There's a new report this morning saying that people with insider Wall Street knowledge have been hacking into companies to use sensitive information for insider trading. The majority of firms targeted were public health care and pharmaceutical companies. The report says this has been going on for over a year, and the traces left behind suggest hackers might be former workers on Wall Street. Michael Riley is a reporter for Bloomberg News covering this story and he joins Marketplace Tech host Ben Johnson to talk about it. 

Hackers using Wall Street smarts to steal industry secrets

So far in our series about tech predicted in the 1989 movie about time travel, we've talked about sleep inducing technology, biometrics and more. Today's topic? The weather. Back to the Future Part II had a forecast for a 2015 world where a piece of wearable technology told Doc what the weather would do up to the second. Or was the weather being controlled? Matt Novak, author of Gizmodo's Paleofuture blog, joins us to talk about the scene - and about the history of weather control.

Did Back to the Future Part II predict weather control?

As part of Marketplace Tech's “Back to Back to the Future Part 2” series, Gizmodo writer Matt Novak about the fate of dehydrated pizza and the movie’s other future food predications. 

Where's my dehydrated pizza?

Announcing Codebreaker, a new podcast from Marketplace in partnership with Tech Insider.

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See you on November 11th.

Codebreaker: A new podcast from Marketplace Tech and Tech Insider

Cadie Thompson of Tech Insider tells Codebreaker who is buying drugs online.

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Cadie Thompson tells Codebreaker who is buying drugs online

Former Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff describes what scares him about the dark web. 

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Former Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff describes what scares him about the dark web

Ross Whitaker and his wife decide to buy an inhaler on the dark web.

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Ross Whitaker and his wife decide to buy an inhaler on the dark web

Ben Johnson and Reggie Watts talk about Reggie's current favorite pedal...and one that he hates. 

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Cadie Thompson on how self driving cars tell the difference between garbage bags and children -- through training.

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Self-driving cars have to be trained like humans

Codebreaker host Ben Johnson talks to Adelle Gomelsky Kelleher, a matchmaker with the company Three Day Rule. Three Day Rule clients submit photos of their exes, and matchmakers use facial recognition software to match them with a new partner with a similar facial structure.

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Matchmaking company uses facial recognition to find matches who look like their clients' exes

Dr. Damian Schofield explores the potential for bias when virtual reality is used to present evidence in the courtroom

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Recreating a murder scene – in virtual reality

Ben Gilbert, Senior Correspondent at Business Insider, describes lifelike memories from his favorite virtual reality video game

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Real-life memories in a virtual reality video game

Dr. Patrice Renaud describes the virtual reality scenarios he uses to diagnose sex offenders - and he discusses how interactive VR videos could be a problematic as a form of treatment

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The tricky part of using virtual reality to treat sex offenders

Neil Harbisson considers himself to be a cyborg. Born with black-and-white vision, Neil implanted an antenna in his skull that allows him to hear colors. He describes one of the difficulties he faces with his antenna - drunk women.

Listen to the full Codebreaker episodes by searching for Codebreaker on iTunes, your favorite podcast app, or go to http://www.marketplace.org/topics/tech/codebreaker-podcast

A cyborg describes the problems created by his antenna

Ben Johnson asks Google's Product Executive Aparna Chennapragada if Google Now is always listening

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Is your phone always listening?

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Codebreaker 

Introducing Codebreaker season two

Business Insider correspondent Dave Mosher describes the moment Kirk Sorenson discovered "Fluid Fuel Reactors" -- a book about molten salt reactors.

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