Tech Break (Video)

Father Robert Ballecer, SJ spoke with Frank Muller, from Yuneec, about the Breeze. The Breeze is a super lightweight drone, weighing in at less than a pound, but don't let its petite stature fool you. This drone is equipped with a 4K camera that is capable of amazing HD video and 13 megapixel stills. It has a GPS positioning system and comes with 5 pre-programmed flight modes - Selfie, Pilot, Orbit, Journey or Follow Me. Now getting that perfect selfie is a breeze!

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Brady Forrest brings in the Navdy, a heads up display for your car that can display information from an iPhone or Android device such as directions and notifications.

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Hosts: Jason Howell, Florence Ion, and Ron Richards

Guest: Brady Forrest

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Steve Gibson talks about Yahoo's reveal that 1Billion user accounts were hacked in August of 2013, before the previous hack of 500 million disclosed in September.

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Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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Jason Howell and Megan Morrone discuss the news that Uber has admitted to a problem with its self-driving algorithm. Uber's self-driving cars are not interacting safely with cyclists in a bike lane. Uber told The Guardian that the company is working to fix a flaw in the programming that allows self-driving cars to safely make turns in bike lanes. The admission comes after Uber launched a self-driving service in San Francisco last week without first obtaining a permit. Prior to the story in the Guardian, the executive director of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition issued a statement saying that he saw an Uber car in self-driving mode make an "unsafe right-hook-style turn through a bike lane"....twice. Anyone who's driven in San Francisco knows that cyclists pose a unique problem because they're agile and unpredictable. For now, Uber has instructed drivers to take the wheel when the cars are making right turns with a bike lane.

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Father Robert Ballecer, SJ spoke with Cin-Yee Syria Ho from XYZ Printing about their suite of 3D printers and Scanner. The tech company has a made it one of its missions to make 3D printers available to all, as well as making a printer for every skill level. Additionally, they have developed a hand-held full body scanner.

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Father Robert Ballecer, SJ had the chance to speak with Marie Kristine Schmidt with Bang & Olufsen about the BeoSound 1 and 2. The wireless speaker system provides listeners with a 360 degree listening experience and integrates with existing music services. This, plus the elegant design and the easy and fast setup, make the BeoSound an ideal speaker system for a flexible lifestyle.

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Hope Reese from TechRepublic joins Megan Morrone and Jason Howell to discuss the demanding and low-paying world of Amazon's Mechanical Turk.

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Megan Morrone and Jason Howell discuss the latest company to change its privacy policy and lose users. Note-taking app Evernote came under fire earlier this week when it announced an upcoming change to its privacy policy that would open user notes up to being read by Evernote employees, all in an effort to improve its machine learning capabilities. There was no way to opt-out of this impending snooping and people complained and cancelled their service. Evernote brass listened to the mountain of complaints, and have now announced that the updated privacy policy will be delayed as they rework it so that users can choose to opt-in. Why were they so tone-deaf about the change in the first place?

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Megan Morrone and Jason Howell talk about Android Things and Cortana integration with your smart home gadgets. Google is formalizing its efforts with the Internet of Things by rebranding its seemingly stalled Brillo IoT platform as Android Things. Developers can get going with the SDK preview along with supported developer kits that include the Raspberry Pi 3, the Intel Edison, and the NXP Pico. Weave, Google's IoT platform, is expected to release in a later developer preview. And Mary Jo Foley says Microsoft is bringing Cortana to all the devices in your home with the 2017 Creators Update. Talk to your smart fridge, your internet connect lights, your wired toothbrush, basically you'll soon be yelling commands at everything.

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Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone talk about TraptionBakery, a beautiful and smart new puzzle app for iPads by ProperBostin.

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