Tech Break (Audio)

Jayant Kolhe and Varun Talwar give a brief intro into what gRPC is and what you can do with it.

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San Francisco Muni could not take payments Saturday because of a cyber attack that knocked out their fare processing system.

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Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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Leo opens up the Surface Studio and begins to set it up.

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Host: Leo Laporte

Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone discuss the rise in spam messages sent directly to your calendar. If you were invited to buy Ray-Bans, you'll want to watch this. Learn how to make a spam calendar to automatically move all messages there so you can't see them.

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Sarah Scoles, contributor to Wired Science, joins Megan Morrone and Jason Howell to discuss Breakthrough Listen, a $100 million search program for extraterrestrial life.

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Cathy O'Neil went from being a Wall Street quant to a member of Occupy Wall Street when she saw the ways that Big Data are being used to affect the lives of people every day.

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Leo Laporte takes a call on whether Google Adwords or Facebooks ads are better for building business.

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Host: Leo Laporte

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Megan Morrone and Jason Howell talk about the research done with the iOS and Android mobile game called Sea Hero Quest. The game tests spatial navigation skills and might help prevent or diagnose dementia. The 2.4 million research subjects who downloaded the game have racked up the equivalent of 9,400 years of gameplay that scientists are now using to study Alzheimer's. Scientists & game designers from Glitchers created the game and you can download it right now to help create the world's largest crowd-sourced data set benchmarking human spatial navigation.

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Hosts: Megan Morrone and Jason Howell

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On The New Screen Savers, Megan Morrone tours and suits up at 2K Games' motion capture studio. See what it takes to put real action into video games like NBA 2K.

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Host: Megan Morrone

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Marion in Pasadena wants to help a family member wire their house with ethernet cable.

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Host: Leo Laporte

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