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Marketplace Tech for Thursday, March 3, 2016

Mar 3, 2016

Episodes 2571 - 2580 of 4268

  • On today's show, we'll talk about drumming with three arms (with a little help from technology).
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    Airing on Wednesday, March 2, 2016: On today’s show, we’ll talk about Apple in court; an app that will be used by day laborers to report wage theft; and a robotic limb that allows drummers to play with three arms.

  • On today's show, we'll talk about election trends on Facebook.
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    Airing on Tuesday, March 1, 2016: On today’s show, we’ll talk about Facebook’s election data; the new Raspberry Pi; and Marketplace’s Molly Wood talks security from the RSA Conference.

  • A visitor tests the new 'Vive steam VR' virtual device at the HTC stand on the second day of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on February 23, 2016. 
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    Airing on Monday, February 29, 2016: On today’s show, we’ll talk about HTC’s new VR device; Facebook’s new advertising feature; and predicting Super Tuesday results.

  • On today's show, we'll talk about the social media value of a "thank you."
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    Airing on Friday, February 26, 2016: On today’s show, we’ll talk about Apple’s battle in the courtroom; the social media value of a “thank you”; and Madeleine Brand, host of KCRW’s Press Play, joins us to play this week’s Silicon Tally.

  • On today's show, we'll talk about the cost of cleaning up space junk.
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    Airing on Thursday, February 25, 2016: On today’s show, we’ll talk about social media and elections; the new S60 thermal imaging phone; and the cost of cleaning up space debris.

  • The Apple logo hangs on the Apple Store on Fifth Avenue on in New York City.
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    Airing on Wednesday, February 24, 2016: On today’s show, we’ll have conversations with CNET Executive Editor Roger Cheng at the Mobile World Congress; people rallying on behalf of Apple at the New York Apple store; and Rick Smolan, the executive producer of the PBS documentary “The Human Face of Big Data.”  

  • People walk outside the Apple store on the Fifth Avenue in New York on February 17, 2016. Apple's challenge of a court order to unlock an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino killers opens up a new front in the long-running battle between technology companies and the government over encryption.
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    Airing on Tuesday, February 23, 2016: On today’s show, we’ll talk about Fitbit earnings; we’ll have a check in from the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona; and we’ll have more on the Apple encryption debate.

  • The Tribeca Film Festival is inviting people to submit films made with Snapchat.
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    Airing on Monday, February 22, 2016: On today’s show, we’ll talk about this coming weeks’ Mobile World Congress in Barcelona; the Tribeca Film Festival inviting people to submit films made with Snapchat; and the new font Operator, which is meant to make it easier to code.

  • Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler testifies before the House Judiciary Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill on March 25, 2015 in Washington, D.C.
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    Airing on Friday, February 19, 2016: On today’s show, we’ll talk about what the debate between tech companies and government over privacy means for innovation; look at the FCC’s decision to pass a proposal that would “unlock the cable box”; and play this week’s Silicon Tally with Sarah Kunst, the CEO of the workout app Proday.  

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