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Samsung spills the beans on why its batteries exploded, Google Voice gets a MUCH needed update, Yahoo is under the SEC spotlight for its history of hacks, The many challenges of funding a documentary on Kickstarter, and the FCC gets a new chairman. What does that mean for Net Neutrality? 

Tech summit at Trump Tower. Why fake news appeals to your lizard brain. 1 billion Yahoo accounts hacked. Why Pebble had to sell to Fitbit. Uber refuses to stop testing self-driving cars in San Francisco. Google creates a new self-driving company, Waymo. Apple's new emoji in iOS 10.2.

This week, we'll be discussing all of our favorite news stories, hardware releases, and apps from the entire year!For full show notes go here.

Leo Laporte talks to Jake Knapp from Google Ventures about his new book, Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five DaysFor the full episode, visit twit.tv/tri/241

Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone discuss how to make your vacation photos look beautiful and what to do with them after they are. Leo loves Affinity Photo for the iPad and Megan uses Snapseed from Google. Plus, Megan reviews a new TWiT app by Patrick Hickey from PatsApps.com.

Florence Ion shows off the OnePlus 5 and compares a collection of photos taken in varied shooting conditions to the same photos taken on the Google Pixel and Samsung Galaxy S8.For the full episode, visit twit.tv/aaa/324

AT&T goes after the FCC, Android is ready for work, Thieves have a new tool that can unlock your car remotely, Skype for Business, Oregon passes tax exemptions to encourage Google Fiber, AMD leaves the Microserver game, and Vijay Balasubramaniyan drops in to talk about Pindrop Security.

Google's new product announcements, is it time for a new PC? Blade Runner 2049 in HDR, managing photos to free up space on an Android phone, DIY home security with a Raspberry Pi, the future of Android Wear, getting high-speed internet in a rural area, and more of your calls!

On This Week in Google, Leo Laporte, Stacey Higginbotham, Ant Pruitt, and Jeff Jarvis watch what happens when a geomagnetic storm results in 40 Starlink satellites burning up above Puerto Rico.For the full episode, visit twit.tv/twig/650

Moon photography is quite beautiful and will always grab your viewers' attention. Ant Pruitt discusses his best practices for capturing great moon photography with your camera as well as with your smartphone. Today's latest iPhones, Samsung Galaxy or Google Pixel phones can capture interesting moon…

On This Week in Google, Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt discuss Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's sudden resignation announcement and take a look at his immediate replacement, Parag Agrawal.For the full episode, visit twit.tv/twig/640

On This Week in Google, Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt talk with guest Cathy Gellis about Facebook's public calls for tweaking Section 230 and what's really behind that stance.For the full episode, visit twit.tv/twig/645

On This Week in Google, Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt talk about John Deere's new jailbreak code that arrived to "liberate the tractors."For the full episode, visit twit.tv/twig/677#JohnDeere #RighttoRepair #Jailbreak

On This Week in Google, Leo Laporte, Stacey Higginbotham, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt put the Pixel Clear Calling feature to the test with a screaming vacuum in the room during a call.For the full episode, visit twit.tv/twig/701

On This Week in Tech, Leo Laporte, Mike Masnick, Alex Lindasy, and Owen Thomas discuss the Supreme Court hearings in Gonzales vs. Google that threatens to reform Section 230 protections online.Full episode at twit.tv/twit916

Dell admitted to pre-installing software that resulted in a security hole, Google favored its own reviews over those of Yelp and TripAdvisor because of a bug, privacy concerns arise after a Facebook survey that stores your data, and the Windows 10 November update was pulled for resetting privacy…

OS X has its first active case of ransomware, the impending roll out of V2V technology and how that will improve the safety of autonomous vehicles, the founder of 4chan has taken a position with Google, the people rating app called Peeple sees its official release, and more.

Microsoft's Tay AI experiment proves that the Internet can't be trusted, Google's Nest division might be in shambles yet that isn't stopping it from producing an Amazon Echo-like device, do-it-yourself VR on a budget, Sony PlayStation game development is coming to mobile, and more.

The Federal Trade Commission pressures communication device-makers for better security, Google releases Parsey McParseface as part of the open-source SyntaxNet, Azure Cloud expands into South Korea+Canada, Twitter disallows Dataminr from offering data to US intelligence agencies, Viptela announces…

The FCC has a new reverse auction, Nokia Bell Labs plans to present an impressive joint experiment, ClixSense's blunder, Google's Machine Learning strategy, L057 receives a ton of phone calls, Rob Fuller (Mubix) explains the USB exploit he has researched, and a VMWare rundown with Guido…

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Google bids for wireless spectrum, Leo speculates on why, securing webmail, and cleaning an infected Windows machine...For detailed show notes visit techguylabs.com.Bandwidth for the Tech Guy podcast is provided by DSL Extreme

On This Week in Google, Leo Laporte, Stacey Higginbotham, Ant Pruitt, and Jeff Jarvis talk about how Jeff Bezos and his brother will be the first to fly on Blue Origin's spaceflight.For the full episode, visit twit.tv/twig/615

On Security Now, Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte discuss how Google's Chrome browser has been hit with yet another 0-day in 2021, its 12th to date.For this story and more, check out Security Now: https://twit.tv/sn/838

Manage your podcasts with Pocket Casts, set up reminders to take your medications with Mango Health, download navigation maps for other countries to save mobile data with MAPS.ME, experience immersive stories with Google Spotlight Stories, and Apple Music keeps playing the same track over…

Google continues to tweak its implementation of gesture navigation at the Android OS level. Stephanie Cuthbertson and Chet Haase from the Android team talk about how users adapt, and the challenges for developers.For the full episode, visit twit.tv/aaa/419

