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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.   

Seattle Startups with Brian Valentine and Jordan Ritter, plus Microsoft holograms, Starbucks delivery and more!

Hosts: Patrick Norton and Ryan Shrout The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 full review, Windows 10 OS, Microsoft HoloLens, Samsung's portable external SSD, ASUS Rampage V Extreme Motherboard, Apple Watch battery life, ECS LIVA X Mini Pc, CompuLab Fitlet PC Lineup, and more all on This Week in Computer Hardware! Download or subscribe to this show at twit.tv/twich. Send your computer hardware questions to twich@twit.tv. We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes. Thanks to Cachefly for the bandwidth for this show. Running time: 1:16:57

 1896 – Although he was not the only person to be working on the technology and not the first X-ray, Wilhelm Roentgen gave the first public lecture and demonstration of his device. He photographed Dr. Albert von Kolliker’s hand at the Wurzburg Physical Medical Society. The first X-ray he ever took was of his wife’s hand (with wedding ring on). The practice is also known as Röntgen rays. Wikazine – Full show notes for January 23 [dithcarbon] Sega and Bandai announce a merger Apple releases Macintosh Office The integrated circuit is conceived Lenovo acquired IBM ‘s Server division

Host: Scott Wilkinson Scott and the gang review what they saw at CES 2015 including audio show rooms featuring Auro and Atmos products and other highlights from the show. Guests: Michael Heiss, Mark Henninger, and Robert Heron, Download or subscribe to this show at twit.tv/htg239. We invite you to create, add to, and amend our show notes. Thanks to Cachefly for the bandwidth for this show. Running time: 1:07:09

Hosts: Dick DeBartolo with Chad "OMGchad" Johnson RX Robots MEDi, ChargerLeash, BluBed Holster, the Victorinox SwissCard, and more! Download or subscribe to this show at twit.tv/giz. We invite you to read, add to, and amend the show notes. For more details and a chance to win the Mad Magazine "What The Heck Is It?" contest, visit GizWiz.Biz. Bandwidth for The Giz Wiz is provided by Cachefly.

Host: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ Steve Gibson is the founder and CEO of Gibson Research Corporation, and also is the creator of the long-standing hard disk data recovery utility: SpinRite. Guest: Steve Gibson Get in Touch With Us! * Subscribe and get Coding 101 automatically at http://twit.tv/code! * Follow @PadreSJ on Twitter. * Watch the show live and join the chatroom every Thursday at 1:30pm PST. * Email us at Padre@twit.tv . * Join our Google+ Community! Bandwidth for Coding 101 is provided by Cachefly.

Anchor: Megan Morrone Netflix feels threatened by Popcorn Time, Microsoft announces Office 2016 release, details spill on Apple Watch battery life, Twitter add "While You Are Away" feature, Twitter wants users to stop post Instagram photos, Ford opens research office in Silicon Valley, BlackBerry CEO wants "app neutrality", the iTunes store makes more money than Hollywood, and President Obama talks to YouTube celebrities. Guest: Mark Milian Download or subscribe to this show at twit.tv/tn2. For detailed show notes, visit twit.tv/tn2/259. Bandwidth for Tech News 2Night is provided by Cachefly. Running time: 14:12

On today's show, we discuss the DARPA Robotics Challenge (and the rebuilt Atlas robot entering the competition), explain how you can sign up for a free online class about alien life (taught by a Harvard professor), and get gooey over the cutest robot press conference of all time.

Host: Tonya Hall Tonya talks to Tania about measuring social engagement. Guest: Tania Yuki Download or subscribe to this show at twit.tv/mm. Read our show notes at twit.tv/mm39. Thanks to Cachefly for the bandwidth for this show. Running time: 1:01:41

Lasers to make metal better, 3D Printing, we'll take a look at all of your quad copter questions, and more! Connect with us! Don't forget to check out our large library of projects at http://twit.tv/kh. - Google+ Community at gplus.to/twitkh - Tweet at us at @padresj, @Cranky_Hippo and @Anelf3

Buy a data plan from Google? Reports say it could happen. Meanwhile, Amazon launches a textbook creator and Twitter shows missed tweets.

Lead Anchor: Mike Elgan and Co-Anchor: Elise Hu We go into detail on Microsoft's epic event yesterday, new information on the rumor that Samsung may buy BlackBerry, we'll tell you why Google might be your next wireless carrier, and more... Guests: Andrew Cunningham, Devindra Hardawar, Sascha Segan, Cherlynn Low, Claire Brownell, and Deepa Seetharaman Download or subscribe to this show at twit.tv/tnt. Submit and vote on story coverage at technewstoday.reddit.com. Check out the full show notes for today's episode. We invite you to read, add to, and amend the wiki entry for this episode at wiki.twit.tv. Thanks to Cachefly for the bandwidth for this show. Running time: 41:16

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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.