Tech Break (Audio)

After a couple discovers their Amazon Echo sent a private message to one of their contacts, learn the options you have to secure your different Echo devices from Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone on The New Screen Savers show Episode 158.

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Hosts: Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone

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Joy in Santa Cruz wants to share an article from her local newspaper's website, but Facebook is giving her a message that sharing is blocked due to EU GDPR regulations.

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Host: Leo Laporte

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John Underkoffler is the CEO of Oblong Industries. He talks with Megan Morrone about his work designing the computer interface technology featured in The Minority Report.

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Host: Megan Morrone

Guest: John Underkoffler

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Lou Maresca, Brian Chee, and Curt Franklin have a discussion about Amazon's Rekognition service, which is being used by the Orlando Police Department for facial recognition.

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Ryan Shrout and Patrick Norton go over the recently launched NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 1050 GPU, which uses 768 CUDA cores and a 96-bit memory bus.

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Lou Maresca, Curt Franklin, and Fr. Robert Ballecer talk about the game of chicken being played by Amazon and the city of Seattle, WA. A new "head tax" was introduced by the City Council to target large businesses in order to stem Seattle's homelessness issues.

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Megan Morrone and Jason Howell talk to Brian X Chen from the Tech Fix column in The New York Times about why you might want to think twice before you delete all of those privacy policy emails. General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR might mean some of your favorite apps and websites will provide new privacy settings that you might want to use to protect your personal information.

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A federal district judge has ruled that Trump cannot block users on Twitter.

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https://twit.tv/twig/458

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis

Guests: Ant Pruitt and Kevin Tofel

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HubbleStack is an open-source security compliance project written in Python. Colton is the co-creator of HubbleStack and the primary developer.

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Fr. Robert Ballecer shows off a little bit of the evil-looking Netgear Nighthawk Pro, an expensive router that features 4 Gigabit Ethernet LAN Ports, a Gigabit WAN Port, and 2 USB 3.0 ports.

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Buy the router at https://amzn.to/2J0maki

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