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Google Voice Search, Yahoo's Yang gone, touch physics, and more.Audible pick of the week: Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, Abridged, By Doris Kearns Goodwin, Narrated by Richard Thomas. For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/macbreak.Bandwidth for MacBreak Weekly is…

In this Halloween themed TWiL: AI-Art sells for $432,500, will there be a ban on killer robots? An Alexa powered drone for your house, Jet Li rejected the Matrix because he didn't want to be digitally recorded, releasing music on DNA, 20 years of the DMCA, Feds say hacking DRM to fix your…

How prion proteins can act in non-mendelian inheritance, or evolution without DNA.Our guests are Susan Lindquist, Ph.D., professor of biology at MIT and investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Simon Alberti, group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and…

Facebook's latest crisis is... its reaction to its last crisis.Waymo plans a driverless car service.Amazon announces its new headquarters in Queens and North Virginia.Google's "smart city" in Toronto gets some pushback.Julian Assange has been charged with... something?SpaceX gets approval to launch…

The FBI put out a bulletin this week about a new direct deposit scam, Google Pixel 3 vs Samsung Galaxy Note 9, how to change your DNS settings, recording TV over the air, will Android smartwatches eventually get the EKG feature that Apple introduced? Troubleshooting a wireless printer that isn't…

Windows 10 is about to go Alpha, Senators ask the FCC to investigate cable and broadband prices, Apple's new patent for a service that would track the status of your bank accounts, Google wants Beacons to be open source, SPAM is at an all time low, Comcast's 2Gbps "bargain", a major breakthrough in…

Open source business model.How is open source utilized in the workplace? On this episode of FLOSS Weekly, veteran co-hosts Aaron Newcomb and Jonathan Bennett join Doc Searls in a lively discussion of open source news in workplaces—both professional and personal. Topics include: open source business…

Universities nationwide targeted by hackers due to security flaws in a file-transfer productAR indoor navigation and other new features coming to Google MapsAttackers know enterprises have a problem with overprivileged users10Mbps upload speeds are good enough, according to AT&TAdam Selipsky to…

Typing on smartphones has never been a fun experience. Jason Howell knows that pain well. That's why he's collected some of his favorite type saving tips that make Google's Gboard app even easier to use.Quick capitalization.Remove a stored auto-correct word.Glide Typing.Delete with a gesture.Space…

iPhone Flash speculation, iMac updates rumored, laptops vs. desktops, and more.Audible pick of the week: What Would Google Do? Unabridged, By Jeff Jarvis, Narrated by Jeff Jarvis. For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/macbreak.Show notes Wiki

On the 'All About Android' podcast, Florence Ion and Duncan Jaffrey join Jason Howell to give their hands-on impressions of the new Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL. Google's new flagship phones bring new features like gesture control, face unlock, 90Hz screen, telephoto camera, and more.Buy the Pixel 4:…

Google jumped the gun and released the very first version of Android 11 Developer Preview 1 a month earlier than previous versions. Jason shows off the relatively small list of platform upgrades on his Pixel 3a.Screen RecorderSystem-wide Dark Theme changesPin apps in the share sheetNew Permission…

Visa Warns - Gas Pumps Are Not Safe!Too few companies are segmenting their networksApple, Google and Amazon create a new smart home standardIs 5G secure, or not?'Password" is still a really bad passwordiPhones and iPads finally get key-based protectionMalware targeting iPhonesWISPAPALOOZA 2019:…

The guy in charge of Beats 1 radio is leaving Apple, a new app lets you stream live gaming commentary like Twitch but from your phone, the Pentagon wants US soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen to be all they can be, so they're turning to Silicon Valley for help, and more...Check out the full show…

Microsoft Ignite starts today and so far the company has announced a partnership with Adobe, more AI powered features in Office 365, and some upgrades to Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection, including new ways to isolate the Edge browser from attacks. Plus, some Google Pixel rumors, Roku…

Megan Morrone and Jason Howell talk to Kerry Davis from Engadget's show In Case You Missed It (ICYMI) about MyVR (a Sims for Google cardboard), I-Bot (a home robot that you can fund on Kickstarter), robots that sweat, and an Oregon Trail-like game that shows how hard it is to vote in the US…

This week we have special guest Hiroshi Lockheimer, SVP of Android, Chrome OS and Play to discuss the Pixel, messaging, security, the EU's concerns with Android and the difference between Chrome OS and Android.  Also we talk about Android 7.1.1 on the Nexus versus the Pixel, Nokia returning to…

Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone discuss ways to improve your productivity with new calendar and email apps. We review the new Google Calendar iPad app, Hop-encrypted email, Readdle's email and calendar, and more. Plus, we cover all the iOS news of the week including Apple developing its own chip…

