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On today's show, we'll talk about Larry Page's investment in flying cars; look at the legacy that Tom Perkins, a pioneer in the venture capital world, left behind amid news of his death; and play this week's Silicon Tally with Selena Larson, a reporter from The Daily Dot.

Expect to see ads and a new subscription model that could have an impact on the apps you download.

Hosted by Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, Bryan Burnett We have the best practices and tips when it comes to choosing the right 3D printer for you. New episodes every Monday at 6:00pm Eastern / 3:00pm Pacific / 22:00 UTC and Thursday at 2:00pm Eastern / 11:00am Pacific / 18:00 UTC.

FoldiMate won't go up for preorder until next year (and then you'll have to wait another year after that to have it delivered), but we still really want it to help us with our laundry.

In this week's rundown of the biggest stories, Brian and Tim discuss a particularly disconcerting Mitsubishi hack, and a few recalls that you may want to know about.

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Host: Scott Wilkinson Scott Wilkinson interviews people from various booths at CES 2016, and gets a look at 4K UHD TVs, projectors, speakers, and more. Subscribe to Home Theater Geeks at https://twit.tv/shows/home-theater-geeks Thanks to Cachefly for the bandwidth for this show.

Facebook wants to kill text messaging. Do we want it to? Can messaging apps even make money? Justin Young and Tom Merritt discuss. Plus VR for the blind. MP3 Using a Screen Reader? Click here Multiple versions (ogg, video etc.) from Archive.org. Please SUBSCRIBE HERE. A special thanks to all our supporters–without you, none of … Continue reading DTNS 2661 – Ads Kill the Messenger →

Is the Oculus Rift too expensive? Netflix releases for almost the entire planet. CES continues to spill forth announcements and Patrick Norton and Jennie Josephson help Tom Merritt and Scott Johnson make sense of it all. MP3 Using a Screen Reader? Click here Multiple versions (ogg, video etc.) from Archive.org. Please SUBSCRIBE HERE. A special … Continue reading DTNS 2660 – Virtual Makeouts →

Fr. Robert Ballecer and Dick DeBartolo show us the latest products and gadgets from Digital Experience at CES 2016.Featuring products from Zeiss, Lenovo, Hexo, Lego, Fisher-price, 4moms, and more. Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/twit-live-specials. Thanks to Cachefly for the bandwidth for this show.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Mary Jo Foley, Paul Thurrott The latest news from CES in Las Vegas, Windows 10 has been activated on more than 200M devices, Microsoft refines auto strategy, and more. Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com Check out Mary Jo's blog at AllAboutMicrosoft.com Thanks to Cachefly for the bandwidth for this show. The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin.

If you had to guess, how many facts have you taken in today? How many factoids, dates, times, sale alerts, tweet-sized factoids, and other factual-or-at-least-pretending-to-be-factual pieces of information have passed across your screen? At this rate, how many more do you expect to take in by midnight?  Let us present you with one more: According to Dr. Daniel Levitin, author of "The Organized Mind," your brain can only fully absorb four. Four. "[More] will compete for neural resources with what you're really doing at the moment, what's in front of you. Your brain will be narrating... all of this undone stuff," Levitin says on this week's show. We’ll be hearing more from him later this month when we dig very, very deep into the phenomenon of “information overload” – and to get there, we need your help. Click here to take our quick survey on what information overload looks like for you. Your responses will help us build a project that actually matters to you. In the meantime, you can hear Dr. Levitin's explanation of where our neurological limits lie, either in the player above or on iTunes, Stitcher, TuneIn, I Heart Radio, and anywhere else using our RSS feed. He also gave us some tips on setting limits. Here's a cheat sheet (in numerical order as he suggests!): 1. Write down everything you need to do. Everything! Then make sure you prioritize what really needs to be first. Basically: brain dump with bullet points, then go through and number in order of importance. "You look at your list of things to do and there's one that you've put there on top, you sit down to do that, and you really become immersed in it. Instead of wondering, like so many of us do, 'Is there something else I should be doing? Is this really the thing I should be doing? Let me check my email, maybe there's something more important...'" 2. Find a way of making all your digital stuff look different. You could create different email accounts for different parts of your life, or amp up your Gmail to do some real filtering for you. "During the day when information comes in you're not quite sure how important it is, or how important it's going to be. [If] you have no system for it, you can't attach it to anything on your priorities list. And so you put it in your brain and you kind of toss it and turn it around, and because it doesn't attach to anything, it takes up neuro-resources." 3. If paring down isn't an option, communicate.  Need to keep up with everything at your demanding job? Then your challenge is one of communication: explain to those around you what's on your plate in terms of priorities – i.e., "yes, I will read that, but after I put the finishing touches on this. It's due at 3 p.m. See my list of priorities I wrote out right here? I can make changes if need be, but..."  Levitin says these are conversations best handled in person. 4. Don’t beat yourself up about it. When you start to feel overwhelmed, that is the exact moment when you need to make your list of prioriites. "Cortisol is released whenever we're trying to do more than we can handle. Its part of the fight or flight response, which made a whole lot of sense in hunter-gatherer times but now it's just toxic, it makes your stomach ache, it shuts down your immune system, you're more likely to get sick when you're stressed. All because of cortisol." Stay tuned for more from Dr. Levitin, and don't forget to take our survey here!

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Steve Gibson Some GWX (Get Windows X) news updates, a Windows 10 market share snapshot, hysteria over Windows 10 disk encryption, Google issues critical updates for recent Android versions, ransomware goes multi-platform with JavaScript, the next IoT Wi-Fi standard is ratified, smartwatch side-channel attacks, IPv6 adoption at its 20 year mark and more! We invite you to read our show notes. Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now! at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Bandwidth for Security Now is provided by Cachefly.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Alex Lindsay, and Rene Ritchie Apple shares close the year down, what to expect from Apple in 2016, money transfer via iMessages, how much money did one kid waste on his dad's iPad, MKBHD ditches Adobe Premiere for Final Cut Pro X, iPhone 7 rumors, Apple lawsuits, and more... Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Bandwidth for MacBreak Weekly is provided by Cachefly.

Supercomputers in cars, cars that talk to Alexa, cars controlled by fitness bands. Tim Stevens cuts through the exhaust to tell Tom Merritt, Patrick Beja and Jennie Josephson what the real scoop on cars at CES 2016 is. MP3 Using a Screen Reader? Click here Multiple versions (ogg, video etc.) from Archive.org. Please SUBSCRIBE HERE. … Continue reading DTNS 2659 – Alexa, where are my keys? →