Tech Break (Video)

Megan Morrone and Florence Ion discuss the recent vulnerability that McAfee discovered in the WeMo smart plugs that we've recommended. The WeMo plugs (by Belkin) could allow a hacker to compromise entire networks with an unreported buffer overflow. McAfee says they reported the flaw to Belkin in May and Belkin says they're working with McAfee to release a firmware update later this month. Megan adds that plugs are only insecure if you control them through the WeMo app and not if you control them through HomeKit.

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Hosts: Megan Morrone and Florence Ion

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NYU is giving Facebook 10,000 anonymized MRI scans to help train its Artificial Intelligence systems. Is this a dangerous invasion of privacy, or just teaching Skynet how best to kill humans?

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Hosts: Leo Laporte and Stacey Higginbotham

Guest: Joan Donovan

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Minecraft: Education Edition is coming to the iPad, and some of its best features (including compounding with a full table of elements) are coming to Bedrock Edition.

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Huawei was caught passing a DSLR photo off as a selfie shot with the Nova 3 smartphone, and as it turns out, this kind of trickery isn't entirely new. But is it right?

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Hosts: Jason Howell, Florence Ion, and Ron Richards

Guest: Joshua Vergara

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Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone show off the widgets they use on their iPhones and iPads. Check battery life of your device, Apple Pencil, or Apple Watch, play games, read what's trending on Google, do simple or complicated calculations with the PCalc widget, and more.

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Coming this fall: new MacBook Air with a retina screen and "Pro" Mac Mini.

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

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Denise Howell and Saurabh Vishnubhakat discuss updates on net neutrality, including California's S.B. 822 as well as the authority for future re-litigation.

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Leo Laporte takes a call from Annie in Los Angeles, CA about how to get data off of an old Palm Treo and onto a new smartphone.

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Host: Leo Laporte

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Tesla tumbles after Musk laments his "most difficult and painful year."

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Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Patrick Beja, Michael Nuñez, and Harry McCracken

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Leo Laporte talks about how to spot an online scam whether it is received in an email, pop up or phone call.

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Host: Leo Laporte

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