Tech Break (Video)

Leo Laporte, Kate O'Neill, Nate Lanxon and Devindra Hardawar discuss Facebook's foray into the world of cryptocurrencies. The currency will be built on blockchain and the social media giant maintains it will be a "simple global currency and infrastructure that empowers billions of people." Our panel has some thoughts about this.

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Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Kate O'Neill, Nate Lanxon, and Devindra Hardawar

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Leo Laporte talks about the current state of gaming on VR platforms such as the Oculus Quest and a caller talks about using 3D video and VR to train surgeons.

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Host: Leo Laporte

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Riviera Beach, a town in Florida paid a ransom of 65 Bitcoin to retrieve data locked behind ransomware. Are there consequences to paying the ransom?

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Hosts: Louis Maresca, Curt Franklin, and Brian McHenry

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Jigsaw's Chief Operating Officer Dan Keyserling on how they are building technology to help fight attacks on free speech, online harassment, violent extremism, and other injustices with projects like Project Shield and more.

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Host: Leo Laporte

Guest: Dan Keyserling

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Nintendo revealed the release date for Dr. Mario World, and it is obvious that Nintendo is all about "free-to-play" for its mobile game releases.

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Hosts: Jason Howell, Florence Ion, and Ron Richards

Guest: Raymond Wong

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One evening, Matthew Miller from ZDNet awoke to discover that his T-Mobile SIM had been hijacked, and that was the beginning of the toppling of a delicate house of cards that affected his entire online identity.

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Host: Jason Howell

Guest: Matthew Miller

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Patrick Norton goes over Apple's new MacBook Pro recall program, which applies to certain 15-inch laptops sold between September 2015 and February 2017.

Their page can be found at https://apple.co/2N2KFAy

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Host: Patrick Norton

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Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency - Don't call it "Zuck Bucks"

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Hosts: Leo Laporte, Stacey Higginbotham, and Jeff Jarvis

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Facebook launches its own cryptocurrency. Zuck wants to own the world.

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Hosts: Leo Laporte, Mary Jo Foley, and Paul Thurrott

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New information in the Google Play Developer Console seems to show a new Nvidia Shield TV with updated hardware is in the works. Everyone agrees that the original Shield TV is hall of fame material.

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Hosts: Jason Howell, Florence Ion, and Ron Richards

Guest: Raymond Wong

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