Tech Break (Video)

The San Francisco startup Reason, co-founded by Mike Chen and Crina Bordas, is looking to make emerging technologies like drones, VR, and robotics more accessible to everyone in the setting of sci-fi escape rooms. Watch and see if Leo Laporte and TWiT crew can make it out the other side as a stronger team.

Find out more at https://www.tryreason.com

For the full episode, go to https://twit.tv/shows/new-screen-savers/episodes/188

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Crina Bordas, Mike Chen, Jason Howell, Megan Morrone, Colleen Goldstein, and Jerry Wagley

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US Customs and Border Protection agents are retaining the data that they copy from user's devices.

Watch the full episode: https://twit.tv/SN/694

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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Qualcomm gets Apple phones banned in China - is this part of a bigger trade war, or just a company trying desperately to hold on to its dying market share?

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https://twit.tv/MBW/641

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Alex Lindsay, and Rene Ritchie

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Patrick Norton and Allyn Malventano talk about the ridiculous case of Apple's iPad Pros shipping bent. Interestingly, Apple doesn't really consider this a defect, but merely a side effect of the manufacturing process.

Full episode at twit.tv/twich496

Hosts: Patrick Norton and Allyn Malventano

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Jason Howell and Megan Morrone talk to Aja Romano about the news that Tumblr has removed "adult content." What Tumblr can learn from the end of LiveJournal and how outside sources have always misunderstood Tumblr. Also, how the algorithm to flag pornography is predictably flawed and the fanlore Archive of Our Own project.

Watch the full episode here:
https://twit.tv/tnw/62

Hosts: Jason Howell and Megan Morrone

Guest: Aja Romano

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Who would have thought that Microsoft's biggest successes in 2018 would be embracing Open Source and adding Chromium to Edge?

Watch the full episode here:
https://twit.tv/ww/600

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

Guest: Chris Capossela

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Eric Seidel co-founded the Flutter project at Google and now manages the engineering teams. Eric worked on Chrome, Safari and WebKit for about a decade prior to starting Flutter.

Full episode at twit.tv/floss511

Check out Flutter at https://flutter.io/

Hosts: Randal Schwartz and Aaron Newcomb

Guest: Eric Seidel

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Jason Howell is game show host as he reads clues to each guest to see if they can guess the Android device, and then explain why they think it is hot or not.

For the full episode, visit twit.tv/aaa/400

Hosts: Jason Howell, Ron Richards, and Florence Ion

Guests: Gina Trapani, Chad (OMGchad) Johnson, and Bryan Burnett

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Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone answer a viewer question about whether Final Cut Pro or anything like it will ever come to the iPad Pro and what that means when it does. LumaFusion, iMovie, and Adobe Premier Rush all come close, but aren't quite as powerful or fast as Final Cut Pro yet.

Watch the full episode: https://twit.tv/iOS/426

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone

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Lou Maresca, Curt Franklin, and Brian Chee talk about the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee's new staff report on the Equifax Data Breach of 2017 (an incident that affected about 148 million consumers).

Hosts: Louis Maresca, Brian Chee, and Curt Franklin

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