Tech Break (Video)

Megan Morrone and Jason Howell discuss the pilot's strike that might ruin Christmas season for online holiday shoppers. Pilots for Amazon.com Inc.'s new in-house transportation network took to the picket line this week over an ongoing labor dispute regarding increased demand and staffing shortages. ABX Air, which also flies for DHL, says 26 flights and 1.25 million pounds of cargo is currently grounded. The Wall Street Journal says that as of this morning, pilots are not crossing the picket line.

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Hosts: Megan Morrone and Jason Howell

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Jason Howell and Megan Morrone discuss the new malicious bug that will crash your iPhone. According to YouTuber EverythingApplePro, a certain MP4 video when played in Safari will slow down your iPhone, iPad, or your iPod Touch and then cause it to crash. It's a short 3-second video with music. No Mr. Robot masks or anything.

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Hosts: Megan Morrone and Jason Howell

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Jayant Kolhe and Varun Talwar give a brief intro into what gRPC is and what you can do with it.

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Listener Steve Main sends in a video to clarify confusion over USB Power Distribution and different power profiles for the Google Pixel phones.

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Hosts: Jason Howell and Ron Richards

Guest: Aaron Newcomb

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San Francisco Muni could not take payments Saturday because of a cyber attack that knocked out their fare processing system.

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Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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Jason Howell and Megan Morrone talk to Apple podcaster and writer Stephen Hackett of 512 Pixels and Relay FM about the tiny Mac museum in his house. Hackett created a video of the products in Apple's $300 coffee table book and included all the products he's acquired over the years. They chat about whether the book is worth the price, and what he recommends for your current Apple set up.

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Rumors suggest that the next iPhone could come with a curved OLED screen.

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Hosts: Leo Laporte, Rene Ritchie, Andy Ihnatko, and Alex Lindsay

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Sarah Scoles, contributor to Wired Science, joins Megan Morrone and Jason Howell to discuss Breakthrough Listen, a $100 million search program for extraterrestrial life.

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Cathy O'Neil went from being a Wall Street quant to a member of Occupy Wall Street when she saw the ways that Big Data are being used to affect the lives of people every day.

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Leo opens up the Surface Studio and begins to set it up.

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Host: Leo Laporte