Tech Break (Video)

At Google's Android Dev Summit, the battery benefits of dark mode were illustrated and Google is slowly releasing updates to many of its apps that offer a dark mode option. Huyen Tue Dao, Android developer at Trello, talks about how developers can approach dark mode options in their own apps.

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Hosts: Jason Howell, Florence Ion, and Ron Richards

Guest: Huyen Tue Dao

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On Sunday, 11/11, Cloudflare released their 1.1.1.1 DNS app for iOS and Android. Significantly, this app not only points any iOS device's DNS to 1.1.1.1 (and 1.0.0.1 for backup), it also encapsulates them inside either an HTTPS or TLS tunnel, thus completely hiding them from anyone who might be passively snooping on the user's DNS queries.

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Hosts: Leo Laporte and Steve Gibson

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Brian Chee, Lou Maresca, and Heather Williams discuss FCC Commissioner Mike O'Rielly's recent claim that state-owned/operated networks are a "particularly ominous, threat to the First Amendment in the age of the Internet."

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Apple's new iPad Pro is not the future of Apple, but it does point to it.

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Warren is looking to buy an iPhone with a big screen and as future proof as possible.

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Host: Leo Laporte

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On The New Screen Savers, Leo Laporte and Jason Snell give their take on Apple's new thinner and lighter 2018 MacBook Air that adds Retina display, Touch ID, and a Force Touch trackpad to the popular ultrabook. Leo also compares it to a similarly priced Windows ultrabook, the Huawei MateBook X Pro.

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Buy the Huawei MateBook X Pro: https://amzn.to/2SVlNJM

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Host: Leo Laporte

Guest: Jason Snell

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Dan Lyons is an author, journalist, and fake Steve Jobs. His latest book is Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us. He talks with Jason Howell about Silicon Valley is changing work for the worse. The #1 culprit: the precariousness of work today.

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Host: Jason Howell

Guest: Dan Lyons

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Denise Howell and Stefan Szpajda talk with Irene Mo about MSNBC host Joy Reid getting sued for defamation for a retweet.

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Hosts: Denise Howell and Stefan Szpajda

Guest: Irene Mo

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Allyn Malventano talks about Western Digital's Ultrastar DC HC620 for enterprise/datacenter workloads. The 15TB hard drive is based on host-managed shingled magnetic recording tech and measures 3.5 inches.

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A new smartphone concept called Magic UX uses augmented reality to merge real world workspaces with digital multitasking. Adrian Westaway from Special Projects walks through the thinking behind this new smartphone UX paradigm.

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Hosts: Jason Howell and Megan Morrone

Guest: Adrian Westaway

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