Spend some time in a dark location and you'll see the night sky in all its glory. If you pick a night with no moon, the effect triples. Steve Fentress, recently retired director of the Strasenburgh Planetarium in New York, is our guide to the night sky this week. He'll enlighten us about the lore of the Pleiades, also known as the Seven Sisters, one of the more remarkable constellations in the sky, as well as a general tour of other notable constellations and their stories across the ages. And... he's even got a planetarium joke! Join us for this surprisingly entertaining look at the great above from a veteran storyteller.

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Hosts: Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik

Guest: Steve Fentress

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LastPass is enforcing a 12-character minimum master password. 23andMe blames victims, saying that it's their fault their data was breached. Which EVs now qualify for the full $7500 tax credit in the US? Roku announces plans for new TVs that use AI to optimize your TV settings. And what could the future be for AI with the NY Times lawsuit against OpenAI? 

Host: Mikah Sargent

Guests: Sam Abuelsamid and Florence Ion

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On this, the first Club TWiT episode of iOS Today, Rosemary Orchard and Mikah Sargent share some of the best apps they used in 2023. The two also provide an update on the Apple Watch ban, remind Apple Card Savings account users about the 1099 IRS tax form, and briefly discuss Microsoft's new Copilot app.

Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard

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Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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Microsoft finally kills Windows Mixed Reality

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Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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The Series 9 & Ultra 2 watches are available for purchase again from the Apple Store for the time being after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit placed a short pause on the ban's enforcement. In the meantime, Apple is pursuing a software fix to avoid another import ban on its watches. A new iPad did not get shipped in 2023. And could the Vision Pro be released in late January / early February?

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Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell

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All About Android fans, listen up! If you were disappointed when the show went away, then you'll be happy to know that Jason Howell, Ron Richards, Huyen Tue Dao, and Mishaal Rahman brought the AAA fun to a new home called Android Faithful. Each week, the AF crew discusses the latest news, hardware, and apps for the world's biggest mobile operating system. Special guests, from journalists, to industry big wigs, to execs from inside the Google mothership join the crew to detail the ongoing evolution of Google's Android. Join us and be a part of the Android Faithful!

Hosts: Jason Howell, Ron Richards, and Huyen Tue Dao

Co-Host: Mishaal Rahman

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Last year, we had some predictions about what 2023 would bring. How'd we do? There's some news to cover from the past two weeks, like the release of the Fedora Asahi spin, Wayland *not* breaking everything, and the very cursed diagonal monitor mode that only Linux supports. SystemD adds encrypted boot support, Chimera OS might be worth a look for your HTPC, and the Fedora stearing committe is weighing a round of interesting changes for Fedora 40, like unifying /bin and /sbin. Then we cover predictions for 2024, like the importance of Ubuntu's next LTS, AMD's GPU outlook, the future of Cosmic, and how exciting 2024 is going to be for desktop Linux users. We cover our favorite tips from the year, and sneak in a couple more aliases you might want to use. You can find the show notes at https://bit.ly/3veYhix and join us next time for a whole new year of Linux!

Host: Jonathan Bennett

Co-Hosts: Rob Campbell, Ken McDonald, and Jeff Massie

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Looking back at some of This Week in Tech's best moments from 2023:

Host: Leo Laporte

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