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HomePod should have been delayed longer. Elon Musk's rollercoaster week: Falcon Heavy sends a Tesla to Mars just as Tesla has its worst quarter ever. iPhone boot code leaked online. Chrome will shame insecure websites. YouTube suspends Logan Paul for generally being a horrible human being…

Surprise: young people use social more than the oldsters. Some of them even use Vero. Samsung Galaxy S9 takes top marks for display and camera. Google Fiber didn't go quite as planned. Feds in your iPhone? It's more likely than you think. Amazon buys Ring, can now see and hear everything. US vs…

Patrick Norton and Sebastian Peak discuss Google's Stadia, which was recently revealed to arrive on November 19, 2019 for customers who pre-ordered. Gamers can start playing titles like Red Dead Redemption 2 and Mortal Kombat 11 starting at 9am PST on 11/19Full episode at twit.tv/twich537

Beyond the password, Cybersecurity summer camps, Private 5GGoogle Warns of New Spyware Targeting iOS and Android UsersResearchers Say Only 3% of Open Source Software Bugs Are Actually AttackableVPNs Persist Despite Zero-Trust FervorNSA Is Funding Summer Camps to Teach Kids to Be Cyber ProsEvolving…

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Verdict reached in the Apple Samsung patent lawsuit, Amazon lets you shop without leaving Twitter, Google considers killing off the URL, and more.Starting in June 2010, Tech News Today has reached its 1000th episode and wouldn't be where it is without the likes of people like Tom Merritt, Sarah…

President Obama calls caving to hackers a "mistake", US Officials confirm North Korea did it but InfoSec members call that a "mistake", BBC reveals poor working conditions in China Apple factory, Apple CEO is "deeply offended", Instagram lowers its amount of spam and raises its net-worth, Google…

News details on GoPro's virtual reality camera rig, a porn-centric video player has been caught taking pictures of its users in order to blackmail them, self-driving cars can be hacked, and more...Check out the full show notes for today's episode.

Comcast apologizes for DNS outage, Chrome is zapping flash to save battery life, TSA missed 95% of test bombs, China blamed for massive breech at US Office of Personnel Management, things get worse for SOHO routers, Cheebert continues his Maui SmartNet installation, "Hacker's List" gets hacked,…

Megan Morrone, Jason Howell, and Tom Merritt from The Daily Tech News Show talk about who will benefit from Samsung's loss of the Galaxy Note 7. Apple, Google, or Huawei? And what will Samsung do about users who say you can tear their Galaxy Note 7s out of their hot, dead hands?For the full episode…

At Facebook's F8 developer Conference, Mark Zuckerberg and team announced their new focus on augmented reality, hanging out in virtual reality, Messenger bots, millimeter wave radio internet, VR cameras, AR glasses, typing with your mind, and hearing with your skin. Ajit Pai has trouble rolling…

WWDC is less than a week away! What will Apple announce at their yearly developers conference? Updated MacBooks? New iMacs? A Siri speaker to compete with Google Home and the Amazon Echo? Dare we hope for a new Mac Mini?Alex's Pick: Lumu Light MeterAndy's Pick: Samsung Gear 360Rene's Pick: Star…

Starting on February 13th, 2017, Gmail will start blocking .js file attachments. This adds .js to a long list of file extensions, including .exe, .bat, and .sys blocked by Gmail for security reasons. Users with legitimate reasons to send .js files will still be able to use Google Drive to transfer…

Bacon reserves at a 50 year low. Our picks for the best tech billionaires' apocalypse bunker islands. Musical Trump tweets. Club Penguin shuts down. Super scary walking robots with wheels. Facebook de-verifies God. Google beats Q4 estimates; Facebook stomps all over them.Jeff's Number: 97% of voice…

Megan Morrone and Jason Howell discuss how Apple might be in the market to pick up MacLaren. Google finally releases the latest in its catalog of messaging apps, Allo. Technology is being used to improve sleep, but how well is it working? Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg are giving $3 billion to…

Samsung's 960 PRO and 960 EVO SSD announcement, Sebastian's comparison of four large air coolers, Apple's AirPods don't sound much better, a review of the Audeze SINE On-Ear Planar Magnetic Headphones, a Fatal1ty by Monster FXM 100 Over-Ear Gaming Headphones review, Forza Horizon 3 has incredible…

This week, we'll be discussing a number of hardware highlights from Mobile World Congress, another stab at messaging for Android, what the Apple FBI backdoor case could mean for Android users, browsing the Play Store in MS-DOS, and more!For full show notes go here.

