TWiT Throwback (Audio)

Preparing your trap antenna for rain, Part 2 of Randy's ham shack build, the Santa Net 2015, and a Christmas surprise from Bob Heil!

Hosts: Bob Heil, Gordon West, George Thomas, Don Wilbanks, Dale Puckett, and Amanda Alden

Guest: Randy Hall

Producer: Bryan Burnett

Technical Director: Bryan Burnett

Editor: Victor Bognot

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Hosts: Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis

Guest: Mathew Ingram

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Hands-on reviews of Tasty Recipes, Listmas, Merlin, and Chromer.

Host: Jason Howell

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

Guest: Chris Capossela

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The Beatles to stream their music everywhere, Google has a secret chat bot that's poised to take on Facebook messenger, a coding error set thousands of prisoners free for fake good behavior, and more...

Host: Megan Morrone

Co-Host: Kevin Tofel

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This week, we'll be discussing all of our favorite news stories, hardware releases, and apps from the entire year!

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Hosts: Jason Howell and Florence Ion

Guest: Aaron Newcomb

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The stunning Juniper router backdoor, Oracle gets smacked by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, what happens if you simply press backspace 28 times at a Linux password prompt? WhatsApp briefly banned in Brazil, Hillary's call for a Manhattan-style effort on encryption, a recent audit provides an updated snapshot of the state of web privacy, Microsoft increases the GWX controversy and Steve answers your questions!

We invite you to read our show notes.

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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Thursday Night Football might come to Apple TV, Tim Cook talks with 60 Minutes about taxes and products, Ericsson's patent agreement with Apple, and more.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Alex Lindsay, and Rene Ritchie

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We'll talk to the scientist who is 3D printing replicas of children's hearts to help doctors perform lifesaving surgery. Meet the man who discovered water on Mars. Leo sets steel on fire and takes some great time-lapse photography with the folks from Joby. TWiT Staff's favorite tech of 2015 and what they hope to see in 2016. Call for Help with Captain Jack Ferret and his YouTube vidoes, and Margot needed some advice on a Linux-specific laptop.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Justin Ryan PhD, Stephanie Starks, Lujendra Ojha, Zach Settewongse, and Amanda Pollard

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Gene Ressler is the software guy for the Bridge Design Contest. That's full stack designer and developer plus system operating engineer. He has a couple of other, more limited open source offerings: Sketch, a processor for a small 3d modeling language that emits LaTeX for simple but beautiful diagrams and figures. Steve Ressler is a civil engineer with specialized expertise in structural analysis and design. Back in 1995, while serving as a CE faculty member at West Point, Steve developed the original concept for the Bridge Designer software and wrote the original source code for this stand-alone Windows application.

Hosts: Randal Schwartz and Aaron Newcomb

Guests: Steve Ressler and Gene Ressler

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