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M.G. Siegler was a general partner at Google Ventures, where he primarily focuses on early-stage investments. He has been deeply involved in the startup space since 2005, first as a web developer, then as a writer, and most recently as an investor and advisor.Before joining Google Ventures, M.G…

All the highlights from Google I/O. Tim Cook has a blood sugar tracking watch. Facebook's guidelines for content moderation. Biz Stone is going back to Twitter. What happened with WannaCry. Minecraft devs don't want you to poison your birds. The FCC is going ahead with their plan to end Net…

Introducing a brand new member of the TWiT.tv family! When you look at our offerings, one thing becomes clear. We need more open source coverage. And who better than long-time Screen Saver contributor and Google Open Source Programs Manager, Chris DiBona. This show will appear every Friday, and we…

[Top TN2 Animation ]Tonight! Mozilla's CEO is out, Turkey lifts its Twitter ban, the US creates a secret Cuban Twitter, and Google could get into mobile phone service...Tech News 2Night is Next! [TWiT Open]This is Tech News 2Night Episode 58, for April 3, 2014This episode of Tech News…

Apple Java vulnerability, Palm Pre with iTunes, Microsoft Bing, Zune HD vs. iPod, and more.Apple releases iTunes 8.2 and QuickTime 7.6.2Macworld article about the current state of Mac securityApple has failed to patch a Java security vulnerability despite it being a known issueMacworld.com provides…

Microsoft spreads FUD, Engadget costs Apple $4B, and Leo hits the dirt...Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, is claiming that there are 235 patent infringements in Linux.There is no expiration date on the SUSE vouchers by Microsoft. Groklaw has taken an analysis of the whole situation.An inventor is…

Tech News for Tuesday December 13, 2016The New York Times says that Russian Hackers gained access to the emails of DNC campaign chairman John Podesta as a result of a typo. The Times says Podesta was suspicious of a phishing scam he received, but one aid responded with the message "this is a…

Tech News for Monday August 21, 2017Google's next operating system will be called Android Oreo 8.0. It was timed with today's total eclipse, which we did not see because it was cloudy. It wasn't as cloudy in New York where Google unveiled the Oreo statue, the first statue anywhere outside of Google…

The Best Samsung Galaxy S10+ You Can Buy: First LookFacebook Pivots to PrivacySaudi Women Tracking App Might Not Be So Bad After AllGoogle's Dragonfly is DeadWaymo's Lidar PlayGoogle's Privacy-Focused AI FrameworkAI Will Be Better Than Us at Understanding the "Incomprehensible Intricacy of our…

News of the Week Tesla Announces Model Y SUV Crossover Tesla's Many Problems are Due to Musk Huge Facebook Outage: Why? Beto O'Rourke, L33T Hacker Mass Murder on Facebook Live Warren vs Big Tech: Why She's Wrong Hey Techies: Uncle Sam Needs You! Bruce…

Jeff unboxes his new Lenovo Smart Display. Our live Duo demo goes about as well as you'd expect.Facebook finds more political shenanigans.Google's Censored Search in China.Stacey has all the news from Google Cloud Next.Amazon's facial recognition software outs 28 US lawmakers as crooks.All the…

An October Surprise of a different sort - Windows 10 update deletes users' filesA security researcher has massively weaponzied the existing MicroTik vulnerability and released it as a proof-of-conceptA clever voicemail WhatsApp OTP bypassWhat happened with that recent Google+ breach?Google tightens…

On 'The New Screen Savers' recorded on Saturday, October 13, 2018, with Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone:Leo and Megan discuss the week's new product announcements from Facebook and Google, including Portal from Facebook and Google's Home Hub, Pixel Slate, and Pixel 3.DPReview Science Editor Rishi…

Chrome throttling ads, Google outage, 2020 Pwnie Awards, JavaScript's 25th birthday.Chrome's heavy ad intervention.Adrozek.Ransomware: "Double Extortion."A 0-click wormable vulnerability in D-Link VPN servers.Google suffered an outage.Amnesia:33.Zero-day in WordPress SMTP plugin.The 2020 Pwnie…

Facebook Buys Giphy, Apple AR Glasses, Unreal Engine 5Facebook buys Giphy for $400 millionFacebook setting up a political advocacy group for big techUS Government going to sue Google for monopolizing online adsTrump tweets that Google, Facebook, and Twitter are controlled by the "Radical Left…

Google finally pushed out the Android 11 Beta 1 release which means it feels this version of the new OS is ready for a wider range of users. It's still buggy and probably not reliable enough for everyday users, but Jason Howell installed it on his daily driver to show off a few of the key features…

