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Marketplace Tech for Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Nov 18, 2014

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  • Josh Dzieza, editor at The Verge, talks about using satellite data and algorithms to track illegal fishing. And Jonathan Zittrain, law professor and co-founder of Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, stops by to talk about what’s next for the FCC.

  • First up, Will Oremus, Senior Technology Writer at Slate, stops by to talk about Facebook’s new privacy tools. Plus, back in September, hackers believed to be from China infiltrated the federal weather network. But why weather? And how well have you kept up with the week in tech news? Host Ben Johnson takes on David Banks, co-editor of the blog Cyborgology, for this week’s Silicon Tally.

  • Rolfe Winkler, who covers Google for the Wall Street Journal, joins us to talk about YouTube’s new streaming music service. Plus, the massively multiplayer online game World of Warcraft is out with its latest expansion on Thursday. It comes as the number of paying subscribers has dropped off considerably since it peak of 12 million in 2010. We look at the changing economics of these games. And Michael Liimatta, President of Connecting for Good, stops by to talk about making the most of Google Fiber in low income communities in Kansas City.

  • First up, we take a look at reactions to the President’s position on net neutrality, and how it changes things for the FCC going forward. Then, we talk about why the New York Attorney General wants to ease off on proposed regulations for Uber and Lyft-like services, and why that might be good for car service companies but bad for drivers. Plus, the fracking business has been called a water industry with an oil and gas byproduct. That’s because of all the very dirty water created by hydraulic fracturing that has to be disposed of. But a small army of innovators think THEY have the chops to clean this water up.

  • First up, more on the massive hack of the United States Postal Service. Then, we talk the single biggest shopping day for singles in China. And last up, Garth Brooks, who is back from a long semi-retirement, is out with a new online store for his music and others, called GhostTunes. We look at who else is on the service, and the challenges a new entrant to this market faces.

  • Today: Chester Wisniewski, from the cybersecurity firm Sophos, about Tor and the recent dark net site shutdowns and arrests.  Plus: William Do, the founder of a failed startup, about being a broke startup founder in San Francisco.

  • On today’s show, guest host Adriene Hill talks with Annie Gilbertson, education reporter at KPCC, about the student record data problems facing the Los Angeles Unified School district. Then, she plays Silicon Tally with Ashkan Soltani, newly appointed Chief Technologist at the FTC.

  • On today’s show we are live with Quartz from The Next Billion event in New York City. First up, Rashad Robinson, Executive Director of ColorOfChange, the nation’s largest online civil rights organization. Then, host Ben Johnson is center stage with Jonathan Cedar, CEO of Biolite, to talk about the tech solutions to the health problems associated with cooking over an open-fire in the developing world.

  • On today’s show, Colin Baker, writer for “The Economist” based in Mali, talks to us about the tech response to Ebola in the region. Also, Ben chats with Steven Heller, co-founder & co-chair of the MFA Designer as Author Program at the School of Visual Arts, New York, about turning data into something visual that’s easy to understand.

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