Matthew and Mikah share their complicated feelings regarding Amazon's new Halo fitness wearable, praise Level's new smart lock that blends in with a user's existing setup, and discuss Fitbit's new Google-Assistant-supporting smartwatches.

• SMART TECH
• Sunu Band – The Smart Wearable Helping Blind People Maintain Social Distance | Forbes: https://bit.ly/3hRXAjW
• iRobot's Cheapest Roombas Might Finally Be Worth Buying | Gizmodo: https://bit.ly/3gGZXo1
• The Level Touch is a stealthy smart lock with hidden capacitive touch | Inputmag: https://bit.ly/2EIw0XU
• Smart blinds are an expensive upgrade to your smart home | The Verge: https://bit.ly/2Gjhq9T
• AMAZON
• Amazon's Alexa has learned hundreds of regional British words and phrases | The Sun: https://bit.ly/2ERQtt7
• Amazon announces Halo, a fitness band and app that scans your body and voice | The Verge: https://bit.ly/2YRBFSk
• GOOGLE
• Google launches Nest Hub for hotels to close the gap with Amazon | Venturebeat: https://bit.ly/32OCyMO
• Fitbit unveils Sense and Versa 3 smartwatches with Google Assistant | Venturebeat: https://bit.ly/32G6ASB
• Lenovo unveils new Google Assistant-powered smart clock | The Verge: https://bit.ly/3bpYP7z
• Google Assistant's daily snapshot feature gets birthday reminders and recipe recommendations | The Verge: https://bit.ly/3hLni9J
• SIRI
• Interact with Siri and apps at the same time in iPadOS 14 | 9to5Mac: https://bit.ly/2YQXD7Y

• Broadlink RM4 Mini Universal IR Remote Control | Amazon: https://amzn.to/3hNh9cP

• PICKS OF THE WEEK
• Mikah: Deliveries: a package tracker | App Store: https://apple.co/3lua4jI
• Matthew: Restore by Hatch | Hatch: https://www.hatch.co/restore

Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Matthew Cassinelli

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When you want the best of Samsung's best, you probably want the Note20 Ultra. But, can it justify it's hefty $1,300 price tag when incredible options are available for far less in a time when everyone is looking to save? Jason Howell gives his review.

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Looking to set up a live stream with multiple cameras for your small church or home studio? Leo Laporte explains the basics of multi-cam live streaming.

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Remembering Chadwick Boseman, TikTok Drama, Neuralink's Pig Trepanation

• Remembering Chadwick Boseman
• Elon Musk demonstrates Neurallink: trepanning a Pig
• What is Palantir doing?
• Apple vs Epic: how anti-competitive is Apple, and what should the government do about this?
• TikTok This Week: Walmart Enters the Fray; why TikTok is Dangerous
• Amazon announces Halo, a subscription fitness wearable and platform that can tell when you are angry
• Cory Doctorow on Shoshanna Zuboff: how to destroy Surveillance Capitalism and the Chickenization of America
• The effects of monopolism: why your glasses cost $700 and wages have dropped over the past 50 years.
• How legislation defends monopolies, and how lobbyists have destroyed democracy
• How to fix Facebook: more choices in Social Media
• Cyberwar with China: the TikTok era
• How conspiracy theories work
• The difficulties of teaching and learning via Zoom
• Chatterbox: one of the best ways to learn in the COVID Age
• Life in the COVID age: it could be a lot worse
• OhDoctah on Black Lives Matter, and his personal experiences with racist Police

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Owen JJ Stone, Cory Doctorow, and Mike Elgan

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Printer not printing in color & waiting to upgrade your mac.

The Toyota Rav4 Prime, Linux running Microsoft Office, what is a VPN, eliminating duplicate contacts in your address books, camera options for online content, using Windows Remote Desktop, talking to Sam Abuelsamid and Chris Marquardt, and more of your calls!

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Sam Abuelsamid and Chris Marquardt

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Apple vs. Epic, finding a computer for distance teaching, upgrading a Synology NAS, remote desktop to fix a Chromebook, is sideloading Android apps safe? Avoiding Windows 10 updates, finding a landline phone with big buttons for seniors, what can I do if my Apple ID has been hacked? Deleting Norton from a new Windows computer and more of your calls!

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Scott Wilkinson, Johnny Jet, and Dick DeBartolo

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• New Zealand stock exchange halted by cyber-attack
• China may be the world's leading cyber power
• A Chrome feature is creating enormous load on global root DNS servers
• Elon Musk confirms Tesla was the target of a foiled ransomware attack
• A vulnerability tsunami is overwhelming security teams
• There's a big hurricane headed toward Texas, and it's a nightmare forecast
• Google's own engineers said the company 'confuses users' on privacy settings that are now the subject of a lawsuit
• Tensions between Apple and Facebook may affect the ad targeting business
• Redefining what CISO success looks like
• Chief Availability Officer of Salesforce Darryn Dieken on availability, reliability and the challenges organizations are facing.

Hosts: Louis Maresca, Brian Chee, and Curt Franklin

Guest: Darryn Dieken

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Now it's time to really make folder actions sing with your own custom code. You can do this in Automator or Applescript (easier), or using a scripting language like shell, python, or Perl (advanced).

Follow these steps in order:

Create a script with Script Editor or another script application.

• 1. In that script, write a handler that conforms to the syntax documented here for the `[adding folder items to] ' folder action. Your handler can use the aliases that are passed to it to access the image files dropped on the folder.
• 2. Save the script as a compiled script or script bundle.
• 3. Put a copy of the script in `/Library/Scripts/Folder Action Scripts` or `~/Library/Scripts/Folder Action Scripts`.
• 4. Use the Folder Actions Setup application, located in `/Applications/AppleScript`, to:
• a. Enable folder actions for your image folder.
• b. Add a script to that folder, choosing the script you created

• Leo Laporte gives you helpful tips to get the most from your Mac every week on Hands-On Mac!

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We shouldn't forget the importance of hearing in our personal wellness. On Hands-On Wellness, Ant Pruitt shares the Olive Smart Ear hearing assistant. This tech is not a hearing aid, but it is designed to help filter out unwanted frequencies your ears hear.

Host: Ant Pruitt

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TikTok CEO resigns, Facebook required for your Oculus, Joe Budden vs Spotify.

• Amid controversial executive order and other political concerns, TikTok CEO resigns.
• Facebook will now force Occulus users to have a Facebook account to use its VR platform.
• Solar panels are saving the environment today, but what about twenty years from now?
• Joe Budden announces he's leaving the Spotify podcast network due to unfair business practices.

Hosts: Jason Howell and Ant Pruitt

Guests: Chris Stokel-Walker, Sam Machkovech, Maddie Stone, and Ashley Carman

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