YouTube TV price hike, India app ban, OnePlus Nord.YouTube TV gets a huge price hike and no one's happy.Big Android 11 features that might not come to all phones.India bans many Chinese apps including TikTok.Nearby, Google's AirDrop feature is near!OnePlus Z will actually be the OnePlus Nord…

Jason shares impressions of the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra.Android Auto will work wirelessly with all Android 11 devices.Pixel Buds gets a feature drop.Pixel 4a 5G and Pixel 5 get some considerable leaks.Android 11 eliminates choice in the name of security.A new BlackBerry device that supports 5G is set…

Samsung unveils the Galaxy Z Flip and S20 seriesMoto Razr is universally pannedMobile World Congress might get canceledMotorola announces the Moto G Power and G StylusYouTube Music internal beta is testing music library uploadsPlay Store paid out more than $80 billion to developersHow wearables can…

This week we discuss last Friday's passing of our dear friend and colleague Jerry Pournelle, when AI is turned to evil purpose, whether and when Google's Chrome browser will warn of man in the middle attacks, why Google is apparently attempting to patent pieces of a compression technology they did…

The winner of the Android App Arena from All About Android 291 is I am Bread, which was Jason Howell's pick. I am Bread comes from Bossa Studios, and your mission, as a piece of bread, is to become toast.You'll need to take on hazards on an adventure across 8 levels throughout a house and even…

Megan Morrone and Jason Howell discuss whether or not Google can convince us to carpool. Waze has been testing its carpool service in the Bay Area and Tel Aviv for a while now, and the company is ready to expand beyond those markets according to the Wall Street Journal. Sometime in the next few…

Special Guests: Rael Dornfest of Stikkit.com and John Cutliffe of the Tsunami benefit CD, Hands Across the WaterTime Magazine's person of the year is YOU, saving the Swedish straw goat, and a better Google, by Google!Catch Amber and Leo on the commandN Holiday Episode #73 at www.commandn.tv. Watch…

Picture of the Week.A high-severity 0-day in Chrome.Apple updates against another 0-day.CISA thinks this Apple vulnerability is quite serious.Which brings us back to "SeriousSAM" as it's being called.The CISA Top 16 list.Last Tuesday was the industry's monthly Patch extravaganza.The Magento…

Please be mindful, these transcripts are AI-generated and may not be word for word.  New Speaker (00:00:02):Podcasts you love from people you trust. This is TWiT.Leo Laporte (00:00:10):Hi, this is Leo Laporte and this is my Tech Guy podcast. The show originally aired on the premier…

Florence Ion reviews the Lenovo Smart Clock on All About Android with Jason Howell and Ant Pruitt. This small smart alarm clock with Google Assistant lets you control your connected home, listen to your favorite music or podcast, start your day by viewing weather and your calendar in the "good…

Leave Elon alone! Tesla tumbles after Musk laments his "most difficult and painful year."Google employees revolt over China rumors; town hall meeting shut down due to "kerfuffle" tweets.Apple thinks that its headquarter buildings are worth 1/6th of an iPhone XS+.Australian teen Hacky Hack Hacks…

FonixCrypter releases ransomware decryption keyGoogle payout to bug hunters hits a new highThe White House supports Artemis Program to go back to the MoonA company pays to get data back from ransomware, then gets hit again by the same ransomwareAttackers continue to target iOS securityAmazon starts…

Hayato Huseman shares his first impressions of the Galaxy S20 FE.Jason goes hands-on with the Galaxy Z Flip2.Hayato Huseman reviews the Galaxy Tab S7 Plus.Google is making big changes for developers in the Play Store.What we expect from tomorrow's Google hardware event.Royole Flexpai 2 is unveiled…

Android Security, Windows 7 Security, Microsoft Defender.Google to get even more proactive about Android securityWhy are people sticking with Windows 7?And Google funds a JavaScript research engineMicrosoft Defender gets in Vitro UpdatingWSL 2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux v2) completely bypasses…

Stadia, Google's game console in the cloud, is currently running on devices of all kinds but as of yet is not officially supported on Android TV devices. While we wait for Google to make those devices compatible, Jason Howell has a way to get it running right now. It's a little hacky but it totally…

Apple+Google Covid Tracker is Secure and RIP John Conway, Creator of The Game of LifeApple & Google Virus Contact Tracing: secure and effectiveZoom gets another Zoom-bombing mitigation... and a Class-Action LawsuitMeanwhile, Zoom has enlisted the aid of Alex StamosZoom creates a CISO…

The Code for today's show is available below:Build an App 4/4 - XamarinOur Coding Community!Joe Maruschek came through yet again with examples of Simple Data Binding and Data Binding with a custom object.Thanks Joe! -- You're always the best.Code WarriorIf you want to play with Xamarin. Visit their…

