Tech Break (Video)

On The New Screen Savers, Father Robert Ballecer, SJ and Aaron Newcomb talk with Dr. Richard Marks from Sony Interactive. He shows off the new Aim Controller for the Playstation VR and the game, Farpoint.

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Guest: Richard Marks

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WannaCry takes advantage of a vulnerability in the Microsoft Server Message Block 1.0 (SMBv1) server and demands payment of $600 in BitCoin per infected system. The TWiET riot discuss the impact, as well as the widespread issue of users not updating their systems.

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Megan Morrone and Jason Howell talk to Iain Thompson from The Register about the latest strain of ransomware. The new and especially virulent strain of ransomware is spreading across the globe crippling the National Health Service hospitals in the UK and telecom companies in Spain. They're calling it WannaCry, WannaCrypt, WanaCrypt0r, WCry, and other names. The ransomware exploits a vulnerability called Eternal Blue, which was revealed in the Shadow Brokers dump of the NSA hack. A patch was released back in May.

Full episode can be seen at twit.tv/tnt/1767

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Professional Calibrator David Abrams joins Scott Wilkinson to talk about the first things you should do when calibrating a TV.

Host: Scott Wilkinson

Guest: David Abrams

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Eric Geller from Politico joins Jason Howell and Megan Morrone to discuss President Trump's signing of a new executive order aimed at creating new reviews to ensure tighter security of the federal government's digital infrastructure.

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At Build 2017, Microsoft announced Story Remix, a video editor that infuses AI and deep learning into editing. Microsoft hopes that Story Remix will make you feel like a director instead of an editor. Chris Pratley, Microsoft CVP, Windows discusses Story Remix with Paul Thurrott and Mary Jo Foley.

Hosts: Megan Morrone, Paul Thurrott, and Mary Jo Foley

Guest: Chris Pratley

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NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang recently unveiled the latest GPU architecture, Volta, and the Tesla V100 accelerator based on it. Ryan Shrout and Patrick Norton discuss this new product as well as the tensor core technology behind it.

Full episode can be seen at twit.tv/twich/414

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Jason Howell and Megan Morrone talk to David McCabe of Axios about Mark Zuckerberg's political aspirations. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has challenged himself to learn Chinese, create his own in-home Jarvis personal assistant and more. But this year he has resolved to visit every state in the US, and for the past five months we've watched him awkwardly try to look like a real human person interacting with other real human persons, which has caused many to come to the obvious conclusion that he's running for president.

Full episode can be seen at twit.tv/tnt/1765

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The new Amazon Echo Show brings a touch screen and video calls to the popular home assistant.

Hosts: Jason Howell, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

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Cody Toombs, writer and APK Teardown king at Android Police, joins Jason Howell and Florence Ion to talk about his experience tearing down Google's APK files to find clues of upcoming features.

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Hosts: Jason Howell and Florence Ion

Guest: Cody Toombs

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