Can Chromebook run Windows, why a caller's Philips Hue lights is disconnecting from their WiFi network, security cameras that don't charge for storage on the cloud, correctly generating the right password for you, building your own router, finding out which service providers support your phone, talking to Sam Abuelsamid and Chris Marquardt, and more of your calls!

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Sam Abuelsamid and Chris Marquardt

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Tik Tok Ban, Tech Titans Talk to Congress, Twitter Hackers Arrested

• Trump threatens to ban Tik Tok
• Trump wants Microsoft to buy Tik Tok
• Mr. Cook, Zuck, Bezos, and Pichai go to Washington
• What should the government do to Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple?
• Twitter hackers arrested
• Our Covid year: CES will be all-virtual in 2021
• Huawei is the #1 phone maker in the world
• Need a job? The US Digital Service is hiring!
• Microsoft will end mobile support for Cortana in 2010
• Election Cyber Surge wants to help America vote
• Trump is witholding funds from the Internet Freedom Fund
• Watch the Samsung Note 20 and Galaxy Z Fold announcement this week with TWiT!
• Emmys will be all-virtual this year
• Quibi lost 92% of its day one subscribers
• Bernie Sanders wants to send you 3 masks
• Analogue Pocket comes out tomorrow
• Brianna Wu is the 8th best Super Mario 2 speedrunner in the world
• Fyre Festival and GSA Auctions

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Brianna Wu, Paris Martineau, and Matt Cutts

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Can the White House ban TikTok with an executive order? Upgrading from a prepaid TracPhone to a smartphone, all about projectors with Scott Wilkinson, connecting devices to a mesh router, why isn't my Surface Pro getting Windows updates? Scanning photos yourself vs. hiring a service, be prepared for hurricane season with an app from Johnny Jet, is Yahoo Mobile a good service? Organizations that donate computers to veterans, Windows 7 vs. Windows 10, organizing and backing up photos, syncing portable speakers with the GizWiz and more of your calls!

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Scott Wilkinson, Johnny Jet, and Dick DeBartolo

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Here's how to use Homebrew and the Terminal command line to quickly install fonts.
Leo likes to use Fish, but you can use Bash as well.

• If you haven't already, install and update Brew and its cask feature.
• Then type the following into the Terminal command line:
• brew update
• brew tap homebrew/cask
• brew tap homebrew/cask-fonts
• brew search font-
• brew search font- | less
• brew search nerd-font | less
• brew cask install font-fira-code
• brew cask install font-daddytimemono-nerd-font
• for $font in (brew search nerd-font) ; brew cask install $font ; end
• And then go get a cup of coffee!

Here's some more information on installing fonts from the command line: https://corgibytes.com/blog/2020/01/29/install-fonts-on-your-mac-from-the-command-line-with-homebrew/

Leo Laporte gives you helpful tips to get the most from your Mac every week on Hands-On Mac!

Host: Leo Laporte

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Antitrust Hearings, We Rate Zuck's Zoom Bkgd, Google Extends WFH to July 2021

• Rating the Zoom backgrounds of the tech titans
• With all the competing political concerns, what should the government do with big tech?
• Google wants Samsung to drop Bixby. Could Google and Samsung team up to make the perfect Android phone?
• Google says its employees can stay home until July 2021. Are you ready for another year of quarantine?
• Google gets its own international cable
• Staceysplaining the Quantum Internet The Google Changelog: Message emoji reply | Motion Editor | Store price matches | The Matchup | YouTube's Summer of Movies
• CES will be online-only in 2021
• Snooker World Championship has smaller balls
• Streaming takes over the Emmys
• Robots take the fashion world by storm
• AI employee fools Russian design firm
• Samsung Note 20 coming August 5th
• All Dogs in Shenzen will be microchipped by the end of the year
• Woz sues YouTube over bitcoin hack
• Tech to keep Alexa from spying on you

• Leo's Tool: Vocodes. Vocal playground.
• Stacey's Thing: FOOT SPA!!!!
• Jeff's Number: Mackenzie Scott giving away $1.7b
• Ant's Stuff: Faded Words
• Karsten's Mask: Uvex Bionic Face Shield: Whether you're facing down Karens in the line at Starbucks or Federal thugs in Portland, the Uvex Bionic Face Shield is your best bet for full face protection. Karsten got his at National Tool Warehouse. Cheaper option: Amazon now selling its in-house-designed face shield at cost - CNET
• Karsten also loves Ben Heck and got to produce him for half a second at Revision 3. Here is Ben's AutoMask.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

