Airing on Tuesday, March 10, 2015: Apple just unveiled the price tag for its line of smartwatches. First, we speak with Lindsey Turrentine, Editor-in-Chief of CNET.com, about how much the Apple Watch costs and who’s going to buy it? Next, we take a look at companies responding to a more competitive labor market in general by emphasizing more on campus recruiting and marketing themselves to new workers. At the same time, companies are also recognizing that new workers aren’t staying around very long no matter how much time and effort has gone into recruiting them.

Airing on Monday, March 9, 2015: First up, we’ll talk to Kelly Jasper, Contributing Editor at the watch Magazine Hodinkee, talks about setting a price range for the Apple Watch. And when a Jennifer Aniston ad for Aveeno appears just before a jihadi training video on You Tube, Proctor and Gamble is not amused. On today’s show, we explain how this could happen. For one, ads are automatically placed before videos, and advertisers can’t exert much control over this. And Ben speaks with Will Oremus, Senior Tech writer for Slate, about the new Googleplex. 

Airing on Friday, March 6, 2015: Later this year, Apple is expected to unveil a new larger-screen iPad. The new device, boasting additional features, will be aimed at the business market. Will this move by Apple affect the whole of the business tablet/computer sector? And ho well have you kept up with the week in tech news? It’s time for Silicon Tally! This week, Ben plays takes on Katie Notopoulos, Senior Editor at Buzzfeed.   

Airing on Thursday, March 5, 2014: First up is Lee Hutchinson, Senior Reviews Editor for Ars Technica, to talk about how to set up your own, at-home email server. Next, for this week’s segment of Back to Back to The Future Part II, Ben speaks with Matt Novak, author of Gizmodo’s Paleofuture blog, about controlling the weather. 

Airing on Wednesday, March 4, 2015: First up is Molly Wood, technology columnist for the New York Times, to talk about the perfect match between smartwatches and mobile payments … if either industry can figure out how to convince consumers to adopt its new technology. Next we have Chester Wisniewski, senior security advisor at the cybersecurity firm Sophos,  on the “FREAK” flaw in Apple and Android browsers. We’ll also speak with sound artist Matt Parker about The Imitation Archive, Parker’s quest to collect and archive the sounds of the early days of computing.     

Airing on Tuesday, March 3, 2015: The battle to be the smartest smart phone in the smart pay world. Apple is there. Now comes Samsung with its new GalaxyS6 with Samsung Pay. And, it could have an edge. Game on. We’ll also talk with Roger Cheng, Executive Editor at CNET, about new products at Mobile World Congress, happening in Barcelona this week. And PBS Newshour correspondent Miles O’Brien joins us to talk about prosthetics technology. O’Brien had his arm amputated following an injury while he was on assignment last year.

Airing on Monday, March 2, 2015: Massive Open Online Courses or MOOCs are on today’s agenda at an annual conference hosted by Coursera, a major online course provider. They will likely discuss the growth of corporate MOOCs. We find out if MOOCs have become less about transforming higher education and more about helping already educated workers get ahead and boosting the company’s bottom line? Next up is Alison Griswold, staff writer at Slate, to talk about Venmo’s security problems. And then we are joined by Ted Rappaport, director of NYU WIRELESS – he speaks with us about the development of 5G technology and wireless internet cell phone plans.   

Airing on Friday, Feb. 27, 2015: The FCC has approved new internet rules, ushering in net neutrality. First up is Susan Crawford, Co-Director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, to talk about the FCC’s vote on Thursday. Next we take a look at why only a third of people in the U.S. have chip and pin credit cards – a system widely used in other countries. And, for this week’s Silicon Tally, we are joined by Leo Laporte, host of the podcast, “This Week in Tech.”     

Airing on Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015: Today, the FCC will vote on net neutrality. We speak with Tim Wu, a law professor at Columbia University, who coined the term “network neutrality,” ahead of the vote this evening. And, for this week’s edition of Back to Back to the Future Part II, we are joined by  Joseph Lorenzo Hall, Chief Technologist at Center for Democracy & Technology –  he talks with Ben about fingerprint scanning technology.