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This week, we'll be taking a look at the canceled Project Ara, the leaky Blu, the Le Pro 3, the HTC Bolt, the OnePlus 3T, the launch of Daydream View, Google's new Photoscan app, and more!

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Hosts: Jason Howell, Florence Ion, and Ron Richards

Guest: Juan Bagnell

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Results from our listener's informal CAIDA spoofing testing. LessPass turned out to be even less than it appeared. Steve's day at Yubico. News from PwnFest & Mobile Pwn2Own. The probable elimination of Dark Matter. A new Wi-Fi field disturbance attack. A wacky Kickstarter "fingerprint" glove. The "BlackNurse" reduced-bandwidth DoS attack.

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Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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Microsoft is partnering with Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Y Combinator founder Sam Altman, all who run the nonprofit OpenAI. The organization, which was founded earlier this year, is on a mission to protect humanity from our robot overlords by making them be our slaves, and not the other way around. Mark Gurman from Bloomberg says that, behind closed doors, Apple is working on some smart spectacles of their own. Apple's glasses will wirelessly connect to your smartphone, and may not come out until 2018, if at all. Google released a new standalone app for Android and iOS called PhotoScan. The app is designed to help users take those polaroids and printed photos taking up space in the attic, and digitize them with the smartphone camera, while removing things like glare and reflection. Security research firm Kryptowire has discovered pre-installed spyware on 120,000 Android phones that slurps up personally identifiable information, including text messages, contacts, IP addresses, and more. What's worse is that all of that information gets sent to a Chinese company called Adups. Also, Wifi is more important than sex.

Hosts: Megan Morrone and Jason Howell

Guests: Mikey Campbell and Katie Benner

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Rene has his review of the new 13" and 15" MacBook Pro with Touch Bar. Rumors say AirPods might come out this week. Apple is working on Augmented reality - is this the future? Apple's new $300 coffee book focuses on the Jobs-Ive collaboration.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, and Rene Ritchie

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Hosts: Randal Schwartz and Aaron Newcomb

Guests: Robby Russell and Marc Cornellà

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Need to keep yourself distracted in this crazy world? Well, Megan Morrone and Leo Laporte have the perfect apps for you. Games, movies, magazines, Cameras that fit in your Apple Watch band, and an assortment of apps ranging from new ways to play Tetris, Chess, and auto tune your voice!

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone

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Hosts: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ and Bryan Burnett

Guests: Russell Tammany and Kerry Macleod

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Members of Facebook's engineering staff disagree with CEO Mark Zuckerberg's stance that false news on the network did not have an impact on last week's election. They are reportedly forming an unofficial task force within the company, meeting in secret to formalize a list of recommendations to offer up to senior management to improve the situation. The FBI has contracted with data analytics firm Dataminr to get full access to Twitter's firehose. Google is releasing an update to Google Play Music that brings an entirely new look, along with location tracking, to offer up different playlists based on user location, time of day, and previous listening patterns. The new app will also automatically cache music that's listened to for offline listening. The adult dating websites AdultFriendFinder, Cams.com, and Penthouse have been hacked, revealing personal details from the accounts of more than 400 million users. That's the largest known breach of personal data this year. According to LeakedSource.com, the stash of data includes 15 million email addresses connected to deleted accounts. Finally, the Matrix PowerWatch is a fitness tracking smartwatch that's currently up for pre-order on Indiegogo and reportedly uses body heat to charge the battery while the user wears it.

Hosts: Megan Morrone and Jason Howell

Guests: Rene Ritchie and Sam Abuelsamid

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