Tech Break (Video)

Fr. Robert Ballecer and Jason Howell check out the Nebula Mars Portable Cinema from Anker.

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Hosts: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ and Jason Howell

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Stephen Hall from 9to5Google shares his experience with image retention on his Google Pixel 2 XL review unit, and how it differs from the smaller Pixel 2 device.

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Valerie Hotzfeld NV9L, Joe Basset W1WCN and Andy Anderson KE0AYJ talk about their experience in Puerto Rico.

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Host: Valerie Hotzfeld

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The first (and maybe only?) Cortana powered speaker: The Invoke. We got to test these out for a week. Our verdicts? MJF: Nice, but not a must-have. PT: A beautiful device, but...

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

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First came the screen blotchiness. Then the burn-in. Now clicking and hissing. The good news for Pixel 2 XL owners: only 4 more plagues to go!

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Hosts: Leo Laporte and Stacey Higginbotham

Guests: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ and Mike Elgan

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Bedrock is Expensify's recently open-sourced technology. It's a RDBMS optimized for self-healing replication across relatively slow, relatively unreliable WAN connections, enabling extremely high availability / high performance multi-datacenter deployments without any single point of failure.

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Florence Ion and Jason Howell go hands-on with the Pixel 2 XL and discuss the reported incidents of screen burn-in and discoloration.

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Hosts: Jason Howell and Florence Ion

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Apple stores will have the iPhone X in stock for the November 3rd launch, but if you are not already in line, you're probably out of luck.

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

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Donateyourtab.to lets use use spare browser cycles to mine cryptocurrency for charity.

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Hosts: Leo Laporte and Steve Gibson

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Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone discuss the new iPhone app Boomerang for Gmail that works not only with Gmail, but also Outlook, Hotmail, and Outlook Exchange. Integrates with your calendar, includes a digital assistant you can talk to and helps you get to inbox zero. Boomerang has offered an extension for Gmail on the Web and an Android app, but the iOS app is new.

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