Tech Break (Audio)

NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang recently unveiled the latest GPU architecture, Volta, and the Tesla V100 accelerator based on it. Ryan Shrout and Patrick Norton discuss this new product as well as the tensor core technology behind it.

Full episode can be seen at twit.tv/twich/414

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The new Amazon Echo Show brings a touch screen and video calls to the popular home assistant.

Hosts: Jason Howell, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

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Jason Howell and Megan Morrone talk to David McCabe of Axios about Mark Zuckerberg's political aspirations. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has challenged himself to learn Chinese, create his own in-home Jarvis personal assistant and more. But this year he has resolved to visit every state in the US, and for the past five months we've watched him awkwardly try to look like a real human person interacting with other real human persons, which has caused many to come to the obvious conclusion that he's running for president.

Full episode can be seen at twit.tv/tnt/1765

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Cody Toombs, writer and APK Teardown king at Android Police, joins Jason Howell and Florence Ion to talk about his experience tearing down Google's APK files to find clues of upcoming features.

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Hosts: Jason Howell and Florence Ion

Guest: Cody Toombs

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Kyle Bradshaw joins Jason Howell and Megan Morrone to discuss what he found when he checked back in on Google's mystery OS project, Fuchsia.

Full episode at twit.tv/tnt/1764

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234 Android applications listen for ultrasonic tones from billboards, web pages, and sports stadiums. None of the 234 Android applications disclose their tracking capabilities in their privacy policies. Apps can then track where you've been, what you've seen, and/or what websites you have visited.

For the full episode, visit twit.tv/sn/611

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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Despite the fact that the vast majority of its money is held overseas, Apple was the largest tax payer in America this year. Apple paid $15.8 billion in taxes, at an effective $25.8% rate. Would a repatriation "tax holiday" gain the US even more?

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, and Alex Lindsay

Guest: Adam Engst

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Apple is rumored to be working on a Siri-powered Echo competitor, but they better get going quick. Amazon just announced the Echo Show, an Echo with a touch screen and video camera. With the Echo Show, Amazon is poised to take mindshare away from FaceTime as well as Siri.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, and Alex Lindsay

Guest: Adam Engst

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The Open Hub is the world's largest repository of freely available analysis on OSS projects, generating statistics on over 675 thousand OSS projects and presenting the data on its website and through its API.

Full episode can be seen at twit.tv/floss/433

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Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone tell you how to use facial recognition in Apple Photos, Shutterfly, and Google Photos to find all the photos of your mom and her children to easily make musical slideshows, photo books, and more with just a few clicks. Then share them via Messages, Facebook, or email. Plus, JibJab your mom. Because you can.

Full episode at twit.tv/ios/344

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