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Lead Anchor: Mike Elgan Google and Rockstar have agreed to settle their patent case, Amazon is planning to launch a travel service, ad-free viewing for a monthly contribution, China's World Internet Conference, Aereo is going bankrupt, and more. Guests: Jeff John Roberts, and Dennis Schaal. Download or subscribe to this show at twit.tv/tnt. Submit and vote on story coverage at technewstoday.reddit.com. Check out the full show notes for today's episode. We invite you to read, add to, and amend the wiki entry for this episode at wiki.twit.tv. Thanks to Cachefly for the bandwidth for this show. Running time: 18:03

Nokia gets back in the game with an Android tablet in CNET UK podcast 411

First up, we talk to Jeanette Hill, founder and CEO of Spot On Sciences, a company that makes at home blood sample kits. And just in time for Thanskgiving, it's a special food-themed edition of Silicon Tally. Marty Van Ness, Supervisor of the Butterball Turkey Talk-Line, takes on Marketplace Tech host Ben Johnson in this week's quiz. How well have you kept up with the week in tech news?

On today's show, we check out a guy who's running in bionic boots, a DJ who's taking his concert experiences to a whole new level, and a game that only lets you move once per day.

Which gadgets should you buy for the geeks on your list? And which should you put on your own wish list? We're here with answers this week on the GeekWire radio show, with the return of our annual Holiday Gift & Gadget Guide. We've selected a range of devices for you to consider, based on our own experience using them, and in some cases covering the companies that make them. We're joined in this annual tradition by one of our favorite guests, Andru Edwards, the editor-and-chief of Gear Live, who holds the record for appearances on the GeekWire show - so many, in fact, that we've honestly lost count.

Stephen Beacham join Jeff and Iyaz over Skype today while the New York crew irons out the last of the studio bugs. The guys discuss this week's Uber controversy, Walmart's PS4 price-matching loophole and an artist's plan to wear a VR headset for 28 days straight.

Jimmy Pardo (@jimmypardo) www.nevernotfunny.com  is a comic, writer and podcast host (Never Not Funny) and talks about the band… CHICAGO for, easily, 30 minutes this episode.  Other bands are mentioned and some comedy is discussed. He’s great. Enjoy. This month our sponsor is Bob Calhoun! You might remember him from ep#38. He talks about writing the book that he then got published that I believe everyone will enjoy.The book is "Shattering Conventions: Commerce, Cosplay, and Conflict on the Expo Floor" by Bob Calhoun. It's available in eBook and paperback from Amazon.com and other fine book sellers. For more on the book go to www.ShatteringConventions.com We all know I have a new hour comedy video out at www.allthingscomedy.com/jackiekashian right? Cuz I do. $5 download. It’s called “This Will Make An Excellent Horcrux” because comedy is all about soul ;) … Own it today and forever. OR get a hard copy (or the CD) on the Merch page on my website. www.jackiekashian.com  November and December I ask that you do NOT DONATE to TDF but, instead, find your local foodbank! It’s Thanksgiving guys… let’s be thankful and giving, shall we? Google: “your town name” and the words, “food bank” and give them food or money. If you give them money they just buy what’s most needed. All good either way. Take care out there… heh. Credits: Audio leveling by Patrick Brady Music is by Mike Ruekberg Website design by Vilmos: Really good Web designs. http://hiredguncoding.com If you like a specific app – they are available with bonus content: iPhone or Android. Libsyn is also just PUBLISHING the bonus content, for free, with Andy and I talking about the show for a sec, on tdf.libsyn.com… no App needed. There you go.

Yahoo aims to become a search leader once again as the default for Firefox browsers. Meanwhile, Amazon builds a robot army, and future phone screens may not shatter so easily.

2008 – Some watched in horror. Others watched thinking it was a joke. Still, Abraham Biggs was a troubled teen. He decided to end it all and do it in front of a live audience. He got on Justin.tv and told people he was taking sleeping pills. After a little while, he went to lie on his bed while the chat room continued on. Some posts encouraging him to continue were seen. Of course, in the end, Abraham Biggs could not be saved. Justin.tv closed its doors in August 2014 This Day in Tech History podcast show notes for November 21...

