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Hands-on with the new iPhone 11 Pro Max, the best way to factory reset and reinstall an Android phone, 8K TVs are coming, but where's the content? Is Windows 10 still a good idea for an old laptop? Mac media servers, monetizing your podcast and more of your calls!

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Scott Wilkinson, Johnny Jet, and Dick DeBartolo

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Apple just released the iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 11 Pro Max, and Apple Watch Series 5. Mikah Sargent and Leo Laporte do a quadruple unboxing with the three colors of iPhone 11 Pro Max and Apple Watch Series 5.

Buy the iPhone 11 Pro Max: https://twit.to/hot51
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Hosts: Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent

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This Week's Stories

• Pixel 4 event confirmed for October 15th, may include Pixelbook 2
• Facebook announces its final rules for the Oversight Board.
• Facebook Portal wants to take over your TV
• Facebook wants to trademark the word "Book"
• Google uses AI to diagnose skin cancer
• Google launching new Nest Wi-Fi router with Google Assistant
• Banning face recognition: pros and cons
• Check out Triangulation #400 twit.tv/tri/400 for a great interview with the man behind San Francisco's face recognition ban
• Google Fi Unlimited
• Pixel 4 in Coral- or is it Cheeto?
• Pixel 4 camera will feature astrophotography
• The Last Apple Keynote
• Government to Google: let employees talk about salary
• Richard Stallman quits MIT and FSF
• What if all the proposed tech regulations passed? Jeff Jarvis has the ultimate dystopian view

Tips and Picks

• Leo's Tool: Write with Transformer
• Jeff's Numbers: Wearable chair, save 50% on Pixel 3
• Stacey's Things: Funko Advent Calendar: Marvel 80th Anniversary, Woodinville Whiskey Co.
• Ant's Wholesome Stuff: Childhood Cancer Awareness Month

Next Week

• Kevin Tofel will be on TWiG next week with a look at what we are expecting from the Pixelbook 2, so come back next week, or Subscribe at TWiT.tv/subscribe so you don't miss it.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

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October 2 event preview: we can't stop speculating

• It's not just hardware, and it's not just Surface: Event will highlight services and experiences too.
• Also: 15-inch Surface Laptop rumored
• Also: This time, the event will be streamed
• Related: Microsoft patents dual-screen device
• Walking Cat finds a reference to "Project S" (we think it's a Surface device)
• Related: Save the date for Microsoft Build 2020!
• More events: OnePlus next week, Huawei soon, Amazon on Sept. 25, Google in mid-October. Plus Ignite in November.

Server/cloud

• Calendar.help to launch soon as Scheduler
• Microsoft Exchange 2010 gets a support reprieve

Dev

• Here comes .NET Core 3.0. Launches at a virtual conference next week. What comes next? MJF: .NET Core 4.0?
• Flutter 1.9 Adds Support for macOS Catalina and iOS 13 - and sets the stage for web apps

Xbox

• Gears 5 off to a record start, Microsoft claims
• COD: Modern Warfare Beta Test Comes to Xbox One (and COD: Mobile is coming October 1!)
• We got more Game Pass games (for console)

Tips and picks

• App pick of the week: Amazon Music HD
• App pick of the week 2: Pocket Casts
• App pick of the week 3: Dark Reader
• Rumor of the week: OneDrive is coming to Linux
• Codename pick of the week: Saturn
• Beer pick of the week: Founders Sumatra Mountain Brown

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

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Check out Mary Jo's blog at AllAboutMicrosoft.com

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On the iOS Today podcast, Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent check out Apple's new subscription gaming service Apple Arcade and check out some of the 100+ games available for iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Mac, and Apple TV; including LEGO Brawls, Rayman Mini, Sayonara Wild Hearts, Oceanhorn 2: Knights of the Lost Realm, Tint, Frogger in Toy Town, Bleak Sword, Don't Bug Me!, Hot Lava, What the Golf?, Pinball Wizard, Dear Reader, Exit the Gungeon, Sneaky Sasquatch, Mini Motorways.

