Tech Break (Video)

Myriam Joire joins Ron Richards, Florence Ion and Jason Howell to show off a special edition of the LG G6 and to share her thoughts on the new device.

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Hosts: Jason Howell, Florence Ion, and Ron Richards

Guest: Myriam Joire

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As many as 90% of Smart TVs are probably vulnerable to wireless hacking via rogue TV signals. Security researcher Rafael Scheel, with the Swiss cyber security consulting company Oneconsult, has developed and demonstrated an over-the-air remote exploit of a Samsung television.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOJ_8QHX6OA

The proof-of-concept exploit uses a low-cost transmitter to embed malicious commands into a television broadcast. When received by a television set (in this case two different fully patched Samsung models) it was able to exploit two known security flaws in the Web browsers running in the background to obtain root privilege access to the TVs.

For the full episode, visit twit.tv/sn/606.

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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Sam Abuelsamid from Navigant Research joins Megan Morrone, and Jason Howell to discuss his recent report on the many players in the race to autonomous driving and which companies are best equipped in the long run.

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Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone review Fakespot, an app that lets you determine whether or not most of the reviews on Amazon/Yelp are real or fake. Fakespot is an iOS and an Android app, or a browser extension for Chrome/Safari.

Full episode available at twit.tv/ios/339

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The US House of Representatives voted to kill FCC regulations preventing ISPs from selling customer data to advertisers. How big of a problem is this? What should you do in response?

Full episode can be seen at twit.tv/twit/608

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Megan Morrone talks with Brad Stone about the stories of Airbnb and Uber. Brad Stone is the author of The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley are Changing the World.

Full episode can be seen at twit.tv/tri/292

Leo Laporte takes a call from Deborah about how her daughter could use browsing history and phone location data to prove that she attended a class.

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Host: Leo Laporte

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Jason Howell takes a ride and shows us how a VR roller coaster works at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom. He and Leo Laporte talk with the Co-Founder and CEO of VR Coaster, Thomas Wagner, about the technology involved and how the company got started in a classroom.

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Guests: Thomas Wagner and Charles Laureano

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Bill in Denver Colorado has recently cut the cord and watches TV over an antenna. He is looking for a DVR to record his shows.

For the full episode, visit twit.tv/ttg/1376.

Host: Leo Laporte

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The TWiET crew talk about the effects of the recent bill on internet privacy/consent that is headed to Trump's desk for signing. AT&T, Verizon, Charter Communications, and Comcast won't have to ask users to sell their data.

Full episode can be seen at twit.tv/twiet/233

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