Stacey's LONG list of great IoT gadgets at CES. The Ara modular smartphone's rise and fall. The death of Google Hangouts API. WayMo makes LIDAR way cheaper. Marissa Mayer to leave Yahoo after sale. Bogus "inventor of e-mail" sues Techdirt.Aaron's Thing: The Onion Omega2Stacey's Do Buy: truMedic…

The LG Sport and Style, the first Android 2.0 watches, come out this week. ACLU Amazon Dash Button. Vizio TV settles with FTC for $2.2 million over secret viewer tracking. House passes email privacy act. Facebook filters fake news in France. Google and H&M team up to design dresses.Stacey's…

iOS Error 53 and an interesting Apple 3rd party service conundrum, Comodo's crummy Cromodo browser, a new Google search safely feature, an interesting audit of Windows 10 after enabling all privacy features, Steve's experience with GWX and a new Windows 7 install, the amazing clever hack of the…

New York Times reporter Katie Benner joins us to talk about sexual harassment in Silicon Valley. Former host of MacBreak Weekly Scott Bourne joins us to talk about what it was like getting the 1st iPhone 10 years ago. This Week in Law host Denise Howell talks about the EU's €2.42 billion judgement…

US Digital Service - making government better. Alphabet Q2 earnings up, stocks down. Chrome's ad blocker is available to devs. Not everybody likes Google's plan to track offline sales. Is privacy a fad? Facebook hits 2 billion users. Bitcoin splits, and miners revolt. ACLU supports John Oliver…

Farhad Manjoo from The New York Times joins the show to talk about being wrong about Facebook and his regrets about the company.Ry Crist of CNET talks about Amazon & Google sharing video footage from its Ring & Nest devices to the police without warrants.Jason discusses an article from The…

Picture of the Week. (What Could Possibly Go Wrong)Microsoft Teams - Unecessarily InsecureRoskomnadzor blocks SoundcloudMicrosoft Exchange Server Under Attack AgainI'm (Still) Not a Robot!Google TAG HistoryClosing the LoopPoisoning AkamaiWe invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc…

On All About Android, Ron Richards and Huyen Tue Dao discuss how 5 years ago at Google announced at I/O support for Kotlin to build Android apps.For the full episode, visit twit.tv/aaa/592#kotlin #androiddevs #5yearsofkotlin

On All About Android, Jason Howell, Ron Richards, and Mishaal Rahman talk with Jan Jedrzejowicz, Head of Product Management for Messages at Google, about the challenge of convincing Apple to support RCS on its devices.For the full episode, visit twit.tv/aaa/590#RCS #Apple #GetTheMessage

The fun starts with a recently patched kernel vulnerability, DirtyPipe. From there, there are the latest Blender, Wine, and kernel releases to cover. Google is reinventing the Proton wheel, Fedora drops more x86 packages, and another Open Source patent pool joins the fight. The tips are great,…

Megan Morrone and Jason Howell discuss Apple's new speaker, the HomePod. Apple held its annual Worldwide Developer's Conference keynote today and it was chock full of good stuff. The HomePod is the rumored Siri speaker that will be available in December. Apple really pushed the sound quality of the…

Yahoo deconstructed, Tesla's bailout-worthiness, Google cuts thousands, BlackBerry Storm, Black Friday deals, and more.Links to all our stories are at http://delicious.com/twit/171.Audible pick of the week: The Disciplined Investor: Essential Strategies for Success, Unabridged, By Andrew Horowitz,…

Picture of the Week.Mozilla's Firefox Monthly Active Users (MAU) slowly but steadily drops.Google to finally assume HTTPS.The evolution of “Initial Access Brokers”.DarkSide Returns.“A Microsoft July 2021 Recap”Tailscale.Closing the Loop.SpinRite.The BlackMatter Interview.We invite you to read our…

Linux kernel security done right—by Google, no less—kicks. Doc Searls, Jonathan Bennett and Shawn Powers have a three-way roundtable discussion on FLOSS Weekly discussing recent open source news items. Is Microsoft making it easier than ever to run all your Windows apps and more on Linux? How's the…

Buying a computer for a family member overseas, finding a good outdoor streaming camera, new Dual Cell TV technology with Scott Wilkinson, using multiple Outlook email accounts on the same computer profile, the best streaming alternatives to cable, the cheap way to flying first class with Johnny…

Remembering Dan Kaminsky.Week before last was Patch Tuesday.Google's Project Zero responds to today's patch latency reality.Baking security into IoTUNethical security research.CloudFlare refuses to knuckle under to Patent Trolls.Closing The Loop.The Mystery of AS8003.We invite you to read our show…

