Tech Break (Video)

Ron Richards and Jason Howell discuss the newly announced Kuri robot for the home that can follow you around and read books to you, given you don't trip over it.

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Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Alex Lindsay, and Adam Engst talk about the features we may or may not see in iPhone 8 later this year.

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Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, and Alex Lindsay

Guest: Adam Engst

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In 1994, Jim created the FreeDOS Project, and wrote many of the early FreeDOS utilities, extensions, and libraries - including the Cats/Kitten library that provides international language support for many FreeDOS programs.

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Tim Stevens from CNET Road Show joins Megan Morrone and Jason Howell to discuss the news from Tesla in 2016. Back in late March, Elon Musk took to the stage in his Hawthorne, California design studio to finally unveil the Tesla 3, a four door vehicle that the company hopes will help to bring electric cars to a more mass-market audience. It starts at $35,000, has a range of 215 miles, and is scheduled to begin delivering to some of those who pre-ordered by the end of 2017, that's still another year away. Tim looks back on the unveiling and forward to what's next for people waiting for the car, including his wife.

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Iain Thomson from The Register joins Jason Howell and Megan Morrone to make some predictions about what we'll see in terms of security and privacy in 2017.

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Leo Laporte briefly shows off his new Apple AirPods!

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Russell Holly from VRheads joins Jason Howell and Ron Richards to discuss the many ways that virtual reality can be used to help gamers stay in shape.

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Megan Morrone and Jason Howell talk to Dave Gershgorn, AI reporter from Quartz about how artificial intelligence can be used to make famous people look like they're smiling. The only problem is that it has trouble with beards. They also discuss a pair of glasses that can steal your face.

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Megan Morrone and Jason Howell talk to Kurt Wagner from Re/Code about everything Snapchat did in 2016. This was the year that the world figured out about this upstart social network. And by "the world" I mean "people born before the 1980." The company changed its name to Snap, made some smart spectacles, and got into some trouble with several of their filters. But that did nothing to slow down the popularity of puking rainbows.

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Sam Machkovech from Ars Technica joins Megan Morrone and Jason Howell to pick apart the biggest gaming news from 2016. We talk Pokemon Go's past and future, Super Mario Run, the new economy of mobile gaming, and more. Find out why Machkovech thinks consumers are finally ready to start paying more for mobile games.

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