Tech Break (Video)

Megan Morrone and Nathan Olivarez-Giles talk to Matt Haughey of Slack and founder of Metafilter about his volunteer experience with Defy Ventures. Matt used some of his internet and entrepreneurship experience to help serve people with criminal histories. One of the ideas of the day was "transform the hustle," which is designed to help people use the skills they honed in their criminal past to help create a company. Matt talks about the transformative experience and how you can get involved.

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Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone talk about FoodGenie, an iPhone app created by Dad coder Nick Perkins. If you've ever been stuck in a dinner rut, you can now spin a wheel to find a restaurant. Perkins coded the app using the Yelp API and a few CocoaPods. Great for families, couples, colleagues, or friends.

Full episode can be seen at twit.tv/ios/337

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Brian Reich, author of "The Imagination Gap," talks to Leo Laporte about how we, as a society, seem to be focused too much on small innovations, and not enough on big-picture imagination.

Full episode available at twit.tv/tri/290

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Uber President Jeff Jones resigned, saying that "the beliefs and approach to leadership that have guided my career are inconsistent with what I saw and experienced at Uber."

Full episode available at twit.tv/twit/606

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Nmap (Network Mapper) is a security scanner. It is used to discover hosts and services on a computer network.

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Leo Laporte shows how to identify the cause of battery drain on iOS and Android devices.

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Host: Leo Laporte

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Evan Noronha, Technical writer at iFixit*, shows us how to take apart a Nintendo Switch, how to fix it, and what might be causing connectivity problems with the controllers. *Full Disclosure: iFixit is a sponsor of the TWiT network.

For the full episode, go to Leo Laporte and Nathan Olivarez-Giles

Guest: Evan Noronha

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Jim in Las Vegas is looking for an Alexa skill to dictate and send emails with an Amazon Echo.

For the full episode, visit twit.tv/ttg/1372.

Host: Leo Laporte

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Mike Murphy from Quartz joins Nathan Olivarez-Giles and Jason Howell to discuss how Nintendo is increasing the production of its hugely successful Nintendo Switch console.

Full episode available at twit.tv/tnt/1727

Zelda Home Automation video from Sufficiently Advanced:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glZnkpIDWSE

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Jason Howell and Nathan Olivarez-Giles discuss how a Minnesota judge has ordered Google to hand over the names of users who entered a specific search term into the browser, and the precedent that could set going forward.

For the full episode, visit twit.tv/tnt/1727.

Host: Jason Howell

Guest: Nathan Olivarez-Giles

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