Streaming music, the Amazon EarPods, controlling a Chromebook with a tablet, recovering damaged data, alternative to Microsoft Outlook and more of your questions!

Host: Leo Laporte

Guest: Chris Marquardt

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This Week's Stories

• Apple's November Surprise: 16-Inch Macbook Pro brings back the scissor-switch keyboard and physical ESC key
• Surface Book 3 Rumors, Surface Laptop 3 and Surface Pro X Reviews
• Microsoft's Project xCloud launches in early 2020 as the odds-on favorite to dominate game streaming
• Google Stadia launches tomorrow as a failure
• Goldman Sachs re-evaluating Apple Card credit limits after sexism accusations
• Google will offer checking accounts to anyone who wants Google to know absolutely everything they pay money for.
• Google's secret "Nightingale" health-care project and Fitbit purchase: Google wants to own your health data
• Apple's Research App: do we trust Apple with our health data more than Google?
• Disney+, Apple+, Peacock TV, etc - when will the streaming bubble burst?
• YouTube creators: are you a kids' channel or an adult channel?
• Is YouTube fracturing the world? Should we go back to all reading the same newspaper?
• Apple kicks vaping apps out of the App Store, Canadian pot stocks crash - legal marijuana's bad week
• Minecraft Earth launches in the US - the perfect demo for Azure Anchors
• Hololens is still the future
• So is the Oculus Quest
• Are Apple Glasses?
• British Labor Party offers free broadband - could this work in the US?
• AI can tell if you are going to die - doctors baffled

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Daniel Rubino, Brian McCullough, and Brianna Wu

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Leo is back from vacation! Advice for a new computer, wireless surround sound systems with Scott Wilkinson, controlling IoT over Bluetooth, replacing an old iPhone battery, interference with a car radio, recording live conversations, the best backup NAS drives and more of your calls!

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Scott Wilkinson, Johnny Jet, Sam Abuelsamid, and Dick DeBartolo

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Leo Laporte answers Ben's question about apps, like Pocket Casts, crashing and closing in the background on his Pixel 3.

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This Week's Stories

• Apple Quarterly Earnings report: it's all about the services.
• Apple names 5 new VPs, including a VP of Acoustics.
• Apple offers $2.5 Billion to fight the California housing crisis, which apparently makes some people cranky.
• AirPods Pro review: comfortable, great noise reduction. Pro tip: try the smallest size tips first.
• People pay more than $700 million annually to replace their lost AirPods.
• AppleTV+ is the best streaming service out there - if you only judge by the video quality.
• How to claim your free year of AppleTV+ - maybe even if you don't deserve it.
• Apple is spending half as much advertising Apple TV+ as the iPhone, which is actually huge.
• AppleTV+ is pretty good, but the AppleTV app is still terrible.
• Adobe Photoshop for iPad review: not feature-complete, but still lets you kick geese, which is awesome.
• Adobe Aero is Adobe's new AR tool for the iPad.

Picks of the Week

• Mikah's Pick: MyQ Smart Garage Door Opener
• Andy's Pick: Adobe Creative Cloud for Photography
• Andy's Tip: iPhone Battery Replacement
• Alex's Pick: Blackmagic Pocket Cinema 6k
• Lory's Pick: Mujjo Insulated Touch Screen Gloves

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Lory Gil, and Alex Lindsay

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Leo Laporte answers John's question about smartphone privacy and robocalls while explaining how to control app permissions on iPhone and Android.

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Leo Laporte talks about the difference between copying a file and transcoding a file, along with the difference between lossy and lossless compression.

Host: Leo Laporte

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Re-scanning television channels, mobile apps acting slow, iPhone 11 vs Pro vs Pro Max, backing up a phone's data to an external hard drive, matching an external monitor's resolution to your iMac's screen resolution and more of your calls!

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Sam Abuelsamid and Chris Marquardt

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Troubleshooting slow internet, Selling your home theater equipment, setting up email rules, hooking up a wireless phone to a hardwire internet connection, DIY prosthetics, do you have to use Comcast's modem? Migrating data to a new Mac, trusting USB devices, setting up a Plex server and more of your calls!

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Scott Wilkinson, Johnny Jet, and Dick DeBartolo

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Leo Laporte explains the differences between virtual private networks, remote desktop protocol, and Tor 'the onion router.'

• Tor Project: https://www.torproject.org
• Know How - Raspberry Pi TOR: https://youtu.be/5kOIXWEIYZM
• ExpressVPN (sponsor): https://www.expressvpn.com/twit
• MS Remote Desktop: https://bit.ly/2Japkkt
• LogMeIn (sponsor): https://www.logmein.com
• RemotePC: https://www.remotepc.com/

Host: Leo Laporte

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