First up, Lindsey Turrentine, Editor-in-Chief of Reviews at CNET, talks about Verizon’s new rewards program that gives customers deals in exchange for data about where and how they use their phones. Then, Stephen Cobb, a security researcher at ESET, stops by to talk about canvas fingerprinting, a new, hard-to-detect way for websites to track browsing habits without using cookies. Finally, we discuss with Nilay Patel about what Taylor Swift gets wrong about how the internet is changing the music industry.

With the online sports network ESPN 3 will carried a $10 million gaming contest in Seattle, Leoneda Inge takes a look at competitive gaming hitting the big time. Then, Bridget van Kralingen, Senior Vice President, IBM Global Business Services, talks about the Apple IBM partnership. Plus, Sep Kamvar, LG Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT and the Director of the Social Computing Group at the MIT Media lab, stops by to talk about 100 maps that show only one thing.

First up, Andrew Frank, an analyst at Gartner, on Google earnings. Then, a new study from Columbia Business School says three quarters of mobile phone ads have no impact. So what about the 25% of ads that people actually pay attention to? What a little nudge from your phone might actually get you to buy. Finally, how well have you kept up with the week in tech news? Julia Turner, who was just named editor-in-chief of Slate.com, joins us to play Silicon Tally, our weekly quiz on the week in tech.

First up, Jeff Roberts of GigaOm joins us to discuss a potential settlement stemming from Apple’s e-book price-fixing case. Then, reporter Leoneda Inge explores a new deal Facebook has made to begin tracking how its subscribers watch television content on mobile devices as part of a deal with ratings-agency Nielsen. Then, Ish Sanchez, a student participating in NASA’s microgravity research program, talks about running experiments in near zero gravity.

First up, Charlene Li, founder of Altimeter Group, talks about the Apple IBM partnership to sell mobile devices to businesses for their employees. Plus, more on Yahoo’s earnings and why the company’s online ad rates are down 24 percent. Then: to political candidates, e-mail is extremely important. Campaigns spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to maximize the effectiveness of those e-mails. They want us to vote, but they also want us to give – early and often.  David Gura explores the science of the fundraising e-mail. 

First up, Marvin Ammori, a lawyer and internet policy expert, talks about what’s next in the net neutrality debate after the end of the FCC’s public comment period. Plus, a look at Home Depot’s plans to sell 3D printers for $1400 to $3000 dollars each — Who’s buying them, and why? What do they print? Finally, Topher White, CEO and founder of Rainforest Connection, talks about using recycled cell phones to monitor for the sound of illegal logging.

First up, Carl Howe, vice president at 451 Research, gives us a preview of Tuesdays’ Yahoo’s earnings report. PLus, Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Law at Harvard and co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, talks about the similarities between Facebook’s emotional manipulation study and the EU ruling on the right to be forgotten on Google. And finally: the smell of petrol. The sound of revving internal combustion engines. There are certain experiences common to all types of motor sport around the world. But later this year, racing fans will be presented with an alternative, when the Formula E world championship – designed exclusively for electric cars – is launched. The cars recently took to the track for the first time, at the Donington Park circuit in Britain. The BBC’s – Theo Leggett – a confirmed petrol head – went along to find out more.  

First up, Garrett Buhl Robinson from Brooklyn, New York, talks about his internet usage at the New York City Public Library. Then, Washington Post technology reporter Brian Fung joins us to talk about the FCC’s vote on proposed E-Rate reforms. Later, Will Oremus, senior tech columnist for Slate, stops by to discuss the binary messaging tools similar to the Yo app. Finally, Nando Vila, VP of programming for Fusion and host of Soccer Gods, joins Ben for a World Cup-themed Silicon Tally, our weekly quiz on the week in tech news.

Hundreds of thousands of electronic disability claims at the VA are languishing incomplete, but no one is sure why. Annie Baxter joins us to explain the problem and look at the knock-on effects of so many unprocessed claims. Then, Lindsey Turrentine, Editor-in-Chief of reviews at CNET, talks about LG’s kid-tracking device, KizON. Finally, what’s the fewest number of followers you can have and still pique the interest of advertisers – 10k? How do the offers you’d get from advertisers to pitch for them change when you have 100K, 500K, 1 million followers?  Tracy Samuelson takes a look at how companies and social media influencers find each other.