Jason Howell, Megan Morrone, and Allison Sheridan of NosillaCast talk to Sam Abuelsamid, Senior Analyst for smart transportation with Navigant Research. We talk about V2V and V2X communications, sensors, and the Google self-driving car that hit the side of a transit bus a few weeks back.Full…

Tonight we talk to Ron Richards from All About Android and Russell Holly from the new site VRHeads. We discuss Microsoft's new strategic partnership with Xiaomi, built on 1500 transferred patents. Then we cover OnePlus and the controversy of selling hardware with an invite system. We also cover…

A Windows 10 upgrade causes a travel agency to crash, Google's "Faster" trans-pacific fiber link goes live, Forrester Research shows robots won't steal everyone's jobs yet, drones continue to be a safety hazard during a fire, Hilary Clinton's leaked plan seems to support broadband for everyone by…

Megan Morrone and Jason Howell discuss the iPhone's billionth sale. Microsoft keeps developing cool apps for other platforms, and this time it's an AI driven camera app for iOS. SoundCloud is reportedly interested in exploring a sale, but might have a hard time finding a buyer. Facebook had an…

Amazon Echo might have its own inexpensive music streaming service. Google is funding immersive video and content in preparation for its upcoming VR effort Daydream for Android. Facebook is testing autoplay video ads with the audio turned on...that is a bad idea, don't you think? Tesla shows off a…

Live from Macworld: Jean-Paul Bonjour of Apple's Pro apps team, John Skidgel, an information designer at Google, and Jean MacDonald of The Favorite Aunt and SmileOnMyMac.

What will Apple's redesigned iPhone be named? Will it have Touch ID and facial recognition? And most importantly, will it come in Blush Gold? Scott Bourne is here to give us some computational photography tips. More signs point to an LTE Apple Watch. How hard will it be to get a HomePod for…

The best way to blog while on vacation, Google Home can now make phone calls, alternative ways to control cameras, what to get for a secondary phone, updating an Android phone without a carrier, Scott Wilkinson joins us to talk about Apple investing billions into original programming, Johnny Jet…

Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 10122 now available, Windows 10 Mobile for phones build 10080 released May 14, understanding the intersection between SKUs and servicing branches, new touch-first Office apps for Android phones, firmware updates for the Surface Pro 2 & 3, Surface 3 gets drivers…

On the New Screen Savers show, Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone want to put an end to the Emoji Cheeseburger debate. Watch as they each taste-test a cheeseburger made following the Emjoi art from Facebook, Apple, and Google. Can they guess the correct burger and more importantly, which tastes the best…

Your next Android phone's lock screen could have ads as the Google-backed mobile ad company Glance has plans to expand its lock screen platform in the US. Ron Richards, Huyen Tue Dao, and Juan Bagnell discuss on the 'All About Android' podcast.Subscribe and watch the full 'All About Android'…

On This Week in Tech, Leo Laporte, Rich DeMuro, Ashley Esqueda, and Christina Warren talk about the delayed update to the Pixel 6 and how disappointed Rich has been on Google's latest flagship smartphone.Subscribe and watch the full 'This Week in Tech' podcast: https://twit.tv/twit/858 

Picture of the Week. Patch Tuesday Review. Risky Business News. Google Assured Open Source Software. WhatsApp Improvements. Bad Security? Go to jail! Forced Entry. Show Notes https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-919-Notes.pdf

Dell buys corporate software, storage, and security company EMC, Nissan invents a car that has screens all over the dash and seats, the Pentagon is working on a self-destructing drone, and more...Check out the full show notes for today's episode. 

Denise Howell: Next up on this week in law we’ve got Katie Fortney. She’s the copyright management officer for the California Digital Library – a copyright expert. We’re going to talk about guess what – copyright. Grab your popcorn because there is a new way to pirate. Should kids be banned …

Leo Laporte: It's time for TWiT, This Week in Tech. This week we've got a great panel for you. We've got Ben Thompson from Stratechery, from fortune.com Philip Elmer-DeWitt, and from The Mac Observer Dave Hamilton. We've tried Apple Pay, why doesn't it work, and why doesn't CVS use it? We will …

This is the 49th MacBreak Weekly, Which wasstarted almost a year ago.Leo turned off on the comments last week. Leo's friendly reminder... don't use the comments to pre-judge the content of the show.Is Andy Inhatko Fake Steve Jobs .Why isn't the iPhone software updated? Turns out Apple wants to…

