RNZ: This Way Up

The Soup Hub's like a soup kitchen ladling out free access to computers and the internet for the homeless and the needy. With founder Sibylle Schwarz, volunteer Gaelyn Douglas and job hunters Priscilla, Patch and Joe.

Sam Muirhead's a New Zealander living in Berlin who's living an open source life for a year. This week he's making open source undies, drinking open source beer, while trying to surf the open source internet for open source music!

Anu Anand lives in India where the government has blocked web sites, told Google and Facebook to delete content, threatened to sue Twitter and limited the number of texts anyone can send.

Peter Griffin with the latest news on the ultrafast broadband network. Also, is Kim Dotcom about to launch Megaupload 2? And has your anti-virus software killed your computer with a dodgy update?

According to ex-pro cyclist Paul Kimmage, 86 percent of Tour de France winners over the past 40 years have been implicated in doping! He looks at the Lance Armstrong case and what's going to happen with his seven Tour de France titles.

The US state department is training trolls (the ones with laptops not the ones who live under bridges and like eating goats!) to combat terrorism. Shahed Amunallah has set up Viral Peace and works for the US State Department.

We look at the EDM (Electronic Dance Music) scene in the US with music writer and critic Simon Reynolds.

Using cheap off-the-shelf technology to protect dementia sufferers' memories. We speak to Nur Nadiah Binte Zailani and the team behind DARE- or the Dementia Assistance and Recall Engine.

Basketball's about to become the first major US sport to give advertisers the right to put their logos on playing shirts. We speak to Paul Swangard, who's a sports marketing specialist at The University of Oregon.

Charles Arthur beams in with the latest tech news. This week, the jury decides the Apple v Samsung court case in the US. Plus Twitter gets twitchy and stops third parties from accessing its database.

According to Mark Rober, 6 percent of drivers will intentionally swerve to hit a small animal on the road. Also Bob Brockie is New Zealand's foremost roadkill observer.

Peter Dearden of Otago University is trying to save the honeybee in New Zealand using selective breeding and genetics.

Hon Weng Chong and before that Andrew Lin from Stethocloud are young Aussie inventors using smartphone technology to diagnose pneumonia.

Many recipes say you can caramelise onions in about 10 minutes. But can you really?! We put the claims to the test with chef and restaurateur Julie Clark.

Dr Chris Smith beams in with more naked science. This week, using DNA to store data, and a revolutionary way to rebuild the retina.