Tech Break (Video)

Denise Howell, Tiffany Li, J. Michael Keyes, and Matt Curtis discuss the legal details around the Marlon Bundo children's book by the Pence family, as well as the recent parody book by Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. Both books have proceeds going to charity.

Buy the parody book at https://amzn.to/2GmeUOc

Check out the original book at https://amzn.to/2GizK13

Hosts: Denise Howell, J. Michael Keyes, and Matt Curtis

Guest: Tiffany Li

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Patrick Norton and Allyn Malventano discuss Magic Leap's recent announcement that the startup's Creator Portal is now open. Also, Allyn goes on a tangent about Budget Cuts!

Full episode at twit.tv/twich/458

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Megan Morrone talks to Sam Abuelsamid from the Wheel Bearings podcast about the state of self-driving car regulation. This week pedestrian Elaine Herzberg was killed after stepping into the path of a self-driving Uber. This is the first pedestrian death from a self-driving car and it won't be the last. First reports said the crash was unavoidable, but now that police have released the video of the interior and exterior of the car many are calling those first reports into question. Why didn't the LIDAR see the pedestrian on the bicycle?

Watch the full episode here:
https://twit.tv/tnw/24

Host: Megan Morrone

Guest: Sam Abuelsamid

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George Thomas completes building an MFJ-941 tuner kit.

For the full episode, visit twit.tv/hn/343

Host: George Thomas

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As the Facebook / Cambridge Analytica scandal plays out, we try to answer some of the difficult questions.

Watch the full episode here:
https://twit.tv/twig/449

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

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Microsoft is testing a feature that would force Windows 10 Mail links to open in Microsoft Edge. The community has reacted predictably, but this is a much bigger deal than even the complainers may realize, and it is just one step of many that Microsoft has already made to force Edge usage.

For the full episode, visit twit.tv/ww/562

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

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Mike has been at Etsy for about 4 years working on various app features and infrastructure work. One of his favorite projects he's worked on at Etsy is the Apple Watch app! He started his career doing Android & iOS contract work for pharmaceutical companies but found a passion for consumer-facing software.

Kris has been at Etsy for nearly 3 years doing iOS engineering with occasional forays into server side API work. He started out his career working on the server-side in Perl with occasional SQL and JavaScript and learned iOS development after the iPhone SDK was released.

Full episode at twit.tv/floss476

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This week we discuss the aftermath of CTS Labs' abrupt disclosure of flaws in AMD's outsourced chipsets.

Full episode at twit.tv/sn/655

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Florence Ion, Ron Richards and Cody Toombs talk about the launch of Google Play Instant which allows you to try out an Android game or app before downloading and installing.

For the full episode, visit twit.tv/aaa/361

Hosts: Florence Ion and Ron Richards

Guest: Cody Toombs

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New MacBook Air Laptops? New iPads? New Pencils? Dare we hope for a new Mac Mini? What does Apple have in store for us at their March 27th event?

For the full episode, visit twit.tv/mbw/602

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Rene Ritchie, Alex Lindsay, and Andy Ihnatko

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