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Reporters' Roundtable: Space programs (podcast)

Why go to space? And how? This week, two great guests talk about how our space program has changed since Apollo, whether we're going back to the moon or pressing on to Mars, and how we need to build the "Interstate for Space" to get to either of those rocks.

Our first guest is space journalist Miles O'Brien, for 16 years a space and aviation journalist with CNN, and currently chairman of the Education and Outreach Committee for NASA. He produces the podcast, This Week in Space.

We also have with us Commercial Spaceflight Federation President Bretton Alexander. Brett previously served under presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush as senior policy analyst for space issues, and was author of the 2004 Vision for Space Exploration (PDF), a White House plan to go back to the moon.

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CNET Showcase wrapup: Readers sound off on iPad vs. all other tablets

Brian Cooley was on hand to chronicle and summarize our second live CNET Showcase evening. Check out his report below.

Also see CNET's new dedicated Tablets section. It's where to go for the latest news and reviews in this new category of tech.

CNET Showcase discussion: Slates vs. Netbooks

Our second live CNET Showcase event was all about the market for smaller-than-laptop computers: Slates, tablets, and Netbooks. We brought Dan Ackerman out from our New York office to argue with Donald Bell about the merits of different technologies and platforms, in front of a live audience.

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Reporters' Roundtable: Wireless device security (podcast)

In light of the hack on the iPad 3G that matched device identifier codes to e-mail addresses of users, today we're focusing on wireless device security and cellular network safety. Our guests: John Hering of the mobile security firm Lookout Security and CNET News security reporter Elinor Mills.

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Reporters' Roundtable: E3 preview and the future of games (podcast)

E3, the Electronic Entertainment Expo, is coming up next week, and CNET News is sending Josh Lowensohn and Daniel Terdiman to the show to report on it. We've got them both in the house today to tell us what to expect. We're going to cover the future of platforms, why Farmville is such a success, why PC games lag consoles, what happens when you give a Rock Band guitar to a real musician, and more.

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Coming up: E3 and the future of games

Today on Reporters' Roundtable: What's coming in computer games. E3, the Electronic Entertainment Expo, kicks off next week, and CNET writers Daniel Terdiman and Josh Lowensohn will be there covering it. We have them both on the Roundtable today to talk about what they are expecting.

Topics to be covered include:

Advances in gaming hardware: Motion control and 3D Is the PC dead as a gaming platform? What big products will be announced at E3? The secret to FarmVille's success Emerging genres in games And more!

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Reporters' Roundtable: What is artificial life? (podcast)

This week, artificial life! Last month, of course, Craig Venter announced that he had modified a living organism by replacing its DNA with a synthetically-created genome. The J. Craig Venter Institute project took Mycoplasma capricolum bacteria and completely rewrote its genetic code of more than 1 million base pairs of DNA.

It's another step on the way to the creation of designed organisms. It's important science and it raises fascinating technological and ethical questions, some of which we'll be discussing today.

We have two great guests for this show. First, in the studio with us, Dr. Kiki Sanford from podcasts This Week in Science and Dr. Kiki's Science Hour.

And from the philosophy department of my alma mater, Reed College, Dr. Mark Bedau. Mark is also editor of the MIT journal Artificial Life.

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Reporters' Roundtable: App stores are good for software biz (podcast)

The working title for this show was, "How app stores are killing software." But the conversation, with Evernote CEO Phil Libin and SoftTech venture capitalist Jeff Clavier, painted exactly the opposite picture. These two execs, both of whom are making money from software in the current economy, say that the gated, paid app stores are in fact the best things to happen to software developers in years. Watch the show to learn why.

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Reporters' Roundtable: Our perilous infrastructure (podcast)

This week, a bit of an inconvenient truth in our show: We're talking about our national infrastructure--power, water, transportation, and the like--and how it's kind of a mess from a security perspective thanks in no small part to the growth of the Internet. If you're a fan of reliable electricity and clean water you'll agree with me it's an important topic, and I think you'll find our discussion fascinating.

Our guests today to dive into this are first our security reporter, Elinor Mills, from CNET. And a special welcome to Joe Weiss, founder of Applied Control Solutions, which works with government agencies and utilities on infrastructure safety. Joe also spends a fair bit of time testifying before Congress on these issues. Previously Joe was a nuclear power engineer and technical manager at the Electric Power Research Institute, EPRI. His book, Protecting Industrial Control Systems from Electronic Threats, comes out next week.

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Reporters' Roundtable: The patent mess (podcast)

This week our topic is: the patent mess. Are patents stifling innovation or helping it? Or put another way, do patents just take money out of the technology world and funnel it to lawyers, or is there a benefit to the system?

There's been a lot of patent news lately. In a typical story, Apple claimed infringement by HTC, HTC counter-claimed, and Microsoft said Google's Android phones (most of which are made by HTC) may be infringing. It's a tangled mess.

Guests are Molly Wood, the co-host of Buzz Out Loud here at CNET, with me, and Nilay Patel, managing editor at the gadget blog Engadget and a former lawyer.

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