Tech Break (Video)

Jason Howell and Megan Morrone talk to author, speaker and professor Lisa Buyer about her article, "7 Surefire Ways Your Teen Won't Get Into College, Thanks To Social Media." More and more colleges are looking at social media profiles of kids in the acceptance process. Buyer says social media messes can be cleaned up with positive steps like creating a LinkedIn profile and more.

Hosts: Megan Morrone and Jason Howell

Guest: Lisa Buyer

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Apple takes VPN apps off Chinese App Store in preparation for China's upcoming ban of VPN software. What is Apple's moral duty when it comes to the App Store? Is bowing to China's anti-VPN law the beginning of a slippery slope?

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Andy Ihnatko

Guests: Jim Dalrymple and Adam Engst

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Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone discuss an app for iPads and iPhones that let you animate parts of photos. It's called Plotagraph and it is $4.99. This is an introductory price, which is 50% off the regular price.

Full episode at twit.tv/ios/354

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Marques Brownlee (MKBHD) joins Jason Howell and Megan Morrone to discuss his time driving the new Tesla Model 3, and his thoughts on the release event.

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How to shoot video and edit straight from your phone using Adobe Premiere Clip.

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Nick Bilton is the author of American Kingpin, a non-fiction thriller about the hunt for the Silk Road's Dread Pirate Roberts. He talks with Megan Morrone about how he researched the book.

Full episode at twit.tv/tri/308

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At this year's DEF CON conference, it took hackers minutes to hack US voting machines from Diebold, Sequoia, and Winvote - some wirelessly. One particularly disturbing machine, hacked via Wi-Fi, was running Windows XP, with a hard-coded WEP password and autorun enabled.

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The Swedish Transport Agency proceeded to upload all of its data to IBM and NCR's cloud servers, where it was accessible by people outside of Sweden who didn't have proper security clearance.

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Leo Laporte takes a call about maintaining privacy online, and how it's becoming increasingly difficult to keep personal information from showing up in Google search results.

For the full episode, visit twit.tv/ttg/1408

Host: Leo Laporte

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On The New Screen Savers, Leo Laporte and Jason Snell talk to Jeremy Burge from emojipedia.org about new Emojis, how they are handling diversity, and the top requests for this year including redheads and party hats.

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Jason Snell

Guest: Jeremy Burge

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