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We discuss getting rid of space junk with a tractor beam, viewer feedback straight from Google Plus, and speed up your DNS.Speeding Up you DNSThe "Domain Name System" is how computers find resources on the Internet. Anytime a computer tries to navigate to a web server or connect to a service (i.e…

Tech News for Thursday January 26, 2017Alphabet posted Q4 earnings today, with profits a little smaller than expected for the company formerly known as Google. They beat revenue expectations, and had strong ad sales. Its Other Bets group, which includes everything other than Google and YouTube,…

@Jack: not sure anyone has heard but, I resigned from Twitter.Who is Parag Agrawal?Twitter Has a New CEO; What About a New Business Model?Twitter bans sharing 'private' images and videos without consent.Jack Dorsey’s Square changes corporate name to Block.Edge users aren’t happy about Microsoft’s…

F23Q2 analysis, the subscription future, Microsoft 365 Insider programMicrosoft announced a net income of $16.4 billion on revenues of $52.7 billion for the quarter ending December 31. Net income decreased by 12 percent year-over-year (YOY) in the time period while revenue was up just 2 percent. It…

Please be mindful this transcript is AI-generated and may not be word for word. Time codes refer to approximate times in the ad-supported version of the show.  Jason Howell (00:00:00):Coming up next on all about Android. It's me, Jason Howell, my co-host Ron Richards and my other co-host…

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.Jason Howell (00:00:00):Coming up next on all about Android. It's me, Jason Howell, and my co-host Huyen Tue Dao and Ron Richards. And we…

Leo Laporte: It's time for TWiT, This Week in Tech! There's lots to talk about, we got a great panel to do it. Dan Gillmor from the Cronkite School at Arizona State, we've got Stephen Kovach from Tech Insider, and our own Denise Howell from This Week in Law. Denise will weigh in on the Google…

Leo Laporte:  It's time for TWiT, This Week in Tech!  We have an all in-studio cast today.  Joined by Katie Roof from Tech Crunch, Mike Elgan from Computer World, and I'm thrilled to have the acting administrator for the US digital services, Matt Cutts with us.  We've got a lot…

Colonial Pipeline ransom, Pixel 6 leaks, Biden's Venmo, Twitter BlueColonial Pipeline Paid Hackers Nearly $5 Million in Ransom.Elliptic Follows the Bitcoin Ransoms Paid by Colonial Pipeline and Other DarkSide Ransomware Victims. Old photos fuel misinformation around gas shortages. Apple…

 Microsoft is adopting the "Inner Source" methodology from the open source world. Where does the madness end? Microsoft releases a 20H1 build of Windows 10. Yes, you read that right. Microsoft brings Timeline to Chrome. You'll be able to browse your WSL file system with File Explorer…

This Week's StoriesMicrosoft Build PreviewMicrosoft's Privacy Reputation: How Deserved Is It?Surface Studio Pros and ConsFacebook's Privacy Problems on Display at F8Tik Tok: Facebook Killer or Just the Next Vine?The Broken World of Social MediaIs Instagram Spying on Me?Should Mark Zuckerberg be…

Google Mail Goggles, Beat Stress with Happy Creator, NeighBorrow, Fight Twitter spam, Xtranormal, and more.News of the week:Google Mail GogglesBeat Stress with Happy CreatorNeighBorrow launchesFight spam with DM to TwitterTwitterPatterns.comWeb App of the Week: XtranormalSong of the Week: Tom's…

Employer privacy invasion, Google catches muggers, girl falls asleep while getting tattooed, and more.City of Bozeman asks for applicants Internet passwordsMaybe Trying To Avoid ThisGoogle Street View Camera Catches MuggersFun, Interactive Map of Meth Labs in Tulsa, OKGirl Falls Asleep During…

Pixel 5 Rumors, TikTok Drama, DOJ vs GooglePixel 5 coming September 30th. Here's what to expect.Is the Pixel 5 the last Pixel phone?The TikTok saga continues. First Amendment battles, Chinese recalcitrance, and the worst possible dealUS DOJ is going after Google. What will they focus on?What…

Google Buys Fitbit. Will this be like Google buying HTC, or like Fitbit buying Pebble?Apple hires a new smart home team. Can they catch up with Amazon and Google? Can they fix what is wrong with HomeKit?AirPods Pro review - the best earbuds we've ever worn. However, they are pricy, and they're…

Self-Service Repair, Apple Sues NSO Group, Google RCS Messages Apple announces self-service repair, selling parts to the general public Apple posts internal memo affirming employees' right to discuss pay Apple sues NSO Group to curb the abuse of state-sponsored spyware Italy's…

