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Tech News for Thursday October 13, 2016In today's Samsung Recall update, the Consumer Product Safety Comission has officially recalled the Galaxy Note 7. The official recall says there have been 96 reports of batteries overheating in the U.S., including 23 new reports since the September 15 recall…

The guy who created the like button now says it's dangerously addictive. Facebook Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos says press doesn't understand how hard it is to prevent voter manipulation. Yahoo admits that hack perpetrated under Yahoo Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos impacted all 3 billion…

Whither Yang and Yahoo, little Billy Gates, XP/Vista, tweeting ice on Mars, Firefox 3, and more.Last year, Harry McCracken quit, then returned, to PC World, protesting the killing of the "Ten Things We Hate About Apple" article.Yahoo Exec Tracker - 114 execs have left since Jan. 2007How to resign…

Tech News for September 28, 2016The time has come for Blackberry to give up the goat on its hardware strategy. Today during its second quarter sales report, the company announced its plans to close down its phone business, signaling its transition into the Android space a failure. This doesn’t mean…

Tonight, the security flaw that could have exposed one-third of the internet, Comcast's plans for WiFi phone service, and the Air Force embracing Google Glass...Tech News 2Night is Next! [TWiT Open]This is Tech News 2Night Episode 61, for Tuesday April 8, 2014This episode of Tech News 2Night is…

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer will resign from Yahoo’s board of Directors along with cofounder David Filo and four other board members when and if the sale to Verizon goes through. Also, as Verizon will be purchasing Yahoo's core business, the remaining investment company that won’t be going to Verizon…

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…

Tech News Today For Friday October 7, 2016With the walls crumbling down on Yahoo thanks to the disclosure of up to 500 million accounts being accessed by hackers along with Yahoo's alleged compliance with intelligence agencies that would involve real-time scanning of inbound email for its…

Tech News for Monday October 10, 2016Samsung is suspending production or halting production or possibly adjusting the schedule of production of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7, due to continuting reports of fires caused by the device. Samsung has told Jordon Golson from The Verge that they're "working…

Tech News for September 22, 2016Yahoo confirmed a data breach today that happened back in 2014 and could affect the acquisition of the company by Verizon. A state-sponsored actor accessed 500 million accounts, which means this could be the largest hack of all time. If your personal information has…

[Top TN2 Animation ]Tonight! Apple might announce new iPads on October 16th, Facebook is getting into healthcare, and it seems everyone is interested in mobile messaging...Tech News 2Night is Next! …

Twitter and SXSW, CNET-Revision3, Facebook IM, Bebo-AOL, Microsoft-Yahoo, Yahoo Buzz, and more.Links to all our stories are on del.icio.us.

Kutcher's millions, Oprah, The Pirate Bay, mother-daughter twins, mile high urine, and more.Ashton Kutcher Beats CNN to 1 millionOprah's On TwitterTwitter Makes Us Indifferent To Human SufferingHalf Of Viewers Don't Understand TV Weather ReportsThe Pirate Bay Founders GuiltySwedish Museum Puts…

Live from the Portable Media ExpoDigital Bill joins us from the Wizards of TechnologyLeo's loving the Heil PR40 mic we won as the People's Choice PodcastThere really is a digeridoo podcastAnd two knitting podcasts, including KnitcastRead Chris Anderson's original Wired story on the Long TailUpdate…

Jason Howell and Ron Richards dissect Google's hardware event where it showcased its new lineup of devices designed entirely in-house. Iain Thomson from The Register joins to discuss Yahoo's latest security revelation that has many saying everyone should close their Yahoo account for good. Finally,…

Microsoft and Yahoo get cozy, Microsoft relents to EU/Opera pressure, Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 and more.Yahoo and Microsoft to agree to integrate Microsoft search technology into yahoo.Microsoft is releasing a version of Windows 7 specifically for Europe without Internet Explorer bundled…

Yahoo turns in another Chinese dissident.According to Apple, 50% of people buying Macs at the Apple Store are new users. That's very good news for Apple, a challenge for Microsoft which won't ship the next version of Windows until 2007.

