Tech Break (Video)

Fr. Robert Ballecer, Brian Chee, and Louis Maresca discuss the end of McAfee's government source code reviews, its PR implications, and the use of clean room secure facilities.

Full episode at twit.tv/twiet/263

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Alex Lidow is the CEO of Efficient Power Conversion. He talks to Leo Laporte about how Gallium Arsenide can be faster than Silicon.

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Host: Leo Laporte

Guest: Alex Lidow

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Valerie Hotzfeld NV9L, Joe Basset W1WCN and Andy Anderson KE0AYJ talk about their experience in Puerto Rico.

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Host: Valerie Hotzfeld

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NVIDIA has announced the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti, which will go for $449 and features 2432 GPU cores, 8.1 TFLOPS Peak computing power, and a clock frequency of 1607 MHz. The performance of this product and the GTX 1080 aren't too far apart. The card will apparently ship for November 2, 2017.

Full episode at twit.tv/twich/438

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Fr. Robert Ballecer and Jason Howell check out the Nebula Mars Portable Cinema from Anker.

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Hosts: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ and Jason Howell

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Stephen Hall from 9to5Google shares his experience with image retention on his Google Pixel 2 XL review unit, and how it differs from the smaller Pixel 2 device.

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https://twit.tv/tnw/4

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The first (and maybe only?) Cortana powered speaker: The Invoke. We got to test these out for a week. Our verdicts? MJF: Nice, but not a must-have. PT: A beautiful device, but...

For the full episode, visit twit.tv/ww/540

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

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First came the screen blotchiness. Then the burn-in. Now clicking and hissing. The good news for Pixel 2 XL owners: only 4 more plagues to go!

Watch the full episode here:
https://twit.tv/twig/428

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Stacey Higginbotham

Guests: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ and Mike Elgan

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Bedrock is Expensify's recently open-sourced technology. It's a RDBMS optimized for self-healing replication across relatively slow, relatively unreliable WAN connections, enabling extremely high availability / high performance multi-datacenter deployments without any single point of failure.

Full episode at twit.tv/floss/456

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Florence Ion and Jason Howell go hands-on with the Pixel 2 XL and discuss the reported incidents of screen burn-in and discoloration.

For the full episode, visit twit.tv/aaa/340

Hosts: Jason Howell and Florence Ion

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