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.

First up, a look at some of the high-tech features of the official world cup match ball: the brazuca. Plus, Jon Bishke, CEO of Entelo, talks about the algorithm behind Entelo’s tool that helps recruiters find diverse candidates. Continuing our look at data on your data to commemorate the one year anniversay of the Snowden leaks, Nadia Kayyali, an activist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, talks about the length of time (30 days) the NSA stores call logs — It can then go back into those records and listen to phone conversations up to 30 days old.

On today’s show, more on why President Obama will participate in a special Q&A event on Tumblr where he will answer students’ questions about student loan debt. Plus, Cyrus Farivar, Senior Business Editor at Ars Technica, talks about Stingrays – devices that police use to track down cell phones by mimicking cell towers and collecting data from nearby phones. Finally, Stephen Cobb, an assistant research professor at the Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute, joins us to discuss the NSA collecting email address books from services like Yahoo and Facebook at a rate of more than 250 million per year.

On today’s show, Ben Howard, VP of Programming for Gamespot, with a preview of what to expect from this week’s E3 video game conference. Plus, Ariel Waldman, the founder of spacehack.org, talks about citizen science and how the tech industry is changing the scientific community. And hear more about a town in Pakistan that creates 80% of the world’s soccer balls.  A group of notable economists got together to use it as a laboratory to test how best to introduce innovation.

On today’s episode, Pai-Ling Yin from the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research talks about why Apple’s new Programming language, Swift, makes it easier and harder to be an app developer. Plus, we’re joined by Jenna Wortham, technology reporter for the New York Times, to play our weekly quiz on the week in tech: Silicon Tally

Do I detect a hint of sarcasm? On today’s show, Noah Smith, an associate professor of Language Technologies and Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon University, talks about building a program that detects sarcasm. Plus, we visit Jim D’Addario, CEO of the D’Addario strings company, to talk about manufacturing technologies and the company’s new, super-strong guitar string  

Many patients want their personal information kept confidential — unless it can be used to help others. On today’s show, a look at new projects run by UC San Diego and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation where personal health data could help the public good. Plus, Ryan Calo, a Law Professor at the University of Washington, talks about the European Union’s Public Private Partnership in Robotics. Last but not least, more on the pleasure and perils of wearing Google Glass in the real world.