Tech Break (Video)

Val goes the biggest expert she could find to talk about Islands On the Air!

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More details about the CIA Hacking tools revealed by Wikileaks. Weeping Angel spies on you through your TV, Ricky Bobby spies on you through DLLs on your Windows PC, and BaronSamedi possesses your Android phone.

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Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

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Jason Howell and Megan Morrone talk to Julie Cohen, the director of the new documentary American Veteran that tells the story of Nick Mendes. Mendes was 21 when his vehicle encountered an IED during his tour in Afghanistan as a Sergeant back in 2009. That explosion ultimately left him paralyzed from the neck down. A new documentary called American Veteran follows Nick for the five years after the event. Director Cohen explains the tech behind Nick's wheelchair and how he and his wife Wendy hack their house to make it more accessible and to help Nick play Fallout New Vegas on his Playstation.

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All the details we could suss out on Microsoft's plans for Windows Mixed Reality.

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Kevin Barry, developer of Nova Launcher, joins Jason Howell, Florence Ion and Ron Richard to discuss what it's like to maintain and enhance one of the most successful launchers for Android.

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Hosts: Jason Howell, Florence Ion, and Ron Richards

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Steve Gibson goes through Amazon's explanation of what was behind the AWS S3 outage.

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Hosts: Leo Laporte and Steve Gibson

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Iain Thomson from The Register joins Jason Howell and Megan Morrone to discuss the Wikileaks release of an unprecedented amount of hacking tools reportedly used by the CIA.

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In a massive dump, Wikileaks has released information about the CIA's secret surveillance tools. The tools allegedly allow the CIA to hack computers, smartphones, message apps, TVs, and other devices.

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Jason Howell and Megan Morrone discuss why you should trust the answers that Google Home gives you. Writing in Fortune, Mathew Ingram says Google's fake news problem could be worse than Facebook's. Over the weekend, several sources pointed out that Google's "featured snippets" stories spread news that former President Obama was planning a coup and that women are evil. This "news" came from those boxes you see at the top of Google's search results that provide one word answers to questions. And before it was fixed, if you asked Google if President Obama was planning a coup, Google answered with a quote an article from a conspiracy site called Secrets of the Fed. And the "answer" was that yes, Obama was planning a coup and he is in league with communists from China. If you check now, Ingram says, the answer now comes up with several results about Google's fake news problem. I think this is both a fake news problem and a problem with our asking our assistants questions and expecting them to have the right answer.

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Rachel Roumeliotis, a Strategic Content Director at O'Reilly Media, Inc., talks about Oscon 2017 with Randal Schwartz.

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