Tech Break (Video)

Ryan Shrout and Patrick Norton discuss the Dell XPS 2-in-1 laptop that features the "InfinityEdge" touch display, a webcam along the display bezel with support for Windows Hello, and an Intel HD Graphics 615 GPU.

Full episode at twit.tv/twich/418

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Megan Morrone and Jason Howell talk to Louise Matsakis about buying likes and followers from a vending machine. The idea of buying likes or followers isn't new, but Louise Matsakis from Motherboard recently came upon a photo of a vending machine in a mall that will sell you 100 likes for a mere 50 Russian Rubles. That's 89 cents. The vending machine's manufacturer, Snatap, also offered Motherboard a video of the device in action.

Full episode can be seen at twit.tv/tnt/1784

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Google will launch its own ad blocker in Chrome later this year. Chrome will stop showing ads that do not comply with the Coalition for Better Ads' standards.

Hosts: Jason Howell and Stacey Higginbotham

Guest: Danny Sullivan

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The latest Surface Mobile rumor – real or fake? Votes for fake are leading. But the basic ideas are... interesting, and possibly connected (at least a bit) to what Microsoft is actually doing.

Full episode at twit.tv/ww/521

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Megan Morrone and Jason Howell discuss The Apple Watch, the iPhone and the iPad. macOS and iOS will get some new and exciting features this Fall and today if you're a developer. For Apple Watch, you'll get a smarter Siri reminding you of things it thinks you might want to know, a long awaited flashlight and some improved fitness features. If you've wanted to do other workouts besides walking, running, biking, or swimming, you're in luck. iOS on your iPhone will include a do not disturb while driving tool that will automatically turn on when your car connects to bluetooth. Your phone will automatically send a text response that says you're driving and people can reply Urgent to come through. You can turn it off if you're a passenger. iOS 11 on the iPad includes drag and drop, searchable handwriting in the Notes app, and some great multitasking features. Plus a new file system that makes the iPad more like the Mac.

Hosts: Jason Howell and Megan Morrone

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Jason Howell, Ron Richards and Derrick Walter discuss Spigen's charge that Andy Rubin's Essential infringes on its own trademarks.

For the full episode, visit twit.tv/aaa/321

Hosts: Jason Howell and Ron Richards

Guest: Derek Walter

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Pilosa is an open source, distributed bitmap index that dramatically accelerates queries across multiple, massive data sets. Pilosa abstracts the index from data storage and optimizes it for massive scale.

Full episode at twit.tv/floss/437

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Hackers have breached OneLogin, and apparently, have decrypted all of the login information for all of OneLogin's uses. Time to change all your passwords and start over.

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Hosts: Steve Gibson and Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ

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Megan Morrone and Jason Howell talk to Matthew Curtis from This Week in Law about memes, schools, and the law. Earlier this week news broke that Harvard had rescinded the acceptances of 10 students after it was discovered that they had been posting racially-charged memes in a secret Facebook chat. The chat had spun off from a Harvard-sponsored group that was intended to encourage new students to meet one another. According to The Harvard Crimson, in order to join the chat you had to post an offensive meme.

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Apple's HomePod is a $349 bet that people want to listen to music on their smart speakers more than they want to to use the "smart" features.

Host: Andy Ihnatko

Guests: Kelly Guimont, Janie Clayton, and Oliver Breidenbach

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