Leo Laporte and Jason Snell talk with Bodo Hoenen, a father who built a robotic assistive arm for his daughter whose arm is paralyzed. And, he did it with no robotic experience!

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Denise Howell, Mike Keyes and Sarah Pearson discuss how a fight over an unofficial "Krusty Krab" restaurant in the real world can teach about trademarking fictional places.

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Hosts: Denise Howell and J. Michael Keyes

Guest: Sarah Hinchliff Pearson

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Sam Machkovech from Ars Technica joins Jason Howell to touch on a few developments since the Nintendo Switch was fully introduced last week.

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Fr. Robert Ballecer talks to Andi Mann, Chief Technology Advocate for Splunk, about who to include in a meeting when planning a project with a client.

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Host: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ

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Jason Howell and Megan Morrone talk about Instagram's announcement to start rolling 15-second advertisements into your stories. Instagram is adding full-screen ads to your stories, but you can skip them. Copying Snapchat's stories has been a successful move for Instagram. Since launching Stories five months ago, Instagram has gone from 100 million daily users to a 150 million daily users. Maybe that's why Instagram's description of the way ads will work in their stories seems suspiciously similar to the way ads work in Snapchat stories.

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Hosts: Megan Morrone and Jason Howell

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Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone talk about an app-less solution to keeping track of your to-do lists and your future log. The Bullet Journal is an organizational system created by Ryder Carroll.

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Hosts: Megan Morrone and Leo Laporte

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Leo Laporte, Stacey Higginbotham, and Kevin Marks comment on a story about the most common passwords people used in 2016.

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Hosts: Leo Laporte and Stacey Higginbotham

Guest: Kevin Marks

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Megan Morrone talks to Scott Johnson from The Frogpants network about robot kill switches. Perhaps in response to the first season of Westworld, the European Parliament released a draft report proposing a kill switch for robots to limit the amount of damage they do when they turn on us. The proposal on robot governance includes general principals about what to do when or if robots become self-aware, including liability issues and a classification system for the registration of advanced robots. What kind of ethics system will we need for robots who will care for us when we get older?

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Host: Megan Morrone

Guest: Scott Johnson

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Father Robert Ballecer, SJ spoke with Franz Schmidt with the team at BOSCH working on intelligent systems for man-machine collaboration. The APAS Workstation is a flexible and safe solution, that creates an eco-system where humans perform the complex tasks and the robots perform the mundane jobs.

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Host: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ

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It's the story that has captivated Nintendo fans since last night: The Switch. That's the name of the much anticipated 6.2-inch multi-touch screen portable gaming system from Nintendo. The Verge says with true portability combined with the ability to stream high res to your television already gets right what that WiiU got wrong. The Joy Con is the controller and there's an option for a Pro controller too. It'll cost $300 and be available on March 3.

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Host: Megan Morrone

Guest: Georgia Dow

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