Chipotle “very interested” in Apple Pay, Apple patent points to iCloud-based Touch ID syncing and fingerprint-protected Apple Pay terminals, Overcast’s sales numbers, Monument Valley team reveals the cost and reward of making a hit iOS game, Intel CEO responds to rumors of ARM-based Macs, and more.

This week we discuss the 80s cult classic Real Genius (1985) with Chris Knight super-fan Jason Snell.

Relevance of CES, robot wars at home, trending trends, and more.

Special guest Jason Snell joins the show for a year-end extravaganza. Topics include Jason’s first three months writing (and podcasting) as an indie at his new Six Colors; a look back at his 20-year career at MacUser and soon thereafter Macworld; tricky edge cases when booking sponsorships, and the whole situation with separating advertising sales from editorial integrity when you’re running a one-person publication; the Sony/North Korea hacking and The Interview, and iTunes’s slightly belated release thereof; and we pour one out for good old Movable Type.

Sarah Lane and Jason Snell talk all things Apple in 2014 including the new iPhone 6, Apple Watch, Apple Pay, iMacs, iPad, and the future of media distribution.

Another big state sponsored malware program is discovered, Firefox drops Google as default search engine for Yahoo, Europe wants to extend right to be forgotten worldwide, Uber takes ‘disciplinary actions’ against executive over privacy violations, Twitter to start tracking what apps you download, Flickr is about to sell your Creative Commons photos, music publishers sue an ISP over piracy, and more.

Is North Korea behind the Sony Pictures hacking?, President Obama approves millions for police body cameras, Uber’s user data could be ripe for hacking, Black Friday and Cyber Monday online shopping record, Nordstrom testing dressing room mirrors with eBay screens, and Google relaunches the Santa Tracker website.

On this, the 31st meeting of The SciFi Geeks Club with guest geek Jason Snell - We get even closer to Skynet. The government doesn’t want a monopoly on inventing our future. What’s with those gigantic clear tubes? The Internet gets terraformed. And, a new drinking game is invented.

Jason and Glenn spend the first half of this episode reviewing why periodicals, including the IDG empire, couldn’t escape the innovator’s dilemma, and see the freight train of the Internet bearing down on them; and the second half, looking into the limitations of the current methods of reaching readers and listeners. Their conclusion: email newsletters and podcasts still have a lot to offer.

This week, special guest Jason Snell joins the snobs in the record store to talk about High Fidelity (2000).