This Week's Stories:

• Mojo Vision: Augmented Reality contact lenses
• The face recognition company that will end privacy
• FBI vs Apple 2: Pensacola Boogaloo
• NOBUS: why the NSA's "NObody But US" theory of exploits fail
• Cable Haunt: critical vulnerability in many cable modems
• Apple and Google are cracking down on location privacy, and ad tech companies are unhappy
• Don't worry about your kids' phone use so much
• Google will kill 3rd-party cookies by 2022
• Verizon's "private" search engine
• The EU is not asking Apple to kill the lightning plug
• Our secret shame: the box of cords in our garage
• Digital hoarding: iTunes vs Gmail
• Amazon wants you to pay with a wave of your hand
• Sim swapping attacks: hacking customer service
• Joe Biden wants to repeal Section 230. This is dangerous.
• Sonos, Tile, and Pop Sockets testify against Google, Apple, and Amazon in Congress

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Georgia Dow, Sam Abuelsamid, and Patrick Norton

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Alternatives to Gmail, a browser hijack in Safari, popups in AOL Mail, a hacked cable router, strange photos in your Google Photos, and more of your calls!

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Scott Wilkinson, Johnny Jet, and Dick DeBartolo

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This Week's Stories:

• CES 2020: Tech for Seniors isn't just health tech
• CES 2020: Health tech
• CES 2020: Climate Change Fighting Tech
• CES 2020: Tech firms need to grow up
• CES 2020: Not everything needs to be smart
• CES 2020: Fitbits for dogs
• CES 2020: Dog translator
• CES 2020: Trash and Treasure at Eureka Park
• People trust Google more than religious leaders
• COPPA breaks YouTube. Copyright trolls kill YouTube creators
• Google will drop 3rd party cookies in 2022
• Aura Portable Personal Scanner
• Google will let you record your calls soon
• Instagram calls Photoshop "Fake News"
• Facebook still allows anti-vax ads
• Amazon vs Honey is the tip of the privacy iceberg
• Twitter will never let you edit your tweets
• Twitter will let you limit who can reply to your tweets
• Twitter is thinking about tips

Picks of the Week:

• Ant's Good Stuff: Patty Mattes photography for an animal shelter
• Stacey's Thing: Travelling heating pad
• Jeff's Numbers: Google about to hit trillion-dollar valuation club

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

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Windows 7 support ends

• - Yesterday, Microsoft released the "final" updates for Windows 7 for most people (But not that update for the NSA-reported crypto bug that was for Win 10 and Win Server, interestingly)
• - Today, Windows 7 will begin displaying a full-screen nag to upgrade to Windows 10
• - Microsoft Edge might be supported on Windows 7 for at least 18 months, and Microsoft Security Essentials will keep working for some indeterminate time period. Google Chrome will also be supported for 18+ months.

The (new) Microsoft Edge era begins

• - Microsoft launches its (curiously incomplete) new web browser on Windows 7, 8.1, and 10, and Mac
• - Here's how you can get it now (individuals and businesses) Windows 10
• - Here's our first peek at the new features coming to Windows 10 in late 2020 (Or later. Or never.)
• - Windows 10 version 2004 isn't even out yet, but it's getting major updates already. In the Slow ring only. Because of the confusing way the Insider program works now.
• - Related: The PC market grew 1.9 percent in 2019, the first annual growth in 8 years. What will 2020 look like?
• - Related: Microsoft is phasing out its Microsoft Stores for Business and Education

Mo' Microsoft

• - Walkie-Talkie voice calls, more coming to Teams
• - Not news per se, but a new report details the extent to which Microsoft contractors violated Skype users' privacy
• - Why didn't Microsoft bid more to get Bing on Android in the EU? Xbox/games
• - Microsoft continues its "no exclusives" strategy. And it's smart.
• - Epic Game Store has 108 million customers, will give away more games all throughout 2020

