Tech Break (Video)

Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone talk about how you can celebrate African-American history with your iPads and iPhones. Megan shows off an augmented companion app for the movie Hidden Figures about Dorothy Vaughn, Katherine Johnson, and Mary Jackson. Leo talks about an appumentary called The Spies of Mississippi about the Civil Rights movement and Megan also discusses downloading the graphic novel by Congressman John Lewis on iBooks.

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Leo Laporte takes a call about an apparent bug in iOS where Siri repeats itself when asked to create an alarm.

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Host: Leo Laporte

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A new Fugoo has arrived and we plan to review it later this year but for now, let's take a quick look.

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Megan Morrone and Owen JJ Stone discuss Windows 10 news. Microsoft says the Windows 10 anniversary update protects you from exploits even before they get patched. Thanks to exploit mitigation controls, Microsoft's security researchers say systems running Windows 10 anniversary update are more secure against future attacks. Good news, since hackers are always coming up with new ways to breach systems.

In other Windows news, Joshua Burge from Emojipedia says the newest Windows 10 Insiders build adds emoji for interracial couples, making it the first major platform to do so.

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Jordan Ritter, Napster Co-founder, talks about the most important lesson he learned there - the importance of having a great team.

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Leo Laporte, Becky Worley, Greg Ferro, and Mike Elgan talk about Google cutting off Fark.com from its ad platform.

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Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Greg Ferro, Becky Worley, and Mike Elgan

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Leo Laporte and Nathan Olivarez-Giles are joined by Jeff Powers, the co-founder of Occipital. Jeff shows off the Bridge, their mixed reality headset for the iPhone that does positional tracking.

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Guest: Jeff Powers

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Sam Machkovech from Ars Technica joins Jason Howell and Megan Morrone to discuss HTC's CES announcements that include a redesigned head strap and object tracker.

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Hosts: Jason Howell and Megan Morrone

Guest: Sam Machkovech

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Jason Howell and Megan Morrone discuss the new Corning car made of Gorilla Glass. It's not entirely made of glass, although that would be bananas. But a lot of the car is made of glass. If you live in a warm climate, this might immediately conjure the feeling of a sweaty road trip, but Antuan Goodwin from CNET had a chance to sit in the concept car and says the glass is electro chromatic which means it lets light in when you want it and keeps the sun off you when you don't. Corning glass is thinner, lighter, and more scratch resistant than the glass that carmakers usually use. The Corning glass dashboard and center console contain fiber optic controls, but it's also flexible which means it's easier to produce, which means a cheaper car. Not cheap, but cheaper.

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Hosts: Megan Morrone and Jason Howell

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Michael wants to find a portable printer for his Instagram photos.

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Host: Leo Laporte

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