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Leo and Mikah show you some apps you can use to teach and learn at home.

• iOS home schooling help: Minecraft: Education Edition, Desmos Graphing Calculator, WolframAlpha, MarcoPolo World School, edX: Courses by Harvard & MIT, iTunes U, DIY.org
• News: Apple's latest iOS update adds COVID-19 contact tracing, new group FaceTime settings, and quicker password access while wearing a face mask; 9to5Mac has a list of states with apps for Apple & Google's contact tracing API; Apple TV+'s ""Mythic Quest: Quarantine"" episode was shot on 40 iPhones and raised $600,000 for charity.
• Listener feedback: YubiKey and two-factor authentication codes and exporting health data from the Apple Watch.
• Mikah's App Cap: Concepts
• Leo's App Cap: Classic Sudoku!

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent

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iPhone battery giving you trouble? Here's how to fix it.

Mikah gives you the ins, outs, and in-betweens of troubleshooting battery life and battery health on your iOS devices.

Host: Mikah Sargent

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Twitter is testing a new reply system that lets users choose who can and can't reply to them, students are failing AP tests due to a new, allegedly better image format, and a brief look at the potential future of the theater.

First, Jason strikes up a conversation about Twitter's new reply system — some users are now able to limit who can reply to a given tweet.

Then, Mikah applauds Netflix's latest announcement wherein the company says it will remove unused Netflix accounts — no need to pay for a subscription you aren't using.

Then, The Verge's Monica Chin joins the pair to reveal a new and troubling situation for students taking AP tests remotely: the iPhone's default HEIC image format is causing those students to fail their tests.

Finally, freelance writer Eric Ravenscraft pops in to talk about his article in OneZero regarding the future of movie theaters and our movie-watching experiences.

Hosts: Jason Howell and Mikah Sargent

Guests: Monica Chin and Eric Ravenscraft

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Microsoft Build 2020 Satya Nadella Vision Keynote, Imagine Cup, and Scott Hanselman Developer Keynote

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella gave his annual Vision Keynote at Build 2020. Nadella talked briefly about Github, Power Platform, Azure, Windows, Teams, and Project Reunion. He interviewed Greg Bowman, Director of Folding@Home, talking about how Folding@Home has been used to fight Alzheimer's Disease and Cancer, and is currently being used to fight Covid-19. Then he featured five artists at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music who have been using Teams to connect virtually during the current shelter-at-home order.

After Nadella's keynote, the conference moved on to the Imagine Cup, a tech competition for college students. The winning team, Hollow from Hong Kong, is developing a tool to help throat cancer victims recover their voices.

Build then moved on to Scott Hanselman, who interviewed several developers. He first interviewed Kayla Clarence about the Windows Subsystem for Linux, the new Windows terminal, the Winget Windows Package Manager, and using Teams to code in the terminal collaboratively. Then he called Nat Friedman, CEO of Github. Friedman talked about Github's new free-to-everybody system, mobile app, and integration with Visual Studio through Codespace. Then he interviewed Allison Buchholtz-Au, Program Manager of Codespace at Microsoft who went id-depth about Codespace. Scott also talked about .Net Core 3.1 and changes to Visual Studio 2019.

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent

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Leo and Mikah explore apps that pair perfectly with the Apple Pencil.

• Apps for Apple Pencil: ShadowDraw, Pixelmator Photo, Penbook, Notability, Tayasui Sketches, MyScript Calculator, Microsoft Math Solver, and Lake: Coloring Books.
• News: Apple may add audio versions of Apple News+ articles. Jon Prosser says Apple's AR glasses are coming in early mid-2021. Apple reveals its latest Pride Edition Apple Watch bands and Watch faces.
• Listener feedback: HomeKit-enabled security cameras and a new way to use the Magic Keyboard for iPad.
• Mikah's App Cap: Monopoly
• Leo's App Cap: Nuzzel: News for Professionals

