This Week's Stories

• Father Robert Ballecer talks about the Vatican's response to the Coronavirus in Italy.
• Father Robert Ballecer shows off this live broadcasting/podcasting setup
• MKBHD's 8k setup - RED cameras, multiple Mac Pros, LUTS, and motion tracking
• The Escobar Phone is a scam!
• The beginning of the end of smartphones
• Magic Leap in Crisis
• Leo wears the COVID-19 mask
• Foldable phones - why?
• How to cope with panic attacks - futurism in an accelerating world
• MKBHD's daily driver: Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra
• Telepresence Robots are the future! (or maybe even the present)
• 2020 Conferences are all canceled. What will we lose by holding them digitally?
• Apple reopens Chinese stores, closes all others, cancels rumored March event, but might still launch new products next week
• Amy Webb's daughter's crypto network
• Is Tik Tok OK?
• Screen time in quarantine - active watching is the key
• MKBHD's New Year's Rockin' Eve - downscaled from 8K to 720p
• How YouTube processing works
• How MKBHD works - quality over quantity
• Custom vitamin blends and nootropics - direct-to-consumer sales take off
• Future Today Institute 2020 Tech Trends Report
• StarLink will bring the internet to everyone
• Everyone alive today is being scored
• The 2020s are the synthetic decade: how synthetic media will change the world
• Get Amy's book "Data, a Love Story" at https://amzn.to/2ILv43s via affiliate link!

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, Amy Webb, and Marques Brownlee

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Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Scott Wilkinson, Johnny Jet, and Dick DeBartolo

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Windows 10X

• Microsoft updates Windows 10X emulator for dual-screen devices
• What's new and what's improved?
• Related: Does Windows 10X solve the Chromebook problem? MJF: Not really until 10X comes to cheap(er) clamshell laptops

Windows 10

• First Windows Insider build in two weeks brings talk of change, but not much actual change
• Still no GA info on Windows 10 2004 COVID-19 Weekly
• After pushing employees to work from home, now there are two Microsoft employees that have been diagnosed
• Related: Microsoft and Google will both host virtual events to make up for canceled physical events
• Big Microsoft GDC announcement next week live on Windows Weekly at 11:40am PDT - We have Richard Campbell here as a guest, with some interesting info about how COVID-19 has impacted work travel
• Plus: The history of .NET

Security, security security

• New 'wormable' SMB vulnerability disclosed (accidentally) as part of Patch Tuesday. No info on when Microsoft plans to patch it
• Meanwhile, in the good news department: Microsoft's coordinated takedown of Necurs, one of the largest known spam and malware botnets

Xbox

• Ori and the Will of the Wisps launches ...
• ... and Microsoft lowers the price of Xbox One X to $399

Tips and picks

• Tip of the week: Check out Windows 10X. You no longer need to have a Fast ring Windows Insider build to use the emulator. But there is one important requirement.
• App pick of the week: Call of Duty: Warzone. Call of Duty: Warzone is here! And it's free!
• Enterprise pick of the week: Cosmos DB gets a free tier! Microsoft adds a free tier (free as in forever) for its Cosmos DB NoSQL cloud database.
• Enterprise pick No. 2: About that major Azure US East outage. Is it still a cloud outage if almost no one complains publicly? Where is the outrage, cloud citizens?
• Beer pick of the week: O'Fallon Brewery Barrels Salted Pretzel. This amber was brewed with toasted malt and Himalayan salt giving you a toasted pretzel flavor. We got to have a sample of this during our beer tasting at WWT in Saint Louis. It was really tasty and really did taste like a pretzel. Only 5% ABV, too, so you can have more than one with your tofudog. https://untappd.com/b/o-fallon-brewery-barrels-salted-pretzel/2977506

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

Guest: Richard Campbell

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This Week's Stories:

