Tech Break (Video)

Ryan Shrout and Patrick Norton go over the recently launched NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 1050 GPU, which uses 768 CUDA cores and a 96-bit memory bus.

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Lou Maresca, Curt Franklin, and Fr. Robert Ballecer talk about the game of chicken being played by Amazon and the city of Seattle, WA. A new "head tax" was introduced by the City Council to target large businesses in order to stem Seattle's homelessness issues.

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Megan Morrone and Jason Howell talk to Brian X Chen from the Tech Fix column in The New York Times about why you might want to think twice before you delete all of those privacy policy emails. General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR might mean some of your favorite apps and websites will provide new privacy settings that you might want to use to protect your personal information.

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HubbleStack is an open-source security compliance project written in Python. Colton is the co-creator of HubbleStack and the primary developer.

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Satya Nadella demonstrated the conversational capabilities of Microsoft's Xiaoice chatbot in London on May 22. Why wasn't this announced at BUILD?

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Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Mary Jo Foley

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Fr. Robert Ballecer shows off a little bit of the evil-looking Netgear Nighthawk Pro, an expensive router that features 4 Gigabit Ethernet LAN Ports, a Gigabit WAN Port, and 2 USB 3.0 ports.

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A federal district judge has ruled that Trump cannot block users on Twitter.

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Hosts: Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis

Guests: Ant Pruitt and Kevin Tofel

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Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone discuss the new Google News app for iPhone and iPad. Powered by artificial intelligence, the revamped iOS app also uses human intelligence to offer full coverage of news from the best journalists on the web. Google says the more you use the app, the better the machine learning gets at showing you what you want to see.

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After some encouragement from the Chinese Government, Apple has begun to ban apps that use the VoIP CallKit from its Chinese Appstore.

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It was perhaps inevitable. We've had domain name phishing using look-alike domain names. Now we have voice assistant phishing using "sound-alike" trigger phrases! In a published research paper titled: Understanding and Mitigating the Security Risks of Voice-Controlled Third-Party Skills on Amazon Alexa and Google Home, a group of Chinese and US researchers describe their various methods of attacking smart assistants like Amazon Alexa and Google Home.

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