Pixel 6a leaks, Moto Watch 100, iMessage reactions on Android, At a GlanceWhat is Esper.io? What is DevOps?Android 12L deep dive: Every change, thoroughly documentedAndroid 11 on nearly a quarter of all devices, but it’s not the most used version of Google’s OSWear OS Share Surges on Samsung’s…

With Leo on vacation, Becky Worley takes the big chair. We discuss predictions about Google's big event next week, Samsung's exploding washing machines, Elon Musk's plans for getting to Mars, women in tech, who should buy Twitter, and the next wave in DDOS attacks.On October 4th, Google will …

Facebook took a closer look at its ad metrics and found four more instances of miscalculation, including double-counting repeat visitors for Facebook pages and overstating time spent reading Instant Articles.Microsoft announced that it has joined the Linux foundation as a Platinum member, a big…

Jeff Jarvis' pick of the week on This Week in Google 402 is a new project announced by Verily, the Google spin-off working on health. They've just announced Project Baseline, a broad effort to develop a reference point of good health and a data platform to better understand the transition from…

On Windows Weekly 509, Paul Thurrott had a tip on using Skype from within Chrome as an extension. This will actually integrate Skype into popular online services through your browser, including email, calendars, and Twitter. This works with Microsoft services, but it also works with Gmail and…

Stacey Higginbotham's pick on This Week in Google 350 is Yonomi. This makes it possible for all of your internet-of-things devices to communicate together. It works with Nest, WeMo, Withings, Sonos, Philips Hue, Logitech, and many more services and doesn't require a hub. You can also create…

Android 13 Inches Even Closer to Launch with Its Third Beta.Some large screens can get Beta 3, can go to Beta Partners page to find out.Here’s everything new in Android 13 Beta 3.Google's getting rid of SafetyNet Attestation, but the root and ROM crowd shouldn't celebrate yet.UK will not copy EU…

Shannon Morse: Today on Coding 101 we are building and App from the ground up.Advertisement: Netcasts you love from people you trust. This is TWiT!Bandwidth for Coding 101 is provided by Cachefly at c-a-c-h-e-f-l-y dot com.Coding 101 is brought to you by Squarespace, the all-in-one platform that…

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.Jason Howell (00:00:00):Coming up next. It's All About Android with me, Jason Howell, Ron Richards, and Huyen Tue Dao for her first…

[Top TN2 Animation ]Tonight! What Microsoft's massive layoffs mean for Anroid, Xbox and the employees, plus how New York could halt the Comcast- Time Warner merger Tech News 2Night is Next! …

[Top TN2 Animation Tonight! Amazon Unlimited is officially launched, the Chrome browser could be zapping your battery life, and what's all the fuss over Airbnb's new logo? Tech News 2Night is Next! …

[Top TN2 Animation ]Tonight! even more revelations about Apple's new wearables, Twitpic to shutdown and they're blamming Twitter, and the U.S. Mail to deliver Amazon groceriesTech News 2Night is Next! …

Dvorak eats crow, Congress eats gambling sites, and Microsoft eats its young...Microsoft has severely limited Windows Vista license transfers.If you do not pass WGA in Windows Vista, you will be put into a "reduced functionality mode".Disney claims, "We understand piracy now as a business model…

Tech News for Wednesday March 22, 2017Airbnb is adopting the new name "Aibiying" in China and has doubled its investment in the country. Read more at bloomberg.com.The saga over Google's ad algorithm continues. Today both AT&T, Verizon, and Enterprise rent-a-car have pulled their ads from…

Tech News for Monday April 3, 2017Apple is looking to take its destiny into its own hands by developing its own GPU for its mobile devices. Chip maker Imagination announced that Apple would cease to use its chip technologies sometime in the next “15-months to two years.” Consequently, Imagination…

Tech News for July 27, 2016Families will finally have the ability to share apps, movies and TV shows purchased within Google Play on their Android devices and beyond with its new Google Play Family Library feature rolling out today. Once a Family Manager is setup, that person can select a default…

Tech News for Tuesday August 15, 2017Uber is paying the price for its misuse of “God View” as the result of a probe by the Federal Trade Commission. Uber is required to submit to 20 years of privacy audits and if mishandlings are discovered, Uber faces stiff financial penalties. Not only that, Uber…

Top Stories This WeekFacebook fined $5 billion, the stock goes up $6 billionThe dark side of Facebook's pivot to privacyTrump vs anti-conservative bias on social mediaInstagram vs bulliesPrime Day deals and dilemmasAmazon is building a robot to judge your couchPalantir cameras are watching you, and…

Amazon's paid tweeters program backfiresTelus email out for the past 4 days$3 Million Fortnite winner SWATtedHow Gamergate launched a culture warEsports is officially mainstream - how to get an esports scholarship to collegeVerizon sells Tumblr for about 2% of what Yahoo bought it for 6 years…