Hosts:Patrick Norton and Ryan Shrout Patrick Norton and Ryan Shrout report on MSI's 970 gaming motherboard, a Windows 10 write-up, NVIDIA's Multi-Frame sampled anti-aliasing, Dell's new $600 60Hz IPS Monitors, Dell's UP3214QT UltraSharp 32" IPS Monitor, Corsair Neutron XT 256GB SATA SSD, the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 SLI graphics card, Gorilla Glass 4, PathSense a GPS substitute to save battery, and more! Download or subscribe to this show at twit.tv/twich. Send your computer hardware questions to twich@twit.tv. We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes. Thanks to Cachefly for the bandwidth for this show. Running time: 48:20

Hosts: Dick DeBartolo with Chad "OMGchad" Johnson 3D Fruit printer, Mous Musicase for iPhone, Nomiku sous vide immersion circulator, comic book keyboard stickers, and more! Download or subscribe to this show at twit.tv/giz. We invite you to read, add to, and amend the show notes. For more details and a chance to win the Mad Magazine "What The Heck Is It?" contest, visit GizWiz.Biz. Bandwidth for The Giz Wiz is provided by Cachefly.

Host: Sarah Lane Senator Al Franken vs Uber, free anti-surveillance software from Amnesty International, Google's tool to free you from ads, Corning announces Gorilla Glass 4, why Firefox went with Yahoo over Google, Twitter launches sharing public tweets in Direct Messages, Airbnb offers insurance for hosts, and what is all that texting doing to your spine? Guest: John Biggs Download or subscribe to this show at twit.tv/tn2. For detailed show notes, visit twit.tv/tn2/220. Bandwidth for Tech News 2Night is provided by Cachefly. Running time: 17:12

Host: Tonya Hall LinkedIn, HR resumes, and what social footprint says about you. Guests: Jessica Miller-Merrell and Rayanne Thorn Download or subscribe to this show at twit.tv/mm. Read our show notes at twit.tv/mm/32. Thanks to Cachefly for the bandwidth for this show. Running time:1:01:29

Host: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ Guest: Lou Maresca Lou Maresca shows us how to create a program that will track the prices of products for the holiday season. The Code for today's show is available below: Santa's Little Helper 1/3 Open Source .NET Microsoft has announced that they wil will open source PARTS of .NET ** They will provide the ENTIRE .NET Server Stack -- That includes ASP.NET, the .NET Core Runtime, Framework and Libraries -- This will allow it to be run on both Linux and Mac OSX -- MS will work with the "Mono" community, sponsored by "Xamarin" to build a C#-based .NET framework that will work on those platforms. Microsoft ALSO announced that they will distribute a free, FULLY functional version of Visual Studio. Ivory Tower Remember our 4 steps for developing an app: 1. Break down the functions of the app. 2. Gather resources: What services/APIs are availible for my app? 3. Create the Logic Tree: What are the decisions that need to be made for a functional app? 4. Code each part of the logic tree possible: Code Warrior If you want to play with Xamarin. Visit their site and get the free version of their tool suite. As long as you're not compiling HUGE apps, it should be absolutely free. If you want a tool to help you convert JSON to C#, try JSON2CSharp. Get in Touch With Us! * Subscribe and get Coding 101 automatically at TWiT.tv! * Follow PadreSJ on Twitter. * Watch the show live and join the chatroom every Thursday at 1:30pm PST. * Email us at Padre@twit.tv . * Join our Google+ Community! Bandwidth for Coding 101 is provided by Cachefly.

Host: Scott Wilkinson Scott Wilkinson and Anthony Grimani of MSR Acoustics discuss 3D and Immersive Audio Technology from speaker placement, spacial resolution, room design, and more! You can catch all of this on this weeks episode of Home Theater Geeks. Guests: Anthony Grimani Download or subscribe to this show at twit.tv/htg233. We invite you to create, add to, and amend our show notes. Thanks to Cachefly for the bandwidth for this show. Running time: 01:12:00