Tech Break (Audio)

Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone discuss the Fulcrum app, a new tool to crowd source relief and recovery for victims of Hurricane Harvey. If you are in the areas hit hardest by Harvey and you want to help, download the Fulcrum app to assess damage.

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Leo Laporte takes a call from Gabby in Santa Rosa, CA about the best WiFi, internet-connected BBQ thermometers.

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Host: Leo Laporte

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After an exhaustive process, Uber has selected its new CEO: Expedia's Dara Khosrowshahi. Can he fix one of the most important companies in the world?

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On the New Screen Savers show, Leo Laporte and Roberto Baldwin try out the new Multi-Room Music feature on the Amazon Echo. We'll set up an Echo Show, two Amazon Echos, and an Echo Dot in the studio to find out how it works.

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Jennifer is currently getting TV over an antenna and wants to know how she can get more channels, such as news without a cable subscription.

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Host: Leo Laporte

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Hiawatha is an open source webserver with a focus on security. Because of Hugo's great interest in IT security, he paid extra attention to security while working on Hiawatha.

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Fr. Robert Ballecer and Brian Chee discuss the effects of Hurricane Harvey flooding on data centers around the Houston area, and compare the damage to Sandy's effects from years ago . Some centers are being marked as destroyed, unfortunately.

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Megan Morrone and Mikah Sargent from iMore discuss the most interesting Alexa skills for your Amazon Echo right now. Learn something new with Curiosity. Find out how to get stains out of your clothes with the Tide skill. Choose your own adventure with Earplay. Respond to email with AstroBot. Make friends and help improve AI with Alexa Prize SocialBots just by saying, "Alexa, Let's Chat."

Warning: If your Amazon Echo wake word is "Echo," you might want to change it before listening to this segment.

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Denise Howell, Mike Keyes, Matt Curtis and Maria Spear Ollis discuss brands trademarking colors such as the yellow used on a Cheerios box.

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Hosts: Denise Howell, J. Michael Keyes, and Matt Curtis

Guest: Maria Spear Ollis

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Personal-cinema architect John Bishop shows off the difference screen masking can make in home theater while showing a clip from the 1942 film Mrs. Miniver.

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Host: Scott Wilkinson

Guest: John Bishop

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