This Week's Stories

• .org being sold off is a much bigger deal than you think
• Apple erases Jony Ive, brings back thicker iPhones, decent MacBook keyboards, and the cheese grater Mac Pro
• AMD cleans up on Black Friday. Intel, not so much
• Who should buy the Apple Pro Display XDR monitor?
• Why is HDR important?
• Why Hololens is succeeding where Google Glass failed
• Why aren't video games perfectly realistic yet?
• Apple bows to Russia, shows Crimea as Russian in Apple Maps
• Facebook thinks political lies are fine everywhere but Singapore
• Alexa is very, very, disappointed in you
• Are US presidential candidates using enough email security?
• California DMV sold my data
• Tim Berners-Lee still wants to save the web
• Windows 7 has 45 days to live
• We are really, truly, finally out of IPv4 addresses
• Dubai Police force buys Tesla Cybertrucks
• Record Black Friday - 40% of purchases made on smartphones

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Lisa Schmeiser, Iain Thomson, and Alex Lindsay

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Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Sam Abuelsamid and Chris Marquardt

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Steve Gibson discusses the history of online identity authentication, and what lead him to develop SQRL: Simple, Quick, Reliable Login. SQRL is a straightforward and elegant solution to the problems and challenges related to online identity authentication.

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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Is Big Tech destroying our world? Recovering data from a corrupted RAID array, the best video format for PLEX, are Apple Airpods Pro worth the money? The state of online security, is it time to upgrade my phone? Keeping your iPad safe from grandkids, getting rid of cable TV and more of your calls!

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Scott Wilkinson, Johnny Jet, and Dick DeBartolo

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This Week's Stories:

• New Google ad policy
• Alphabet reboots its robotics program
• Facebook buys VR studio behind Beat Saber
• Amazon reportedly has plans for bigger cashier-less supermarkets in 2020
• Alexa has new emotions and speaking styles
• Twitter has plans to kill dormant accounts
• Killer new musical instrument from Artiphon
• Massachusetts State Police is the first Law Enforcement Agency to use Spot, a robotic dog.

Picks of the Week:

• Jeff's Number: Popular and horrid Thanksgiving side dishes
• Stacey's Thing: Hue Smart Button

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

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'Twas the night before Thanksgiving, and all through the house, Windows Insiders are losing their s#$% because Microsoft just named 20H1...

• Plus, PWAs creep to life again at Microsoft ... It's The Walking Dead Web Apps!
• Does Microsoft have a Cortana strategy?
• Windows Terminal gets support for multiple panes.
• Xbox One X All Digital Edition being offered at $149.99
• Xbox Black Friday Deals
• Apple just can't get iOS right, so it's starting over. Again!
• Outlook.com can be used like a real app
• ODI: What's next?
• Chredge for commercial users
• Beer of the week: Proclamation Ale Co. Tendril

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

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• The future of the Linux kernel underneath the Android OS
• Inherent challenges presented by the nature of the Android ecosystem
• VNC users: Time to update!
• A welcome change to Twitter & SMS-based 2FA
• A "foregone conclusion" to law enforcement's strategy to force password divulgence
• Pre-announcement from Microsoft about DNS
• Details of the emerging DoH protocol

We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-742-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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This Week's Stories

• Apple Tells Congress You'll Hurt Yourself Fixing Your iPhone
• Apple Pulls All Customer Reviews From the Online Apple Store
• Apple Music for Business
• Apple's new Holiday Ad
• Features, Changes & Testing After iOS 13 Bugs

Tips and Picks

• Alex's Pick: Brother P-Touch Cube+
• Dave's Pick: TimeMachineEditor
• Andy's Pick: A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
• Rene's Pick: Apple Smart Battery Case
• Leo's Pick: Kap Screen Capture

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

Guest: Dave Hamilton

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

• Plan and celebrate Thanksgiving: Evite.com, Paprika Recipe Manager 3, Pinterest, Food Network Kitchen, Tasty, Yummly, AnyList.
• News: Apple has a new battery case for its iPhones 11, Pixelmator Photo is free for 24 hours, Apple pulls customer reviews from its online store, Apple is launching a new "Apple Music for Business" service, Apple says it doesn't want folks fixing their iPhones because they may hurt themselves, Apple is reshuffling its bug fix efforts in iOS 14.
• Viewer Feedback: Getting notifications on both the Apple Watch and iPhone, using a Shure MV88 microphone with an iPad Pro, and adjusting health records in the Health app for iOS.
• Leo's App Cap: MyTSA
• Mikah's App Cap: Cocoon

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].

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Leo Laporte answers Steve Martin's question about USB Type-C: what it is, what are its capabilities, and how to choose the right cable to get data and charging.

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Host: Leo Laporte

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