• Coronavirus: Harvard kicks all students out of dorms with less than a week's notice
• Coronavirus: cancellations - E3 and NAB canceled, SXSW may go bankrupt, NBA and NHL will play to empty colosseums
• Coronavirus: reactions - is paranoia the wrong answer?
• Coronavirus: is it even possible for most people to telecommute?
• Coronavirus: White House goes to Big Tech to ask for help to fight Coronavirus and stop misinformation
• Coronavirus: YouTube demonetizes all content mentioning Coronavirus
• Coronavirus: Australian newspaper prints blank pages to use as toilet paper
• Is it time to stop buying Android phones?
• Pixel 4a leak: starting at $399
• Android vs iPhone - security, environmental impact
• Pixel 3a, Pixel 4a: Google makes some darn fine cheap phones
• Anthony Levandowski ordered to pay $179 million to Google, declares bankruptcy
• Tulsi Gabbard's $50M suit against Google dismissed
• Swedes fine Google 7M Euros. Google plans to appeal and search couch cushions for change. Spain is fine with Google.
• Facebook adds two women to its board; now 40% female, 30% black
• Sweden passes law to spy on anyone anywhere
• Locate X: where cops go to buy your location data without a warrant
• The EARN IT Act will kill internet encryption. IT MUST BE DEFEATED.
• Leo's giant ham
• New Chromecast with Android TV coming soon!
• Olallieberry, marionberry, blackberry, and other great pies
• Adam Mosseri: Facebook "serves as an s***-umbrella" for Instagram
• Amazon sells its "just walk out" tech to airport vendor OTG
• Amazon Music's "My Soundtrack" station is terrifyingly accurate
• Verizon launches Yahoo! Mobile MVNO. DO NOT BUY!

Picks of the Week:

• Leo's Tool: Thermomix
• Ant's Good Stuff: My OTHER Uncle Mac
• Stacey's Thing: Nodle Cash
• Jeff's Numbers 1: Nielsen Investigation: "Pandemic Pantries" pressure supply chain amid COVID-19 Fears
• Jeff's Numbers 2: Hamsterkauf Hoarding Numbers
• Coronavirus Tool: Is It Canceled Yet?

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

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This Week's Stories

• Microsoft, Google, LogMeIn & Cisco offer limited-time free use of telecommuting Tools
• Hack the Pentagon!
• The Android security dilemma
• AMD processors get some unwelcome but necessary side-channel attack scrutiny
• Intel also has some serious new trouble on its hands
• SETI@home shuts down its distributed computing project after 21 years
• Critical PPP daemon flaw opens most Linux systems to remote hackers
• FuzzBench: fuzzer benchmarking as a service

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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Stories of the Week:

• Coronavirus: Apple tells employees worldwide to work from home
• Coronavirus: Apple gives retail employees unlimited sick leave
• Coronavirus: iPhone 9 and 12 delayed
• Coronavirus: App Store rejects coronavirus apps
• Coronavirus: Irish Apple employee infected
• Coronavirus: Apple loses $100B in value in one day
• Coronavirus: Apple TV+ premieres canceled
• Coronavirus: Good news: you CAN use Clorox wipes on your iPhone.
• HUGE iOS 14 Leak: iPad mouse support, new smart keyboards with trackpad
• HUGE iOS 14 Leak: over-the-ear AirPod / EarPod headphones icon
• HUGE iOS 14 Leak: new iPhone 9 and iPad Pro with new triple-lens camera array and time-of-flight 3D sensor
• HUGE iOS 14 Leak: improved Express Travel tap-to-pay. Plus: Andy Ihnatko explains how to steal free transit codes!
• HUGE iOS 14 Leak: new Apple TV remote with Find My Remote scream
• HUGE iOS 14 Leak: AirTags Trackr competitor with user-replaceable batteries
• HUGE iOS 14 Leak: HomeKit will recognize your face, Atmos soundbar
• HUGE iOS 14 Leak: Apple Watch will have a tachometer, blood oxygen sensor
• HUGE iOS 14 Leak: Siri voices customizable by developers
• HUGE iOS 14 Leak: AliPay App, wallpaper app, kids mode, more
• HUGE iOS 14 Leak: homescreen list view with Siri suggestions
• HUGE iOS 14 Leak: new Apple AR app codenamed "Gobi"
• HUGE iOS 14 Leak: new sleep tracking app, fitness app codenamed "Seymour," GymKit
• HUGE iOS 14 Leak: massive improvements to Apple Pencil
• Good Apple: iPad Air 3rd generation get free repairs for screen blanking issue
• Bad Apple: Apple lets developers put ads in notifications
• Ugly Apple: ex-Apple tech support worker steals billionaires' identities, cops nab 55 stolen iPhones valued at $80k, and more in the MacBreak Police Blotter
• Apple Pay available in Mexico
• New jailbreak lets you install Android on an iPhone 7
• iPhone can do whaaaat?
• HUGE iPhone 12 leak: bigger battery, 64MP camera, and 120Hz display
• Lory Gil and Apple celebrate International Women's Day
• Apple Music, Spotify, and others sued for music industry conspiracy

