Tech Break (Video)

Megan Morrone talks with Jason Howell, Florence Ion and Ron Richards about her experience transitioning during the big #TWiTSwitch using an Android phone for a month.

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Hosts: Jason Howell, Florence Ion, and Ron Richards

Guest: Megan Morrone

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Manoush Zomorodi talks to Megan Morrone about her podcast, Note to Self. Note to Self covers the personal side of technology, from privacy to politics to the importance of being bored.

Full episode can be seen at twit.tv/tri/285

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Steve Gibson talks about a hacker who wrote a script to expose 150,000 internet -facing printers and print a warning message to them.

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Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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A security researcher has discovered serious security flaws in 76 iOS apps. These flaws allow man-in-the-middle attacks, and range from low to high in severity. In the most severe of cases, financial and medical logins could be intercepted.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, and Rene Ritchie

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This week, Stacey Higginbotham recommends the Flash Forward podcast. Flash Forward takes a look into the future to imagine what would happen if Robots did all the farming. Or if the only news was fake news. Or if all the active volcanoes on Earth erupted at once!

Full episode can be seen at twit.tv/twig/390

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Manoush Zomorodi, host of the Note to Self Podcast, talks about her new series, The Privacy Paradox. What are we giving up by letting companies have our private information? And what are we getting in return?

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Leo Laporte, Megan Morrone, and Jason Howell discuss #TWiTSwitch. Jason spent a month with Megan's iPhone 7 and Megan spent a month with Jason's Pixel XL. They discuss launchers, battery life, camera quality and more.

Full episode can be seen at twit.tv/ios/332

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This week, Dropbox's Google Docs competitor, Paper, came out of beta and became available to the public at large. Our TWiT panel has some questions, especially regarding its security, and whether we even need another cloud-based documents service.

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New FCC commissioner Ajit Pai has closed its inquiries into a number of issues, including Zero Rating as a threat to Net Neutrality, and potential opening of the cable box market. The FCC is also stopping the practice of providing federal subsidies for internet for the poor.

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Jason Howell and Megan Morrone discuss new changes in the FCC under Trump. The Washington Posts reports that federal regulators are telling nine companies that they can no longer participate in Lifeline, the program that provides low-cost Internet access to low-income Americans. This comes as a shock to companies who use the funds to partner with school districts to provide educational broadband so that poor kids can do their homework. Ajit Pai, Tom Wheeler's successor at the FCC, announced the new rule today and also confirmed that he will close the inquiry into zero rating plans from T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast.

Full episode can be seen at twit.tv/tnt/1698

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