On today’s show, we’ll check in to see how restructuring efforts at Hewlett Packard and IBM have affected each company; interview author Thomas Davenport about his new book “Only Humans Need Apply,” which argues that the future of business success will require machine-human collaboration; and meet the man behind Google Doodle, Ryan Germick. 

On today’s show, we’ll talk about a possible vote from European regulators to make video streaming more like broadcast television; North Carolina’s startup scene; and auditory invisible cloaks. 

On today’s show, we’re coming to you from the music, art and technology festival Moogfest in Durham, North Carolina. We’ll talk about Google’s I/O developer conference, where the company has announced its plans to tackle everything from messaging services to home assistants; listen to the complexity of video game music; and play this week’s Silicon Tally with Pierce Freelon, a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

On today’s show, we’ll talk about Google’s new messaging app, Allo; a study from Pew Research on the gig economy that reveals Uber and the like aren’t as ubiquitous as you might think; and a movie about Tetris that has secured $80 million in funding.

On today’s show, we’ll talk about efforts from Apple to expand its products in India; interview the president of Lyft, John Zimmer, about background checks for drivers and the company’s push for self-driving vehicles; and take a look at a tiny robot that could one day perform surgical procedures. 

On today’s show, we’ll talk about the launch of Otto, a startup that’s in the game of self-driving vehicles; how to increase diversity in the tech industry; and the latest smart tech for your garden.  

On today’s show, we’ll talk about more relaxed investment rules from the Securities and Exchange Commission; what the ongoing Verizon strike tells us about the changing telecom landscape; and Google’s developer’s conference, where the tech company is expected to unveil a competitor to Amazon Echo.

On today’s show, we’ll talk about online astroturfing, the practice of leaving fake positive feedback for consumer products; look at Facebook’s decision to publish its editorial guidelines and the danger of biased algorithms; and play this week’s Silicon Tally with Mita Carriman, the CEO of tech startup Adventurely. 

On today’s show, we’ll talk about increasing rates of sextortion — a form of online abuse where hackers try to blackmail others into sending them adult content. We’ll also chat with actor Martin Starr, who plays Bertram Gilfoyle on the HBO series “Silicon Valley.”