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We're back from yet another week on the road, this time for Verizon's Motorola Droid Turbo event, as well as Google's Lollipop open house. (Be sure to check out our hands-ons with the Nexus 9, as well as the Nexus 6.) Plus, we answer a whole bunch of your questions live on air. Join us! This week's sponsor Squarespace: Get 10 percent off your first purchase by using coupon code ANDROID at Squarespace.com.

Hosts: Mike Elgan and Christina Warren FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler is trying the solve Net Neutrality with a solution that everyone will hate, your smartphone passcode is protected but not your fingerprint, Samsung has new all metal phones, and find out why Silicon Valley is hacking food. Guests: Jessica Dolcourt, and Tim Bradshaw. 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: 37:49

On today's show, Kuang Chen, CEO of Captricity, talks about using machine learning tools to digitize campaign finance documents before election day. And how well have you kept up with the week in tech news? Host Ben Johnson takes on Andrea Silenzi, host of the WFMU podcast Why Oh Why?, for this week's Silicon Tally.

On today's show, we're gearing up to celebrate Halloween, so we showed up in costume and talked about haunted advertisements, a bike prepared for the zombie apocalypse, and a drone made for emergencies.

Jesse Case (@jessecase) returns! He was a lego dork in 2010 and this ep we talk about his typewriter collection and we weed of HARD CORE into WW2. Listen to us both put our feet in our mouths… turns out we LIKE Jews, HATE rape, Hitler and are against war. His podcast is called “Probably Science” and it’s great. Dork on! This month our sponsor is Bob Calhoun! You might remember him from ep#38. He talks about writing the book that he then got published that I believe everyone will enjoy.The book is "Shattering Conventions: Commerce, Cosplay, and Conflict on the Expo Floor" by Bob Calhoun. It's available in eBook and paperback from Amazon.com and other fine book sellers. For more on the book go to www.ShatteringConventions.com We all know I have a new hour comedy video out at www.allthingscomedy.com/jackiekashian right? Cuz I do. $5 download. It’s called “This Will Make An Excellent Horcrux” because comedy is all about soul ;) … Own it today and forever. OR get a hard copy (or the CD) on the Merch page on my website. www.jackiekashian.com  November and December I ask that you do NOT donate to TDF but, instead, find your local foodbank! It’s Thanksgiving guys… let’s be thankful and giving, shall we? Google: “your town name” and the words, “food bank” and give them food or money. If you give them money they just buy what’s most needed. All good either way. Take care out there… heh. Credits: Audio leveling by Patrick Brady Music is by Mike Ruekberg Website design by Vilmos: Really good Web designs. http://hiredguncoding.com If you like a specific app – they are available with bonus content: iPhone or Android. Libsyn is also just PUBLISHING the bonus content, for free, with Andy and I talking about the show for a sec, on tdf.libsyn.com… no App needed. There you go.

Microsoft wants to put a computer on your wrist, Starbucks wants to deliver a cup of coffee to your desk, and the UW wants to give a boost to computer science education. With guest Ed Lazowska, the Bill & Melinda Gates Chair at the UW Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering. Plus a new trivia challenge and an amazing app of the week that you'll wish you had back in high school algebra.

Happy Halloween! 1892 – Arthur Conan Doyle publishes the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. After Doyle attended medical school, he moved to London, where he practiced medicine and wrote the first Sherlock Holmes story, “A Study in Scarlet”. This Day in Tech History podcast show notes for October 31 IBM OS/2 1.1 released First public version of Sketch Google privatizes Jotspot

The Microsoft Band goes beyond fitness tracking and works with Android and iPhones, and Nintendo reveals plans to track your sleep with a bedside gadget.

Scott Stein is in the studio with a brand new Microsoft Band. We'll play around with it and see if it fills any of the voids that plague current wearables. We'll also give impressions of the Nexus 6, 9 and Player and discuss Nintendo's "quality of life" campaign that involves its own sleep tracker.

On today's show, Charlie Anderson, Vice President and Senior Research Analyst at Dougherty & Company, talks about Samsung's mobile market share and its declining profits. Then, a look at why college admission officers keep a close eye on social media. Finally, we talk about the perils of Taco Bell's new mobile ordering app. 

On today's show, we talk about the Antares rocket disaster, how scientists might use hydrogel to create artificial facial muscles in robots, and a ferrofluid art exhibit desperate for your attention.

1938 - Orson Welles shocks the nation with radio broadcast of “The War of the Worlds” by H. G. Wells. A large number of listeners who tune into the program ten minutes late (because the singer on the Edgar Bergan show was not that great). Because of this, they didn’t know this was a fictional story and start to panic. The story was brought through a series of “Newscasts” that Welles portrayed the reporter on the street and how these giant machines landed and began to attack the population.This event would launch Orson Welles career. Of course, he would go...

Doubts linger on the security of the controversial CurrentC payment app. Meanwhile, HP's Sprout targets creative minds and the Bitmoji app turns you into emoji.

Today Jeff and Iyaz discuss Marvel's phase 3 movie ambitions, the legalities of Spider-man, cancellation bear and the Google VP that now holds the skydiving world record.

On todays's show, Nate Elliott, Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, covers Facebook earnings. Then, Molly Wood, Technology columnist at the New York Times, talks with host Ben Johnson about Xiaomi's plans to build a data center in India. Also, David Wagner jumps on the podcast to talk about cars getting smarter, but not necessarily smart cars.