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It's official: CES 2021 will be an online-only event. Microsoft has decided to end Cortana support on iOS, Android, and more, as the company turns Cortana into a productivity-focused assistant. Google's AR Core insects offer an up-close look at 23 different beetles, cicadas, butterflies, and more. INDUSTRY NEWS CES 2021 in-person show canceled, will be held online | Android Police: https://bit.ly/3k99BTu Belkin has a new WeMo plug | Macrumors: https://bit.ly/2Dgju13 Mellow made its 'smart' sous vide machine dumb unless you pay a monthly fee | The Verge: https://bit.ly/30nIU5u MICROSOFT Microsoft is shutting down Cortana on multiple devices, including iOS and Android | The Verge: https://bit.ly/2XoEsBI Microsoft's new Family Safety app offers parental controls across phones, PCs and Xbox | TechCrunch: https://tcrn.ch/3gqFbtF GOOGLE Google Smart Display Games Go Live | Forbes: https://bit.ly/30nItIs Google AR animals now include 23 beetles, butterflies, cicadas, and other insects | Android Police: https://bit.ly/3k8RFZ5 YouTube is doing away with community-driven captions and translations | Android Police: https://bit.ly/2Pm9QfM AMAZON Amazon doesn't sell Echo speakers at a loss, says Bezos — unless they're on sale | The Verge: https://bit.ly/3frg608 Amazon bought Ring for market position, not technology, emails suggest | The Verge: https://bit.ly/2DhORIr AUTOMATED HEALTH TRACKING DEPSTECH Otoscope | Amazon: https://amzn.to/31gxXlx Zacurate Pulse Oximeter | Amazon: https://amzn.to/3i5anPz Timeskey NFC tags | Amazon: https://amzn.to/3gqUaUd PICKS OF THE WEEK Mikah: iProven Digital Ear and Temporal Thermometer | Amazon: https://amzn.to/2BT5xFw Matthew: GTA V | Microsoft Xbox: https://bit.ly/3k64gfD Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Matthew Cassinelli Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/smart-tech-today Show notes and links for this episode are available here: https://twit.tv/shows/smart-tech-today/episodes/40

Mikah Sargent shares his hands-on thoughts on Wyze's wireless, battery-powered, and weather-resistant home security camera system, the Wyze Cam Outdoor, with Matthew Cassinelli. Get the Wyze Cam Outdoor: https://wyze.com/ Find the right wireless outdoor home security camera for you: https://my.lustre.ai/XOZFj Subscribe & Watch the Smart Tech Today podcast: https://twit.tv/stt Host: Mikah Sargent Guest: Matthew Cassinelli Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/hands-on-tech Find more products we recommend at https://twit.to/amazon

Looking to create a custom email address? Leo Laporte explains how to get a domain name and connect it with an email platform to make personalized email accounts. Disclosure: Hover is a TWiT Network sponsor (https://hover.com/twit) Host: Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/ask-the-tech-guy Sponsor: LastPass.com/twit

Can Chromebook run Windows, why a caller's Philips Hue lights is disconnecting from their WiFi network, security cameras that don't charge for storage on the cloud, correctly generating the right password for you, building your own router, finding out which service providers support your phone, talking to Sam Abuelsamid and Chris Marquardt, and more of your calls! Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Sam Abuelsamid and Chris Marquardt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/the-tech-guy. For detailed show notes, visit techguylabs.com. Sponsor: LastPass.com/twit