Tech News for Wednesday December 14, 2016US President Elect Donald Trump invited a number of Silicon Valley’s top technology minds to an introductory meeting at Trump Tower that, according to sources, touched on a number of issues related to tech including China, skilled immigration, jobs and…

Jason Howell and Megan Morrone talk about Samsung, Yahoo, Twitter, and Facebook at Work. Samsung says it will stop all sales of its Galaxy Note 7 and asks all carriers and other sellers to do the same. Yahoo has been under the microscope lately, with report after negative report rolling in showing…

Recovering data from a corrupted SD card. Regaining access to a hacked Yahoo email address. Finding a digital camera in the range of $500 to $600. Publishing video on Instagram. Picking the right Linux laptop. Updating Windows 7 to the latest supported version. Understanding the difference between…

Tech News for Thursday December 15, 2016Yesterday we told you that Yahoo had reported another hack, separate from the incident in the news a few months ago. Bloomberg says cybercriminals may have broken into over 1 billion Yahoo accounts, including as many as 150,000 U.S. government and military…

Tech News for Thursday June 8, 2017Since the announcement earlier this week of Apple's smart speaker called HomePod, a lot of us have been grumbling about how Siri would need to be smarter for this to work. But what if she could get some help? This week at the Wired Business Conference in New York,…

Upgrading to a new M1 Mac Mini and Studio Display. Setting up automatic replies in Outlook online. Troubleshooting licensing for Office 365. Creating and distributing a digital slideshow. Regaining access to a Yahoo! mail account. Resetting an iPhone before taking it in for servicing…

ProtonMail deletes 'we don't log your IP' boast from website after French climate activist reportedly arrested.The Strange Tale of the Freedom Phone, a Smartphone for Conservatives.How Facebook Undermines Privacy Protections for Its 2 Billion WhatsApp Users.German police secretly bought NSO Pegasus…

The Note 7 is officially dead - Samsung stops production and the CPSC issues an official recall. Will Google's new Pixel Phones benefit? Is Google Assistant going to be a big draw? Also, Facebook tries to take over the enterprise with Workplace. Fallout from the Yahoo hack and surveilance debacle -…

My weekly tech news wrap up with John Donabie on 1010 CFRB in Toronto including:Blackberry outage is due to a "system upgrade"Yahoo looks to Murdoch for helpVista service pack 1 gets closerAccording to the Hollywood Reporter, even Toshiba will drop HD DVD

[Top TN2 Animation ]Tonight! Apple lets HealthKit apps back into the App Store, more trouble for ride-sharing companies, and why the new social network Ello is being called the anti-FacebookTech News 2Night is Next! …

We begin our second year with the original TWiT crew. First of all, Kevin Rose sheds some light on Digg. Then we move onto stories about Yahoo sending people to jail, the new DMCA, grafitti, and how one poor country tries to crack down on wifi insecurity. Catch us live at the Podcast Academy at…

Microsoft-Yahoo redo, CBS buys CNet, Comcast Burst/Blast, ZDTV's 10-year commemoration, and more.Microsoft-Yahoo deal not quite dead yet.CBS buying CNet, but is $1.8 billion too much?Frank of ComcastCares stops by to explain PowerBoost.Cox is also blocking BitTorrent traffic.ZDTV/TechTV…

Megan Morrone and Jason Howell discuss how all major suitors have pulled away from a possible offer to acquire Twitter. Google announced that mobile search results will soon be fresher and broader than desktop search. The US Department of Transportation placed a full ban on the Samsung Galaxy Note…

The debut of True or Poo, a cash filled backpack, iSnort for your iPhone, Kevin Rose reinvents the mail slot, and more.Elderly man mistakes card for noisy neighborsNew Hampshire boy finds, returns cash-stuffed backpack'Swine flu party' a bad idea: US health officialiSnortCocaine user demands…

Tech News for August 29, 2016The September Apple event has been confirmed for a week from Wednesday, September 7th at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco at 10 a.m. Pacific. We'll be covering this at twit.tv/live. Read more about the event at theverge.com.The temperature is rising as…

Jason Howell and Megan Morrone talk about tech news from Samsung, Yahoo, Verizon, Tinder, Google, Periscope, and more. In today's Samsung Recall update, the Consumer Product Safety Commission has officially recalled the Galaxy Note 7. Really this time. Yahoo’s unprecedented security breach…

