Tech Break (Video)

Nathan Olivarez-Giles from the Wall Street Journal joins Megan Morrone and Jason Howell to discuss his experience with the newly released Daydream View VR headset for Google Pixel phones.

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Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Mike Elgan broke the news that Twitter COO Adam Bain had stepped down with a flurry of tweets.

For the full episode, visit twit.tv/twig/378

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis

Guest: Mike Elgan

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George shows off his new soldering iron!

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Jason Howell and Megan Morrone discuss the 2016 Presidential Election and why the data was wrong. You may or may not feel let down by last night's election, but one thing that we can agree on is that the data geeks let us down. Whether your candidate was predicted to win or not, the predicted candidate did not win and a lot of people are asking why. Not least of which is the people putting faith in the start-up Votecastr. VoteCastr's mission was to gather, publish, and analyze voter-turnout information in swing states to provide early predictions to the race. The problem was that even though they had so-called data gurus who had worked on both the George W. Bush and the Obama campaigns, it got almost all of their predictions wrong.

Full episode can be seen at twit.tv/tnt/1638

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No longer must you deal with Apple's CarPlay; Android Auto now runs on your phone so you can drive a bit more safely.

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Leo Laporte, Mary Jo Foley, and Paul Thurrott talk about Steve Ballmer's comments on the iPhone and how it was too expensive. Much of what he claimed turned out to be fairly correct, and Apple changed the product addressing his complaints.

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Mike Murphy from Quartz joins Megan Morrone and Jason Howell to discuss Snapchat's new update that brings world lens filters as well as support for its upcoming Spectacles.

Full episode can be seen at twit.tv/tnt/1637

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Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, and Rene Ritchie talk about a leaked Steve Jobs' email that outlined Apple's strategy in 2010.

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Steve Gibson briefly describes how the Windows Atom bomb exploit works.

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Host: Steve Gibson

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Jason Howell and Megan Morrone talk to Tim Stevens from CNET Road Show about Android Auto, which now works in any car. The app doesn't have OK Google voice support or Waze integration for maps, but will people use it anyway?

Read Tim's full article: https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/android-auto-major-update/

Hosts: Jason Howell and Megan Morrone

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