Tech Break (Video)

Denise Howell, Matt Curtis and Bill Donahue from Law360 discuss genericide and Velcro's campaign to make sure people understand that not all hook and loop fasteners should be called "Velcro."

For the full episode, visit twit.tv/twil/401

Hosts: Denise Howell and Matt Curtis

Guest: Bill Donahue

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Megan Morrone and Jason Howell discuss the news that Swedish furniture giant Ikea just bought TaskRabbit, the San Francisco-based on-demand company that finds you someone to help you do stuff, like for example, assemble your Ikea furniture. According to a press release, TaskRabbit will continue to work as an independent company. TaskRabbit operates in the US and in London and has been around for nearly a decade. The biggest question I have about this sale is, why buy furniture that needs to be put together if you're going to pay for someone to put it together? Just buy furniture that's already put together.

Full episode at twit.tv/tnt/1863

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Mastering engineer Eric Boulanger talks about his work with Apple's first Mastered for iTunes release in 2011— Colbie Caillat's "All of You."

Host: Scott Wilkinson

Guest: Eric Boulanger

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Fr. Robert Ballecer shows Patrick Delahanty how he can get better 3D print results by making sure the bed on the 3D printer is level and calibrated.

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Hosts: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ and Patrick Delahanty

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Ryan Shrout and Patrick Norton discuss the Marseille mCable Gaming Edition HDMI Cable that can basically remove Aliasing with special signal processing and no additional lag. The downside is that the product may be pricey for some consumers.

Read the full article at

https://www.pcper.com/reviews/General-Tech/Marseille-mCable-Gaming-Edition-Remove-Aliasing-HDMI-Cable

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Rich Woods from Neowin has the inside scoop on upcoming Surface devices.

For the full episode, visit twit.tv/ww/537

Hosts: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, Mary Jo Foley, and Paul Thurrott

Guest: Rich Woods

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The Cloud Native Computing Foundation is a non-profit organization that hosts Kurbernetes, Prometheus, CoreDNS, and other projects. The Community Infrastructure Lab (CIL) provides free access to state-of-the-art computing resources for open source developers working to advance cloud native computing.

Full episode at twit.tv/floss/452

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Megan Morrone and Jason Howell discuss how the implementation of YouTube on Amazon's Echo Show is broken, and both companies are blaming each other for it.

Full episode at twit.tv/tnt/1862

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George Thomas shows how to program a DTMF decoder with an Arduino Uno.

For the full episode, visit twit.tv/hn/319

Host: George Thomas

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Amazon announces approximately 724 new Echo devices, including a smaller Echo, Zigbee-enabled Echo Plus, Echo Spot, Echo Buttons, and more.

Watch the full episode at http://twit.tv/twig/424

Hosts: Jason Howell and Stacey Higginbotham

Guest: Matt Cutts

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