Jason Howell and Megan Morrone talk to Bryan Clark from The Next Web about this year's South by Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas. We initially heard about all the skuttlebutt around the lack of maturity in Austin's ridesharing situation and the fact that Uber and Lyft are outlawed in the city, but Clark says he saw the future of ride-hailing...and it wasn't Uber. We discuss VR tunnel vision, products with no consumer demand, and a world with too many assistants.

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Scott Wilkinson talks with Paul Hales, Founder of Pro Audio Technology, about sound directivity from speakers vs. instruments in a room.

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Host: Scott Wilkinson

Guest: Paul Hales

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Jason Howell shows off Fingerprint Gestures, which offers several functions and actions to the fingerprint sensor on your phone through single taps, double taps, and swipes.

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Host: Jason Howell

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The Windows 10 Creators Update is due to launch by the end of March. Should you update? Not right away.

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Megan Morrone, Jason Howell, and Nathan Olivarez-Giles discuss Google's new tool for parents called Family Link that allows for parental controls of Google accounts they create for their children.

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The Eye is a case for iPhone 6, 6s, 6 Plus, 6s Plus, 7 and 7 Plus that includes a fully functional Android phone. Now you don't have to choose between Android and iPhone! It even includes a headphone jack. Check out their Kickstarter at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/boboseye/eye-take-your-phone-to-the-next-level

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Stacey Higginbotham

Guest: Danny Sullivan

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Bob expands his pine board project with a fuse, and Chip Stick 2.0!

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John Sullivan started working with GNU Press and the Free Software Foundation in 2003 and then became the FSF's first Campaigns Manager, working on outreach efforts like Defective by Design, BadVista, and PlayOgg.

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Last week, Wikileaks released information about the CIA's "Vault 7" hacking tools, including many iPhone hacks. Apple urged calm, insisting that many of the tools listed used exploits that had already been patched. The moral of the story: update your iPhone!

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, and Rene Ritchie

Guest: Kelly Guimont

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WikiLeaks released 8,761 documents and files which allegedly (and believably) exposes and discloses the tactics and technologies the US Central Intelligence Agency uses to hack into secure devices, systems, and communications. These include Android & iOS devices, Routers, Windows, Mac and Linux PCs, and many IoT devices including Smart light bulbs and televisions.

For the full episode, visit twit.tv/sn/603.

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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