NPR Topics: Technology Podcast

Stories: 1) Manufacturers At CES Offer More In Home Automation 2) Many Younger Facebook Users 'Unfriend' The Network 3) Startups Often Focus On Data Security Too Late, If At All 4) Wearable Sensor Turns Color-Blind Man Into 'Cyborg' 5) A First Look At New Tech Products To Hit The Market 6) Internet In America: An On Again, Off Again Relationship

Stories: 1) In Fast-Changing China, Reality Can Overtake Fiction 2) Netflix Built Its Microgenres By Staring Into The American Soul 3) 'Playboy' Gets Pranked: Group Flips The Script On Sex 4) Saving Babies' Lives Starts With Aquarium Pumps And Ingenuity 5) The NSA's Quantum Code-Breaking Research Is No Secret 6) For The Blind, Connected Devices Create A Novel Way To Read

Stories: 1) Banks Try To Save Big With 'ATMs Of The Future' 2) Nothing Focuses The Mind Like The Ultimate Deadline: Death 3) Supercamera: More Pixels Than You Know What To Do With 4) West Coast's Early Warning System For Quakes Still Spotty 5) Hot On YouTube: Videos About Video Games, And Science, Too 6) To Make Intersections Smarter, We Need Cars To Be Smarter, Too

Stories: 1) Bay Area's Steep Housing Costs Spark Return To Communal Living 2) A City Turns To Lettuce Fields To Grow High-Tech Startups 3) Hackers Stole 40 Million Credit, Debit Card Numbers From Target 4) How An Obscure Government Code — 834 — Became Big In 2013 5) Will A Computer Decide Whether You Get Your Next Job? 6) Robot 'Olympics' Test Machines On Human Skills

Stories: 1) Amid Cuts And Tax Hikes, Tech Companies Get Love in Ireland 2) A Rush To Reconcile Health Enrollment Data, By Hand 3) Bots Are Driving Web Traffic More Than Humans, Report Says 4) A Movement To Bake Online Privacy Into Modern Life, 'By Design' 5) Game Director Shifts From 'Grand Theft Auto' To Iranian Revolution 6) Twitter Critics Say It's Not Sensitive Enough To Cyberbullying

Stories: 1) N.Y. Train Crash Spotlights Push For Automatic Safety System 2) New York's Insurance Exchange Readies For Holiday Rush 3) Tech Giants Call On Obama, Congress For Surveillance Changes 4) Teens Dig Digital Privacy, If Snapchat Is Any Indication

Stories: 1) Hard-Core And Casual Gamers Play In Different Worlds 2) Could Video Games Be The Next Job Interview? 3) Businesses Woo Customers With Free Phone-Charging Stations 4) HealthCare.gov Team Working Through Holiday To Meet Deadline 5) For Advocacy Groups, Video Games Are The Next Frontier 6) Tech Leaders, Economists Split Over Clean Energy's Prospects

Stories: 1) How HealthCare.gov Is Giving A Once-Obscure Bill A Boost 2) A Bitcoin Insider On Crime, Congress And Satoshi Nakamoto 3) To Test-Drive A Concept Car, Fire Up The PlayStation 4) Building Eco-Friendly Instruments, Paths For Women In Tech 5) Online Streaming Deal Could Mean All Homer Simpson, All The Time 6) Helping Low-Income Seniors Build A Social Web Online

Stories: 1) How The Sharing Economy Is Changing The Places We Work 2) Electric Cars Drive Demand For Cheaper, More Powerful Batteries 3) Plastic Guns Made With 3-D Printers Pose New Security Concerns 4) For Ridesharing Apps Like Lyft, Commerce Is A Community 5) Game Consoles Marketed As Multimedia Living Room Boxes 6) Will New PlayStation, Xbox Click Beyond The Hard-Core Gamer?

Stories: 1) Twitter Makes Market Debut 2) Stanford Professor Who Sounded Alert On Multitasking Has Died 3) Nick Bilton On Twitter's Creation Myth & 'Forgotten Founder' 4) Meet The Man Who Wants To Diversify Silicon Valley By 2040 5) Twitter Goes Public And Its Stock Price Soars 6) Third-Graders React To Video Games Tracking Their Play

Stories: 1) 'Batman' Style: How We Can See With Sound, Too 2) Facebook Draws More Mobile Advertising 3) The Reply To Email Overload? Prioritize — Or Turn It Off 4) Russian Hackers Stole More Than 160 Million Credit Cards 5) Tiny Tech Puts Satellites In Hands Of Homebrew Designers 6) What We're Watching As World's Big Hackers Meet In Las Vegas

Stories: 1) Residents Forced To Live Without Landlines 2) U.K. Cracking Down On Porn, Blocking It Unless Users Opt In 3) Online Marketers Take Note Of Brains Wired For Rewards 4) Observing Ramadan, On Your Smartphone?

Stories: 1) Arrest Caught On Google Glass Reignites Privacy Debate 2) The Best Concert-Finding Mobile Apps 3) Drone Enthusiasts Use Open Source Hardware To Drive Innovation

Stories: 1) Translation, Please: Hand-Held Device Bridges Language Gap 2) In More Cities, A Camera On Every Corner, Park And Sidewalk 3) Beaming Internet to the Boondocks, Via Balloon 4) Calling It 'Metadata' Doesn't Make Surveillance Less Intrusive

Stories: 1) Mexico's Tech Startups Look To Overcome Barriers To Growth 2) Parvum Opus: Followers Flock To Pope's Latin Twitter Feed 3) Under The Radar: Some Pilots Of Small Drones Skirt FAA Rules 4) Hacktivists: Heroes Or, Well, Hacks? 5) U.S. Automakers Are On A Roll, But Hiring Is Slow And Steady 6) Can Captain Sunshine Save The Israeli Electric Car Dream?