Tech Break (Video)

Brian just bought a new MacBook Pro with USB-C connectors and wants to find the right external hard drive to run Windows on it.

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On The New Screen Savers, Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone take a deep dive into the technology that makes smartphone cameras so good. Rishi Sanyal from DPReview joins us to talk about computational photography and compare two of the best, the iPhone X and Pixel 2 XL smartphones.

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Hosts: Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone

Guest: Rishi Sanyal

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Curt Franklin and Brian Chee discuss a Popular Science article that says that the U.S. power grid is under attack by hackers. What is the government doing to stop them from succeeding?

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Hosts: Curt Franklin and Brian Chee

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Ramesh Srinivasan is the author of After the Internet. He talks with Megan Morrone about creating a more open and global internet.

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Jason Howell and Megan Morrone talk to Dr. Jenny Radesky about kids and screen time. In December we talked about our concerns about Facebook's new messaging app for kids. Now a group of 100 pediatricians, psychiatrists, educators, and other experts have sent a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, urging him to discontinue the Messenger Kids. One of the experts who signed that letter is Dr. Jenny Radesky, a developmental-behavioral pediatrician and lead author of the latest guidelines on media and young minds from the American Academy of Pediatrics. She answers our questions.

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Hosts: Megan Morrone and Jason Howell

Guest: Dr. Jenny Radesky, MD

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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ reviews the WeLoop Hey3S smartwatch, is this all you need in a smartwatch?

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Hosts: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, Megan Morrone, and Jason Howell

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Ryan Shrout and Patrick Norton discuss a rumor or two about new NVIDIA GPUs (perhaps GTX 2080 and GTX 2070) and a potentially special crypto-mining chip by Jen-Hsung Huang.

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Gordon West talks about how to improve your trap antenna by tightening a loose screw.

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Host: Gordon West

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Google starts blocking "bad" ads. Salon turns to cryptocurrency mining for revenue.

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Microsoft has officially scheduled their Build conference for May 7-9, 2018. This puts it head-to-head with Google I/O.

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

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