Tech Break (Video)

Jason Howell and Megan Morrone talk to Alex Kantrowitz from Buzzfeed about Snap's successful IPO. We discuss the importance of the biggest initial public offering of a tech company in years. We also chat about how Snap's neighbors in its Venice, California home base are growing hostile towards the company's success.

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At the Game Developer's Conference, NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang announced that the GTX 1080 graphics card will now only cost $499. This is because the company will soon release the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti for $699.

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Bob goes over a simple transmitter project he came up with using a pine board.

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This week, the U.S. Supreme Court took up the question: is it Constitutionally legal to bar sex offenders from social media? Do 1st Amendment rights extend to Facebook? Do the President's tweets mean that citizens need access to Twitter?

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Stacey Higginbotham, and Jeff Jarvis

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Microsoft announced today at the Game Developers Conference that it will release dev kits for Windows Mixed Reality, A.K.A Windows Holographic, this March. The kits will include Acer's Mixed Reality helmet. "Mixed Reality" is Microsoft's catch-all term that combines virtual reality and augmented reality.

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Sam Machkovech from Ars Technica checks in from the show floor at the Game Developers Conference to highlight some of the more important announcements, including the $200 price drop for an Oculus Rift and Oculus Touch.

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Florence Ion and Duncan Jaffrey give their impressions of the LG G6 smartphone.

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Hosts: Jason Howell, Florence Ion, and Ron Richards

Guest: Duncan Jaffrey

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Spiral Toys, manufacturer of internet-connected teddy bears "CloudPets" exposed more than 800,000 emails and passwords, as well as children's voice messages.

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Hosts: Leo Laporte and Steve Gibson

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Jason Howell and Megan Morrone talk to Harrison Weber, Executive Editor at VentureBeat, about Midnight Commercial, the company tasked with making a Tardigrade module for the now defunct Project Ara. When Google killed off its Project Ara modular phone late last year, many phone enthusiasts were bummed about what could have been had the concept taken off with the backing of Google itself. Weber wrote about how Google wanted design studios like Midnight Commercial to think big when it came to modules for Ara, beyond the typical crop of speaker and camera attachments.

Full episode can be seen at twit.tv/tnt/1714

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Warren Buffet doubles his investment in Apple to more than $17 billion, or about 2.5% of the company. His reason? When he took his great-grandkids to Dairy queen, he asked them how much they love their iPhones. Apparently, they like them a lot.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, and Rene Ritchie

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