Total Leo (Video)

Measuring bandwidth, advertising one's own content, the difference between QLED and OLED, troubleshooting a dual boot machine after an update, installing a caller's VPN, is a 5G phone a good purchase and more of your calls!

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Sam Abuelsamid and Chris Marquardt

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Software as a service may be draining your bank account, iOS gesture changes, do I still need Anti-virus on Windows 10? The best 65" TV under $1000 with Scott Wilkinson,the best Wi-Fi routers for the home, getting started building a PC, travel tips with Johnny Jet, cleaning an old inkjet printer, keeping up with the new Amazon IoT devices with Dr. Mom and more of your calls!

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Scott Wilkinson, Johnny Jet, and Dick DeBartolo

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This Week's Stories

• Whatever happened to Patch?
• Amazon announces Echo in everything from earbuds to glasses to ovens
• Do we trust Amazon?
• Pixelbook Go looks underwhelming
• Quantum Supremacy Achieved
• Google wins the right to be forgotten case
• Chrome update crashes Avid on Macs
• ChromeOS 77 is here
• Facebook Horizon will go nowhere
• Facebook buys CTRL Labs
• Facebook says politicians can say anything
• Pop-up criminals busted
• ImageNet Roulette
• The Texas Instruments graphing calculator monopoly

Picks of the Week

• Leo's Tool: Sonos Move
• Jeff's Number: FAANG stocks lost $58b in value after Trump smashed technology
• Ant's Thing: Coffee house back home with a message
• Kevin's Stuff: YouTube series. On Python. From... MICROSOFT?!?

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt

Guest: Kevin Tofel

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Microsoft announces Project xCloud public beta

• It's finally happening! But it's Android-only at first and will roll out over time.

Windows 10

• Goofy ex-Microsoftie turned YouTuber explains why Windows 10 is so unreliable - And he's obviously right, once you get past the presentation.
• Microsoft says that Windows 10 is now on more than 900 million devices
• Note that they don't say "active devices" anymore. Curious.
• Also: Remember Terry's "one billion" pledge? That was supposed to happen by mid-2018. So they'll hit it 2-3 years later than expected than the original "2-3 year" promise.
• Two new 20H1 builds:
• This week: New 20H1 build brings a few new features, continues slow progress
• Last week: Another 20H1 build with Bluetooth improvements

Dev

• Microsoft ships .NET Core 3.0 with new versions of ASP.NET, EFC Core 3.0, C# 8.0, F# 4.7, and Visual Studio. The big news? Windows Desktop compatibility, for Windows Forms and WPF.
• Microsoft ships new font for developers, command line users

Cloud

• Microsoft finally begins rolling out OneDrive extended storage plans for consumers
• Gotcha: You need to subscribe to an Office 365 consumer edition first
• Microsoft pledges "data dignity" - I wish they'd pledge some dignity for Windows!
• A life line for Cortana? Amazon announces Voice Interoperability Initiative
• Are we finally getting close(r) to Microsoft's Microsoft 365 Consumer subscription? Maaaybe
• Azure Sentinel, Microsoft's SIEM offering, hits GA. (And a bunch of folks seem excited/interested)

Surface

• Surface Laptop 2 inventory runs dry ahead of new product launches
• Surface Studio updated with Surface Pen latency fixes
• Microsoft revs Surface Dock Updater tool and it's not clear how or if this thing works at all

Xbox

• In another blow to transparency, Microsoft changes how it reports Xbox results
• Here are the games coming soon to Xbox Game Pass
• Minecraft is getting a character editor (now in Beta versions)

Tips and picks

• Tip of the week: Learn to program
• Learn Python, for beginners
• Also, Google released two free new developer courses for Kotlin Android development
• App pick of the week: Microsoft Office 365
• Enterprise pick of the week: Where is Win Server 1909/19H2?
• Enterprise pick No. 2 of the week: Dynamics 365 Wave 2
• Beer pick of the week: Hermit Thrush Gin Barrel Saison

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

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Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com

Check out Mary Jo's blog at AllAboutMicrosoft.com

The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin.

