Tech Break (Video)

Lou Maresca and Brian Chee discuss the agreement between Comcast and Charter, the two largest US cable companies, that forbids the making of new wireless mergers and acquisitions without each other's consent for a year. This potentially violates antitrust law.

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Megan Morrone and Nathan Olivares-Giles discuss the beginning of the end of Net Neutrality. The FCC has voted along party lines to begin dismantling the rules put in place under the Obama Administration. The 2-to-1 vote means the Federal Communications Commission has taken the first step toward repealing the rules that many internet freedom advocates fought hard for only two years ago. The rules had imposed strict oversight over ISPs to help prevent internet fast lanes, preferential treatment, and other measures intended to maintain a free and open internet. As expected, Chairman Ajit Pai and Commissioner Mike O'Rielly voted against Net Neutrality and the only democrat on the commission, Mignon Clyburn, voted against the proposal.

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Darin Fong demonstrates his headphone virtualization software, 'Out of Your Head.'

Host: Scott Wilkinson

Guest: Darin Fong

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The GeForce GTX 1030 graphics card is a low profile product featuring the NVIDIA Pascal architecture. Consumers should currently expect a price between $75 and $85, depending on the vendor.

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We play with the latest ransomware exploit hitting the internet and dig into how it works and spreads, along with the best way to protect yourself.

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Everyone wants to talk about their own machine learning, but Google is clearly winning this war. Today CEO Sundar Pichai revealed a new machine learning chip and service called Cloud TPU, aimed at beating Amazon and Microsoft at the cloud computing game. And as the winner in this so-called war, Google is giving back. Today they said they would give a cluster of 1,000 Cloud TPUs to researchers for free. Researchers or students can use TPUs, or TensorFlow Processor Unit (TPU), to train and infer tasks. Google's effort is intended to raise interest in machine learning and eventually to increase use of Google's cloud services. If you're interested, you can fill out a questionnaire with some basic information about the size and types of of your training sets. The formal application process will begin soon, says TechCrunch.

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Bob and Tim report back from the bran new location of Hamvention 2017

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At their Google I/O developers conference keynote, Google announced Google Lens, an AI-powered visual search addition to Google Assistant.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Jason Howell

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WannaCry ransomware: Is Microsoft to blame? Of course not. Is the NSA? Mmmaybe...

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At Google I/O, Sundar Pichai announced Google Lens, an AI-powered image recognition engine that will work with Google Photos and Google Assistant. Nathan Olivarez-Giles and Stacey Higginbotham watch the live announcement and discuss the ramifications.

Hosts: Nathan Olivarez-Giles and Stacey Higginbotham

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