Tech Break (Video)

On The New Screen Savers, Leo Laporte and Nathan Olivarez-Giles each put on Oculus Rift headsets and go inside the new beta version of the virtual reality environment, Facebook Spaces.

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Leo Laporte talks with Home Theater Expert Scott Wilkinson about the best way to experience Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guest: Scott Wilkinson

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Sam Machkovech from Ars Technica joins Jason Howell and Megan Morrone to discuss how Oculus is closing its content creation studio, as well as a look at Statik and Prey.

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A remote management vulnerability, which has existed for seven years in Intel's Active Management Technology, Intel Small Business Technology, and Intel Standard Manageability, has finally been patched. Curt Franklin and Brian Chee discuss this almost "zero-decade" issue.

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Scott Wilkinson talks with Kaushik Sunder about the technology behind Ossic X headphones.

Host: Scott Wilkinson

Guest: Kaushik Sunder

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Jason Howell and Megan Morrone talk to Patrick Tucker from Defense One about how James Comey and Hilary Clinton's emails might have affected the 2016 US Presidential election. Yesterday, FBI Director James Comey testified in court for the first time explaining why he re-opened the Clinton email investigation just 9 days before the presidential election. Tucker investigates the tech behind the Comey search.

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Patrick Norton of tekthing.com and Sebastian Peak of pcper.com discuss the Corsair ONE Pro computer, which features the NVIDIA Geforce GTX 1080, 16GB DDR4-2400 memory, a custom MSI Z270 Mini-ITX motherboard, and an Intel Core i7-7700K (Kaby Lake) processor.

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Microsoft once said that the only reason they would make new hardware was to make a new category. The new Surface Laptop is not a new category. Is that OK? Does the world need a fabric-covered laptop?

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Dave Gershgorn from Quartz joins Megan Morrone and Jason Howell to discuss his time spent getting to know Eric Horvitz, Microsoft's new Head of Research who's spent much of his life devoted to the ethics surrounding Artificial Intelligence.

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George explains why and how to filter a power supply.

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