Airing on Tuesday, December 30, 2014: First up on today’s show, we talk with Alp Işın, an artist in Charlottesville, VA, about staying with friends to squeeze more money out of his apartment on Airbnb. Plus, Gerardine Botte, Director of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Ohio University, talks about converting urine to water and energy on the Mars One mission.

Airing on Monday, December 29, 2014: First up on today’s show, Professor Anne-Marie Chang talks about the importance of turning off your tablets before bed. We’ll also speak with reporter Richard Macauley about Uber’s new partnership with Chinese Search Engine, Baidu. And New York magazine’s associate editor, Maggie Lange talks about a thief who was identified after her picture was posted on Tinder by the owner of the startup she burglarized.  

Airing Friday, December 26, 2014: First up, a conversation with Michael Pacter about the new Samsung and Sony deal. And we talk to Jonathan Zittrain about a recent Internet Monitor report that says 2015 is going to be a big year for technology and policy. We’ll also revisit one of our favorite Silicon Tally’s from 2014, with Marketplace’s Sabri Ben-Achour.

Airing on Thursday, December 25, 2014: First up on today’s show, Lee Rainie, director of internet, science and technology research at the Pew Research Center, talks about privacy in 2015 and beyond. Plus, all week, we’ve been revisiting our favorite interviews of 2014. Today, it’s tUnEyArD’s Merrill Garbus, who spoke with us about making music out of the glitches in the machine. And we’ll also talk to Ken Lebrecht, professor of physics at CalTech, about using computers to model snowflakes.  

Airing on Wednesday, December 24, 2014: First up on today’s show, Molly Wood, Technology Columnist for the New York Times, joins us for a look-ahead at TV in 2015. And looking back at some of our favorite interviews of 2014, we revisit our conversation with Guy Kawasaki, the man who sold Apple’s Macintosh to the masses.

Airing Tuesday, December 23, 2014: Chester Wisniewski, senior security advistor at Sophos, joins us to talk about North Korea’s Internet outage. Plus, Lindsey Turrentine, Editor-in-Chief of CNET.com, on the hardware developments we can expect to see at CES and beyond. And Leslie Horn, a writer for Gizmodo, talks to us about coming around to the idea of leaving and listening to voicemails after her dad passed away.

Airing on Monday, December 22, 2014: First up on today’s show, Will Oremus, Senior Technology writer for Slate, talks about the future of connected cars. And from the archives, we revisit a conversation with Neil Young about his Pono high-resolution audio player, recorded at this year’s SXSW.

Airing on December 19, 2014: Will the unprecedented Sony hack set off an arms race among hackers to one up the North Koreans? Plus, we talk with Jonathan Zittrain, law professor and co-founder of Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, about legal issues underlying the Sony hack. And how well have you kept up with the week in tech news? It’s time for Silicon Tally! This week, digital dating consultant Laurie Davis.

Aired on Thursday, December 18, 2014: First up, we talk to Stephen Cobb, security researcher at ESET, about Sony’s decision to pull The Interview. Then, Andrew Bartels, research analyst at Forrester, talks about the tech industry’s reaction to the volatile ruble. And when you think of “salary negotiations,” picking apples and cherries isn’t the first job that comes to mind. Individual farmworkers don’t control much about their work environment. But in Washington’s Yakima Valley, growers and workers alike say the growing use of cell phones has shaken up the labor market.