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This Week's Stories:

• Cryptomining makes a comeback
• The top three most attacked ports
• Small office/home office (SOHO) routers and wireless access points: "SOHOpelessly Broken"
• Chrome gets an emergency update, to 77.0.3865.90
• 2019 CWE Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Errors

We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-733-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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You can submit a question to Security Now! at the GRC Feedback Page.

For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.

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This Week's Stories:

• Apple Releases iPadOS 13.1
• Dave Hamilton from MacObserver's iPhone 11 review
• DisplayMate gives iPhone 11 Pro its highest A+ rating ever, admits that they need a new rating scale
• Apple vs Google on privacy: fight!
• Google Play Pass vs Apple Arcade
• Who copies the other more, Google or Apple?
• Dunkin is tracking your iPhone with Bluetooth
• When is Deep Fusion photography coming?
• Apple trademarks "Slofie," but what about "Slophie?"
• Apple will make Mac Pro in Texas to avoid tariffs, just like they do now
• Sonos Move review: a great speaker for a high price
• iPhone 11 Pro Wide-angle camera does not support RAW
• Will there be an October Apple event? Do we even need one?
• Apple Music: Lyrics to Live By
• Apple Arcade has something for everyone except Jim Dalrymple
• iOS and iPadOS 13.1 adds automation and security fixes
• WatchOS 6 adds an App Store. The vast gulf between watchOS and WearOS widens further
• Apple Watch 6 Always On is a game-changer
• David Byrne's America Utopia review

Picks of the Week:

• Leo's Pick Apple Reality Composer
• Andy's Pick Documents by Readdle
• Dave's Pick MacUpdater
• Jim's Pick 'Burn' by Crobot

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Andy Ihnatko

Guests: Jim Dalrymple and Dave Hamilton

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On this week's iOS Today with Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent:

• We share our initial impressions of Apple's new iPhone 11 Pro and the Apple Watch Series 5.
• News: iPhone 11 Pro's ultra-wide camera doesn't support RAW or manual focus, the iPhone 11 Pro Max display gets DisplayMate's highest score, Oprah's Book Club launches on Apple Books, the Apple Watch saves a cyclist, and we get our first peek at Apple's new "Apple Tags" UI.
• Viewer Feedback: How to sign up for Apple TV+'s free one-year trial, whether it makes sense to upgrade to an iPhone 11 when the iPhone 12 is rumored to be a worthwhile upgrade, and a little more information about a recent App Cap.
• Leo's App Cap: Curio
• Mikah's App Cap: RNI Films

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent

Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/ios-today.

You can contribute to iOS Today by leaving us a voicemail at 757-504-iPad (757-504-4723) or sending an email to [email protected].

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Leo Laporte answers Maggie's question about running Linux on a MacBook Pro and dual booting from an external drive.

Host: Leo Laporte

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Using an Android phone with Apple CarPlay, replacing a hard drive in an iMac, avoiding cross-scripting scams, Windows Pro N, streaming YouTube TV with a VPN, and more of your calls!

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Sam Abuelsamid and Chris Marquardt

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This Week's Stories:

• TWO AND A HALF DOZEN people invade Area 51
• iPhone 11 vs iPhone 7: is it worth the upgrade?
• Apple Arcade is the best 5 bucks a month you can spend on games
• Apple Watch 5 is the best computer you can wear on your wrist.
• Taking cat pictures in the dark with iPhone 11 - which phone takes the best picture? How about video?
• How many monthly fees to Apple are too many?
• Apple wins its 2nd Emmy before Apple TV+ even comes out.
• Who owns Slofie.com? How about Slophie.net?
• Apple changes the update cycle
• RIP 3D Touch. We won't miss you.
• Apple's ultrawideband U1 Chip: what does it do?
• iPhone 11 teardown
• What to expect from Google's big October event
• What to expect from Microsoft's big October event
• Has Google achieved quantum supremacy?
• How many bitcoin are lost forever?
• When Zuck met Trump
• Facebook creates Oversight Board: here's how it will work
• Facebook Portal wants to watch you watch TV
• Richard Stallman out at MIT and Free Software Foundation
• Edward Snowden still wants to come home

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Rene Ritchie, Dwight Silverman, and Louise Matsakis

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