The Meltdown and Spectre bugs affect nearly every computer, and fixing them may require slowing your computer down. Why?

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Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Mike Elgan, Amy Webb, and Mikah Sargent

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Bill from Pasadena, CA is curious about learning to code at 50-years-old, and if it is even worth the career change. Leo Laporte, the Tech Guy, gives some of his thoughts on starting points.

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On The New Screen Savers, Leo Laporte and Jason Snell talk with biohacker Josiah Zayner. He is known for hacking his body and doing various experiments all in the name of science. The former NASA scientist has a Ph.D. in molecular biology and biophysics and is the first person to modify his own genome. He edits DNA using CRISPR and injects it into his body, all in his DIY home lab.

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Hosts: Leo Laporte and Jason Snell

Guest: Josiah Zayner, Ph.D.

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Fr. Robert Ballecer and Brian Chee talk with Jason McGee, the Vice President and CTO of IBM Cloud Platform, about microservices in the enterprise.

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Dr. Larry Sanger is the co-founder of Wikipedia. His latest venture, Everipedia, brings blockchain technology to the online encyclopedia. He talks to Megan Morrone about the beginning of Wikipedia.

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Ryan Shrout and Patrick Norton discuss Lenovo's announcement of the 2018 updated ThinkPad X, T, and L-series laptops. They will feature 8th Generation Intel Core processors and support for Lenovo's ThinkPad Docking Station.

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Fr. Robert shows how to put together your Alien-X quadcopter.

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Host: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ

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Lindsey Turrentine from CNET discusses what we can expect at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next week to satisfy the growing thirst for smart home connectivity.

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Hosts: Jason Howell and Megan Morrone

Guest: Lindsey Turrentine

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Robert Foss is a co-maintainer of drm_hwcomposer, contributor to mesa and the linux graphics subsystem. He also builds electronics and software art.

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About that Intel kernel-memory leak issue. We won't really know much until next week on the Windows side - is it 30 percent? Or .3 percent? Probably the latter is closer to reality.

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