Tech Break (Audio)

Elon Musk wants to connect brains with computer chips to help humanity keep pace with artificial intelligence, and he founded a new startup called Neuralink to do just that. Rofe Winkler of the Wall Street Journal broke the news of Musk's latest company and what it's up to and joins Nathan Olivarez-Giles and Megan Morrone on Tech News Today to talk about his scoop.

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Amy Webb is the Founder of the Future Today Institute and the Author of The Signals Are Talking: Why Today's Fringe Is Tomorrow's Mainstream. She explains how Blackberry and Sony fumbled the future - and how Snapchat and Uber can avoid failing the same way.

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This week the US Senate narrowly voted to end FCC regulations that prevented ISPs from selling your data to the highest bidder.

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Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Georgia Dow, Rob Reid, and Nathan Olivarez-Giles

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Dave in Las Vegas has an old Motorola modem and wants to make sure a newer Arris is a good replacement.

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Host: Leo Laporte

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Leo Laporte and Georgia Dow are joined by Jim Salter to compare the top WiFi mesh network systems. Jim suggests which mesh network may be right for you depending on family size and living situation. We take a look at Plume, Orbi, Google Wifi, Eero, and AmpliFi.

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Guests: Georgia Dow and Jim Salter

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Leo Laporte takes a call from Lee in Los Angeles, CA about the best dashcam that can record inside and outside of the car for Uber and Lyft drivers.

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Host: Leo Laporte

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Megan Morrone and Nathan Olivarez-Giles discuss whether or not robots will steal our jobs soon. United States Treasury Secretary Steven Mnunchin says it's not a question that we will have to answer for maybe a century or so. In an interview with the news website Axios, Steven Mnuchin said, "It's not even on our radar screen." He also said: "I'm not worried at all...In fact I'm optimistic."

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Fr. Robert Ballecer, Brian Chee, and Lou Maresca discuss the recent news where the Senate decided to kill the broadband provider privacy regulations. The vote was split 50-48, mostly along party lines.

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Denise Howell, J. Michael Keyes and Michael Madison discuss the arrest made of a suspect who allegedly sent a malicious tweet to Kurt Eichenwald.

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Hosts: Denise Howell and J. Michael Keyes

Guest: Michael Madison

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Brian X. Chen from The New York Times explains to Nathan Olivarez-Giles and Megan Morrone how to protect your data, smartphones, laptops, and other gadgets while traveling internationally. You can't provide access to your data if you don't hold the keys, Chen says.

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