Tech Break (Video)

Father Robert Ballecer, SJ spoke with Franz Schmidt with the team at BOSCH working on intelligent systems for man-machine collaboration. The APAS Workstation is a flexible and safe solution, that creates an eco-system where humans perform the complex tasks and the robots perform the mundane jobs.

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Host: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ

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Megan Morrone talks to Scott Johnson from The Frogpants network about robot kill switches. Perhaps in response to the first season of Westworld, the European Parliament released a draft report proposing a kill switch for robots to limit the amount of damage they do when they turn on us. The proposal on robot governance includes general principals about what to do when or if robots become self-aware, including liability issues and a classification system for the registration of advanced robots. What kind of ethics system will we need for robots who will care for us when we get older?

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Host: Megan Morrone

Guest: Scott Johnson

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Leo Laporte, Stacey Higginbotham, and Kevin Marks comment on a story about the most common passwords people used in 2016.

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Hosts: Leo Laporte and Stacey Higginbotham

Guest: Kevin Marks

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Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone talk about an app-less solution to keeping track of your to-do lists and your future log. The Bullet Journal is an organizational system created by Ryder Carroll.

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Hosts: Megan Morrone and Leo Laporte

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Jason Howell and Megan Morrone talk about Instagram's announcement to start rolling 15-second advertisements into your stories. Instagram is adding full-screen ads to your stories, but you can skip them. Copying Snapchat's stories has been a successful move for Instagram. Since launching Stories five months ago, Instagram has gone from 100 million daily users to a 150 million daily users. Maybe that's why Instagram's description of the way ads will work in their stories seems suspiciously similar to the way ads work in Snapchat stories.

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Hosts: Megan Morrone and Jason Howell

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WW is a family show, so we try to avoid politics. But this Winter Rye IPA from Surly brewing just HAD to be beer pick of the week: (hat tip: @TechnoSquid)

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Father Robert, SJ spoke with Nick Smoot of Rohinni. Rohinni is leading the charge in the development of micro-LED technology.

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Host: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ

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Microsoft has fixed the inability to disable Skype notification sounds in its websites, and in doing so, they may have just saved our sanity as well.

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A quick rundown on what we know about the upcoming Windows 10 Creators Update's Game Mode. TL;DR: Not much.

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Megan Morrone offers her thoughts on one way to easily manage your Wi-Fi network: The Starry Station. Starry offers simple set-up and accessible touch screen controls. Plus, it looks like something you wouldn't mind having in your living room. If you want more control over your kid's access to Wi-Fi, Starry also offers that. The only con is the price.

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Host: Megan Morrone

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