targeting the governments of Syria and Iran. The practice of using modern technology to gather data about citizens, though, is not limited to Syria or Iran — it happens in countries all over the world, including the U.S. Also on the program, we eat some Tech Vegetables.

Maybe it’s a bit too easy to say that 2004 was the blog election, 2008 was the social media election, and 2012 is the mobile election. But just because it’s easy to say doesn’t mean it’s not true. The last few years have seen an explosion in smartphones and in tablets (the iPad didn’t even exist during the last national election) and the Internet is something that is with us all the time now. Political campaigns know this quite well and are doing their best to harness the power of hyper-connectedness to ensure their candidate a win come Election Day. We look at how they’re doing it. Plus, the reinvention of “Frogger.”

The first edition of the Windows operating system came out in 1985, but maybe there’s hope for Microsoft’s classic operating system to have some credibility and future as the world moves into what’s often called “the post-PC era.” Microsoft’s quarterly earnings beat expectations and Verizon has announced that it has faith in the Windows Phone platform and will put some muscle behind marketing it in the months ahead. Also, another edition of our non-award-winning Tech Report Theater.

We’ve all heard about cloud computing being the wave of the future, but Greenpeace says some companies running cloud services are doing better than others from an environmental stewardship point of view. It has issued a report card on energy and gives Amazon and Apple Fs. Google achieved higher scores for its use of renewable energy sources. The facilities that house cloud computing use a lot of energy, and dropping the coal to plug in something else is much easier said than done. Plus, a look at a new PC game, the highly bleak “Legend of Grimrock.”

It used to be that Hulu.com was a perfectly predictable place where you could go and catch up on episodes of “30 Rock” that you may have missed when they aired. Lately, however, the company has been expanding into original programming, and it will be announcing other new shows this week at a TV industry event referred to as “upfronts.” By creating original content as well as continuing to work with its TV network owners, Hulu is trying to carve out a brand new space and be something no one has ever seen before. Plus, we recover from the Gmail outage.

The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA, is either a welcome resource in preventing cyber attacks or a troubling invasion of privacy, depending who you ask. Criticism of the bill is beginning to mount as several free speech and civil liberties groups are lining up against CISPA and encouraging their supporters to do the same. We look at what CISPA would actually do. Plus, what are the hippest music cities in the world? You’ll never guess.