Tips and picks

• - Tip of the week: Yes, you can run legacy Edge and new Edge side-by-side. Here's how. (But seriously. Why?)
• - Also: Reminder that Batman: The Telltale Series and LEGO Star Wars II are now available via Games with Gold
• - App pick of the week: Microsoft Launcher Preview
• - Enterprise pick of the week: Power Platform warning for IT admins
• - Codename pick of the week: Vader
• - Beer pick of the week: Athletic Brewing Upside Down Golden 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's Stories:

• - Windows 7 support dies today, but 1 in 7 PCs are still running it
• - Cablehaunt- the remote exploit with the catchy logo that works on ALL cable modems
• - US government still wants backdoor access to iPhones
• - CheckRain iPhone jailbreak keeps getting better
• - How Apple scans your photos for evidence of child abuse
• - The sim swapping threat
• - Anatomy/timeline of the exploitation of an unpatched VPN bug
• - And speaking of patching right away... patch your Firefox browser right now!

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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This Week's Stories:

• CES 2020 was the Concept Electronics Show, full of toilet paper bots and cars that will never be made.
• What will we do with computers in the future? Apple's 1988 vision.
• At CES, Apple talks privacy, encryption, and child abuse.
• Apple fights back against DOJ attempts to kill encryption.
• Apple Accessories were everywhere at CES 2020.
• Robots at CES 2020: from scary robot dogs to a real-life Terminator.
• Apple steps up their recycling efforts, working toward a fully-recycled phone.
• Rack-mounted Mac Pro now available.
• Will Apple ever ditch Intel for AMD?
• Apple's services score $1.4 Billion from Christmas - New Years.
• "Pro Mode" coming to Macs.
• The EU wants to kill Lightning ports.
• Location-based data trackers angry at Apple.
• Apple now accepting donations for Australian fire relief efforts.
• Apple offers replacements for defective battery cases.

Picks of the Week:

• Leo's Pick: How I Rip DVDs and Blu-Rays
• Andy's Pick: XLD audio converter for Mac
• Rene's Pick: Quasar Science Lights
• Lory's Pick: Brydge Pro+
• Alex's Pick: Reality Converter & 2020 - A Decade of Predictions

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

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

• iOS accessories worth owning: Defense Vertical Duo, myCharge HubMax Universal, myCharge UnPlugged 10K, mophie charge stream vent mount, Anker PowerPort Atom PD 1, Brydge Pro+ Wireless Keyboard with Trackpad
• News: Apple responds to claims it isn't helping law enforcement with the Pensacola shooting investigation, Apple uses automated technology to scan photos for potential child abuse, Masimo is suing Apple for allegedly stealing its watch tech, Apple's press release details its Services wins, the EU wants Apple to kill the Lightning port but it might be doing that already, and TikTok takes the top spot for most iOS downloads in Q4 of 2019.
• Viewer Feedback: The difference between iOS updates in iTunes and the Finder versus over-the-air updates directly on the device and updating watchOS-specific notifications for WhatsApp.
• Mikah's App Cap: MusicHarbor
• Leo's App Cap: RadarScope

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent

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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].

Leo explains how to protect your online accounts with Yubico's YubiKey and other hardware security keys for two-factor authentication.

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Host: Leo Laporte

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Digitizing paper files, avoiding duplication files during computer synchronization, mounting monitors onto the wall & ceiling, the difference between dual active SIM and dual standby SIM phones, recovering photos from an SD card, and more of your calls!

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Sam Abuelsamid and Chris Marquardt

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CES 2020 wrap-up

• Sex tech at CES 2020
• Apple, Amazon, and others talk privacy at CES 2020
• Tech Giants at CES 2020
• The Sands: all the weirdest stuff at CES 2020
• The best TVs at CES 2020
• Future Concepts at CES 2020
• The Charmin Rollbot
• Biggest CES 2020 trends: vegetable-based meat, driverless cars, and bendable computers
• Our favorite gadgets from CES 2020: from 8k TVs to electronic rosaries

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Ant Pruitt, Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, and Jason Hiner

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