Tik Tok Ban, Tech Titans Talk to Congress, Twitter Hackers Arrested Trump threatens to ban Tik Tok Trump wants Microsoft to buy Tik Tok Mr. Cook, Zuck, Bezos, and Pichai go to Washington What should the government do to Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple? Twitter hackers arrested Our Covid year: CES will be all-virtual in 2021 Huawei is the #1 phone maker in the world Need a job? The US Digital Service is hiring! Microsoft will end mobile support for Cortana in 2010 Election Cyber Surge wants to help America vote Trump is witholding funds from the Internet Freedom Fund Watch the Samsung Note 20 and Galaxy Z Fold announcement this week with TWiT! Emmys will be all-virtual this year Quibi lost 92% of its day one subscribers Bernie Sanders wants to send you 3 masks Analogue Pocket comes out tomorrow Brianna Wu is the 8th best Super Mario 2 speedrunner in the world Fyre Festival and GSA Auctions Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Brianna Wu, Paris Martineau, and Matt Cutts Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: monday.com/TWIT www.stamps.com - promo code: TWIT ZipRecruiter.com/Twit barracuda.com/twit

Can the White House ban TikTok with an executive order? Upgrading from a prepaid TracPhone to a smartphone, all about projectors with Scott Wilkinson, connecting devices to a mesh router, why isn't my Surface Pro getting Windows updates? Scanning photos yourself vs. hiring a service, be prepared for hurricane season with an app from Johnny Jet, is Yahoo Mobile a good service? Organizations that donate computers to veterans, Windows 7 vs. Windows 10, organizing and backing up photos, syncing portable speakers with the GizWiz and more of your calls! Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Scott Wilkinson, Johnny Jet, and Dick DeBartolo Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/the-tech-guy. For detailed show notes, visit techguylabs.com. Sponsors: twit.cachefly.com LastPass.com/twit monday.com/TWIT

Startups disclose data breaches after massive records leak Citizens are increasingly worried about how companies use their data Amazon says police demands for customer data have gone up Florida teen arrested for Twitter hack hackers broke into real news sites to plant fake stories Zoom bug gave hackers access to any private meeting Ill-defined career paths hamper growth for IT security pros Chief Security Officer of Huawei Technologies USA on security policies and trusting a companies' services. Hosts: Louis Maresca, Brian Chee, and Curt Franklin Guest: Andy Purdy Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-enterprise-tech. Sponsors: Wasabi.com offer code ENTERPRISE barracuda.com/enterprise securityscorecard.com/twit

Here's how to use Homebrew and the Terminal command line to quickly install fonts.Leo likes to use Fish, but you can use Bash as well. If you haven't already, install and update Brew and its cask feature. Then type the following into the Terminal command line: brew update brew tap homebrew/cask brew tap homebrew/cask-fonts brew search font- brew search font- | less brew search nerd-font | less brew cask install font-fira-code brew cask install font-daddytimemono-nerd-font for $font in (brew search nerd-font) ; brew cask install $font ; end And then go get a cup of coffee! Here's some more information on installing fonts from the command line: https://corgibytes.com/blog/2020/01/29/install-fonts-on-your-mac-from-the-command-line-with-homebrew/ Leo Laporte gives you helpful tips to get the most from your Mac every week on Hands-On Mac! Host: Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/hands-on-mac Discuss episodes in the TWiT Community. Sponsor: LastPass.com/twit

Unfortunately, we continue to fight against the COVID-19 coronavirus. Ant Pruitt shares some simple tools to help the chances of contracting the virus or other microbials with your hands. The KeySmart CleanKey copper key dongle limits your hands from touching devices that may have viruses or harmful microbes on them. Also, the power of UV light can be useful in your vacuum cleaner. Raycop has a vacuum that can help fight off these germs. All discussed on Hands-On Wellness. Host: Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/hands-on-wellness Sponsor: expressvpn.com/how

Antitrust Hearings, New IP, Open AI GPT-3 In the aftermath of big tech's congressional hearings that focused on antitrust behavior, Will Oremus from OneZero walks through the real reason for the spectacle. China has big ideas for the Internet, namely that it wants a new Internet that it can better control. Stephen Shankland from CNET details the New IP proposal and how it would differ from the Internet we have today. OpenAI's GPT-3 model is paving the way for incredible innovation in the field of AI, and that's evident by a long list of creations that blur the line between computer and human thought. Mac OS 8.1 is now a single Electron app that works on Mac or PC and can be installed in the applications folder like any other app on your machine. Hosts: Jason Howell and Mikah Sargent Guests: Will Oremus and Stephen Shankland Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-weekly. Sponsors: monday.com/TWIT bit.ly/salesforceforservice ZipRecruiter.com/tnw

