Tech Break (Video)

Microsoft just announced a May 2nd event. Will it feature a new Surface Pro? No. Surface Phone? No. Education-focused laptop to compete with Chromebooks? Maybe...

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Gordo explains why it's still valuable to learn morse code even though you don't have to anymore to get your license.

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Burger King just released an ad which directly asks Google Home what a Whopper is. This may not have been the best idea.

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Megan Morrone and Jason Howell discuss Burger King's ads that triggered people's Google Home, on purpose. They issued an "OK Google, - what is the whopper burger?" voice command at the end of their ad, at which time someone's Google Home would light up and read the first sentence from the Whopper Burger wikipedia page.

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"Rensenware" is a new twist on ransomware... Instead of requiring infected users to pay a sum of money to regain access to their locked files, Rensenware requires them to reach a high score of 200 million points in the anime bullet hell shooter known as "TH12 - Undefined Fantastic Object" when played on the "Lunatic" difficulty level.

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Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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Jason Howell, Ron Richards, Florence Ion, and Tony Hannides answer a viewer's email about his upcoming breakup with Android after years of reliability issues with the platform.

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Hosts: Jason Howell, Florence Ion, and Ron Richards

Guest: Tony Hannides

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After getting a bad Amazon review, IoT garage door company Garadget bricked the reviewer's garage door opener.

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Hosts: Leo Laporte and Steve Gibson

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Jason Howell and Megan Morrone discuss AutoDraw, Google's Artificial Intelligence that will make you the Picasso of clip art. AutoDraw is a new site (autodraw.com) by Google that gives users a host of drawing tools to roughly sketch out an image to the best of their ability. When using the AutoDraw tool, Google's AI will analyze the image being drawn with every stroke and update a series of thumbnail images it thinks match the item being sketched. If it's what the user wants, they tap it and their piece of junk is turned into a piece of art.

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The Turkish Crime Family's deadline is over - did your iPhone get wiped? The iCloud hackers claim that they were paid off, but the evidence is inconclusive.

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Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Rene Ritchie, and Alex Lindsay

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pgBackRest aims to be a simple, reliable backup and restore system that can seamlessly scale up to the largest databases and workloads.

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