Tech Break (Audio)

Leo Laporte takes a call about how to get the Google Play app store on the Amazon Fire Tablet.

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Host: Leo Laporte

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On The New Screen Savers, Leo Laporte and Jason Howell meet the TikiTron creators, Dr. Bombay (Samuel Coniglio), Kiki Jewell, and Katherine Becvar. Their drinkbot uses a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B, 12 peristaltic pumps, Adafruit DC and Stepper Motor HATs, and requires a sacrifice with an RFID tag - plus some dancing! They'll show us how it all works and the inspiration behind it.

For the full episode, go to https://twit.tv/nss/167

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Jason Howell

Guests: Samuel Coniglio, Katherine Becvar, and Kiki Jewell

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Lou Maresca, Brian Chee, and Curt Franklin discuss Amazon Prime Day glitches and the resulting company scramble after the system went down. At least there were dogs on the error pages.

Full episode at twit.tv/twiet301

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Patrick Norton and Allyn Malventano talk about the Samsung Display announcement regarding the new unbreakable, flexible, OLED smartphone panel, which has now been certified by Underwater Laboratories.

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The 3rd annual RobotArt competition concluded with $100,000 worth of cash prizes awarded to the most compelling works of art created entirely by robots using traditional materials. Andrew Conru, founder of the event, talks about what the similarities between how humans and robots create art on a canvas.

For the full episode, visit twit.tv/tnw/42

Hosts: Jason Howell and Megan Morrone

Guest: Andrew Conru

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freeCodeCamp is a simple website that emphasizes speed instead of having a fancy UI with lots of features. The community skews much older than other programming websites. Quincy is a teacher who founded freeCodeCamp.org in 2014. He leads the open source project, which millions of people use each month to learn to code and get developer jobs.

Full episode at twit.tv/floss491

Github link at https://bit.ly/2Akp28H

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New Xbox "Scarlett" tidbits emerge: two consoles are coming, and one is a dedicated streaming box.

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

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Alphabet makes enough in Q2 to shrug off that pesky $5 billion EU fine.

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Hosts: Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis

Guest: Kevin Marks

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The internet is in an uproar over supposed throttling issues with Apple's new 2018 i9 MacBook Pro. Is it as big of a deal as everyone is making it? Apple released a patch for the issue, and we test it out on air.

For the full episode, visit twit.tv/mbw/620

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

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The Venmo money transfer service is publicly posting its users' transaction records -- by default -- because the Venmo app's default settings are set to "Public" for all users.

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