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Microsoft 365 for consumers is here Microsoft has made the shift from Office 365 Personal/Home to Microsoft 365 Personal/Family What's changed? (Just the brand) What about all those new features that Microsoft promised? What about Teams? There's a lot of confusion about this one…

The TWiT netcast network has hired Jason Howell to bring his podcast production expertise to the channel. Owned by longtime tech broadcaster, president and Chief TWiT Leo Laporte, the five-year-old company sees Howell, his experience and following as the key piece in developing their 24-hour…

If you watch TWiT on YouTube, you may have noticed recent episodes missing from our main YouTube channel at http://youtube.com/TWiT.Starting this week, each show publishes to its own YouTube account (i.e. http://youtube.com/TechNewsToday), and you will need to subscribe to the individual show…

NewsSnapshot 12w49 came out right after we recorded last weeks episode, but 12w50 also got released! New features in these snapshots are fireworks, item drops in 3D, thorns enchantment and book enchantments, and 32 bugs fixed! In other news it has been decided that Redstone update has been…

Time's Person of the Year, the iPhone, the AMD roadmap, and more...The Time "Person of the Year" award has been awarded to none other than: you!According to Leo and Dvorak, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad should be the Person of the Year.The New York Times has added an "Add to Newsvine" button to all their…

E3 fades to black, or at least a shade of gray, who needs Core 2?, and Billy Bragg abandons MySpace.Frank Barnako says podcasts could conceivably be earning $1 millionGigavox Media launches their first three channels today!Patrick is working from a Falcon Northwest Core 2 Duo machine.AMD is at its…

Gates goeth gracefully, Microsoft innovation through time, hacking your life, and more.Topics:Gates leaves Microsoft full-timeReturn of the '70s WeirdosThe "Gates and innovation" gameLifehacker: Hacking your life, and "Upgrade Your Life: the Lifehacker Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, Better" by…

This week's stories:Mobile World Congress 2020 canceled over COVID-19 fearsChina virtually shut down due to COVID-19. Foxconn's iPhone plant closed; making face masks instead.RSA Conference (Feb 24th in San Francisco) is next - IBM has already dropped out. Is this the end of conferences?China's…

Please be advised this transcript is AI-generated and may not be word for word. Time codes refer to the approximate times in the ad-supported version of the show.... (00:00:02):Podcasts. You love... (00:00:04):From people you trust.Leo Laporte (00:00:06):This is TWIT. Hi, this is Leo Laporte and…

Please be advised this transcript is AI-generated and may not be word for word.Time codes refer to the approximate times in the ad-supported version of the show.Leo Laporte (00:00:02):Podcasts. You love from people you trust. This is TWiT. Hi, this is Leo Laport and this is my tech guy podcast…

Show Tease: Coming up! It’s a brand new Chrome book. Sanheizers got new ears. A 360 degree action cam, a hybrid tablet, and a parting shot for those folks with unreliable transportation. You’ve got to watch Before You Buy. Netcasts you love, from people you trust, this is Twit! Bandwidth for…

Tech News for Friday July 28, 2017Happy Cheap Tesla Day, if $35,000 before customizations are cheap to you. Tesla will deliver its first Model 3 tonight, and ReCode says this could be Elon Musk's iPhone moment. The car is sold out through most of 2018 with 350,000 pre orders in April 2016 alone. In…

Rosemary and Mikah take a trip down memory lane to share some of the apps they've been using for years.Glympse -Share your locationIMDbGoodReader PDF Editor & ViewerFirst Aid: American Red CrossPocket: Save. Read. Grow.Audible (TWiT Sponsor)TripIt: Travel Plannerbuddhify: meditation on the…

UPDATE: Episode 1 publishes October 17, 2019The world is more visual than ever, with cameras getting smaller, better, and more accessible. Millions of photos are taken every day, but how do you make yours stand out?Ant Pruitt is a self-taught pro, who built and ran a photography/video business in…

Welcome to Coding 101 - It's the TWiT show that gives YOU the knowledge to live in the wonderful world of the programmer. This week we are introducing our newest module, Python with Code Warrior Dale Chase!To see all the code used in today's episode, go to Our Github Repository for Module 2Please…

Iyaz puts his personal phone on the line. We'll back up then try to root a Samsung Galaxy S3.We're going to root our phone for a longer term project.First we're going to back up our device in case of catastrophe. We'll use Helium. It can backup your entire device without root.Backup with…

Bash exploit allows an attacker to take complete control of a computer, upgrading your Video Card, VLAN's on a personal network, SSD Media Center, and make a custom watch face for your Android Wear Device.Bash, Bash, Bash!A new bug has been discovered in Bash that allows an attacker to take…

