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Tim Wu is the Author of The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Brains. Tim and Leo talk about the history of mass media advertising, from its beginnings in the 1830s with newspaper broadsheets to its current state on the internet. Tim argues that what you pay attention to defines your life, and you should think hard about how you want to spend your precious attention.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guest: Tim Wu

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Tech summit at Trump Tower. Why fake news appeals to your lizard brain. 1 billion Yahoo accounts hacked. Why Pebble had to sell to Fitbit. Uber refuses to stop testing self-driving cars in San Francisco. Google creates a new self-driving company, Waymo. Apple's new emoji in iOS 10.2.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Steven Levy, Georgia Dow, and Steve Kovach

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Uber thumbs nose at new self driving regulations in San Francisco, what you should do with your Yahoo email after the hack that compromised 1 billion accounts, how to speed up older Android devices, home theater systems, troubleshooting error messages in Windows, and more of your calls.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guest: Chris Marquardt

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Troubleshooting WiFi connectivity problems, where are your Apple AirPods, safe web browsing solutions for kids with parental filters and DNS settings, British Airways strike during the holidays, and more of your calls!

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Scott Wilkinson, Johnny Jet, and Dick DeBartolo

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Aaron Newcomb shows Leo Laporte how to hack into a Google Home and customize its commands and responses. Leo shows off his new Snapchat Spectacles. Megan Morrone and her kids get a lesson in lightsaber choreography from the Golden Gate Knights. Andrew Wong, the Community Manager for the Qubes OS Project, joins us for an in-depth explanation of why Qubes OS is the best way to protect your device from malware and other security breaches; It's even recommended by Edward Snowden. Father Robert Ballecer shows us how he upgraded Leo's Microsoft Surface Studio by replacing the hard drive with an SSD, speeding it's performance up by over 400%! Leo and Aaron answer a Call for Help all the way from India for a viewer who wants to know if there is a secure, automatic way to back up data in his personal Google Account.

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Aaron Newcomb

Guests: Andrew Wong, Megan Morrone, Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, and Jason Howell

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Trump meets with tech leaders. Yahoo reveals a new hack of 1 billion accounts. Google's self-driving division is now a new Alphabet company called Waymo. Google Assistant will add Actions on Google. Android Things, Google's IoT platform, gets a developer preview. Is Magic Leap a hoax?

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

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Microsoft is bringing Windows 10 desktop to ARM. This is not Windows RT; it's full Windows 10, plus an emulation layer allowing Win32 apps to work on 64-bit ARM.

ARM-based Windows 10 portable PCs are going to be a thing, starting by holiday 2017. Devices not running Win10 don't have to have a screen to get Cortana: Harman Kardon speaker running Cortana is coming next year. Zo.ai officially launches; already has 115,000 users on Kik (after a week). Talking bots can be built with Skype-calling API. Microsoft updates the shipping versions of Windows 10 on Patch Tuesday. MS fixes glitch that kept some Win 10 PCs from being able to connect to the Internet. Surface Hub: A (surprise?) hit.

• Tip of the week: Microsoft Launches New Two-Day Sale on High-End Surface Books
• AppRaisin mobile app pick of the week: Groove
• Enterprise pick of the week: 16 years of MS support? Welcome to Premium Assurance
• Codename pick of the week: Athens
• Beer pick of the week: 2016 Anchor Christmas Ale

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

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Check out Mary Jo's blog at AllAboutMicrosoft.com

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This week, Leo and Steve discuss ticket-buying bots getting their hand slapped (do they have hands?), a truly nasty new addition to encrypting ransomware operation, a really dumb old problem returns to many recent Netgear routers, Yahoo!'s being too pleased with their bug bounty program, Steganometric advertising malware that went undetected for two years, uBlock Origin readies for a big new platform, what exactly is the BitDefender "BOX"? (We wish we knew!), VeraCrypt was audited... next up is OpenVPN! (Yay!), the definitive answer to the question of where Spock's thumb should be, Steve's new relaxing and endless puzzler, and... questions from our listeners!

We invite you to read our show notes.

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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Apple quietly releases AirPods, and immediately runs out of stock. Beats X delayed until February. How to build a better Mac Pro. Super Mario Run coming this week. iOS 10.2 comes with new emoji and an improved TV app. MacOS 10.12.2 removes the "time remaining" battery estimate. Tim Cook joins the tech titans meeting with Trump this week. Apple works to fix Calendar spam. Apple Music hits 20 million subscribers. Lemmings and Pac-Man on the MacBook Pro Touch Bar.

• Andy's Pick: AlphaSmart NEO2 or Dana
• Rene's Pick: Apple AirPods
• Leo's Pick: Radio.Garden

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, and Rene Ritchie

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Megan Morrone and Leo Laporte take a look at apps that show you how to do things, including tying knots, public speaking, making paper airplanes, and even coding. Plus, iOS 10.2 is out with new emojis and the TV app. More on the delay of Apple's AirPods, and more.

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone

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