Tech Break (Video)

Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone discuss the new Google News app for iPhone and iPad. Powered by artificial intelligence, the revamped iOS app also uses human intelligence to offer full coverage of news from the best journalists on the web. Google says the more you use the app, the better the machine learning gets at showing you what you want to see.

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After some encouragement from the Chinese Government, Apple has begun to ban apps that use the VoIP CallKit from its Chinese Appstore.

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

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It was perhaps inevitable. We've had domain name phishing using look-alike domain names. Now we have voice assistant phishing using "sound-alike" trigger phrases! In a published research paper titled: Understanding and Mitigating the Security Risks of Voice-Controlled Third-Party Skills on Amazon Alexa and Google Home, a group of Chinese and US researchers describe their various methods of attacking smart assistants like Amazon Alexa and Google Home.

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Steve Gibson

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Google announced that its big redesign of YouTube Music is launching, but questions remain as to whether it means the end of Google Play Music.

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Hosts: Jason Howell, Ron Richards, and Florence Ion

Guest: Mishaal Rahman

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Tom is using 2nd-factor authentication for his accounts and wants to know if he can move to a new phone without having to set up Google Authenticator from scratch.

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Host: Leo Laporte

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Europe's General Data Protection Regulation goes into effect on Friday, May 25th. Is it time to panic? (No.)

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Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Patrick Beja, Christina Warren, and Brian McCullough

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Leo Laporte gives a few options for using cellular phone and data when traveling overseas.

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Host: Leo Laporte

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What is the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and how will it change your online experience? Starting Friday, May 25, 2018, the European Union's new privacy rules go into place. Danny O'Brien, the International Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) came on The New Screen Savers show with Leo Laporte and Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ to explain the differences between the current rules and the new changes.

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Hosts: Leo Laporte and Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ

Guest: Danny O'Brien

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The retrial of the Apple v. Samsung patent case begins May 14, 2018.

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Hosts: Denise Howell and Matt Curtis

Guest: Alex Marcham

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Ian Bernstein is the founder of Misty Robotics and Sphero. He talks with Jason Howell about his new crowdfunded personal robot, the Misty II.

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Host: Jason Howell

Guest: Ian Bernstein

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