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Another hectic week in the technology space wraps up just as the massive festival for interactive geeks and the marketers who love them — — gets under way in Austin, Texas.

If this is your first All Tech roundup, we organize it in three sections: ICYMI for some highlights from NPR's coverage this week, Big Conversations for what's buzzing across the Internet in the technology and culture space and Curiosities for oddities that piqued our interest. Share your thoughts in the comments section below.

ICYMI

#NPRWIT: This week, NPR's Tell Me More launched a celebration of women in technology, during which will showcase a day in their lives on Twitter. You can ask questions and participate in the conversation using the hashtag . Melinda Gates is doing it!

Thanks, technology!Service industry workers should rejoice the likes of Square, an iPad-based cash register. It presents customers with a screen that suggests tip amounts, and "you physically have to hit 'no-tip' — and feel like a jerk — if you want to be stingy," . In other news of how technology is changing the world, Alexis Madrigal, a senior editor at The Atlantic, explores how is slowly acclimating us to the idea of driverless cars.

And your weekly gaming fix:Resident gamer Steve Mullis , which sounds like SimCity with a dash of Oregon Trail (read: people die). And Weekend Edition explores the wacky world of , competitive sports gaming, which is more and more mirroring the world of physical sports.

Big Conversations

Mystery Man: The elusive mystery man who invented Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, was supposedly as a man with the birth name Satoshi Nakamoto. After being tracked down by the media, the engineer to the digital currency. why Dorian S. Nakamoto, a man living in Southern California who wound up the focus of a car chase on Thursday afternoon, may or may not be the man behind Bitcoin — and from the media coverage.

SXSW Starts: The interactive portion of the culture fest down in Austin , with privacy and online surveillance dominating the conversations. Julian Assange, Glenn Greenwald and Barton Gellman were already scheduled to appear — and this week, the festival announced former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who still has temporary asylum in Russia,

Curiosities

British Journal of Photography:

One of the world's largest stock photo agencies is making millions of its photos free to embed for noncommercial purposes. It's a controversial decision because it gives so much access at no charge, but Getty says it will have more control over how its photos are used.

New York Magazine:

Writer Maureen O'Connor, who is and Hinge, writes about the downside of the design of these dating apps, which allow for high-volume browsing.

Bloomberg:

A judge dismissed a case by the Federal Aviation Administration against a man who faced a $10,000 fine for using a drone to film a promotional video at the University of Virginia. The FAA is appealing the decision.

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