The Wall Street Journal says that phone calls might be coming to the Amazon Echo and Google Home as early as this year, provided they are able to overcome regulatory hurdles and privacy concerns.Sources tell Bloomberg and Recode that Verizon is near completion of a renegotiated deal that could cut…

Running Windows 11 on the Mac.White Castle fined for scanning employees' fingerprints.Did an F-22 shoot down an Illinois hobby group's small radio balloon?Why is my printer printing out a page of random characters?Dick DeBartolo and the 17th anniversary of The Giz Wiz!Why am I getting a warning…

Since the announcement earlier this week of Apple's smart speaker called The HomePod, a lot of us have been grumbling about how Siri would need to be smarter for this to work. But what if she could get some help? This week at the Wired Business Conference in New York, Amazon’s senior vice president…

iPhone hysteria, Microsoft's big ass table, and Sicko leaks...To make the iPhone look smaller, Apple decided to use a model with much larger hands.Apple is swearing that the iPhone will have 8 hours of talk time. It will also feature a glass surface instead of a plastic one.Walt Mossberg has…

Tech News for Wednesday March 1, 2017Another week, another Twitter anti-harrassment feature, which by the way, is a very good thing. Twitter users can now mute specific usernames and words from appearing on their timeline indefinitely, or short term if they prefer a cooling off period instead. Also…

Leo Laporte and Iain Thomson talk with Megan Morrone who got a chance to try the newest meatless burger made by Impossible Foods. They claim their animal-free meat will cook, bleed and taste like meat. Mikah Sargent from iMore.com shows us how to delete your Yahoo Account. Jason Howell compares the…

[Top TN2 Animation ]Tonight! Apple ramps up production for larger iPhone screens, Amazon Wallet launches, and making sense of Microsoft's and Apple's earningsTech News 2Night is Next! …

Tech News for Wednesday March 15, 2017Facebook and politics have intertwined frequently during the past year leading CEO Mark Zuckerberg to spell out in his mammoth manifesto what kind of roll his company plays in the realm of world politics last month. Along those lines, Facebook is including a…

Tech News for July 7, 2016Who says it doesn’t pay to be in the browser business? Talks and negotiations for the acquisition of Yahoo have been underway for a few months now, and while we still don’t know who will end up with the company, Kara Swisher at Recode knows that Mozilla, makes of the…

We've outgrown Noonan's already. We're prospecting for another location - probably in San Francisco proper. Stay tuned to this site for information. The show will begin one hour earlier next Sunday: 3p.Thanks for the Kangaroo Jerky with Flavor Enhancer 621Microsoft is reorganizing - Dvorak says it…

Sony is putting rootkits on your PC when you play Sony/BMG audio CDs. (We covered it pretty thoroughly on Security Now #12)Microsoft goes after Google with Office Live and Windows LiveThe new Yahoo maps are online - and looking swell. The company is clearly targeting Google.Congress is holding…

Airport restrictions, Apple announcements, and the PC turns 25.It is the 25th anniversary of the IBM PCPC World has listed the 25 greatest computers of all time.New research states that smarter older people tend to be cranky.Items confiscated at Pennsylvania airports are being sold on eBay.At Apple…

Tech News for Monday January 23, 2017Samsung held its long awaited Note 7 tell-all event last night and it confirms what the Wall Street Journal had reported last week: Two seperate battery faults led to a number of exploding Note 7 batteries that resulted in a recall of the smartphone: First, a…

Tech News for Wednesday February 15, 2017According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, you might soon be able to make and receive phone calls with your Amazon Echo or your Google Home. People familiar with the matter said the phone service might roll out as early as this year, provided they…

Tech News for Tuesday February 21, 2017Verizon will pay approximately $4.48 billion in cash for Yahoo's internet assets. That's $350 million dollars off for a company that's suffered two major privacy breaches, the first impacting at least 500 million accounts in 2014 and the second in 2013 that…

[Top TN2 Animation ]Tonight! Yahoo to buy Flurry, Facebook launches Save, and Microsoft gets flack from politicians over the massive layoffs.. Tech News 2Night is Next! …

Tim Bourquin has posted the audio from my Podcast Expo keynote on the Portable Media Expo site. Please excuse the technical difficulties at the top. You can also get it on the Radio Leo podcast channel along with my KFI radio show from the Expo featuring Dawn & Drew, Soccergirl, and more.