Amid news that White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer has been checking staffers’ phones, multiple reports say that government officials have been using encrypted chat apps. We’ll look at exactly what information becomes federal record and what doesn’t. Next, we’ll discuss what current stock market optimism means for venture capitalism, along with Elon Musk’s announcement that two people have paid a hefty sum to go on a weeklong mission around the moon.

5G tech, the next generation of cell service that will bring us even faster internet, is approaching. Michael Nunez, tech editor at Gizmodo, breaks down how telephone technology has evolved over the course of history. Afterwards, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince joins us to discuss a bug found in the company’s code. 

There have been a lot of protests going on recently. And at these events, there’s a fair amount of time spent sitting, standing, waiting. Ian Bogost, a game critic and professor at Georgia Tech, discusses how a new website called protestgames.org aims to have attendees translate some of that downtime into positive energy. Next, we’ll look at Alphabet’s decision to sue Uber and Otto for allegedly stealing its intellectual property. And to end today’s show, we’ll play this week’s Silicon Tally with Laura Weidman Powers, the co-founder and CEO of the nonprofit Code 2040.

We’re look at how public-private partnerships, like the collaboration between NASA and Elon Musk’s SpaceX, are changing how America’s space program works. Afterward, we’ll talk to analyst Tasha Keeney about how fully autonomous cars may start pulling up into our lives earlier than expected. 

A former Uber employee has written a blog post about being the target of sexual harassment and sexism at the company. Jessi Hempel, head of editorial at Backchannel, joined us to discuss how she thinks CEO Travis Kalanick should have handled the issue. Next, we’ll discuss some of the products we discovered at Toy Fair 2017, which included a children’s 3-D pen that’ll let you create sculptures.

A Volkswagen subsidiary will invest about $2 billion in electric cars over the next decade, as part of VW’s settlement in the emissions cheating case.  We’ll look at the challenges that an electric-car ecosystem faces. Next, attorney Jenny Afia will join us to talk about her role in rewriting apps’ privacy policy for the British government.    

While many might be thinking about the next big thing in software, one Brooklyn facility is focused on hardware. We’ll talk about the history and future of New Lab, a building that has several companies sharing its space to build new products. Joining us on today’s show: David Belt, its cofounder; Sean Petterson, the cofounder of Strong Arm, which makes exoskeletons for industrial workers; and Jessica Banks from Rock Paper Robot, a kinetic furniture company (think levitating tables). 

One of the latest innovations to give athletes an edge? Neuropriming, the practice of putting electrodes on your head to shock your brain so that you can get a boost in mental abilities. Proday’s Sarah Kunst stopped by to discuss how powerful the priming is and whether it could become mainstream one day. Next, we’ll look at Facebook’s recent decision to jump into the job recruiting game, and then play this week’s “Silicon Tally” with Cadie Thompson, senior transportation editor for Business Insider. 

We’re looking at why chipmaker Intel is dropping its financial support for the International Science and Engineering Fair; the use of tech in Russia over the years; and a new website that allows people to anonymously reach out to reporters about Trump.