Tech Break (Audio)

It was the purchase heard round the world, or at least round the grocery aisles. Amazon is buying Whole Foods for $13.4 billion. The deal caused a quick sell-off of grocery store and shopping center stocks on wall street. According to Amazon, Whole Foods will continue to operate stores under the Whole Foods Market brand and CEO John Mackay will remain at the helm. With the purchase of Whole Foods, Amazon also acquires a contract with Instacart, the food delivery service that has made a name for itself in trying to fight against the digital sprawl of Amazon. Instacart has 4 years left on the contract it signed with Whole Foods.

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Josh Constine from TechCrunch joins Megan Morrone and Jason Howell to discuss how Facebook is asking its users to offer suggestions on how it responds to a number of important issues facing the company.

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Bob goes into detail of how to build a pre amp for the PineBoard Project.

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If you've been looking for a top of the line NAS this could be the one for you!

Synology DiskStation DS1517+

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Ryan Shrout and Patrick Norton discuss the 275mm x 320mm mousepad surface that charges a Logitech PowerPlay-compatible mouse. The product costs $99 and works with the G903 and the G703 wireless mice.

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Jason Howell and Megan Morrone talk to Scott Wilkinson from Home Theater Geeks about the best budget-friendly AV Father's Day gifts including the best Blu-Ray movies, streamers, and a $500,000 4k TV from C-Seed that nobody needs.

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Essential phone will be a Sprint exclusive, but that doesn't mean you can't buy one and use it with whatever service you want. What does this "exclusive" mean for Sprint?

Host: Jason Howell

Guests: Ron Richards and Kevin Marks

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Microsoft inaugurates the 4K generation with Xbox One X. It costs $500. It will ship November 7. Current games will look, play better on Xbox One X. Original Xbox games are coming to backward compatibility - possibly for Windows 10 PCs as well.

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In Super Mario Odyssey for the Nintendo Switch, Mario can take over the body of any living thing by placing his hat on their head. It's creepy. And it blows the minds of Father Robert Ballecer and Nathan Olivarez-Giles.

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Andy Ihnatko explains how WatchOS 4 makes the Apple Watch more of a standalone device, and how that will elevate it into the next level of utility.

Hosts: Jason Snell and Andy Ihnatko

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