Tech Break (Audio)

It's the story that has captivated Nintendo fans since last night: The Switch. That's the name of the much anticipated 6.2-inch multi-touch screen portable gaming system from Nintendo. The Verge says with true portability combined with the ability to stream high res to your television already gets right what that WiiU got wrong. The Joy Con is the controller and there's an option for a Pro controller too. It'll cost $300 and be available on March 3.

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Host: Megan Morrone

Guest: Georgia Dow

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Father Robert Ballecer, SJ spoke with Franz Schmidt with the team at BOSCH working on intelligent systems for man-machine collaboration. The APAS Workstation is a flexible and safe solution, that creates an eco-system where humans perform the complex tasks and the robots perform the mundane jobs.

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Host: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ

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Megan Morrone talks to Scott Johnson from The Frogpants network about robot kill switches. Perhaps in response to the first season of Westworld, the European Parliament released a draft report proposing a kill switch for robots to limit the amount of damage they do when they turn on us. The proposal on robot governance includes general principals about what to do when or if robots become self-aware, including liability issues and a classification system for the registration of advanced robots. What kind of ethics system will we need for robots who will care for us when we get older?

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Host: Megan Morrone

Guest: Scott Johnson

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Leo Laporte, Stacey Higginbotham, and Kevin Marks comment on a story about the most common passwords people used in 2016.

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Hosts: Leo Laporte and Stacey Higginbotham

Guest: Kevin Marks

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Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone talk about an app-less solution to keeping track of your to-do lists and your future log. The Bullet Journal is an organizational system created by Ryder Carroll.

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Hosts: Megan Morrone and Leo Laporte

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Jason Howell and Megan Morrone talk about Instagram's announcement to start rolling 15-second advertisements into your stories. Instagram is adding full-screen ads to your stories, but you can skip them. Copying Snapchat's stories has been a successful move for Instagram. Since launching Stories five months ago, Instagram has gone from 100 million daily users to a 150 million daily users. Maybe that's why Instagram's description of the way ads will work in their stories seems suspiciously similar to the way ads work in Snapchat stories.

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Hosts: Megan Morrone and Jason Howell

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Jason Howell and Megan Morrone are switching their Android and iOS devices for a full month to see what its like to live on the other side.

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Hosts: Megan Morrone and Jason Howell

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Megan Morrone and Jason Howell discuss the merits of a California case that seeks to force Apple to implement technology that would automatically lock the iPhone while driving to prevent distractions.

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Matt Weinberger from Business Insider joins Megan Morrone and Jason Howell to discuss why Google bought mobile analytics tool Fabric from Twitter.

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WW is a family show, so we try to avoid politics. But this Winter Rye IPA from Surly brewing just HAD to be beer pick of the week: (hat tip: @TechnoSquid)

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