Picks of the Week

• Andy's Pick: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy turns 42
• Rene's Pick: Logitech Brio
• Lory's Pick: The Apple War. Max Von Sydow died on March 9th, 2020. Among his many legendary performances, Sydow starred in "The Apple War," a 1971 German film about Jean Volkswagner, a businessman who comes to Sweden to build Deutschneyland, a gigantic amusement park for German tourists. Roy Lindberg, played by Sydow, does not like the idea, and with the help of a little magic, his family starts scheming against it.
• Alex's Pick: Screen
• Leo's Pick: Subscribe to Hands-On Mac!

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

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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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On this week's iOS Today with Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent:

• Apple Watch: Carrot Weather, Stopwatch, Timer, Deliveries, Due, ECG app, Heart Rate, Maps, Noise, Pad & Quill, Fantastical, Pillow.
• News: Apple now says it's OK to disinfect your display and 9to5Mac goes diving into iOS 14 code to reveal loads of information about future Apple software and hardware.
• Viewer Feedback: Coping with the loss of the App Store Wish List feature and whether it's OK to use high-powered chargers on lower-powered Apple devices. Get the Anker PD 2 at https://amzn.to/338OTLo via our affiliate link!
• Mikah's App Cap: Scribble Together Whiteboard
• Leo's App Cap: Bloom: 10 Worlds

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent

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• Coronavirus Craziness: The Pope is OK, SXSW canceled, contractors can't get n95 masks, Chinese carmakers shut down
• The response to Coronavirus - big tech sends workers home, but restaurant workers have to keep the slinging hash
• Woz is NOT Patient Zero
• Countries respond to Coronavirus: stay on that cruise ship, China forces people to quarantine, US doubles down on the Patriot Act, Italy shuts down Lombardi
• Stock up on Soylent for your Coronavirus quarantine needs
• Apple rejects coronavirus apps
• Chinese students review bomb homework app
• Paris has awesome hobbies
• Apple forces workers to come to the Spaceship and retail stores, other tech giants send workers home
• March Madness without fans? Are we projecting the zombie apocalypse onto Coronavirus?
• Review: Thermomix TM6
• Baby Yoda toys killed by Coronavirus
• What to watch while you're quarantined
• Video games to play while you're quarantined
• Is it canceled? How to find out
• Warren drops out - which old white male candidate will die from Coronavirus?
• Brianna Wu gets hacked - she explains how to avoid her mistakes
• How to use nation-state level hacks yourself
• How the CIA used CryptoAG to spy on the world
• Apple allows ads in push notifications - watch this week's iOS Today to see how to turn them off!
• YouTube is recommending fewer conspiracy videos
• Nerf or nothing!
• Streaming drives the music industry to its greatest year ever
• Democratic Socialism Simulator vs Female Politician Simulator
• Nintendo Playstation prototype sells for $360,000
• Daylight Saving kills! Switch to UTC instead!
• SETI@Home shuts down, and bitcoin mining is destroying the world - switch to folding proteins for a Coronavirus cure

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Paris Martineau, Seth Weintraub, and Brianna Wu

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