Best streaming services for live TV, optical vs HDMI connections, transferring data from one drive to another, Chris Marquardt talks about the changes with Flickr, what display to buy for a Mac Mini, how to accurately test your broadband internet speed, changing carriers on an LTE tablet, is a VPN necessary for a college network, and more of your calls.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guest: Chris Marquardt

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On The New Screen Savers for November 17, 2018, with Leo Laporte and Alex Lindsay:

• With the holidays just right around the corner, we'll feature gift ideas from our co-hosts. On today's show, Alex recommends the Hestan Cue smart cooking system, Leatherman Tread Bracelet, BaoFeng BF-888S Two Way Radio, Arduino Kits, and something every geek should have, a label maker.
• Leo and Alex discuss Elon Musk's plan to launch thousands of internet satellites into orbit, and they remember Bill Godbout and Stan Lee.
• Anki just released their new home robot the Vector. Powered by AI, this little guy can detect your face, talk, and play games with to you. Megan Morrone gives her review.
• Google is rolling out the new camera feature Night Sight for the Pixel 3 which lets you take sharp, bright photos in very low light situations. Jason Howell shows you how it works.
• We'll answer email questions on great ways to record audio in the field and which computers and programs are best for editing video.

Host: Leo Laporte

The New Screen Savers records live every Saturday at 3PM Pacific on twit.tv/live. Episodes are available for download and streaming later that evening at https://twit.tv/shows/new-screen-savers.

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Categorizing and organizing your picture library, cloning your hard drive on Windows, what 4K TV should I buy? Troubleshooting a crashing browser, buying mobile service when traveling to Australia, hooking up headphones to a home theater system, hiding your information from Google, NAS alternatives to Drobo, and more of your calls!

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Scott Wilkinson, Johnny Jet, and Dick DeBartolo

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• Google ends forced arbitration for sexual harassment claims
• The woman behind Google design
• Waymo will launch driverless car service
• Google AI helps New York Times get a handle on its vast photo archive
• Amazon's HQ 2 and HQ 3: NYC and DC
• Google will double its NYC staff
• New Google LA HQ: Spruce Goose hangar
• Controversy over Google's NHS kidney data
• Night Sight comes to all Pixels
• Squoosh your pictures
• Pandora's new podcast recommendations
• The new kilogram

Picks of the Week

• Stacey's Thing: Notify Me skill on Alexa
• Jeff's Numbers: $1 billion of charitable donations on Facebook, $699 Pixelbook at Best Buy on Black Friday
• Leo's Tool: Mozilla Shop Safe This Holiday Season

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

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• 6 weeks later, Microsoft finally re-releases the Windows 10 October 2018 Update. What took so long? Now what?
• Microsoft also re-released Windows Server 2019
• New Windows 10 sports a gorgeous new light mode
• Microsoft pretends that Windows 10 on ARM only supporting 1809 was a typo
• Alexa comes to Windows 10 PCs
• Surface Go with LTE arrives this month
• Apple hands Surface Laptop 2 a gift with the new MacBook Air
• Mobile: Whiteboard for iOS picks up a big update
• AI in Outlook
• X018 highlights - And how Xbox is set up for a future win
• Game Pass will allow for pre-downloading and installing games
• Great new games coming this month to Xbox Game Pass
• Keyboard and mouse support for Xbox One arrives - Part of November update

Tips and picks

• Tip of the week: Go Xbox this Black Friday
• App pick of the week: Crackdown for Xbox
• Enterprise pick of the week: Power BI to get the AI treatment
• Enterprise pick of the week No. 2: G Suite to Office 365 migration tool is coming
• Beer pick of the week: Founders Brewing Curmudgeon's Better Half

And... a moment of silence for our Windows Weekly HQ in NYC: Rattle N Hum East is closing on November 25 :(

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Mary Jo Foley, and Paul Thurrott

Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly

Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com

Check out Mary Jo's blog at AllAboutMicrosoft.com

The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin.

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• Last month's Patch Tuesday, this month
• A GDPR-inspired lawsuit filed by Privacy International
• Check these two router ports to protect against a new botnet that's making the rounds
• Another irresponsibly disclosed zero-day, this time in Virtual Box
• CloudFlare's release of a very cool 1.1.1.1 app for iOS and Android
• Microsoft's caution about the in-RAM vulnerabilities of the BitLocker whole drive encryption
• A deep dive into last week's worrisome revelation about the lack of true security being offered by today's Self-Encrypting SSD drives.

We invite you to read our show notes.

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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You can submit a question to Security Now! at the GRC Feedback Page.

For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.

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• iPad Pro: is all this power good for anyone?
• T2 security chip: designed to keep you from repairing your Mac?
• Apple Pencil 2.0 Review
• Apple ID accounts reset
• iPhone X "touch disease"
• iPhone is tops on Singles Day
• Stan Lee tribute on the App Store
• Jony Ive designs a solid diamond ring

Picks of the Week

• Andy's Pick: RPM App
• Rene's Pick: Thrifter.com Black Friday coverage
• Alex's Pick: McDonald's App
• Leo's Pick: Tools and Toys 2018 Christmas Catalog

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Alex Lindsay, and Rene Ritchie

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Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone talk to Leo's mom, Mary Laporte, about holiday traditions, gifts you make yourself, Instagram, and more. Plus, an Apple Watch complication to tell you the air quality, why Apple wants some people to reset their iCloud password, and the first week with the new iPad Pros and Apple Pencils. Megan reviews the Moodo Smart Aroma Diffuser and Leo explains his addiction to Touch of Modern.

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone

Guest: Mary Laporte

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You can contribute to iOS Today by leaving us a voicemail at 757-504-iPad (757-504-4723) or sending an email to [email protected].

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• Apple's new iPad Pro is not the future of Apple, but it does point to it.
• Alibaba sells $1 billion in the first 85 seconds of Singles Day.
• Tech doomsayer says that the vast majority of people will soon be "The Useless Class."
• 22% of Americans still trust Facebook.
• Oprah's favorite things list on Amazon does not include goat soap.
• Amazon must give police Echo data and recordings in murder case.
• DEA and ICE are installing secret surveillance cameras in street lights.
• China unveils the first AI news anchor.
• Tesla Bioweapon Defense Mode keeps owners in smoke-filled California safe.
• With Net Neutrality gone, Sprint starts throttling Skype.
• FCC has harsh words about robocalls.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Lisa Schmeiser, Mikah Sargent, and Wesley Faulkner

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Explaining the power of the A12X Bionic chip in Apple's new iPad Pro, recommending the new MacBook Air to replace an old faulty one, showing off the new Mac mini, Gmail as an alternative to Yahoo mail, the inability to downgrade to iOS 11, the Hit Em Up app for mass bulk texting, the STIR/SHAKEN method for halting spam robocalls, Chris Marquardt's guide to camera symbols, and more of your calls!

Host: Leo Laporte

Guest: Chris Marquardt

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