Tech Break (Video)

Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone discuss the rise in spam messages sent directly to your calendar. If you were invited to buy Ray-Bans, you'll want to watch this. Learn how to make a spam calendar to automatically move all messages there so you can't see them.

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Leo Laporte takes a call on whether Google Adwords or Facebooks ads are better for building business.

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Host: Leo Laporte

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Marion in Pasadena wants to help a family member wire their house with ethernet cable.

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Host: Leo Laporte

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Megan Morrone and Jason Howell talk about the research done with the iOS and Android mobile game called Sea Hero Quest. The game tests spatial navigation skills and might help prevent or diagnose dementia. The 2.4 million research subjects who downloaded the game have racked up the equivalent of 9,400 years of gameplay that scientists are now using to study Alzheimer's. Scientists & game designers from Glitchers created the game and you can download it right now to help create the world's largest crowd-sourced data set benchmarking human spatial navigation.

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Hosts: Megan Morrone and Jason Howell

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On The New Screen Savers, Megan Morrone tours and suits up at 2K Games' motion capture studio. See what it takes to put real action into video games like NBA 2K.

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Host: Megan Morrone

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George shows what chemicals he uses every day in his garage.

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Megan Morrone and Jason Howell discuss The New York Times story by Mike Isaac about a tool Facebook has built that will allow them to monitor and suppress posts based on location, and they're doing this to get into China. The tool has been secret, but some Facebook employees have already left the company in protest. This would be a pragmatic move on Zuckerberg's part and he obviously wants to get into China at any cost. Zuckerberg and other tech companies are always looking to find their next billion users, and China has 1.4 billion people in it. In order to distance himself from criticism, Facebook has designed the tool for use by third parties, such as local companies in China. There's a good chance Facebook won't succeed in China with or without a tool like this.

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Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade will be live streamed on YouTube in 360 degree video for Virtual Reality headsets.

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Nabanita De of FiB joins Megan Morrone and Jason Howell to discuss her team's new Chrome add-on that helps flag fake news on Facebook.

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Hosts: Megan Morrone and Jason Howell

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Sea Hero Quest is the game that sends all your data to scientists to help them study the effects of Alzheimer's.

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