Tech Break (Audio)

FLIR uses a custom piece of silicon for infrared vision in their product. The FLIR ONE & FLIR ONE Pro attach to smartphones and can help monitor electronic equipment that may be getting too hot.

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Denise Howell, Matt Curtis, and Natalie Nicol discuss Rob Reid's biography, which was written by an AI bot in a hilariously bold style. The writeup was born at ArticleBio.com

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Ryan Shrout and Patrick Norton discuss the Dell XPS 2-in-1 laptop that features the "InfinityEdge" touch display, a webcam along the display bezel with support for Windows Hello, and an Intel HD Graphics 615 GPU.

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Grammy-nominated surround-sound engineer and musician David Miles Huber talks with Scott Wilkinson about the importance of using stereo microphones when micing instruments and vocals for his chill music.

Host: Scott Wilkinson

Guest: David Miles Huber

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Kyle Wiens from iFixit joins Megan Morrone and Jason Howell to open up the new iMac to see what's inside and find out how repairable it is.

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Megan Morrone and Jason Howell talk to Louise Matsakis about buying likes and followers from a vending machine. The idea of buying likes or followers isn't new, but Louise Matsakis from Motherboard recently came upon a photo of a vending machine in a mall that will sell you 100 likes for a mere 50 Russian Rubles. That's 89 cents. The vending machine's manufacturer, Snatap, also offered Motherboard a video of the device in action.

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Google will launch its own ad blocker in Chrome later this year. Chrome will stop showing ads that do not comply with the Coalition for Better Ads' standards.

Hosts: Jason Howell and Stacey Higginbotham

Guest: Danny Sullivan

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The latest Surface Mobile rumor – real or fake? Votes for fake are leading. But the basic ideas are... interesting, and possibly connected (at least a bit) to what Microsoft is actually doing.

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Jason Howell, Ron Richards and Derrick Walter discuss Spigen's charge that Andy Rubin's Essential infringes on its own trademarks.

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Hosts: Jason Howell and Ron Richards

Guest: Derek Walter

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Megan Morrone and Jason Howell talk to Matthew Curtis from This Week in Law about memes, schools, and the law. Earlier this week news broke that Harvard had rescinded the acceptances of 10 students after it was discovered that they had been posting racially-charged memes in a secret Facebook chat. The chat had spun off from a Harvard-sponsored group that was intended to encourage new students to meet one another. According to The Harvard Crimson, in order to join the chat you had to post an offensive meme.

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