Tech News for Monday May 1, 2017In a newly signed executive order, President Donald Trump says he plans to establish an American Technology Council. The order says "The Federal Government must transform and modernize its information technology and how it uses and delivers digital services," but it…

Tech News for August 29, 2016The September Apple event has been confirmed for a week from Wednesday, September 7th at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco at 10 a.m. Pacific. We'll be covering this at twit.tv/live. Read more about the event at theverge.com.The temperature is rising as…

A Bill Gates farewell review from MITS to DOS to Windows, chair jumping, a Ballmer future, and more.Bill Gates departs Microsoft (2008 CES farewell video)Dvorak: No More Odes to Bill Gates, Please!Google's Lunar X PrizeBallmer likes developersDvorak again (MarketWatch): Microsoft without GatesBill…

21 killed in Texas elementary school shooting.Beto O’Rourke disrupts news conference on shooting.The Problem With The Otherwise Very Good And Very Important Eleventh Circuit Decision On The Florida Social Media Law.And Now The Copia Institute Tells The US Supreme Court There’s A Big Problem With…

Windows 11 Beta testers: Start your engines Microsoft starts moving more Windows 11 test features into the Beta channel Microsoft to extend its 'enterprise metaverse' strategy with Mesh for Teams Zoom live avatars: Finally you can turn up to your meetings as a rabbit or a dog …

CMA blocks Activision Blizzard deal, FY23 Q3 earnings, Mad Dogs Hot DogsMicrosoft earningsMicrosoft announced that it earned a net income of $18.3 billion on revenues of $52.9 billion for the quarter ending March 31. Those figures represent gains of 9 and 7 percent, respectively, year-over-year…

Please be advised this transcript is AI-generated and may not be word for word. Time codes refer to the approximate times in the ad-supported version of the show.Leo Laporte (00:00:02):Podcasts you love from people you trust. This is TWiT.. Hi, this is Leo Laporte and this is my Tech Guy podcast…

Denise Howell: Next up on This Week in Law, we’ve got Meg Ambrose, Mark Paulding, Evan Brown and me. We are going to try not to lose track of Justin Timberlake. Discuss the right to be forgotten in the process.  Talk about some slightly peeved men a.k.a. the legal issues in Halt and Catch…

Please be advised this transcript is AI-generated and may not be word for word.Time codes refer to the approximate times in the ad-supported version of the show.Leo Laporte (00:00:00):It's time for TWIT, This Week In Tech. Great panel for you. All the way from Finland, Patrick Beja joins, Brianna…

Leo Laporte:  It's time for TWiT, This Week in Tech.  Great show for you.  Everybody is in the studio, Harry McCracken, the Technologizer, Jason Snell from Six Colors, and our own Becky Worley.  We're going to have a great time talking about the latest tech news.  Stay…

Leo Laporte:  It's time for TWiT, This Week in Tech.  A bad week, but a tough discussion up ahead.  We'll talk about Facebook live, the use of robots to kill perpetrators, and there's some light stuff too, including Pokemon Go and the Apollo 11…

Leo Laporte: It's time for TWiT: This Week in Tech! Oh my goodness. Get your dunce caps on. I'm sorry, I'll wear the dunce cap, you wear the thinking cap, because this is the smartest panel we've had in a long time. Joining us, Steve Kovach from Techinsider.io, Om Malik, from om.co, and from…

Leo Laporte: It's time for TWiT, This Week in Tech!  We have a great panel.  Alex Wilhelm is here, Stephen Kovach, Iain Thomson.  We're going to talk about everything, the Apple event coming up, the big court case coming up.  What's going on at Google.  What's wrong with…

Please be advised this transcript is AI-generated and may not be word for word.Time codes refer to the approximate times in the ad-supported version of the show.Leo Laporte (00:00:00):It's time for windows weekly. Paul Thurrott is here. Mary Jo. Foley's here a big Microsoft event coming up in a…

Ant Pruitt  (00:00):Today on Hands-on Photography, I am not getting into any tips or tricks or, or anything like that. I just have a bit of a rant and some things that are on my mind from the world of photography from a world-renowned photographer, I gotta get it off my chest. Y'all stay tuned…

Leo Laporte:  It's time for TWiT, This Week in Tech!  Philip Elmer DeWitt, the cranky geek episode.  Philip Elmer DeWitt, Om Malik, and David Coursey join me.  We're going to talk about the five horsemen of the Internet, who will Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon.  We…

