Tech Break (Video)

Gordon gives a brief rundown of his experience at Quartzfest!

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Host: Gordon West

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Megan Morrone and Owen JJ Stone talk about the latest LastPass Password Manager news. LastPass just gave you another reason to protect your accounts with a password manager. Because its free. The LastPass payment structure has always been a bit confusing and their purchase by the company LogMeIn hasn't changed that. In the consumer version you could use the browser extension for free, but if you wanted to use LastPass on a phone or a table, you had to pay an annual subscription fee. Now that $12 fee is gone for generating complicated passwords and storing them across all of your devices. If you want to pay for LastPass Premium you'll get family sharing for up to five users, 1GB of encrypted file storage, YubiKey and other two-factor login integrations, desktop fingerprint identification and LastPass for applications. The update is available right now and the company says they'll give refunds if you've recently paid for LastPass Premium just to get multi-device access and you don't need those other features.

For the full episode, visit twit.tv/tnt/1633.

Host: Megan Morrone

Guest: Owen JJ Stone

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The Harry Potter creators and Google have teamed up to integrate Harry Potter's magic spells into Google Assistant on Android.

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Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

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Megan Morrone invites Owen JJ Stone to rant about his frustration with Apple's new MacBook Pro. There's been a pretty steady chorus of complaints about the new laptops that Apple unveiled last week. Among the many complaints, photographers have been up in arms about the removal of the SD slot. In an interview with The Independent, Phil Schiller defended the decision calling the slot cumbersome and obsolete and that wireless transfer will work just fine. When asked if MacOS would ever be combined with iOS, Schiller insisted that Apple was steadfast in the belief that the two OSes are fundamentally different. He also says there have been more online orders for the new MacBook Pro than ever before, and encouraged all the passionate dialogue around the product. So we had a passionate dialogue.

Full episode can be seen at twit.tv/tnt/1633

Hosts: Megan Morrone and Owen JJ Stone

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Leo Laporte, Megan Morrone and the TWiT staff show off their Halloween costumes. Watch to get ideas for Halloween or your next cosplay event.

For the full episode, visit https://twit.tv/shows/ios-today/episodes/318.

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone

Guests: Bruce Chezem, Kevin King, Josh Windisch, Laurence Simmonds, Hassey Gascar, Kim Schaffer, Carly Perkins, Karsten Bondy, Tony Wang, Jerry Wagley, Patrick Delahanty, Burke McQuinn, and Bryan Burnett

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Ron Richards joins Jason Howell to discuss Apple's first major update to its MacBook Pro lineup in years that includes an OLED touchscreen in place of the function keys called the Touch Bar.

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Hosts: Jason Howell and Ron Richards

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Leo Laporte, Mary Jo Foley, and Paul Thurrott discuss the announcement of Microsoft Teams, the software giant's competitor to Slack. Earlier in the day, Slack "welcomed" Microsoft to their world with a letter published in The New York Times.

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Maarten Edgar and Jolanda Verhoef talk to Jason Howell, Ron Richards and Florence Ion about the pros and cons developing Android apps.

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Hosts: Jason Howell, Ron Richards, and Florence Ion

Guest: Matteo Doni

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Steve Gibson previews a topic for next week's episode, Windows "Atom Bombing" is performed only by using long-established features present in every Windows operating system.

For the full episode, visit twit.tv/sn/584.

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Steve Gibson

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Last week Jason Howell and Megan Morrone reported that George Hotz from Comma.ai had decided against releasing the Comma One device that turns a regular car into a self-driving car because he was frustrated with all the regulation. We asked car tech expert Sam Abuelsamid from Navigant Research (and a contributor to Forbes) to tell us more about what happened with George Hotz, the NHTSA guidance, and what it says about the future of self-driving cars.

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