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent

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• Matthew Cassinelli shares his 13 accessibility Shortcuts so you can, for example, make it easier to read the text on your iPhone or iPad; Headspace offers a free, one-year subscription to those who are unemployed; Oculus Quest rolls out an update that adds hand tracking.
• On this episode of Smart Tech Today with Mikah Sargent and Matthew Cassinelli:
• APPLE--
• Logitech announces its new privacy-focused Circle View smart camera with Apple's HomeKit Secure Video, shipping this month for $159.99 | 9to5Mac: https://bit.ly/3cKRAqm
• Eero in the Apple Store | MacSparky: https://bit.ly/2XacaK9
• UK smart home brand Hive adds HomeKit support | 9to5Mac: https://bit.ly/2Zeo1tk
• As Pride goes virtual, Apple Watch Pride Edition helps community and advocacy continue worldwide | Apple: https://apple.co/36955xK
• Apple seeds iOS 13.5 GM to developers ahead of public release | 9to5Mac: https://bit.ly/3g1xUkk
• VIRTUAL REALITY--
• Oculus Quest unwraps hand-tracking updates for its first birthday | CNET: https://cnet.co/2z98osF
• Apple just bought a VR firm – here's what it could do with it | Trusted Reviews: https://bit.ly/2ZfYBf1
• MISC--
• Headspace Is Now Free for the Unemployed | AdWeek: https://bit.ly/2TgbZvG
• Smart home platform Wink delays paid subscription deadline by a week | The Verge: https://bit.ly/2Tipnjg
• PROJECTS--
• Matthew's accessibility Shortcuts: https://bit.ly/2Xacxo1
• Steven Aquino | Twitter: https://bit.ly/2ZimKl8
• PICKS OF THE WEEK--
• Matthew: Oh Bother | App Store: https://apple.co/3bEfrql
• Mikah: Blue-light filtering glasses | Felix Gray: https://bit.ly/3g4Te8j
• Learn more about the Suprachiasmatic Nuclei via Mikah's old podcast Lucid: https://bit.ly/2zwo09i

Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Matthew Cassinelli

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Show notes and links for this episode are available here: https://twit.tv/shows/smart-tech-today/episodes/30

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Mikah Sargent takes a first look at the Brydge Pro+ Keyboard. Cheaper than Apple's Magic Keyboard, this wireless Bluetooth keyboard for the 2018 and 2020 iPad Pro 11" and 12.9" blurs the line between MacBook and iPad with a hinge design and features an oversized multi-touch trackpad, adjustable backlit keys, and 180-degree viewing angles.

Brydge Pro+: http://twit.to/hot91
Apple Magic Keyboard: http://twit.to/hot91b
Compare other wireless keyboards: https://my.lustre.ai/7oRfB

Host: Mikah Sargent

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How to find, delete, use, and arrange iMessage Apps.

If you've ever wanted to know more about the strip of icons in your Messages app, this episode is for you. Mikah shows you how to launch, use, delete, find, and rearrange apps, games, and sticker packs for iMessage.

Host: Mikah Sargent

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Hacking Coronavirus research, Spatial VR Meetings, Elon Musk's Tesla tantrum.

• Laura Hautala from CNET talks about how the US is accusing China of hacking into Coronavirus vaccine research.
• Devindra Hardawar from Engadget spent time inside Spatial's VR teleconferencing software and right now might be its moment.
• Sam Abuelsamid from Guide House Insights details Elon Musk's Twitter tantrum and suit against Alameda County aimed at reopening the Tesla plant.
• A new PlayStation 5 demo was released in a collaboration with Epic Games and Unreal Engine 5 and it is breathtaking.
• OpenAI researchers created Jukebox, an open-source algorithm that mimics and creates original music from all genres convincingly.

Hosts: Jason Howell and Mikah Sargent

Guests: Laura Hautala, Devindra Hardawar, and Sam Abuelsamid

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After a week of training their brains, Leo and Mikah are taking a break with apps that let you zone out and relax.
On this week's iOS Today:

• Zone out: Dots, Churchill Solitaire, Patterned, Osmos, Prune, MEISAI, Viridi.
• News: Everything you need to know about Apple's newly launched cursor for iPadOS, Mikah's epic tale of replacing faulty AirPods Pro, and Jeffrey Katzenberg says COVID-19 is responsible for Quibi's less-than-stellar launch.
• Listener feedback: WiFi-connected garage door openers and an app to edit photo EXIF data.
• Mikah's App Cap: Incognito — Private Browser
• Leo's App Cap: MonkeyBox #1: Polarized!

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent

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