Tech Break (Video)

Megan Morrone and Jason Howell discuss the pilot's strike that might ruin Christmas season for online holiday shoppers. Pilots for Amazon.com Inc.'s new in-house transportation network took to the picket line this week over an ongoing labor dispute regarding increased demand and staffing shortages. ABX Air, which also flies for DHL, says 26 flights and 1.25 million pounds of cargo is currently grounded. The Wall Street Journal says that as of this morning, pilots are not crossing the picket line.

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Hosts: Megan Morrone and Jason Howell

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Jason Howell and Megan Morrone discuss the new malicious bug that will crash your iPhone. According to YouTuber EverythingApplePro, a certain MP4 video when played in Safari will slow down your iPhone, iPad, or your iPod Touch and then cause it to crash. It's a short 3-second video with music. No Mr. Robot masks or anything.

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Hosts: Megan Morrone and Jason Howell

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Leo reviews the Surface Studio. It's expensive and underpowered, but beautiful and incredibly fun to use. Leo's verdict: "I just love it so damn much."

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Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone show you how to play Monopoly on your iPhone, iPad, or Apple TV.

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Hosts: Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone

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Amature Radio Newsline briefly looks into New Zealand after a 6.8 earthquake struck the country. Plus, Don speaks about the US Batfish special event that commemorates the 75th year since Pearl Harbor.

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Jayant Kolhe and Varun Talwar give a brief intro into what gRPC is and what you can do with it.

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Listener Steve Main sends in a video to clarify confusion over USB Power Distribution and different power profiles for the Google Pixel phones.

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Hosts: Jason Howell and Ron Richards

Guest: Aaron Newcomb

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San Francisco Muni could not take payments Saturday because of a cyber attack that knocked out their fare processing system.

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Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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Jason Howell and Megan Morrone talk to Apple podcaster and writer Stephen Hackett of 512 Pixels and Relay FM about the tiny Mac museum in his house. Hackett created a video of the products in Apple's $300 coffee table book and included all the products he's acquired over the years. They chat about whether the book is worth the price, and what he recommends for your current Apple set up.

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Rumors suggest that the next iPhone could come with a curved OLED screen.

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

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