Is the FCC finally going to do something about robocalls? An unexpected benefit to Netflix, is public Wi-Fi dangerous? Resources to learn coding, protecting your Google account, customizable luggage with Johnny Jet, creating your own podcast, Ax throwing for everyone with the Giz Wiz and more of…

Sebastian Peak and Patrick Norton talk about Google Stadia, Apple's iMac update, the new iPad mini, Ray Tracing support on Pascal GPUs, NVIDIA's Creator Ready Driver program, the Oculus Rift S, the Xbox One S All-digital gaming console, The Division 2's performance, Razer's Basilisk Essential mouse…

The new Lenovo Smart Display brings Google Assistant into a smart speaker appliance that includes are touchscreen and camera. Florence Ion walks through the features and tests out voice commands to control her home.For the full episode, visit twit.tv/aaa/380

The new Pixel Stand can charge the Google Pixel 3 wirelessly at speeds of 10W, but other devices will be stuck at 5W even though the device supports the open Qi Charging standard.For the full episode, visit twit.tv/aaa/392

Fitbit data helps solve a murder case, Fyre Festival organizer sentenced to 6 years in prison, Nintendo vs. real life Mario Karting, a copyright Battle Royale between video game companies, Google+ will shut down after a data leak, laws to get rid of Robocallers, are patents to blame for high drug…

Eileen Rivera, Josh Windisch, Victor Bognot, and a twist ending.How one emailer is getting around the Google Photos changes.Not all USB-C cords are made the same.Read our show notes here: https://bit.ly/3m8WhPy

On This Week in Google, Jason Howell, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt talk about the fan-generated Ratatouille musical that is being developed on TikTok in real time.Subscribe to this Podcast: https://twit.tv/twig/587

On This Week in Google, Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt discuss the acquisition of Slack by Salesforce and what it means for the incredibly popular productivity platform going forward.Full episode at twit.tv/twig588

On This Week in Google, Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt discuss the growth of Substack, the glut of content, and question if newsletters are indeed the future of journalism.For the full episode, visit twit.tv/twig/592

On This Week in Google, Stacey Higginbotham, Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt talk about news that new Nest cameras and Nest Hubs with Soli radar are expected to release this year.For the full episode, visit twit.tv/twig/593

On This Week in Google, Leo Laporte, Ant Pruitt, Jeff Jarvis, and Mathew Ingram jump into the wonderful world of Sea-shanty TikTok and marvel at the creativity that the platform enables.For the full episode visit twit.tv/twig/594

On This Week in Google, Leo Laporte, Stacey Higginbotham, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt shed light on Brave Browser's recent support for the IPFS Protocol which makes accessing decentralized and censored content possible.For the full episode, visit twit.tv/twig/595

On Security Now, Leo Laporte and Steve Gibson discuss Google Security's announcement that they were able to create a working Spectre exploit in JavaScript on the Chrome browser.For this story and more, check out Security now: http://twit.tv/sn/810

Security conference season in full swing. iPhone X takes over a third of ALL smartphone profits. Google tries to fix messaging again. Who do you trust with your data? IRS servers down on Tax Day. SCOTUS dismisses DOJ vs Microsoft: CLOUD Act makes it moot. Twitter bans ads from Kaspersky.

Google officially took the wraps off of the next version of Android with the Android P Developer Preview, and with it comes a number of design and under-the-hood improvements to the OS.Watch the full episode here:https://twit.tv/twig/447

The Chinese reveal secret Microsoft patents, should you go to jail for threatening someone on Facebook?, when Project Loon will offer internet access, Google names companies for "Glass at Work," how to catch a ride on Optimus Prime with Uber, and what will new rules for distracted drivers look like?

Facebook manipulated 700,000 user's news feeds for a psychology experiment, Canada makes spam illegal with hefty fines, what to do about the FCC's new net neutrality rules, buying refurbished computers, how to track pets with GPS, recording and saving YouTube videos, Google's cardboard virtual…

Amber & Sarah chat with LiveNinja's Will Weinraub on the future of live video chats, Google+ makes view counts public, OkCupid's stance on the Firefox browser leads Mozilla CEO to step down, search Twitter via date range, social media jobs at HootSuite University, the rise of Upworthy, &…

Dart is an open-source, scalable programming language, with robust libraries and runtimes, for building web, server, and mobile apps. Kasper Lund is a software engineer at Google working on the design and implementation of programming languages. He talks about why people choose Dart and how the…

On All About Android, Jason Howell, Ron Richards, and Annyce Davis from Meetup discuss a bug affecting some PIxel 6 devices that results in Google Assistant placing phone calls to random contacts on the device.For the full episode, visit twit.tv/aaa/551

On This Week in Google, Leo Laporte, Stacey Higginbotham, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt discuss how Sam Lessin is leading the charge in taking the VC funding model and investing in human creators.For the full episode, visit twit.tv/twig/638

Cody Toombs, writer and APK Teardown king at Android Police, joins Jason Howell and Florence Ion to talk about his experience tearing down Google's APK files to find clues of upcoming features.For the full episode, visit twit.tv/aaa/317

Will Google buy YouTube, recording lectures for podcasting, hiding your IP address...For detailed show notes visit leo.am.Bandwidth for the Tech Guy on KFI podcast is provided by DSL Extreme

Photoshop CS3 beta, Gizmodo predicts the iPhone release, and the next Google...For detailed show notes visit leo.am.Bandwidth for the Tech Guy on KFI podcast is provided by DSL Extreme