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Marketplace Tech for Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Jun 25, 2014

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  • There’s a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the AT&T/DirecTV merger today. Executives from AT&T and DirecTV will argue why their proposed $48.5 billion deal should pass antitrust muster. Mitchel Hartman reports on what arguments they’ll make. Then, Ben talks with Chelsea Clinton about what’s at stake when it comes to getting girls on track for careers in science and technology.

  • First up, we talk to Chester Wisniewski, senior security advisor at Sophos, on the proliferation of cyber extortion. Plus, as the World Cup enters into another week, a look at some of the new technology making its debut on the field in Brazil. Also, Marketplace’s Krissy Clark talks about the failed Silicon Valley entrepreneur behind @hiddencash – an account with half a million followers that tweets out the location of bundles of money hidden around California – and around the world.

  • First up,Jason Schultz, Associate Professor of Clinical Law and Director of NYU’s Technology Law & Policy Clinic, talks about this week’s Supreme Court ruling on software patents. Then Will Oremus, Senior Tech Writer at Slate, chats about why an app that only does one thing – send the message “Yo” to another person who uses the app – is so popular. And how well have you kept up with the week in tech news? Host Ben Johnson plays Silicon Tally with Marketplace’s Sabri Ben-Achour.

  • With the expected Supreme Court ruling on Aereo, we look at what could happen if the online TV service loses. Plus, John and Bonnie Raines, two of the activists who broke into an FBI office in Media, PA on March 8, 1971 and uncovered evidence of domestic surveillance that led to the formation of the Church Committee, talk about the first time the US Government investigated its own intelligence agencies. And finally, emails come with all kinds of attachments – this week, a Harvard professor unveiled one with smell attached. We take a closer look at the technology that makes it possible.

  • First, Ben talks with John Rossman, a former Amazon executive and author of The Amazon Way, about how Jeff Bezos runs the company, and how a 3D smartphone fits in with Amazon’s long term plans. Plus, Molly Wood, technology columnist at the New York Times, talks about YouTube’s new music service and its move to block content from artists who don’t sign on. Finally, we check in with Dag Spicer, a computer historian and senior curator at the Computer History Museum, about an early prototype of the Microchip that’s being auctioned this week.

  • First up, Carl Howe, vice president and senior analyst at Yankee Group, stops by to talk about Blackberry’s encrypted messaging service: BBM Protected. Plus, Lindsey Turrentine, Editor-in-chief of reviews at CNET, on Google Fit and Apples’ health kit – and how companies like Google and Apple can benefit from being the gateway for aggregated health and lifestyle data. Then we head under the sea, where Faien Cousteau, grandson of the explorer Jacques Cousteau, talks about living and working in an underwater habitat.

  • First up, more on why Amazon wants to put a device in your pocket. Plus, with the demand for computer science majors booming, it’s hard to believe that the field wasn’t considered a serious academic discipline back in the 1960s. We head to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which is celebrating fifty years of computing — and the birth of a new field. Also, aattorney and Last Man competitor Brendan Loy talks about how to avoid World Cup Spoilers online when the whole world is watching, and talking about, the match outcomes.

  • First up, Brian Fung, technology reporter for the Washington Post, stops by to talk more about the FCC’s open meeting. Plus, Glenn Greenwald, a journalist with The Intercept and the author of No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA and the U.S. Surveillance State, joins host Ben Johnson to play an NSA-number-themed Silicon Tally, our weekly quiz on the week in tech news.  

  • First up, Marketplace’s David Weinberg joins us from the floor of the E3 Gaming Expo. Plus, Zach Seward, senior editor at the online magazine Quartz, talks about how cord cutters can watch the World Cup matches online. Continuing the Data on our Data series, we’ll discuss the $278 million budgeted for the NSA to reimburse telecomm companies for the cost of surveillance.

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