Tech Break (Video)

Yesterday, Microsoft released the "final" updates for Windows 7 for most people. (But not that update for the NSA-reported crypto bug that was for Win 10 and Win Server, interestingly.) Today, Windows 7 will begin displaying a full-screen nag to upgrade to Windows 10. Microsoft Edge might be supported on Windows 7 for at least 18 months, and Microsoft Security Essentials will keep working for some indeterminate time period. Google Chrome will also be supported for 18+ months.

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On All About Android, Fr. Robert Ballecer shows off the ASUS ROG Phone II, a beast of a gaming phone with stylish design, lots of LED lights, and enough internal power to handle even the most power-hungry mobile games with ease.

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Guest: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ

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Windows 7 support dies today, but 1 in 7 PCs are still running it. How to keep your computer as safe as possible.

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Apple's Rack-mounted Mac Pro is now available for the low price of $6500!

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

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Once again, the biggest trend at CES 2020 was vegetable-based meat. Impossible pork is new this year, and Impossible bacon is on the horizon.

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Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, Ant Pruitt, and Jason Hiner

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Scientists have made a Nearly Invincible Lithium-Ion Battery. How Invincible you may ask? well, it could be cut, bent, soaked, shot, and lit on fire - and it still powers up just fine.

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Host: Louis Maresca

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OneZero's Will Oremus joins Jason Howell and Mikah Sargent to talk about Facebook's deepfakes ban — though it's still lax on so-called "shallow fakes."

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Guest: Will Oremus

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Jeff Jarvis loves high-end Chromebooks. And since Google hasn't released one for a while, he was super excited by the "fiesta red" Samsung Galaxy Chromebook.

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Hosts: Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis

Guest: Mathew Ingram

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Paul Thurrott, Mary Jo Foley, and Mikah Sargent discuss the best Windows PCs at CES 2020.

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On All About Android, Jason Howell, Florence Ion, Ron Richards, and Juan Bagnell discuss the newly announced Razer Kishi gamepad from CES 2020, a universal gamepad that looks like a Nintendo Switch controller and is wired into the phone through the USB-C port.

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