Tech Break (Video)

Megan Morrone talks to Katie Kelly, Senior Program Manager at AltSpace VR about what it's like to hang out in a virtual reality social network. The company almost shut its doors before their community rallied and they were purchased by Microsoft.

Watch the full episode at http://twit.tv/tnw/1

Host: Megan Morrone

Guest: Katie Kelly

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Patrick Norton and Ryan Shrout discuss Lenovo's commemoration of 25 years of ThinkPad. While the device may resemble the 1992 original, the specs fortunately appear...more modern. It runs Windows 10 Pro with a 7th Gen Intel Core i7-7500U, NVIDIA GeForce 940MX 2GB GDDR5, 720p HD IR Camera, and 512 GB PCIe SSD storage.

Full episode at twit.tv/twich/435

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Megan Morrone demos IoT devices that work with Apple's HomeKit using the Home App.

For the full episode, visit twit.tv/kh/350

Hosts: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ and Megan Morrone

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Edward Thomson is the maintainer of the libgit2 project - a portable, pure C implementation of the Git core methods provided as a re-entrant linkable library with a solid API.

Full episode at twit.tv/floss/453

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Bob Heil talks with Tom Gallagher NY2RF, CEO of the ARRL about hurricane recovery efforts in Puerto Rico.

For the full episode, visit twit.tv/hn/320

Host: Bob Heil

Guest: Tom Gallagher

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Near the end of a long list of announcements today, the Google Pixel Buds might make up for the Pixel 2's lack of a headphone jack with an almost magical feature: instantaneous translation.

Full episode at twit.tv/twig/425

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Microsoft had a relatively low-key announcement bringing us up to date on its Mixed reality efforts.

For the full episode, visit twit.tv/ww/538

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

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Leo Laporte and Florence Ion give their impressions and recap the announcement of the Pixel 2 phone shown at the SFJazz Center in San Francisco. The Pixel 2 will cost $649, but the larger Pixel 2 XL will be priced at $849.

Full episode at twit.tv/specials/326

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Leo Laporte and Florence Ion give their impressions and recap the announcement of the Google Home Mini and Home Max shown at the SFJazz Center in San Francisco. The Mini will ship by October 18 for $49 and the Max will be available in December for $399 (with Youtube Music ad-free for a year).

Full episode at twit.tv/specials/326

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Apple's new privacy page at apple.com/privacy shows how hard Apple works to keep your information private, but also how hard the US government is working to get it.

Watch the full episode at https://twit.tv/mbw/578

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

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