Leo Laporte: It's time for TWiT, This Week in Tech.  We've got lots to talk about, that new Disney hotel where you get to play a Star Wars character, the search for Uber's CEO, and of course, tonight is Game of Thrones.  We'll talk about it with our panel.  Devindra Hardawar from…

Leo LaPorte: It’s time for MacBreak weekly. The quarterly results are in for Apple’s first quarter. The holiday buying quarter and boy are they good even though Wall Street didn’t like them too much. We’ll talk about that with our panel next on MacBreak Weekly. Netcasts you love, from people you…

Please be advised this transcript is AI-generated and may not be word for word. Time codes refer to the approximate times in the ad-supported version of the show.Leo Laporte (00:00:00):It's time for security. Now, Steve Gibson is here with lots to talk about. Red Hat Cryptographically signing its…

Please be advised this transcript is AI-generated and may not be word for word. Time codes refer to the approximate times in the ad-supported version of the show. Leo Laporte (00:00:00):It's time for Security Now, Steve Gibson is here. Lots to talk about one week into the January patch Tuesday…

Please be advised this transcript is AI-generated and may not be word for word.Time codes refer to the approximate times in the ad-supported version of the show Leo Laporte (00:00:00):It's time for Windows Weekly with Paul Thurrott and Richard Campbell. They are going to get into it. Bing Chat…

Please be advised this transcript is AI-generated and may not be word for word. Time codes refer to the approximate times in the ad-supported version of the show.Louis Maresca (00:00:00):On This Week in Enterprise Tech, we have Mr. Brian Chee and Curtis Franklin back on the show today. Now FTC is…

Chrome OS, outlet and laser data theft, $98 Blu-ray player, flat panel growth, memristors, and more.Chrome OS for the clueless: What it means for real people Google Chrome OSMicrosoft's "Gazelle" browser detailed -- it's more of a research projectO M G I G P Internet Explorer 8 Puke Vomit GirlYou…

Microsoft's death exaggerated, Nokia, Zune HD, upgrading/migrating, Windows Phones, and more.Is Microsoft screwed?IThere's a lot of silliness going around that the era of Microsoft is overII looked into this and contrary to public perception, Microsoft's approach to cloud computing is a winning…

New economics, Gmail goes offline, IE8 RC1, Windows 7 UAC, iTunes Plus, and more.Do More with Less: How to Survive in Today's Economic RealityA Microsoft marketing mantra becomes a life mantra for all of usStretching PC/technology lifetimesSaying no to new gadgets ... Every time we peddle something…

We've already posted a half dozen MacBreak and MacBreak weekly shows covering this week's MacWorld Expo - unfortunately due to the way the web page works that might not be apparent. So make sure you drill down on the MacBreak and MacBreak Weekly pages to find more goodness. Here are a list of the…

New Dev & Beta builds, Phone Link update, Joe Belfiore, Modern Warfare IIWindows 11 New Dev build today: Build 25236 feature a minor change to the Windows 11 search experience and a Store UX update Dev Build 25231 adds the tablet-optimized taskbar for all Insiders, and the…

Tech News for Wednesday November 9, 2016You may or may not feel let down by last night's election, but one thing that we can agree on is that the data geeks let us down. Whether your candidate was predicted to win or not, the predicted candidate did not win and a lot of people are asking why. Not…

Thanks to John Foster, as always, for the show notes:iPhone blah, blah, blah.AT&T leaks about the iPhone.The Perfect Thing.I'm holding my breath.MacUser talked with Merlin.SlashDot remembers the first iPod.Speaking of sucking.Zero Day Exploit wins $10K. Link is missing.Ubunto. EMACS. vim…

iPhone hype, CBS buying spree, and dehydrated vodka. It's our 100th episode.Kevin Rose has finally set up a new blog!Find Leo at his own Tumblelog.Apple released a few new iPhone ads that revealed the release date of June 29.Bill Gates and Steve Jobs shared the stage at the D5 conference.Amazon has…

Tech News for Wednesday January 11, 2017Alphabet continues to pare down its many efforts by shuttering Project Titan, its solar powered drone program. And according to Bloomberg, Alphabet is also in the process of trying to sell its Skybox Imaging Satellite business which it renamed Terra Bella…

Tech News for Wednesday February 8, 2017Pinterest is launching a new feature called Lens, a way to use machine vision to recognize real world objects and surface images within the service that match that particular image search. One could search a clock and then see how that clock looks on the wall…

iPhone unlocking, new iPods next week, and our software picks...Merlin recently discovered a fantastic list of Chuck Norris facts.Scott Bourne has joined the ranks of Chuck Norris to gain his own facts site.A 17-year old teenager was one of the first to figure out a hardware iPhone unlockingmethod…