Tech Break (Video)

Megan Morrone and Jason Howell talk to Matthew Curtis from This Week in Law about memes, schools, and the law. Earlier this week news broke that Harvard had rescinded the acceptances of 10 students after it was discovered that they had been posting racially-charged memes in a secret Facebook chat. The chat had spun off from a Harvard-sponsored group that was intended to encourage new students to meet one another. According to The Harvard Crimson, in order to join the chat you had to post an offensive meme.

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Megan Morrone and Jason Howell discuss The Apple Watch, the iPhone and the iPad. macOS and iOS will get some new and exciting features this Fall and today if you're a developer. For Apple Watch, you'll get a smarter Siri reminding you of things it thinks you might want to know, a long awaited flashlight and some improved fitness features. If you've wanted to do other workouts besides walking, running, biking, or swimming, you're in luck. iOS on your iPhone will include a do not disturb while driving tool that will automatically turn on when your car connects to bluetooth. Your phone will automatically send a text response that says you're driving and people can reply Urgent to come through. You can turn it off if you're a passenger. iOS 11 on the iPad includes drag and drop, searchable handwriting in the Notes app, and some great multitasking features. Plus a new file system that makes the iPad more like the Mac.

Hosts: Jason Howell and Megan Morrone

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Pilosa is an open source, distributed bitmap index that dramatically accelerates queries across multiple, massive data sets. Pilosa abstracts the index from data storage and optimizes it for massive scale.

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Megan Morrone and Jason Howell discuss Apple's new speaker, the HomePod. Apple held its annual Worldwide Developer's Conference keynote today and it was chock full of good stuff. The HomePod is the rumored Siri speaker that will be available in December. Apple really pushed the sound quality of the device with its seven-speaker array of tweeters and real-time acoustic spacial awareness that will determine the room its in and play music accordingly. The device will also work as a home assistant like Amazon's Echo and Google's Home.

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Megan Morrone and Nathan Olivarez-Giles discuss Detour, an app for your iPhone that offers guided audio tours of San Francisco and some of the greatest places all over the world. The tours are narrated by famous people who know the area. The app is free, the tours are free to try, and they range from $4.99 to $20 for a collection of tours.

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At their 2017 World Wide Developers Conference, Apple announced HomePod, their rumored "Siri Speaker" with a huge focus on music.

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Leo Laporte explains how to switch between multiple cameras when streaming to Facebook Live.

Host: Leo Laporte

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New findings show that more than half of @realDonaldTrump's followers are bots. How many of YOUR followers are bots? Here is an easy way to find out!

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The new VR game from Ubisoft, Star Trek: Bridge Crew is out. On the 'The New Screen Savers,' we sent our hosts on a 'seven-minute mission to boldly go where no hosts have gone before' on PlayStation VR. We'll also talk to the Senior Creative Director at Red Storm, the developers of the game.

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Guests: David Votypka, Megan Morrone, Jason Howell, and Bryan Burnett

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Paul in Orange County wants a large TV with good speakers in the front of the TV. Scott Wilkinson has an interesting suggestion from Sony.

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Host: Leo Laporte

Guest: Scott Wilkinson

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