Jason Howell and Megan Morrone celebrate the first day of Black History Month with a discussion of @blackbirds, a new Twitter bot you can follow or chat with about black Americans of the past and present. Black employees at Twitter developed and manage the bot. Writing in TechCrunch, Megan Rose Dickey says you'll be able to interact with the bot through DM in short replies.

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Tyler Jewell is project lead for Eclipse Che, developer workspace server and next-generation Eclipse IDE. He is also the founder and CEO of Codenvy and a partner with Toba Capital managing investments in middleware and application development.

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Becky Worley, contributor to ABC News Good Morning America joins Megan Morrone and Jason Howell to offer tips on how to use social media during times of political turmoil, no matter what side of the aisle you are on.

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Adrienne Matei from Quartz joins Megan Morrone and Jason Howell to discuss how artificial intelligence will allow those grieving the death of a loved one to virtually chat with them into eternity.

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Matteo Doni of coolsmartphone.com shows off the Lenovo P2 smartphone.

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Hosts: Jason Howell, Florence Ion, and Ron Richards

Guest: Matteo Doni

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Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Rene Ritchie, and Alex Lindsay talk about high tech credit card shimmers that had been discovered in Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada.

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Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Rene Ritchie, and Alex Lindsay

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Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte check out a video of a robot arm checking the "I'm not a robot" captcha. Is this something we need to be worried about?

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Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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Dale Dougherty and Peter Hirshberg are the authors of Maker City: A Practical Guide for Remaking our Cities. Together they have a plan for bringing back hands-on education, building a local maker ecosystem, and creating a maker economy to replace our failing mass-market manufacturing process.

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Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone discuss Bond.co, an app that lets you send formal notes, even if you have horrible handwriting.

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Sam Machkovech from Ars Technica joins Megan Morrone and Jason Howell to highlight a number of big gaming releases about to be released throughout the month of February.

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