This Week's Stories:Apple Releases iPadOS 13.1Dave Hamilton from MacObserver's iPhone 11 reviewDisplayMate gives iPhone 11 Pro its highest A+ rating ever, admits that they need a new rating scaleApple vs Google on privacy: fight!Google Play Pass vs Apple ArcadeWho copies the other more, Google or…

Twitter hack fallout: some verified Twitter accounts are still downZuckerberg pinkie swears that he doesn't have a deal with TrumpSoftbank wants to sell ARM - will Nvidia buy it?Tesla's next gigafactory will be built in AustinTwitter bans thousands of Q-Anon accountsGoogle's camera wizard goes to…

Zoom Fixes Encryption, Elon Musk and X Æ A-12Elon Musk names his child X Æ A-12: here's how to pronounce itZoom buys Keybase to fix encryptionGoogle Meet, Facebook Rooms, and Microsoft Teams desperately try to catch up with ZoomZoom is much more secure now but how did it win the video calling race,…

It's the moment Apple fans the world over have been waiting for, an event to see the launch of the 10th anniversary iPhone, the first event to take place at Apple’s mega-spaceship campus in Cupertino in the Steve Jobs Theater. Expect a full refresh of the iPhone lineup, a new Apple TV, a new Apple…

Rosemary and Mikah review the App Store Awards' best apps and games of 2021.Toca Life World: Build storiesLumaFusionCraft - Docs and Notes EditorDAZN: Stream Live SportsCARROT WeatherLeague of Legends: Wild RiftMARVEL Future RevolutionMystSpace Marshals 3FANTASIANAmong Us!Bumble - Dating & Meet…

@MishaalRahman: It's a bit earlier than usual, but it seems the internal dessert code name for Android 15 V has been revealed: "Vanilla Ice Cream."Google Is Holding the 2023 I/O Conference Date Hostage Until We All Do Its Stupid Puzzle.Google I/O 2023 takes place May 10.Fairphone 2 gets its final…

Talking urinal cakes, the XM Sirius Merger, and the top 25 web 2.0 startups dissected...Tumblr is an easy to use tumblelog service. Tumblelogs are very simple, lightweight weblogs. Check out Merlin's and Leo's.Dvorak hates Joost. On the other hand, Joost just signed a deal with Viacom.Comcast's…

Mike Elgan: It's time for TWiT, This Week in Tech! Andy Ihnatko is here; Rene Ritchie is here as well. We've also got Jeff John Roberts of Fortune fame. We're going to be talking about Apple's control freakery, Google's spam filtering, Reddit's former CEO, and Amazon's best…

Leo Laporte: It's time for TWiT, This Week in Tech! Georgia Dow joins Clayton Morris and Ohdoctah to talk about all of Google's announcements at Google IO, the conservatives go to Facebook and Apple opens the genius Grove. It's all coming up next, in TWiT. NETCASTS YOU LOVE FROM PEOPLE YOU…

This Week's Stories Google's White Collar Sweatshop Killing CDA 230 Would Kill the Internet Musk's Starlink Satellites Could Kill Space Exploration The US vs Huawei: This is How the US Economy Crashes Google's Cold Fusion Experiment Fizzles YouTube Blocks Microsoft…

Microsoft might buy Discord, Intel's U.S.-based fabs, Xbox Live renamed.Corporate Microsoft to Soft Open its Headquarters on March 29 Microsoft to partially reopen its Redmond campus March 29 and possibly fully reopen on July 6 Microsoft creates 15,000-member 'Digital Transformation…

This Week's Stories: CES Preview: what to expect at the 2020 show Segway's new Wall-E pod chair 8k TVs take over CES - what about bandwidth caps? 3D is back at CES - get ready for Star Wars holograms Fresh Cambridge Analytica leak: 68 countries targeted 5G in 2020:…

Apple WWDC, Sentient Google Chatbot AI, Bill C-11, Bored Ape ReturnsApple Announces M2 SoC: Apple Silicon for Macs Updated For 2022Apple Announces Resident Evil Village and No Man's Sky for M2 DevicesGlasses or no glasses, this year’s WWDC is all about ARApple Embraces the Ever-Expanding Dashboard…

The FCC has finally taken action against a mobile carrier for flouting its robocall rules. What's the future of Intel as more companies like Apple start to produce their own chips? Can you upgrade Microsoft Office on a laptop running Windows 8.1? Black Friday numbers are out! Is there an online…

Google Pixels Are Crashing After Watching This Alien Clip on YouTube.Google announces new features for Android and Wear OS.HMD’s latest Nokia phone is designed to be repaired in minutes.This is Nokia’s new logo.Motorola’s Rizr is back as a concept phone with a rollable screen.Redmi’s latest 300W…