Tech Break (Video)

Leo Laporte and Georgia Dow are joined by Jim Salter to compare the top WiFi mesh network systems. Jim suggests which mesh network may be right for you depending on family size and living situation. We take a look at Plume, Orbi, Google Wifi, Eero, and AmpliFi.

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Guests: Georgia Dow and Jim Salter

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Leo Laporte takes a call from Lee in Los Angeles, CA about the best dashcam that can record inside and outside of the car for Uber and Lyft drivers.

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Host: Leo Laporte

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Fr. Robert Ballecer, Brian Chee, and Lou Maresca discuss the recent news where the Senate decided to kill the broadband provider privacy regulations. The vote was split 50-48, mostly along party lines.

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Denise Howell, J. Michael Keyes and Michael Madison discuss the arrest made of a suspect who allegedly sent a malicious tweet to Kurt Eichenwald.

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Hosts: Denise Howell and J. Michael Keyes

Guest: Michael Madison

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Megan Morrone and Nathan Olivarez-Giles discuss whether or not robots will steal our jobs soon. United States Treasury Secretary Steven Mnunchin says it's not a question that we will have to answer for maybe a century or so. In an interview with the news website Axios, Steven Mnuchin said, "It's not even on our radar screen." He also said: "I'm not worried at all...In fact I'm optimistic."

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Brian X. Chen from The New York Times explains to Nathan Olivarez-Giles and Megan Morrone how to protect your data, smartphones, laptops, and other gadgets while traveling internationally. You can't provide access to your data if you don't hold the keys, Chen says.

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Patrick Norton gives his impressions of Lenovo's large gaming device, the Ideapad Y900 17" Laptop. It features a 6th Generation Intel® CoreTM i7-6820HK Processor (2.70GHz 8MB), the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 8GB, 16.0GB DDR4 2133 MHz memory, and a 6 Cell 90 Watt Hour Li-Polymer battery.

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Bob covers parts and safety for his Pine Board Project.

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Google's successors to the Pixel and Pixel XL are codenamed "Walleye" and "Muskie," so what is the "Taimen?" Judging by the name - the taimen is a large freshwater Mongolian salmon - this could be a secret phone made specifically for China.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

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Megan Morrone and Nathan Olivarez-Giles talk to bestselling author Liza Mundy about her cover story for the Atlantic, "Why is Silicon Valley so Awful to Women." Silicon Valley has historically not been welcoming to women. One of the arguments I hear is that there aren't more women in tech not because of how we're treated, but because most women just don't like tech that much. Mundy interviewed dozens of women for her piece and says that this is simply not true.

Full episode can be seen at twit.tv/tnt/1730

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