Getting too many distracting GIFs from the group chat? Need to remove a troublemaker from the group? Mikah walks you through the process of setting up, managing, and silencing your group chats. Host: Mikah Sargent Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/hands-on-ios

Ant Pruitt continues his tutorial to help beginner photographers get started with flash photography. In this episode of Hands-On Photography, Speedlite photography is discussed and tips are shared. Speedlites are also known as Speedlights or on-camera flash. Host: Ant Pruitt Find Hands-On Photography on your favorite podcatcher. https://twit.tv/shows/hands-on-photography Follow Ant Pruitt on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/ant_pruitt/ Follow TWiT on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/twit.tv/ Join the TWiT forums https://www.twit.community/ Sponsor: mintmobile.com/hop

Developers have many reasons for preventing Android users from taking screenshots or screen recordings of in-app content. Usually its for security but sometimes its to protect copyrighted material. Jason Howell walks through some examples of how this is enforced, and a few ways to work around those limitations. What kinds of apps prevent screenshots. Why they do that! Screenshot shortcut on most devices. Assistant's Screen Context feature. What is Digital Right Management? The open-source app scrcpy. Using a computer to take a screenshot in an app that prevents it. The analog hole. scrcpy - github.com/Genymobile/scrcpyHomebrew for Mac - https://brew.sh Host: Jason Howell Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/hands-on-android

Field Day with Chip Margelli, building a radio room with Randy K7AGE, Chip's experience doing CW with Jay Leno, and more! Hosts: Gordon West, George Thomas, Don Wilbanks, Amanda Alden, and Randy Hall Guest: Chip Margelli We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes at wiki.twit.tv. Submit your own video to Ham Nation at HamNationVideos@twit.tv Thanks to Joe Walsh who wrote and plays the Ham Nation theme. Check out Ham Nation on Facebook and Twitter! Download or subscribe to Ham Nation at https://twit.tv/shows/ham-nation Sponsor: icomamerica.com/hamnation

Antitrust Hearings, We Rate Zuck's Zoom Bkgd, Google Extends WFH to July 2021 Rating the Zoom backgrounds of the tech titans With all the competing political concerns, what should the government do with big tech? Google wants Samsung to drop Bixby. Could Google and Samsung team up to make the perfect Android phone? Google says its employees can stay home until July 2021. Are you ready for another year of quarantine? Google gets its own international cable Staceysplaining the Quantum Internet The Google Changelog: Message emoji reply | Motion Editor | Store price matches | The Matchup | YouTube's Summer of Movies CES will be online-only in 2021 Snooker World Championship has smaller balls Streaming takes over the Emmys Robots take the fashion world by storm AI employee fools Russian design firm Samsung Note 20 coming August 5th All Dogs in Shenzen will be microchipped by the end of the year Woz sues YouTube over bitcoin hack Tech to keep Alexa from spying on you Leo's Tool: Vocodes. Vocal playground. Stacey's Thing: FOOT SPA!!!! Jeff's Number: Mackenzie Scott giving away $1.7b Ant's Stuff: Faded Words Karsten's Mask: Uvex Bionic Face Shield: Whether you're facing down Karens in the line at Starbucks or Federal thugs in Portland, the Uvex Bionic Face Shield is your best bet for full face protection. Karsten got his at National Tool Warehouse. Cheaper option: Amazon now selling its in-house-designed face shield at cost - CNET Karsten also loves Ben Heck and got to produce him for half a second at Revision 3. Here is Ben's AutoMask. Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Sponsors: WWT.COM/TWIT1 monday.com/TWIT