On this episode of The New Screen Savers for Saturday, February 24, 2018, with Leo Laporte and Iain Thomson:Why have some farmers turned to hacking to fix their tractors? Jason Koebler from Motherboard talked to several farmers who are doing just this, and it all boils down to the "right to repair." Kelsea Weber from iFixit updates us on what is happening with this movement on the state and federal level.Jason Howell has a review of the new professional audio controller for musicians, the Universal Audio Arrow.Would you use a bot to lower your bills? Megan Morrone shows us Trim.We have two Calls for Help. One on setting up a smart speaker to make phone calls. The second, we'll try to solve a cellular signal problem on 80 acres of land!Plus in the Mail Bag, we'll answer a Spectre and Meltdown question, and another on Net Neutrality myths.  
Hosts: Leo Laporte and Iain Thomson 
Guests: Jason Koebler, Kelsea Weber, Jason Howell, and Megan Morrone 
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TNSS 145: Farmers Turned Hackers and the Right to Repair

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Welcome to the Best of 2018 for The New Screen Savers for Saturday, December 29, 2018. From sipping Mai Tais from the TikiTron drinkbot, trying the VR omnidirectional treadmill featured in Ready Player One, to escaping Reason's high-tech escape rooms, here are some of our fan and staff favorite moments.  
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TNSS 189: Best of 2018 - The Best of 2018 - Magic Leap One, Skydio 4K drone, LetsRobot.tv, and more.

On The New Screen Savers recorded on Saturday, December 22, 2018, with Leo Laporte and Patrick Norton: 
Leo and Patrick discuss Facebook's ongoing user data privacy problems, Elon Musk's Boring Company and their first completed tunnel, and how UK's second largest airport was shut down due to drones. 
PhaseSpace's Robert Jaeger Slaughter shows off their unique motion tracking system that can be used for location-based VR entertainment and more. 
Leo and the TWiT crew try out one of Reason's sci-fi themed escape rooms in San Francisco and give you a sneak peek at how co-founders Crina Bordas and Mike Chen are incorporating drones, VR, and 3D printers as a way to make emerging tech to be more accessible to everyone. 
Patrick has a few ideas for you if you're behind on your holiday gift shopping with a last-minute Holiday Gift Guide. 
Plus we answer some of your questions in our "Call for Help" and "Mail Bag".' 
Hosts: Leo Laporte and Patrick Norton 
Guests: Robert Jaeger Slaughter, Crina Bordas, Mike Chen, Jason Howell, Megan Morrone, Colleen Goldstein, and Jerry Wagley 
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TNSS 188: High-Tech Escape Rooms & VR Motion Tracking - Reason's high-tech escape rooms, PhaseSpace's VR motion tracking system, and the best last-minute gift picks.

On The New Screen Savers recorded on Saturday, December 15, 2018, with Leo Laporte and Scott Bourne: 
Leo and Scott discuss the continuing Chinese espionage story, Facebook's new data breach of their user's photos, and Google CEO Sundar Pichai's appearance before the House Judiciary Committee. 
Helm wants you to take back control of your email with a personal server for your home. Co-founder and CEO Giri Sreenivas joins us to show how the Helm works, its simple setup process, and how it keeps your data safe. 
Scott gives us a look at Skylum Software's upcoming update to their photo editing app Luminar 2018 with Luminar 3, adding new features like Libraries to automatically organizes your images and more editing tools powered by AI. 
We continue our Holiday Gift Guides with Scott's picks for photographers of any level. 
Leo gives us a first look at a couple of electric bikes, Rad Power Bikes' RadCity and Lithium Cycles' Super73-S1, plus a few cycling accessories. 
Hosts: Leo Laporte and Scott Bourne 
Guests: Giri Sreenivas and Megan Morrone 
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TNSS 187: Take Back Control of Your Email With the Helm Personal Server - The Helm personal server, Luminar 3 photo editor, DJI OSMO Pocket, and more.

On The New Screen Savers recorded on Saturday, December 8, 2018, with Leo Laporte and Jason Howell: 
Leo and Jason discuss Canada's arrest of a Huawei exec, Australia's anti-encryption law, Google shutting down Allo, and Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 855 SOC. 
Jason reviews the Google Pixel Slate. This premium Chrome OS tablet features a 12.3" Molecular Display and starts at $599. 
We continue our Holiday Gift Guides with Jason's picks for high-end headphones from Monolith by Monoprice and HIFIMAN; and gaming headsets and other video game accessories. 
Sam Machkovech shows how you can play your old-school Super Nintendo game cartridges in 1080p goodness with the Analogue Super Nt. 
 Is it possible to transfer to a new Google account and keep all your data? Find out in our mailbag. 
Hosts: Leo Laporte and Jason Howell 
Guest: Sam Machkovech 
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TNSS 186: Hands-On with the Google Pixel Slate Chrome OS Tablet - Google Pixel Slate, Jason's Gift Guide, Analogue Super Nt, and more.

On The New Screen Savers recorded on Saturday, December 1, 2018, with Leo Laporte and Iain Thomson: 
Leo and Iain discuss Marriott's massive breach of 500 million customer's data, CRISPR-edited babies, and NASA's InSight lander on Mars. 
Danny Isserles from temi shows off their personal robot that can autonomously follow you around your home or office as your digital assistant or telepresence robot. 
We continue our Holiday Gift Guides with Iain's picks, including phone cases, gadget toolkits, power banks, and UPSs. 
Plus a bonus Gift Guide from Ars Technica's Sam Machkovec with the best multi-platform video games. 
We answer some of your questions like how to protect someone's aunt who keeps letting "Microsoft" remote in to fix her laptop. 
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TNSS 145: Farmers Turned Hackers and the Right to Repair

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