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.

Airing on Wednesday, January 21, 2015: First up on today’s show, we’ll talk with Molly Wood, technology columnist for the New York Times, about Windows 10. Plus, the FCC will put forth and vote on new open internet rules next month. The policy changes will affect so-called “net neutrality.” But as we find out, the way we get information has changed a lot in the last couple of years, and policy may not be keeping up. We’ll also talk to Kylie Peppler, Assistant Professor of Learning Sciences at Indiana University, about the HandiMate robotics toolkit. 

Airing on Tuesday, January 20, 2015: First up on today’s show, we’ll talk to Christopher Soghoian, principal technologist at the American Civil Liberties Union, with a preview of the privacy policies in the State of the Union address. Plus, Tennessee’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory may once again be home to the world’s fastest supercomputer. Its current machine was the fastest when it went live in 2012. That title only lasted six months – then a computer in China took the top spot. But the U.S. recently put aside more $400 million to keep itself in the race.

Airing on Monday, January 19, 2015: Later this year, in an attempt to be better prepared for future cyber-security breaches, the governments of the U.S. and the UK will team up for the first time to simulate large scale cyber attacks. But exercises like this aren’t new to the private sector, where you can pay firms to test your company’s digital defenses. We’ll also talk to tech journalist Sarah Jeong about the first week of the Silk Road trial.

Airing on Friday, January 16, 2015: First up on today’s show, we’ll talk to Amanda Lotz, Associate Professor of Communications Studies at the University of Michigan, she’s also the author of The Television Will Be Revolutionized, about Netflix and Net Neutrality. Plus, Netflix will go from streaming movies to producing them this year. It’s releasing the first of four movies with Adam Sandler. And it’ll release, both in theaters and on Netflix at the same time, the sequel to Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. We look at how Netflix is trying to upend the traditional film release structure. And how well have you kept up with the week in tech news? It’s time for Silicon Tally! This week, host Ben Johnson takes on Flora Lichtman, a science journalist and producer of The Adaptors podcast.

Airing on Thursday, January 15, 2015: Google launches a Domains service, which will compete with the likes of GoDaddy. We look at the impact of this competition, and the impact on users in terms of making it easier to register websites. Plus, we’ll speak with Matthew Nordan, managing partner at MNL Partners an energy and environmental investment firm, about electronic waste and Google’s Project Ara. And Kade Crockford, director of the Technology for Liberty project at the ACLU of Massachusetts, talks about license plate tracking technology for this week’s Back to Back to the Future Part II segment.