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Top tech companies are looking to hire experience over formal education, Netflix wants to escape the Apple's cut on subscriptions, and Microsoft cracks down on Russian bots.

Nvidia announces new consumer video cards based on its Turing GPU architecture, Financial Times drafting rules to penalize social media platforms for not removing terrorist content within an hour of notification, and Bittorrent's creator criticizes cryptocurrency.

Shannon gives us a wrap of this years DEF CON security event. We explored the psychologically trauma that selfies can have on people with body issues. And the American Telco industry says government should kick in money to help roll out broadband to unserved areas.

Amazon has set its sights on buying Landmark theaters. What does this mean for the movie industry and will this push its rivals to pursue similar deals?

Samsung announces its 5G compliant Exynos modem, Spring and LG and working together to release a 5G smartphone in early 2019, and Verizon plans on launching 5G service in Indianapolis, Houston, Sacramento and Los Angeles. 5G is finally shaping up as a tangible product. Should we be excited or is this just a tease and will this spur more competition?

The Insider reports Apple is encouraging developers to move to software as a subscription model vs one time fee payment. Nvidia takes the wraps off its new Turing GPU architecture. NASA and freelancer.com have picked a winner for Astrobee Challenge.

An 11 year-old at DEFCON successfully hacks the vote totals on a replica of Florida's Secretary of State webpage. Lenovo comes out with a thin and light desktop replacement notebook. Samsung updates its SmartThings wireless hub. 

In this episode, we discuss:

Next XBox Rumors

Fortnite bypasses the Play Store on Android

Nintendo sells 20M Switch consoles

With Patrick Beja and Scott Johnson.

The Amateur Traveller, Chris Christensen, joins us with his picks of must have tech for the avid traveler.

We cast a analytical eye on Samsung's torrent of details about upcoming products.