Wolfram Alpha, Pirate Bay DDo$, Crackho.com, Craigslist massages, Facebook boobies, and your car warranty has expired.Wolfram Alpha launches amid glitchesWolfram AlphaAcer Profit Falls as Shoppers Seek Cheaper ComputersDell unveils Della website to help women choose which totally cute laptop they…

Mobile World Congress 2020 canceled Coronavirus fears shutter the world's largest mobile conference.Essential Shuts Down Android creator, genius, and alleged harasser Andy Rubin's phone company folds up after poor Essential and Gem sales.Windows 10X revealed Microsoft released the…

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 reviewing If (then) Else Statements and Functions.Reviewing If Else and Viewer SubmissionsCheck out Ep 2 and 3 for how to download the IDE for Windows and Mac…

Today's episode was inspired by viewer Tony Paso. He wanted to know how to take a book and non-destructively.Viewer Request: Digitizing BooksHi!I've followed various shows on the Twit network for some years now. The Know How-show is my recent favourite. I would like to see you do a show on how to…

Google[x] Reveals Nano Pill To Seek Out Cancerous CellsFor a while now, Google has been working on health-tech:They've created a smart contact lens for diabetics that can detect glucose levelsThey invested in an auto-stabilizing spoon that allows Parkinson's patients to feed themselves by…

Borrowing Wi-Fi is a crime, Dell arrives at Wal-Mart, and Norton crashes Chinese PCs....A Symantec update has quarantined 2 critical files in the Chinese version of Windows which has bricked some machines.Male partial nudity is the cause of a delay in the impending Halo 2 PC launch.A Michigan man…

Tech News for Tuesday May 16, 2017Instagram is ripping off Snapchat again with what it's calling "face filters." This works just as it does on Snapchat, open the app, hold your phone up, and in selfie camera mode you'll be able to choose things like a golden wreath, ears and nose from a koala bear…

Tech News for Tuesday January 3, 2017CES is still a few days away, officially, but you wouldn’t know it by the amount of products streaming in from the pre-show. So today, we’ll check out some of the more interesting announcements. First up is Lenovo who has a few things on tap. First, its entry…

Netflix has seen huge success in broadening its streaming service to include original content, to the tune of around $6 billion dollars spent in one year. That actually tops HBO’s significant spend of $2 billion per year for its originals. It sounds like some big execs in Hollywood are starting to…

37signals, the cloud computing innovator known for Basecamp, Highrise, and Ruby on Rails.Audible.com pick of the week: What Would Google Do? Unabridged, By Jeff Jarvis, Narrated by Jeff Jarvis. For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/night.

Chrome, Spore, Nano nouveau, timeshifting evolves, a Google-synchronous orbit, an ad about nothing, and more.Links to all our stories are at http://del.icio.us/twit/159.Audible pick of the week: Get two free audiobooks when you sign up for Audible's Platinum offer at Audible.com/twit2.

On All About Android, Jason Howell, Florence Ion, and Matteo Doni from Tech Travel Geeks talk about Google's announcement that it will require developers to use App Bundles for app distribution via the Play Store in August and what that means for the once open platform.Subscribe and watch the full …

Should you be wary of Amazon Sidewalk? iPad Pro vs. a MacBook, Google Photos is about to eliminate free unlimited storage, using an iPad without a credit card, Sam Abuelsamid: will electric trucks still be able to tow a trailer? Will Hires music be better with the new Apple TV? The best tablet for…

(01:26) Apple News+ is one week old, and Edmund Lee from the New York Times has insight into its early numbers. (16:26) Kelsey Piper from Vox says that Google's new AI ethics board is more about PR than about actually driving change.(27:29) Burger King now offers the meatless Impossible…

Is Intel's clock slowing down? IBM unveils it's first 7nm chip, 2TB Samsung 850 EVOs are here, Logitech changing it's name to Logi, Chromecast ethernet adapter selling out fast, Logitech (or Logi?) G230 and G35 gaming headsets, things aren't looking good for the Windows Phone, new drivers from AMD,…

Sam Abuelsamid talks about the car tech that was shown off at CES this past week, using a Google Voice number with old phones, when to look for phones with 5G connectivity, the advantages of using a paid email service instead of Gmail, how to record interviews for a podcast out in the field, …