Tech Break (Video)

Mark Zuckerberg has been apologizing for his company's actions his whole career.

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Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Brianna Wu, Lisa Schmeiser, and Mark Milian

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Leo Laporte talks about the realistic privacy concerns of talking to Amazon's Alexa.

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Host: Leo Laporte

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John is using XMarks to save his bookmarks and wants to find an alternative because it will soon be discontinued.

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Host: Leo Laporte

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What if you got an alert before an earthquake hits? On The New Screen Savers, Leo Laporte and Iain Thomson talk with Josh Bashioum, the founder of Early Warning Labs about their app QuakeAlert. It can give you up to 30 seconds of warning on your smartphone before you feel the shaking.

For the full episode, go to https://twit.tv/nss/151

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Iain Thomson

Guest: Josh Bashioum

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Billy Gallagher is the author of How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars: The Snapchat Story. He talks with Jason Howell about Snapchat's war with Facebook.

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Host: Jason Howell

Guest: Billy Gallagher

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Let's say that your company is caught over-billing, false-charging and otherwise defrauding millions of its customers. You could apologize and promise to make amends agree to a special 3rd-party investigation to get to the bottom of the fraud... or, if you're CenturyLink, you could just claim that you don't actually HAVE any customers, and therefore it was impossible for you to defraud them.

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Host: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ

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Sam Machkovech from Ars Technica explains why HTC released a premium upgrade to the HTC Vive, who is geared for, and how far improved resolution goes to creating an immersive virtual environment.

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Hosts: Megan Morrone and Jason Howell

Guest: Sam Machkovech

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Patrick Norton and Robert Heron discuss the news that Apple is planning to leave Intel chips behind when it comes to making Mac computers. This would be a huge blow to Intel, while potentially benefiting the synergy between Apple products.

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Everything we know about the shooting at YouTube's headquarters.

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Hosts: Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis

Guests: Wendy Nather and Ant Pruitt

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With iOS v11, the iOS camera app is continually looking for QR codes and, when found, displays a confirmation message prompting the user whether they wish to open Safari at that URL. But there's a URL parsing error which allows the true URL domain to be hidden behind a spoofed display URL. By exploiting the URL parsing flaw one domain can be shown while another entirely different domain is visited.

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