Tech Break (Video)

Ryan Shrout and Patrick Norton talk about the recent Huawei 3DMark cheating that resulted in UL Benchmarks delisting multiple Huawei phones with suspect scores.

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Jason Howell and Megan Morrone talk to Devindra Hardawar from Engadget about all the crazy tech he tried at IFA in Berlin. What's the point of an 8K television? Plus, what Devindra thinks of the new Roomba robot vacuum that can empty itself.

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Patrick Norton and Ryan Shrout discuss Allyn Malventano's review of Samsung's Portable SSD X5 1TB, an extremely fast Thunderbolt 3 external unit with a 3-year warranty.

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Bryan Ollendyke is the lead of the HAX the web, web component authoring system as well as lead of a the ELMS: Learning Network project. He's been a 100% effort FOSS developer for over 10 years at Penn State, meaning every line he's written the last 10 years has been an open contribution!

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Are URLs too complicated? Google has a plan to fix that.

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The Windows 10 October 2018 Update is coming ... in October. Goodbye, "Redstone 5." Hello 19H1

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Hosts: Megan Morrone, Paul Thurrott, and Mary Jo Foley

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Apple sends out invitations for its September 12th announcement and accidentally leaks a sneak peek at the new iPhone XS. It's very gold.

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Hosts: Rene Ritchie, Andy Ihnatko, and Alex Lindsay

Guest: Lory Gil

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Megan Morrone talks to James Thomson, independent developer and creator of PCalc for iOS, macOS, AppleTV, and watchOS about his advice for aspiring iOS and macOS developers.

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The Android OS broadcasts "system messages" which can be received by any client application which requests them -- without any user permission oversight. These broadcasts expose potentially privacy sensitive information about the user's device and location to all applications running on the device. This includes the WiFi network name, BSSID, local IP addresses, DNS server information and the device's MAC address. Some of this information, such as MAC addresses, is no longer available via APIs since Android 6 (Android P is #9), and extra permissions are normally required to access the rest of this information. However, by listening to these broadcasts, any application on the device can capture this information... thus bypassing all permission checks and existing mitigations.

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The newly announced Casio WSD-F30 is running the newest version of Wear OS and has an incredible battery life for outdoor enthusiasts looking to push their smartwatch usage to the max.

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Hosts: Jason Howell, Florence Ion, and Ron Richards

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