Leo Laporte answers John's question about smartphone privacy and robocalls while explaining how to control app permissions on iPhone and Android.

Host: Leo Laporte

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In his annual Vision Keynote, Satya Nadella offers his vision for Microsoft. Main themes include "tech intensity," hybrid cloud/edge solutions, quantum computing, and cybersecurity. Nadella announces Azure Arc, Azure Synapse, Azure Quantum, Microsoft Endpoint Manager, and Project Cortex.

Hosts: Jason Howell and Mikah Sargent

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Streaming content while traveling, keyboard options for the iPhone, 5G Phones, increasing phone storage with a microSD card, keep your online activity anonymous and more of your calls!

Host: Rich DeMuro

Guests: Sam Abuelsamid and Chris Marquardt

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• Google Buys Fitbit. Will this be like Google buying HTC, or like Fitbit buying Pebble?
• Apple hires a new smart home team. Can they catch up with Amazon and Google? Can they fix what is wrong with HomeKit?
• AirPods Pro review - the best earbuds we've ever worn. However, they are pricy, and they're still earbuds, with all the issues that come with that.
• AppleTV+ launches. Can an Aaron Sorkin wanna-be, wacky Emily Dickinson, and sexy blind people win the streaming wars?
• NBC's Peacock TV may be free with ads when it launches in April.
• HBO Max launches in May for $15. Will it finally kill cable?
• Twitter bans political ads. Facebook thinks they are just fine, even if they lie. How will Twitter figure out what is a political issue? Does Mark Zuckerberg really think "Lying is bad?"
• PG&E cuts power to millions but still manages to start a 77,000-acre fire. Cell service also fails. So does Comcast. Is this the harbinger of all of America's aging infrastructure finally collapsing?
• National Weather Service tweets out some useful tools to track wildfires and smoke.
• It's the emoji season! The controversy this year: non-gendered emoji.

Host: Jason Snell

Guests: Rene Ritchie, Devindra Hardawar, and Dan Moren

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Rich DeMuro fills in for Leo Laporte answering your calls: Google buys FitBit, what does it mean for your data? Charging an iPhone in your car, cutting the cord but keeping a DVR, is a Chromebook right for you? Troubleshooting Wi-Fi after a power outage, printing from a USB thumb drive and more of your calls!

Host: Rich DeMuro

Guests: Scott Wilkinson, Johnny Jet, and Dick DeBartolo

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• India asks WhatsApp to explain privacy breach
• The Patent Office is looking to AI for help
• FCC plans Huawei/ZTE ban, may require ripping out existing network gear
• Chrome Zero-Day
• Security pros fear insider attacks stem from Cloud App
• Boris Johnson may let Huawei access UK's 5G network
• Thousands of QNAP NAS devices have been infected with the QS natch malware
• Five months after returning rental car, man still has remote control
• Cybersecurity's "Moral Imperative"
• Jonathan Lieberman, CEO and co-founder of itopia on VDI vs. DaaS.

Hosts: Louis Maresca, Brian Chee, and Curt Franklin

Guest: Jonathan Lieberman

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Yancey Strickler is the co-founder and former CEO of Kickstarter and joins Jason Howell to talk about his new book, This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World. They discuss the crowdfunding platform's transition into a public-benefit corporation, leading to Yancey's book, which details a philosophy and framework for building a society that looks beyond "financial maximization" and more towards other values like community, purpose, and sustainability.

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Host: Jason Howell

Guest: Yancey Strickler

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• (02:03) With Facebook and Twitter approaching political ads from different perspectives, Seth Rosenblatt from The Parallax talks about how Facebook is resisting the urge to retreat from "free expression."
• (16:04) Heather Kelly from the Washington Post discusses how apps and services are intermingling with school administration resulting in data tracking of students.
• (32:52) The Airpods Pro are out, and Rene Ritchie from iMore shares his thoughts on whether they deserve the "Pro" moniker and who they are for.
• (45:30) Netflix is about to bring variable speed playback to its mobile app.
• (52:30) It's difficult to trace the source of AmazonBasic items like batteries, but it's important to know.

Hosts: Jason Howell and Mikah Sargent

Guests: Seth Rosenblatt, Heather Kelly, and Rene Ritchie

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This week of Hands-On Photography Ant continues the discussion regarding the exposure triangle. This time he shares how shutter speed and ISO work together.

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Host: Ant Pruitt

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Intel's Core i9-9900KS and NVIDIA's Geforce GTX 1660 Super ... we've got benchmarks! Drop's Sennheiser HD 58X .. and, hey, back up offsite BEFORE the fires take out your county!

Hosts: Patrick Norton and Sebastian Peak

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