This week in Tech Reads: internet drones, bee brain surgery, the continued search for Flight 370, and more.

Jordan Golson explains how, despite all the tracking and navigation technology out there, it’s still possible to lose an airplane in 2014. [Wired]

Brian Fung shows us how we know that Flight 370 kept flying for hours after it was lost on radar, even if we don’t know where it was flying. [The Washington Post]

Iain Marlow thinks “internet drones,” pitched as a way to get high speed internet to developing countries, is a dumb libertarian fantasy. [The Globe and Mail]

Rebecca Hiscott explains eight different ways that electronics have changed the way our brains work. [Medium]

Justin Nobel looks at how the U.S. military is researching night vision for robots—by performing brain surgery on bees. [Nautilus]

Dave Shumka talks to a physicist to answer the question we all asked ourselves as kids: can a power chord from a cranked-up electric guitar really blast your dad through a wall? [CBC Music]

David Kushner has an exclusive interview with Dong Nguyen, the beleaguered 28-year-old developer who invented, presumably got rich on, and then promptly canceled the hit mobile game Flappy Bird. [Rolling Stone]

John Brownlee brings us the story behind the sound familiar to any home theater enthusiast or movie special effects nut: the THX Deep Note. [Co.Design]

Image: A woman writes on a board of messages and well wishes dedicated to people involved with the missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner MH370, Saturday, March 15, 2014 in Sepang, Malaysia. A Malaysian passenger jet missing for more than a week had its communications deliberately disabled and its last signal came about seven and a half hours after takeoff, meaning it could have ended up as far as Kazakhstan or deep in the southern Indian Ocean, Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak said Saturday. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)