On today’s show, we’ll talk about Amazon’s new cashier-free grocery store; Uber’s purchase of Geometric Intelligence, a company with a multidisciplinary approach to artificial intelligence; and the European Commission’s reminder to companies like Facebook and Twitter that they agreed to curb hate speech on their platforms.

On today’s show, we’ll talk about Facebook’s expansion in Menlo Park and Palo Alto — and how it plans to deal with potentially displaced residents. We’ll also look at algorithms that are being trained to identify different kinds of audio through video footage. 

On today’s show, we’ll look at Reddit’s smaller communities, which some say take the First Amendment to the extreme; talk about one man’s fascination with fitness trackers; and play this week’s Silicon Tally with Stacey Higginbotham, host of the podcast the “Internet of Things.”

On today’s show, we’ll talk about a new Netflix option that’ll allow subscribers to download some shows and movies; the meaning of the word “cyborg” and why a quarter of us may be cyborgs without even realizing it; and ways that you can incorporate tech in your Christmas decorating.

On today’s show, we’ll talk about this week’s nationwide protests to raise the minimum wage to $15; look at Quartz’s plan to build a bot studio; and preview the latest episode of our “Codebreaker” podcast, which explores how we’re changing our bodies with technology.

On today’s show, we’ll talk about the rise of mobile shopping; CNN’s purchase of the social media video app Beme, launched by YouTube star Casey Neistat; and a ransomware attack on San Francisco’s light rail system, the MUNI. 

On today’s show, we’ll talk about the growing number of ways to combine charity with shopping; interview New York Times columnist Tom Friedman about his new work, “Thank You For Being Late”; and look at Google’s Neural Machine Translation system, an invention that’s created its own internal language. 

On today’s show, we’ll talk to Business Insider’s Ben Gilbert about the market for virtual reality, and play this week’s Silicon Tally with Geoffrey Fowler, personal technology columnist for the Wall Street Journal. 

On today’s show, we’ll talk about today’s launch of the NFL’s virtual reality series; look at the tech that goes behind bringing your turkey to the table; and chat with Chris Milk, the CEO of Within, about why he thinks VR is going to be a big deal.