The winner of this week's App Arena from All About Android 286 is Jason Howell's pick: Rocker Locker.By default on Android, the volume buttons on the phone change the ringtone. Rocker Locker is an app that simply changes the default so the volume buttons will change the media volume instead. Just…

Stacey Higginbotham's tip from This Week in Google 377 is an automatic way to ask your spouse if they need anything when you're at the grocery store. This is an IFTTT applet that uses your phone's GPS and will text your spouse when you get to the store. All you have to do is enter the address of…

Netflix is bringing offline playback capability to most movies and TV shows on the service for users of the iOS or Android app. Amazon announced AWS Snowmobile, an 18 wheeler capable of securely delivering exabytes of data.Comma.ai, the self driving startup founded by George Hotz, unveiled the…

This week we discuss a new non-eMail medium for spear phishing, Chipotle can't catch a break, social engineering WannaCry exploits on Android, video subtitling now able to take over our machines, a serious Android UI design flaw that Google appears to be stubbornly refusing to address, Linux gets…

Mike Elgan: It’s time for TWIT, This Week In Tech. Leo’s out today, I'm Mike Elgan filling in for him. We have the Technologizer, Harry McCracken, he’s here. Along with CNET’s Lindsey Turrentine and Katie Benner from The Information. We talk about major moves by Apple including Beats, Healthbook,…

Leo Laporte: It's time for TWiT: This Week in Tech! Andrew Cunningham from Arstechnica joins us, Jason Hiner from CBS interactive, and our old pal Jeff Jarvis from This Week in Google to talk about the latest news. Google becomes alphabet; Tesla announces the X, and a whole lot more. It's all…

Denise Howell: Hi, folks. I'm Denise Howell, and welcome to 2015 and our episode of This Week in Law. We've got an awesome show this week for you with Representative Daniel Zolnikov from Montana and author Andrew Keen. We're going to talk about the privacy ramifications of all of our…

 Apple buys Intel's modem business House passes anti-robocall bill Samsung Galaxy Fold finally coming in September As T-Mobile/Sprint merger approved by DoJ, Dish launches a new mobile carrier iPadOS is the Future of Apple iPhone 11 is all about the camera Note 10…

This week we discuss the long-awaited end of StartCom & StartSSL, inside last week's macOS passwordless root account access and problems with Apple's patches, the question of Apple allowing 3D facial data access to apps, Facebook's new and controversial use of camera images, in-the-wild…

The Samsung Developers Conference Keynote features a foldable phone, SmartThings IoT, and Bixby innovations.Android will support foldable phones.Google employees stage a walkout over sexual harassmentTim Berners-Lee's Contract for the WebHow to encourage civility onlineYouTube Content IDFacebook…

Installing apps outside of the Google Play Store.The Google Play Store is good enough for most people when it comes to finding and installing apps and games on Android. However, there are plenty of legitimate reasons to want to install apps manually while bypassing the Play Store altogether. Jason…

Discussing data wrangling and data management with Joe Hellerstein, co-founder, and CSO of Trifacta.Artificial intelligence can't yet learn common senseA new project aims to unmask disinformation botsFailure to delete hate speech could cost Facebook and Google billions in FranceNode Killer…

Salesforce has been ubiquitous with SaaS and we get to talk to Ryan Ellis the SVP of Product Management to talk about their low code solutions and how they fit into the enterprise.Also on this episode:Incognito mode detection still works in ChromeMobile phishing attacks increase sharplyNo more data…

This Week's Stories: Alphabet reaches 1 Trillion Dollars Sonos Speaker Update Angers Leo and Stacey Changing Expectations on Home System Updates The State of NJ Has a Twitter Account Local Newspaper and Radio is the Victim of the Internet Jeff Bezos's Phone Hacked by…

Megan Morrone's app cap on iOS Today 336 is Raise -- an app for exchanging gift cards. You can buy gift cards at a discount, or you can sell gift cards for cash. It's all digital, so any gift cards you buy will be sent to your phone's Wallet app.- Learn more about Raise (raise.com)- Get Raise in…

Aaron Newcomb shows Leo Laporte how to hack into a Google Home and customize its commands and responses. Leo shows off his new Snapchat Spectacles. Megan Morrone and her kids get a lesson in lightsaber choreography from the Golden Gate Knights. Andrew Wong, the Community Manager for the Qubes OS…

NOTICE: TWiT's Eastside Studio has closed.The TWiT Eastside Studio opened on August 21, 2016 with This Week in Tech episode 576 and officially closed on August 9, 2024. The final show recorded live in the studio was This Week in Google episode 780. The studio was TWiT's third location, following…