MWC 2019 and the Future of Smartphones and WearablesThis Person Does Not ExistOpenAI and the Text Generator Too Dangerous to ExistOutrage Mobs and TwitterChina's Social Credit System Could Take Over the WorldGoogle and Saudia Arabia's Woman Tracking AppSilicon Valley and the US MilitaryDo We Even…

This Week's StoriesJulian Assange: Journalist or Wrecking Ball?House Passes Net Neutrality Bill, Senate and President Say NoCops Want Google to Give them the GoodsApple Wants All Mac Software NotarizedHow Far Do You Let Alexa into Your Life?Amazon is Moving Out of SeattleHow AI Could Change Health…

CrossOver Office, Google Earth, lack of turn-by-turn, trackpad, DisplayPort and more.Audible pick of the week: To The Stars: The Autobiography of Star Trek's Mr. Sulu, Abridged, By George Takei, Narrated by George Takei. For a free Audible book, visit Audible.com/macbreak.Bandwidth for MacBreak…

Say farewell to Pixel C, YouTube on Alexa, and decency on YouTube. Say hello to Trump's big button, SWATing, and corporations as malevolent AIs. Google Images knows how you'll vote. Ads coming to Alexa. Amazon is not really going to buy Target, are they? Equifax gets off scot-free. Facebook's new…

 Jason Calacanis tells us what's going on with his buddy Elon Musk. Apple fixes the MacBook Pro's throttling issue. Facebook and Twitter stock takes a dive over poor growth numbers, but Google is doing just fine. Russian hackers in MY energy grid? It's more likely than you think…

Tech companies are meeting in secret to discuss election security.FB wants your MRI to train its AI.The nightmare that is Facebook moderation.Refuse to unlock your phone in Australia ---> go to jail for 10 years.It's still very hard to figure out how to stop Google from tracking you.New iPhones…

Black Friday was Amazon's biggest sales day everMarriott Hack hit half a billion Starwood guests for 4 yearsIndian Microsoft scammers bustedAmazon's new machine learning racecar, quantum blockchain, and more from re:InventWhen is Amazon rolling out Prime Health?UK grabs thousands of Facebook emails…

US government tells allies not to buy Huawei productsChina to fully roll out "social credit" scoring system by end of 2020Is Apple bringing back the iPhone X?Google News may leave EU over link taxCards against Humanity wins Black Friday, Sears loses.For one brief shining moment this week, Microsoft…

This week we discuss Windows 7's additional three years of support life, MicroTik routers back in the news (and not in a good way), Google Chrome 69's new features, the hack of MEGA's cloud storage extension for Chrome, Week 3 of the Windows Task Scheduler 0-day, a new consequence of using '1234'…

On This Week in Google, Leo Laporte, Stacey Higginbotham, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt talk about Amazon's announcement that Jeff Bezos would soon be done as CEO making room for Andy Jassy.For the full episode, visit twit.tv/twig/597Photo by Christian Wiediger on Unsplash

Google skips April Fool's Day again this year, accessibility tools for the blind on Linux, amplifying a USB cable signal, is now the right time to buy a Mac? LG's 2021 OLED TV line with Scott Wilkinson, saving text messages from an old iPhone, is the Garmin Phoenix a good smart watch for runners?…

This week we discuss "DrupalGeddon2", Cloudflare's new DNS offering, a reminder about GRC's DNS Benchmark, Microsoft's Meltdown meltdown, the persistent iOS QR Code flaw and its long-awaited v11.3 update, another VPN user IP leak, more bug bounty news, an ill-fated-seeming new eMail initiative,…

Leo Laporte has thoughts after living with the Surface DuoGoogle announces its next big hardware eventFeds bust OnePlus for copying Apple AirpodsLG announces the LG Wing swiveling smartphoneMotoroa tries again with the Razr 5GAndroid Go 11 supports more low end devicesYouTube Music is now the…

Evernym & verifiable credentials.Self-sovereign identity, and the importance of verifiable credentials with Richard Esplin a product manager from the company Evernym. Historically we have expressed our identity through a piece of paper, driver's license, and documents given by an authority but,…

Apple rumored to release 3 new iPhones this year: one big, one cheap, and all three gold. Updated AirPods will be waterproof, have hands-free Siri. Apple launches AC Wellness medical plan for employees. Chinese government takes the keys to iCloud accounts in China. Google cloud takes American…

Leaked court documents reveal Facebook's paranoiaThis isn't hover converters, but Ghost wants to retrofit your car to be autonomousHacking Siri, Alexa and Google Home devices by shining lasers at themNew Titanium backdoor mimics popular PC software to stay hiddenWiSPA update from President &…