Tech Break (Video)

Lou Maresca of This Week in Enterprise Tech shares the Science News story regarding the use of LASERS creating random numbers. Lasers can do so because of the naturally occurring fluctuations in the light's frequency over a given amount of time. This fundamental information has been used to design a way to create random numbers which can be used in encryption algorithms and other data security practices by physicist Hui Cao and colleagues.

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Host: Louis Maresca

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On This Week in Google, Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Ant Pruitt, and Dr. Nirit Weiss-Blatt discuss Google's announcement that it will stop tracking individual users for the purposes of ad tracking and rely on anonymous group-based tracking instead.

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Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt

Guest: Dr. Nirit Weiss-Blatt, PhD

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Google Chrome is a popular browser, but it continues to lose market share. On FLOSS Weekly, Jonathan Bennett discusses the controversy of Google limiting access to the Chrome API even though there's the fundamentals of the open source Chromium project in place for Google Chrome browser.

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Hosts: Jonathan Bennett and Katherine Druckman

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Paul Thurrott, Mary Jo Foley, and Leo Laporte explain Microsoft Mesh Mixed Reality, a set of mixed-reality features and services the company announced at Microsoft Ignite 2021.

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Hosts: Paul Thurrott, Leo Laporte, and Mary Jo Foley

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Huawei had been declared a national security threat previously by the Trump administration. With Trump out of office, Huawei has reached out to the Biden administration to advise that it's not a security threat. On This Week in Enterprise Tech, Lou Maresca, Curtis Franklin, and Brian McHenry discuss the potential of Huawei making a return to the US markets as well as why Huawei has been considered a national threat for several years.

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Hosts: Louis Maresca, Curt Franklin, and Brian McHenry

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On All About Android, Jason Howell, Ron Richards, and Florence Ion discuss a feature coming to TV sets that ship with Google TV that allows users to bypass the smart features altogether and set it up as a "basic" TV set.

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Hosts: Jason Howell, Florence Ion, and Ron Richards

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On Security Now, Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte discuss the revelation that an intern changed the SolarWinds password to "SolarWinds123" back in 2017 where it stayed unchanged for two years.

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Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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What can we expect from Apple's next iPhone? Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Rene Ritchie, and Andy Ihnatko discuss the latest rumors about the iPhone 13.

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

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On This Week in Tech, Leo Laporte, Lance Ulanoff, Shira Lazar, and Devindra Hardawar walk through the benefits of Twitter's new monetization feature called Super Follows and question how creators can avoid burnout.

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Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Shira Lazar, Devindra Hardawar, and Lance Ulanoff

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Kevin has a first-grader in distance learning and wants to minimize the distraction from YouTube during class.

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Host: Leo Laporte

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