Tech Break (Video)

Nikon has officially entered the mirrorless camera arena with the unveiling of the Z7 and Z6. DPReview had a couple days of hands-on access and feverous testing. Science Editor Rishi Sanyal joins Leo Laporte and Jason Howell on 'The New Screen Savers,' to tell all about it and how it compares to the Nikon D850.

Read DPReview's first impressions: http://bit.ly/2MSUa3O

Buy the Nikon Z7 FX-Format Mirrorless Camera: https://amzn.to/2wpgPuC​

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Hosts: Leo Laporte and Jason Howell

Guest: Rishi Sanyal

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Denise Howell talks to Aaron J. Wright about using blockchain technology to create, store and execute smart contracts with OpenLaw.

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Hosts: Denise Howell and Stefan Szpajda

Guest: Aaron J. Wright

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Heather Williams, Lou Maresca, and Brian McHenry talk about the lawsuit targeting Google involving location tracking and privacy. How the data is stored could also be a major concern.

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Bill Atkinson is one of the original designers of the Apple Macintosh. He talks with Leo Laporte about starting at Apple and how Steve Jobs convinced him to "surf the wave of the future."

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Host: Leo Laporte

Guest: Bill Atkinson

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This morning Microsoft said that the APT28 hacking group - also known as Strontium, Fancy Bear, Sofacy, Sednit, and Pawn Storm, which is believed to be tied to the Russian government -had established at least six fake websites related to US Senate and conservative organizations to trick its visitors and hack into their computers. Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit disabled the fake websites last week after obtaining court approval last year. This allowed Microsoft to seize the fake domains created by APT28 before they were used in any successful attacks.

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Jason Howell and Megan Morrone talk to Paris Martineau from The Outline about Amazon's health care play. After hiring doctors, acquiring health care start ups, and announcing big partnerships with Berkshire Hathaway, Amazon is offering more clues to its future disruption of the health care industry.

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Hosts: Jason Howell and Megan Morrone

Guest: Paris Martineau

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Megan Morrone and Florence Ion discuss the recent vulnerability that McAfee discovered in the WeMo smart plugs that we've recommended. The WeMo plugs (by Belkin) could allow a hacker to compromise entire networks with an unreported buffer overflow. McAfee says they reported the flaw to Belkin in May and Belkin says they're working with McAfee to release a firmware update later this month. Megan adds that plugs are only insecure if you control them through the WeMo app and not if you control them through HomeKit.

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Hosts: Megan Morrone and Florence Ion

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Allyn Malventano and Patrick Norton talk about the pricing and ray tracing abilities of NVIDIA's newly announced GeForce RTX 2070, RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti GPUs.

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Minecraft: Education Edition is coming to the iPad, and some of its best features (including compounding with a full table of elements) are coming to Bedrock Edition.

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NYU is giving Facebook 10,000 anonymized MRI scans to help train its Artificial Intelligence systems. Is this a dangerous invasion of privacy, or just teaching Skynet how best to kill humans?

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Hosts: Leo Laporte and Stacey Higginbotham

Guest: Joan Donovan

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