Tech Break (Video)

Sam Machkovech from Ars Technica joins Jason Howell and Megan Morrone to discuss a new report that shows how Facebook is tracking the emotions of its teen users and presenting that information to marketers.

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Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone offer 3D touch tips for your iPhone. See your workout history with the Activity app. Go live on Facebook. Practice your weak skills in Duolingo. Voice search with the Chrome app to get better answers than Siri will give you. See your next playlist in the PocketCasts app. Get all these tips by 3D touching your app.

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Doree Shafrir reads an excerpt from her new book, Startup. The book takes aim at "Tech Bro" culture, and the sense of entitlement and false meritocracy inherent in it.

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Leo Laporte explains why antivirus isn't necessary for smartphones or computers, and how practicing safe computing is far more effective.

Host: Leo Laporte

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A hacker by the startlingly original name of "Dark Overlord" stole the first 10 episodes from the upcoming season of Orange is the New Black and tried to hold them for ransom. When Netflix refused to pay, the hacker released them on the internet, giving Netflix the best free marketing ever. Now everyone who downloads them and wants to watch the end of the season has to subscribe to Netflix. Ashley Esqueda delivers a chilling dramatic re-enactment of the hacker's demands.

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Dale Baskin spent the week at NAB 2017 and presents his favorite products to Leo Laporte and Iain Thomson. The Atomos Ninja Inferno, Blackmagic Web Presenter, and Sennheiser MKE 2 Elements mic for GoPro Hero 4 are just a few of his many finds.

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Guest: Dale Baskin

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John in Anaheim is a real estate agent that wants to buy a drone to take pictures of his buildings.

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Host: Leo Laporte

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Denise Howell, Matt Curtis, and Sean Lynch talk about DJI Goggles and how flying a drone with a VR headset might get you in trouble with the FAA.

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Host: Denise Howell

Guests: Matt Curtis and Sean Lynch

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The TWiET crew discuss the official plan for the undoing of the FCC's net neutrality rules. The Federal Communication Commission is currently under Chairman Ajit Pai, who claims the rollback would create jobs and indirectly help protect user privacy.

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In our latest version of Sorry Not Sorry, Wired.com featured a story called "Meet the Brilliant Young Hackers Who'll Soon Shape the World" with a photograph of the young hackers who were a little less than diverse. The story was widely criticized as was the publication as being out of touch with the times. #Tired! Wired Editor Nicholas Thompson responded to the criticism on Facebook, without using the word "sorry," but it sounded to me like he was...kind of. He was also defensive, writing that the author included a scene in the story of a meeting with the woman who runs the college's official hacking group. And quoting the conclusion of the piece about that these guys who "Aren't ambassadors of their generation; they're just seven freshmen on one floor of one dorm of one college in one state in one country on our one and only planet."

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