Get Apple Arcade: https://twit.to/hot50

Buy the SteelSeries Nimbus: https://twit.to/hot50b

Subscribe to the iOS Today podcast: https://twit.tv/ios

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent

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This Week's Stories

• SIMjacker allows attackers to hijack any phone just by sending it an SMS message.
• Here comes iOS "Lucky" 13!
• Chrome follows Mozilla to DoH with a twist.
• Want to enable DoH in Chrome right now? You can, right now, if you wish.
• Chrome stops showing Extended Validation certs in the URL bar.
• Mozilla launches 'Firefox Private Network' VPN service as a browser extension.
• Windows Patch Tuesday redux
• Chrome Remote Desktop
• EXIM eMail servers are in trouble again.

We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-732-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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This Week's Stories:

• iPhone 11 review: amazing camera, battery life, sound
• Apple Arcade review and demo
• Apple Watch 5 hands-on review
• 'By innovation only?' Where was the innovation? Our panelists rant about the real innovations in the iPhone 11.
• iPhone 11 Haptic Touch: we don't miss 3D Touch at all. Well, maybe just a little.
• Why the iPhone 11 is only a 4.5 out of 5
• Apple's U1 Chip: the secret location magic in the iPhone 11
• Will Apple finally drag Andy Ihnatko back into its walled garden this year?
• iOS 13 will let iPhone 11 AND XS shoot with multiple cameras at once
• No matter how hard he tried, Rene Ritchie couldn't peg the iPhone 11's A13 Bionic chip
• Wi-Fi 6 on the iPhone 11
• Everything Apple killed last week, and the best of what they kept
• Ming-Chi Kuo says most people are buying the iPhone 11 Pro and Pro Max
• Apple pours a quarter of a billion dollars into Corning Glass
• AppleCare+ switches to a more expensive monthly plan

Picks of the Week:

• Leo's Pick: TextMate text editor for macOS
• Andy's Pick: Spectre Camera app for iPhone
• Rene's Pick: iPhone Smart Battery Case
• Lory's Pick: myNoise at mynoise.net

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Rene Ritchie, and Lory Gil

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

• A first look at a few of the games available on Apple Arcade.
• News: iPhone 11 and 11 Pro reviews are in and people love the camera, an iPad Pro design mockup shows an iPhone-11-style camera bump, magnetic bands will interfere with the compass on Apple Watch 5, the U1 chip in the new iPhones will enable all sorts of new features, and Snapchat introduces a 3D selfie feature for iPhone X devices and newer.
• Viewer Feedback: Whether we'll see an updated Apple TV, if it makes more sense to fresh install your iOS devices or restore them, and using the Find My app with different account logins.
• Leo's App Cap: Locast
• Mikah's App Cap: Glo

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent

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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 on what you need to know about hi-resolution audio music: how the source of the audio and the way it was recorded matters, the Nyquist sampling theorem, how it relates to other lossless audio formats like FLAC, and why you probably shouldn't bother with hi-res audio.

Host: Leo Laporte

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This Week's Stories:

• iPhone 11 vs iPhone 11 Pro
• iPhone 11 Pro Max: the end of the Thinner Era
• No High refresh rate for iPhone Pro
• New iPhone colors: corpse purple, baby poop green
• How durable is the iPhone 11 Pro?
• Night mode, 3 lenses, high key: is iPhone 11 Pro the best phone camera you can buy?
• iPhone 11 will be unlocked on day one
• Apple seems ever so slightly more price sensitive this year
• iPhone 11 camera bump: why not just make the phone thicker?
• Apple Watch 5: always on
• Apple Watch 5: aluminum vs titanium vs ceramic
• Apple Arcade and Apple TV+
• Apple can't get JJ Abrams, even for a half-billion $$$
• 48 States coming after Google
• Tech backlash? What tech backlash?
• Are we building our own surveillance state?
• Google's $995 Project Jacquard backpack
• Where do we go after GDPR?
• Want $125 from Equifax? Please jump through these flaming hoops.
• Pixel 4: is there anything that hasn't leaked yet?
• Which voice assistant is the best, and how can we make it better?
• Microsoft Surface Event October 2
• Minecraft hits 112 million users a month
• MoviePass finally folds

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Devindra Hardawar, Georgia Dow, and Wil Harris

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