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• Microsoft is doing just great during the pandemic, thank you very much.
  • Microsoft 365 generated $20 billion in revenues in FY20!
  • How does that compare to "Commercial Cloud." And ... what's in those revenues? Windows?
  • SMB is slowing: How this changes where MS makes money - remember that Microsoft abandoned SMB earlier in the pandemic too
• Today's the day for Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google CEOs. And here's a new take on "embrace and extend": Copy, acquire, kill
• Windows 10 launched five years ago today
• Surprise! Microsoft just added a bunch of 21H1 features to Windows 10 version 20H2.
• Could this possibly be evidence there won't be a Windows 10 21H1?
• Related: Build 20180 is out in the Dev channel, enabling all the features the Beta channel just got
• New Tasks app comes to Microsoft Teams
• Microsoft Family Safety app heads out of preview
• NBA is partnering with Microsoft to put fans in the stands at this year's games
• Xbox Games Showcase: What stood out?
  • August is upon us, here's Games for Gold
  • White Xbox controller suggests a Series S

• Tip of the week: Rethink your relationship with Big Tech. We're not going to solve this problem today. But you can take steps to reduce your reliance on Big Tech.
• App pick of the week: Edge Beta or Dev. Edge 86 just hit Dev, giving us a peek at that future
• Enterprise pick of the week: Roadmaps, roadmaps, roadmaps. Cartophiles, rejoice! Chredge enterprise features are now part of the M365 roadmap. And GitHub adds a roadmap for publicly acknowledged coming features. Speaking of new resources, there's also a new landing page is for Windows developers using Node.js, React, Java, Kotlin, Python, Xamarin, and Android Studio
• Enterprise pick No. 2 of the week: WVD 'spring' refresh now GA. The new features that Microsoft outlined in April for its WVD spring refresh are now generally available as of this week: Azure Portal integration, A/V redirect support for Teams
• Cocktail pick of the week: Saketini
  • 1 part triple sec (or Cointreau or Grand Marnier)
  • 1 part cucumber lime vodka
  • 5 parts sake
  • Stir and serve over ice, garnish with lime, cucumber, or both
  • With triple sec or Cointreau the drink stays clear, GM adds a little color
  • We use Fu-Ki brand sake

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

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Apple TV+ Emmys, Big Tech Antitrust Hearings, CES 2021

The Week's Stores:

• AppleTV+ scores 19 Emmy nominations, and two daytime Emmy wins
• Tim Cook and three other big tech titans will testify on antitrust in front of Congress tomorrow. Here's what we would ask them.
• CES will be online-only in 2021. Pokemon Go Fest 2020 went off without a hitch. Maybe this COVID isolation stuff isn't so bad!
• iPhone launch might delay to October 2020 due to COVID - Will Apple Glass make an appearance?
• Bad journalism alert! WaPo blasts FindMy feature
• iOS 14 Beta Features
• macOS bug kills virtual machines
• What's the best alternative to Adobe Lightroom? Maybe Retrobatch by flyingmeat.com
• Intel puts off its 7nm process - Apple Silicon is looking pretty good right now
• Apple Q4 financial call this Thursday: preview
• Tenent will release in Europe before America
• Streaming in America
• AppleTV+ buys Werner Herzog meteorite documentary
• Apple sells a $129 Thunderbolt 3 Cable
• Woz vs. YouTube in Bitcoin kerfuffle
• r/appleboxes is the ultimate subreddit for Apple otaku
• Pokemon Go Fest 2020

Picks of the Week:

• Leo's Pick:Bella Fino Leather Case for iPhone by Pad and Quill
• Andy's Pick: Western Digital EasyStore hard drives
• Andy's Pick 2: r/buildapcsales
• Rene's Pick: Sony A7Siii (for Alex!)
• Rene's Pick 2: Nebula
• Lory's Pick: Rene Ritchie Mug

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Rene Ritchie, and Lory Gil

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• F5 Networks "Big-IP" devices in Big-Trouble
• Twitter bitcoin hack update
• GnuTLS vs OpenSSL
• The Garmin outage then and now
• Cisco's latest trouble
• Surprising SpinRite results

We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-777-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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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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• Leo & Mikah show you how to free up storage space on your iPhone, iPad, or another iOS device.
  
• Save space: iCloud storage, iCloud photo library, storage recommendations, Gemini Storage Cleaner, Google Photos, Dropbox.
• News: Apple's services earnings aren't as large as some expected, Apple's Find My integrations for third parties includes important restrictions, Apple Maps will remind users to self isolate if they've recently visited an airport, and the next iPhone could include a braided charging cable in the box.
• Listener feedback: Changing your Apple Watch face depending on your location is an iOS 14 feature, Jim shares a fantasy recommendation, and how to roll back your iPhone once you've installed the iOS 14 public beta.
• Mikah's App Cap: Sticker Cards
• Leo's App Cap: Randonautica

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent

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Can you trust your WiFi router? Michael in Ontario is worried about his privacy on his eero mesh WiFi router with its cloud-based management. Should he be concerned? Leo Laporte explains.

Find the right WiFi router for you: https://my.lustre.ai/Rvftm

Host: Leo Laporte

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