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Pixel Buds are getting bad reviews. Blasting Facebook and Google. Amazon pays $250 Million for Lord of the Rings TV rights. Alibaba's $25 billion Singles' Day. Self-driving trucks and flying cars. Hacking the Boeing 757. Xerox Alto turns 40.

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis

Guests: Kevin Marks and Mathew Ingram

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Visual Studio Live Share: Coming soon to a pair of programmers near you. New collaboration service coming in early 2018: VS Live Share. New Visual Studio Tools for AI extension. MariaDB as an Azure service; Databricks (Spark) as a service; and Cassandra as a service. VS App Center is now GA.
Microsoft v. perception: how can Microsoft make itself part of the conversation? Related: Microsoft half-asses another phone.
Windows (7, 8.1 and 10) news: Paul is starting a Redstone 4 features deep-dive series, starting with Fluent Design System. Some Windows 10 1511 users get a 6-month support extension. Some apps are coming back from the dead. SteamVR is coming to Windows Mixed Reality today.
Surface: two big releases this week. Surface Book 2 and Surface Precision Mouse are out tomorrow.
Xbox controversy of the week: What's a launch title?

• Tip of the week: You can now gift games on Xbox
• Tip #2: Get the Invoke for just $99! Or an Xbox One S for $175!
• App pick of the week: Groupy
• Plus: Firefox Quantum
• Enterprise pick of the week: New Skype Professional service integrates productivity tools with Skype
• Skype Professional preview coming soon (US only at first).
• Beer pick of the week: Prairie Birthday Bomb!

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

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iPhone X is the phone of the year, but... hackers spoof Face ID. iPhone X freezing in cold weather. "Green Line of Death." Fix for iOS autocorrect bug is here. 2019 iPhone will have a rear-facing 3D sensor. Jony Ive's Wallpaper interview. Apple Watch saves a man from shark-infested waters. Apple Watch might save you from high blood pressure and sleep apnea. Boston Dynamics' robots go from comical to sleek and scary.

• Rene's Pick: Halide
• Andy's Picks: Headspace and Calm meditation apps

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, and Rene Ritchie

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This week we discuss why Steve won't be relying upon Face ID for security, a clever new hack of longstanding NTFS and Windows behavior, the Vault8 WikiLeaks news, the predictable resurgence of the consumer device encryption battle, a new and clever data ex-filtration technique, new anti-Malware features coming to Chrome, an unbelievable discovery about access to the IME in Skylake and subsequent Intel chipsets, a look at who's doing the unauthorized cryptomining, WebAssembly is ready for prime time, a bit of miscellany, some closing the loop feedback with our listeners... and then we share Bruce Schneier's congressional testimony about the Equifax breach.

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Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone discuss apps to help geeks entertain. A coffee maker that brews, grinds, and roasts the beans, an app to help you decorate your living room quickly and stylishly, and a classic party game with your iPhone. Plus, how to get a nerdy yule log to play on your Apple TV.

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone

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DOJ suggests that phone encryption kills people. Facebook wants to see you naked. Apple gets ready for its best holiday ever. Twitter gets 50 character names to go with its 280 character tweets. XBox One X is the best game system out there. Bill Gates will build his own city. Car ownership will be a thing of the past in 5 years. Intel and AMD team up. Alibaba sells $25 billion worth of stuff in one day while America's retail sector is tanking.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Ben Johnson, Jason Snell, and Sam Machkovech

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Sean Parker's change of perspective on Facebook, how to recover deleted photos on a phone, managing large PDFs, how to use the Amazon Echo Drop-in feature, getting a higher ranking in Google search results for your website, extending the range of your Wi-Fi, the fastest way to restore an iPhone backup, and more of your calls.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guest: Chris Marquardt

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Mass texting for non-profits, screen burn-in on televisions, getting old programs to work with Windows 10, what's the next breakthrough for Apple? Affordable Photoshop and Lightroom alternatives for Mac, deleting trial software on a new Windows computer, creating Windows restore images, Google Home vs. Amazon Echo, resources to learn how to code, and more of your calls!

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Scott Wilkinson, Johnny Jet, and Dick DeBartolo

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On this episode of The New Screen Savers recorded on Saturday, November 11, 2017:

• Leo Laporte and Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ check out the new Xbox One X. Samit Sarkar, Senior Reporter from Polygon joins us to talk about the new games, 4k with HDR gaming, and if it's worth it without a 4K monitor.
• The holidays are approaching quickly and we've got not one, but two Holiday Gift Guides! Padre and Leo will fill your suitcase with travel gadgets.
• Plus, Tim Stevens from CNET's Roadshow has his top six car picks!
• Megan Morrone introduces us to Gitanjali Rao. She's 11-years-old and won the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge. We'll learn about the challenges to make her invention.
• In Call for Help, Padre explains how the Raspberry Pi Pi-hole adblocker works without slowing down your internet connection.

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ

Guests: Samit Sarkar, Tim Stevens, Gitanjali Rao, and Megan Morrone

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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A wave of technopanic is sweeping the world. Or is it intelligent concern over the power wielded by internet giants like Facebook and Google? Plus,Uber's flying cars, Trump's DOJ tells Time-Warner to sell CNN, Marissa Mayer apologizes to Congress, and Facebook wants your nude pictures (for security's sake).

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

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