Tech Break (Video)

BitTorrent creator Bram Cohen on the problem with the mining method of Bitcoin and how his startup Chia Network is creating a more decentralized and energy-efficient cryptocurrency.

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Host: Jason Howell

Guest: Bram Cohen

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Sebastian Peak reviews AMD's RYZEN 9 3900X and RYZEN 7 3700X processors, which have terrific multi-threaded performance. Just check out those CPU benchmarks!

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Hosts: Sebastian Peak and Patrick Norton

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The 2015 MacBook was a controversial model that Mashable's Raymond Wong thinks was a bit ahead of its time, and now it's being phased out.

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Host: Jason Howell

Guest: Raymond Wong

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It is now possible to watch Amazon Prime Video on Chromecast and the YouTube app is available on some Amazon Fire TV devices.

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Hosts: Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis

Guest: Kevin Tofel

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On iOS Today, Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent try out FaceTime's 'Attention Correction' feature in the iOS 13 Public Beta 2 which fakes eye contact with the caller.

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Hosts: Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent

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Microsoft is now placing shortcuts to uninstalled apps in the share menu of devices with its other apps installed. What precedent does this set for other apps, and will the share menu become overrun with ads everywhere?

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Hosts: Jason Howell, Florence Ion, and Ron Richards

Guest: Tony Hannides

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US Congress ponders banning facial recognition tech as law enforcement slurps it up.

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Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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Apple simplifies its laptop line, killing off the MacBook and 13-inch MacBook Pro without a touchbar.

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

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Amazon celebrates 25 years of the commodification of our existence.

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Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Simone de Rochefort, Mikah Sargent, and Patrick Beja

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On 'This Week in Enterprise Tech,' Lou Maresca, Brian Chee, and Curtis Franklin discuss how D-Link has agreed to create a new security program to settle charges where the networking company failed to safeguard their hardware against well-known and preventable hacks.

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Hosts: Louis Maresca, Brian Chee, and Curt Franklin

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