Airing on Tuesday, February 3, 2015: Amazon has struck a deal with UC Davis, UMass Amherst, and Purdue  in which the schools get a specially-branded online Amazon bookstore for their students, and a cut of the revenues. Amazon gets early access to college kids who are creating habits, and it gets another whack at Barnes & Noble – one of the companies that’s built a niche in academic book selling. We consider Amazon’s strategy and its effect. Nexr up, we talk with Lindsey Turrentine, Editor-in-Chief of CNET.com, about the internet of things and Intel’s latest acquisition. Also, Frank Pasquale, Professor of Law at the University of Maryland, discusses his new book, “The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information.”

Airing on Monday, February 2, 2015: First up on today’s show, we’ll talk to Alex White, CEO of next big sound, about the state of streaming music companies and competition among Beats Music, Spotify, and Jay-Z’s “Project Panther”. Plus, Glenn Derene, the electronics editor at Consumer Reports, talks about sharing subscription service passwords among friends. We’ll also talk to Karen North, Director of the Annenberg Program on Online Communities at USC Annenberg, about policing YouTube’s violent videos.

Airing on Friday, January 30, 2015: First up on today’s show, we’ll talk to Anne Curzan, English Professor at the University of Michigan, about emojis in the Ross Ulbricht Silk Road Trial. Plus, we’ll also talk to Jon Resnick, DC policy representative for the DJI drone company, about blocking drones from taking off in no-fly zones. And how well have you kept up with the week in tech news? This week, Marketplace’s David Gura plays Silicon Tally with Deadspin writer and in-house stats man Kyle Wagner.

Airing on Thursday, January 29, 2015: First up on today’s show, Amazon reports its last quarter of fiscal earnings for 2014 on Thursday. Overall, 2014 was a disappointment for the Seattle-based electronic commerce company – not to mention its shareholders. Is it possible the company finished up the year on an upswing? We’ll also talk to Brian Blau, analyst at Gartner, about Facebook earnings. And Ted Henken, Chair of Baruch College’s Sociology and Anthropology Department and author of Entrepreneurial Cuba: The Changing Policy Landscape, joins us to talk about the secret internet in Cuba.

Airing on Wednesday, January 28, 2015: First up on today’s show, we’ll talk to Rainey Reitman, director of the activism team at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, about EFF’s plan to stop Mass Surveillance. Plus, we’ll also speak with Matt Novak, author of Gizmodo’s Paleofuture blog, about how Back to the Future Part II imagined the future of communication.

Airing on Tuesday, January 27, 2015: First up on today’s show, we’ll talk with Pai-Ling Yin, from the Stanford Center for Economic Policy Research, about Apple’s success in the Chinese market. Also, we’ll talk about how more and more Americans are making their own power, either by installing solar panels, or in areas with frequent storms, backup home generators. Plus, we’re joined by Brendan Iribe, CEO of Oculus VR, to discuss making movies for virtual reality technology and when the Oculus goggles will finally reach consumers.

Airing on Monday, January 26, 2015: Microsoft Corp. kicks off the busiest week in the earnings season – 143 of S&P 500 companies report their quarterly earnings this week – when it releases its Q2 earnings for 2015 today. James McQuivey, VP & Principal Analyst at Forrester, tells us what to expect from the announcement. Next up is Slate’s senior tech reporter, Will Oremus, to discuss reports that Snapchat is tying up with major news organizations to publish content. It’s also been hiring reporters and bloggers to create original videos and text. We also talk  with Ryan Calo, Assistant Law Professor at the University of Washington and an affiliate scholar at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, about socially-responsible artificial intelligence. If you want to know what that means, you’ll have to tune in.   

Airing on Friday, January 23, 2015: Your walls don’t have ears but they may have eyes – police are now using radar technology to scan for people inside their homes. We talk to Marketplace reporter Stan Alcorn to find out if that is as creepy as it sounds. And how well have you kept up with the week in tech news? Today, we’re also joined by Harry Campbell, who blogs as The Rideshare Guy, to play Silicon Tally. And then we talk to Laura A. Ackley, historian and author of “San Francisco’s Jewel City: The Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915,” about the first transcontinental telephone call ever made. It was 100 years ago this Sunday.   

Airing on Thursday, January 22, 2015: First up on today’s show, we’ll talk with Forrester analyst Frank Gillett about trying out Microsoft’s HoloLens headset. Plus, we’ll talk to Mike Panetta, Partner at the social media strategy firm Beekeper Group, about how the White House is using YouTube to reach out to younger voters. And 2015 marks the year that Back to the Future Part II promised us everything from hover boards to bar code license plates. But which predictions have proven true? What about sleep inducing technology? We talk to Sarah Lisanby, Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University, about using technology to induce sleep.