Once upon a time, competition in online retailing was about being able to offer you anything you wanted. Then, it was about free shipping, one-day shipping, free returns… Now, online retailers are trying to stand-out by offering “curated lists.” We give you a list of sites that offered “curated” experiences. And, it’s Friday. Hope you’ve been paying attention to this week’s tech news. It’s time for another edition of Silicon Tally, Marketplace Tech’s weekly quiz.

The domain name mutualfunds.com is scheduled to be auctioned off tonight. And you might have to cash in some of your mutual fund to even take part. The minimum bid starts at one million dollars. We look at the lucrative domain name business. Plus, we talk a lot on our show about new materials we’re discovering and experimenting with, and how those materials might help us take big leaps forward when it comes to new technology. Today we look closely at one of those materials — graphene. 

An online video shows a man running in slow motion while drunk on a treadmill recently and being slapped across the face. Apparently the slap is more likely to sober you up than a treadmill. The man sacrificing his body in the name of science was Adam Savage, who, along with Jamie Hyneman, is host of the Discovery Channel’s “MythBusters.” Savage and his crew employ a lot of technology in their myth busting. And starting tomorrow they’ll set out on a tech-y month-long live tour.

On Capitol Hill today, the House Transportation Subcommittee holds a hearing on autonomous vehicles, or self-driving cars. Across the pond though, the town of Milton Keynes in England is already planning to have a whole fleet by 2015. Plus, the ongoing fight between Apple and Samsung. And, what are the security implications of the botched HealthCare.gov roll out.

The Federal Communications Commission was started in 1934, long before the internet. But more and more, it’s a government organization that is expected to play referee in the online world — and there’s a new referee. Tom Wheeler used to lobby for broadcasters and telecom companies. Now he’s the new chairman of the FCC. One big challenge he’s facing is net neutrality — whether internet service providers can restrict or degrade access to online services from competitors. One of the immediate things on his list, though, is the country’s shrinking spectrum for our multiplying mobile devices.

While a lot of gamer talk over the next few weeks will be all Xbox and Playstation, there’s been a lot of buzz this fall about a whole different way to play. Valve is a company that makes games for PCs, but also consoles and mobile devices. It delivers its games with a distribution company called Steam. Many consider Valve and Steam to be more of a big gaming tent, and in that tent is a new console called the Steam Box.

If you want to know how hot social networks are right now, no need to look farther than self-destructing messaging app Snapchat. The Wall Street Journal reports the company recently got an offer from Facebook to the tune of $3 billion. Snapchat owners apparently turned down the social network. And the website Wikileaks has leaked a new document, one that shows an evolving international conversation about intellectual property in the digital world.

This week a debate is heating up at the Convention on Conventional Weapons in Geneva. At issue is whether or not we will outsource to machines not only the act of killing, but the act of deciding when to kill. Organizations like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch are calling for a ban on so-called “killer robots.” They’ve even got a website: StopKillerRobots.org. Sounds a little sci-fi right? Science? Yes. Fiction? Not really. 

Relief organizations are searching for survivors in the aftermath of the super typhoon that struck the Philippines on Friday. Survival in natural disasters can often be linked closely with better access to technology. And sometimes the technology is far from fancy. In the Philippines, where 99 percent of the country’s residents have access to mobile phones, simple text messaging has saved lives. So what about when cell service is down? One possible solution to keep people communicating is a so-called mesh network.