Tech Break (Audio)

Host: Leo Laporte

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On The New Screen Savers, Patrick Norton spent a couple of weeks with the new Caavo smart tv hub and gives us his review. The device controls all your home-theater boxes and also has a voice remote. It promises to make finding shows easier than fumbling for multiple remotes, but it's not cheap. See how it works and if it delivers as promised.

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https://twit.tv/tnss/155

Hosts: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ and Patrick Norton

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Fr. Robert Ballecer, Brian Chee, and Curt Franklin talk about the Assa Abloy hotel room exploit that F-Secure's Tomi Tuominen and Timo Hirvonen researched.

Full episode at twit.tv/twiet/289

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Robert Kurson is the author of Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon. He talks to Megan Morrone about mankind's first mission to the moon and the risks involved.

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Host: Megan Morrone

Guest: Robert Kurson

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Fr. Robert Ballecer and Denise Howell talk about the copyright implications of Heathrow Aiport's use of the Star Wars IP in their humorous departure board. May the 4th be with you!

Full episode at twit.tv/twil/421

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Patrick Norton and Ryan Shrout talk about the recent downward trend of GPU prices, which are slowly/finally getting back around reasonable MSRP status.

Full episode at twit.tv/twich464

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Megan Morrone and Jason Howell talk to Dr. Christopher Labos, writer for Science-Based Medicine and host of the Body of Evidence podcast. Labos recently wrote a piece questioning the validity of the latest tests pointing to the link between cell phones and brain cancer. They discuss whether there is a casual or causal evidence of risk based on these studies of rats and why misleading research can be harmful.

Watch the full episode here:
https://twit.tv/tnw/30

Hosts: Megan Morrone and Jason Howell

Guest: Christopher Labos

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Bob Heil shows off the latest mods to his Pineboard Project.

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Host: Bob Heil

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At F8, Facebook soothes our privacy fears by... launching a dating service.

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Hosts: Jason Howell, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

Guests: Mathew Ingram and Andrew Allemann

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The good news: Windows 10 April 2018 Update arrives on April 30th, just making it in under the wire. The bad news: it promptly breaks a bunch of our stuff.

Watch the full episode here:
https://twit.tv/ww/568

Hosts: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, Mary Jo Foley, and Paul Thurrott

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