Tech Break (Video)

Jason Howell and Megan Morrone talk to Dr. Paul Warner from inMoment about the new brand psychology now that Amazon has acquired Whole Foods. All week we've been talking about the cheaper avocados and the humanely raised Echo Dots at Whole Foods that have come as a result of the company's acquisition by Amazon. But what's going to happen to the over 100 thousand employees of Whole Foods now? Joining us to discuss the implications of the merger is Dr. Paul Warner, who has a PhD in Clinical and Industrial-Organizational Psychology and specializes in understanding the psyche of both employees and consumers.

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Google launches ARCore, an AR Dev kit for non-Tango phones.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

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Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott and Mary Jo Foley talk about the partnership between Microsoft and Amazon to use each other's voice assistant on both platforms.

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

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Jason Howell, Ron Richards and Jayce Broda from Android Authority discuss Google's announcement of ARCore, a new system designed to bring motion tracked augmented reality to 100 million Android devices by the end of the year.

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Hosts: Jason Howell and Ron Richards

Guest: Jayce Broda

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WikiLeaks latest Vault 7 details the CIA's 'spy versus spy' Trojan. If we are to believe the recently leaked so-called "ExpressLane documents" as part of Wikileaks ongoing Vault 7 document dump, it appears that the CIA embedded it own Trojan into an inter-agency biometrics collection system installed at 'liaison services' and intelligence gathering partners including the NSA, Department of Homeland Security, and the FBI. Again, if these documents are to be believed, the CIA didn't trust its security service partners to share biometric information with it, so it created a bogus software upgrade to steal the data. This data-stealing Trojan was created as part of a CIA project called ExpressLane, a piece of software installed by CIA Office of Technical Service -- the OTS -- under the guise of upgrading the CIA's biometric collection system.

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Hosts: Leo Laporte and Steve Gibson

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Russell Holly from VRHeads joins Jason Howell and Megan Morrone to discuss Google's new ARCore system, bringing augmented reality to Android devices with support for Nougat and above.

Full episode at twit.tv/tnt/1842

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Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone review the FuelBox boostPack, an all-in-one solution for charging your devices at home and on the road. For $199 you get the FuelBox that plugs in and charges the boostPack. If your power goes out or you are on-the-go, the boostPack offers 2-4 full charges. It includes a lightning cable and a micro-USB cable so you don't have to worry if you forgot your cords. It also serves as a stand for your iPhone.

Full episode at twit.tv/ios/358

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The Wall Street Journal confirms that Apple will unveil their next slate of iPhones on September 12th. The event will take place in the new Steve Jobs Theater at Apple Park, and also feature an LTE Apple Watch, 4K Apple TV, and HomePod details.

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

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Megan Morrone and Jason Howell talk to Jeremiah Lindemann, public interest technology fellow at New America about his project to use GIS to map the opioid crisis. Lindeman is a geographer who has previously helped local governments implement ArcGIS. Inspired by the death of his brother, he is working to use data to get resources to the right people who've been affected by the epidemic.

Watch the full episode at http://twit.tv/tnt/1841

Hosts: Jason Howell and Megan Morrone

Guest: Jeremiah Lindemann

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Maria is a Program Manager and former Evangelist at Microsoft. She talks with Megan Morrone about her journey from living in Uganda where everybody looked like her, to the computer science program in London where nobody looked like her, and eventually to Microsoft, where at least a few people look like her.

Host: Megan Morrone

Guest: Maria Naggaga

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