Tech Break (Video)

The richest man in the world learned some important lessons working on his grandpa's farm in Texas as a child. Lesson 1: if you accidentally cut off your thumb and get the doctors to cover the hole with skin from your butt, you'll spend the rest of your life shaving the butt hair on your thumb hole.

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Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Devindra Hardawar, Jill Duffy, and Mark Spoonauer

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Chris Marquardt joins Leo Laporte on The Tech Guy to talk about computational photography and how it could completely change the industry in the future.

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Host: Leo Laporte

Guest: Chris Marquardt

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Neil is having a little buyer's remorse after buying an iPhone 8 Plus and is wondering if he should just get an iPhone X.

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Host: Leo Laporte

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Fr. Robert Ballecer shows how to desolder with a desoldering wick and soldering paste.

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Hosts: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ and Patrick Delahanty

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On The New Screen Savers show, Megan Morrone and Leo Laporte check out an electric bicycle from Espin. This affordable pedal-assist ebike can climb steep hills, go up to 20 mph, and travel 25-50 miles on a single charge.

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Hosts: Megan Morrone and Leo Laporte

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Kyle Kiang from OnePlus talks about the new OnePlus 5T, the next flagship device for OnePlus with a larger screen, improved camera, and Face Unlock security.

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Hosts: Jason Howell, Ron Richards, and Florence Ion

Guest: Kyle Kiang

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Google tracks phones even with location sharing turned off, apologizes.

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Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

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Pixel Buds are like spiders clawing in your ears. Do Not Buy.

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Hosts: Leo Laporte, Stacey Higginbotham, and Jeff Jarvis

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If you have a Surface Book 2 and like gaming, you may have noticed a strange thing: even if the laptop is plugged in, CPU -intensive tasks like gaming will drain the battery.

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

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Sara Chipps is the CEO of Jewelbots.com, a company dedicated towards drastically changing the number of girls entering STEM fields using hardware. She was formerly the CTO of FlatironSchool.com, a school dedicated to teaching people of all ages how to build software and launch careers as software developers. In 2010 she co-founded Girl Develop It, a non-profit focused on helping more women become software developers. Girl Develop It is in 45 cities, and has taught over 17,000 women how to build software.

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