Let’s get right down to it.

1. Supersonic Skydive

If you haven’t heard about this yet, please get out of the rock you clearly live under and join the rest of the world in a collective, “HOLY CRAP!”

Sunday morning, Austrial skydiver Felix Baumgartner jumped from the Red Bull Stratos capsule suspended by a balloon 128,000ft in the air.

Why? Well, partly to advertise Red Bull. But mostly because, why not?

At one point, Baumgartner was traveling at 833 mph, successfully breaking the speed of sound. That’s a Mach 1.24.

“How is that possible,” you may ask. “Isn’t terminal velocity around 122 mph?”

It is, relatively close to the surface of Earth. But the atmosphere is much thinner 24 miles in the air than a normal skydiving height. So there’s less air resistance, allowing him to fall faster than otherwise physically possible.

If you want to get even more scientific, the relationship between sound waves and relative thinness of the atmosphere means sound travels around 300 mph slower than normal that high up, according to this Wired article. So he broke the speed of sound at ground level and that high up.

Frankly, it’s awesome, even if it doesn’t beat the longest recorded free fall (using a drogue chute for stability) set by Joseph Kittinger in 1960.

2. Softbank buys 70 percent Sprint share

Japanese telecommunications company Softbank confirmed today that it has purchased a 70 percent share in Sprint Nextel, also known as “the one that isn’t Verizon or AT&T.”

It always makes me nervous when foreign companies buy majority shares in long-running companies, however well intentioned it might be.

But, Sprint needs money, and this is one of the quickest ways to get it.

That’s all the news for this week! Check back in two days for the latest and greatest in tech.