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Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent take DJI's educational robot, the RoboMaster S1, for a spin on 'iOS Today.'

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Hosts: Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent

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This week's stories
• A widespread false alarm about Facebook's planned subversion of end-to-end encryption
• Still more municipality Ransomware attacks
• Anti-encryption saber rattling among the Five Eyes nations
• Microsoft's discovery of Russian-backed IoT compromise
• Chrome 76's changes
• Black Hat and Def Con preview
• The challenge of synchronizing a working set of files between two locations

We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-726-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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This Week's Stories
• Apple Card starts rolling out
• Apple Q3 Earnings
• Apple spends big on R&D
• Apple stops talking about AR, starts talking about tariffs
• 16" MacBook Pro will have up to 8 cores
• Apple patents FaceID on Macs
• TouchID coming back to iPhone in 2021?
• FileMaker changes name back to Claris

Picks of the Week:
• Leo's Pick: Teenage Engineering Pocket Operator
• Andy's Pick: Becoming Superman by J. Michael Straczynski
• Rene's Pick: Samsung X5 portable SDD
• Lory's Pick: Journey for iOS
• Alex's Pick: AudioKit Pro

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

Guest: Alex Lindsay

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

• Shopping smart and saving money: CamelCamelCamel, Wish, Jet, The NTWRK, Down to Shop, Honey, and Leo & Mikah's thoughts on Groupon.
• News:
  • Apple rolls out the Apple Card to some users;
  • the FTC is investigating Apple and Amazon's recent deal;
  • Apple suspends human grading of Siri requests
• Leo & Mikah tell you everything you never wanted to know about VELCRO and hook & loop fasteners.
• Viewer Feedback: Scanning documents with a physical scanner and app, using multiple password managers, dispelling the myths surrounding cookies.
• Leo's App Cap: DJI RoboMaster S1
• Mikah's App Cap: Endel

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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This Week's Stories

• Apple Earnings: services up, iPhone down
• Phone season starts this week
• Apple gearing up on R&D
• Amazon takes over
• RIP Amazon Dash button
• Your Assistant is listening
• Apple Card won't let you bet on the ponies
• Capital One hack
• Apple Bluetooth security hack
• Facial recognition for drunks
• Chinese smile to pay
• Elon Musk is boring holes in Las Vegas
• AI customer service hell
• Amazon partnering with police
• Turkey cracks down on Internet
• Instagram from Facebook
• Livestreaming Funerals
• Spotify takes off
• US Govt vs social media addiction
• Locast gets sued
• Ninja moves to Mixer

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Mike Elgan, Mikah Sargent, and Ant Pruitt

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Fitness tracker options, when to buy new Apple products, using an iPhone with a Linux computer, cloud restoration, using your smartphone with your home security system, Dashcam options and more of your calls!

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Sam Abuelsamid and Chris Marquardt

Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/the-tech-guy.

For detailed show notes, visit techguylabs.com.

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Should podcasters be required to be licensed? Facial recognition in bars, 24fps vs. 60fps video content, getting rid of that U2 album in iTunes, encrypting a new hard drive, getting more cloud storage for your phone, choosing the right electric bike, cracking an old floppy disk password, authenticating a streaming channel on Roku, and more of your calls!

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Scott Wilkinson, Johnny Jet, and Dick DeBartolo

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• The dangers of listening to Jeff Jarvis
• YouTubers unionizing
• Pixel 4 features: gesture control, face unlock
• Why Google is paying people $5 for their face
• Apple buying Intel's modem business makes no damn sense
• Do filter bubbles really exist? NO. Why tech journalism gets it wrong
• Facebook quarterly results
• Alphabet has more cash than Apple
• Dish maverick building the next wireless carrier
• Is the T-Mobile/Sprint merger good for consumers?
• Chrome 76 kills Flash, fixes Incognito Mode

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

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Four years ago this week, Windows 10 was born

• Threshold 1 hit on July 29, 2015
• We first got official word about it in September 2014 (launch of preview); then more in Jan. 2015. Leaks before that.
• The bests and worsts about WaaS. What surprised us re: changes Microsoft made – and didn't -- during the past four years.
• Related: New survey finds one third of companies have at least one XP device still on their network

And in more current Windows 10 news...

• Microsoft explains what happened with self-leaked build last week
• Related: Last week's Win 10 20H1 test build now supports a separate and redesigned Cortana app
• Related: New 20H1 test build today adds snip & sketch updates. No cloud reset/refresh yet
• Windows 10 1903 hits 11.4 percent usage share
• New Win Server 20H1 build out this week adds FIDO2 authentication support
• Original HoloLens won't be getting any more Windows 10 feature updates beyond 1809

Chredge watch

• Walking Cat spotted Beta and Stable channel leaks for Chredge. (I downloaded the beta one – I'm living on the Edge! TM (I think you mean Living on the Chredge! TM)

Skype for Business Online gets a cut-off date: July 2021

• In two years, Microsoft will make Skype for Biz Online inaccessible. Teams is the way forward
• Microsoft also officially committed to providing Skype Consumer to Teams interop by Q1 2020
• What about Skype Consumer's future? MS is not commenting, but Teams for Life seems to be on the way

Xbox

• xCloud moves closer to public testing
• Microsoft is kicking Cortana off Xbox too
• There are new Xbox Game Pass and Xbox Games with Gold titles for August

Tips and picks

• Tip of the week: Don't travel internationally without this tech
• A good VPN, I use ExpressVPN
• Google Translate
• A travel power strip (U.S.-based) with USB ports - Also, a USB-C mini-hub with Ethernet
• App pick of the week: Google Chrome 76
• App pick of the week: DOOM, DOOM II, and DOOM 3 come to mobile and Switch!
• Enterprise pick of the week: Microsoft buys BlueTalon
• Enterprise pick No. 2 of the week: It's time to check out Microsoft Learn (again)
• Beer pick of the week: Austin EastCiders Rose Dry Cider

Want a cross between a cider and a rose wine? Here you go. From Austin, Texas, a refreshing, dry cider made with hibiscus and rose: https://austineastciders.com/products/rose-cider "This is rose done the Texas way"

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

Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly

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

• Marcus Hutchins ... is Free!
• U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr on "warrant proof data encryption"
• What malware is the most popular underground?
• This Week in Ransomware
• Your NAS is Grass!
• 11 vulnerabilities in VxWorks' TCP/IP stack

We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-725-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now.

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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