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Apple Silicon iMac, MmHmm, Apple Glasses The Week's Stores: Our prediction: Apple is making a 30-Inch Apple Silicon iMac With Apple Silicon, Apple will pull away from the competition Apple's accessibility tools are a reason to switch Google buys North to make Google Glass competitive with Apple Glass iPad is the entry-level computer for the masses Apple is sending out surveys about the iPhone charger - will they skip the charger with the iPhone 12? Multi-touch Macs are the future Apple TV+ news: Where the Wild Things Are, Tom Hanks' Greyhound, and Will Smith's Emancipation Phil Libin's MmHmm dresses up Zoom calls Upgrade your iPod Classic with an SSD Forrest Gump's $100k Apple stock would be worth $49 billion now H.266 codec will make your downloads faster Picks of the Week: Leo's Pick: Meat Church Andy's Pick: PlexAmp Rene's Pick: PCalc for iPad Lory's Pick: EatOkra Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Rene Ritchie, and Lory Gil Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Sponsor: www.stamps.com - promo code: TWIT

Leo & Mikah cover the apps and games that won Apple Design Awards. ADAs: Darkroom, Looom, Shapr 3D, StaffPad, Sayonara Wild Hearts, Sky: Children of the Light, Song of Bloom, Where Cards Fall. News: In iOS 14, iCloud Keychain will warn you of compromised passwords; in iOS 14, you'll know when apps are viewing your clipboard; Apple is providing guidance to Apple Arcade developers — it wants games that keep players coming back for more. Listener feedback: Auto-updating Apple Watch faces and backing up an iPad. Mikah's App Cap: Lockne Leo's App Cap: Grindstone Hosts: Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/ios-today. You can contribute to iOS Today by leaving us a voicemail at 757-504-iPad (757-504-4723) or sending an email to iOSToday@TWiT.tv. Sponsor: GetRoman.com/IOSTODAY

Should you be concerned about Apple and Google's COVID-19 contact tracing API on iPhone and Android smartphones, and can you uninstall it? Leo Laporte explains. Host: Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/ask-the-tech-guy Sponsor: LastPass.com/twit

Apple Glasses, iOS 14 Privacy, and Hamilton on Disney+ Is Apple pulling away from the competition? Is Intel dying? Snap Spectacles third edition arrives in India Google buys North, makers of Focals smart glasses Where are Alexis Ohanian and Pete Cashmore? Mark Gurman has the scoop on Apple Glasses Lidar technology could drive Apple business for the next decade The Race After Technology and holography Is technology making life too fast? iOS 14 highlights ad tracking - advertisers are not happy about it. iOS 14 outs Tik Tok and LinkedIn for snooping on the clipboard Apple says no to 16 Web APIs for Safari for security reasons Ad tracking is big business for Google, Facebook, and Spotify What is the future of brick and mortar? Warehouses with curbside delivery? Advertizers boycotting Facebook, but they'll be back Microsoft wants to "upskill" 25 million workers for high-demand jobs Eye Mouth Eye Twitter trend tricks tech Twitter into donating to Black Lives Matter charities Anonymous shopping cart abandoner causes chaos for online vendors - here's who is to blame Lululemon buys Mirror for half a billion dollars Hamilton premieres on Disney+ to rave reviews BMW does a press event in VR to show off their subscription heated seats With NFC and ultrawideband, your phone can be your car key Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Shira Lazar, Sam Abuelsamid, and Jason Hiner Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: LastPass.com/twit barracuda.com/twit twit.cachefly.com Wasabi.com offer code TWIT

Should you buy a Mac now? Should you wait for the new Apple Silicon Macs? Here's what we think. TWiT's 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

Section 230 FAQ, Social Media Bans, CCPA What the F is Section 230? US Senate waters down the EARN IT Act (but it still sucks), and more Section 230 news Section 230: history repeats itself Parler starts banning users YouTube, Reddit, and Twitch ban accounts What should Facebook do about content moderation? Zuckerberg will meet with advertisers over ad boycotts Twitch bans President Trump Tik Tok is doing some super shady stuff; India bans it. Buy the game developed by the CIA! The first innocent person arrested using face recognition All the ways police are using tech to track protestors California Consumer Privacy Act now in force - here's what it means to you Cook, Pichai, Bezos, and Zuckerberg meeting congress for anti-trust hearings US Supreme Court rules that generic website names can be trademarked Microsoft closes its retail stores Who pivoted better, Netflix or Microsoft? Google quires smart glasses company North Watch TWiT's coverage of the Google's smart home event July 8th YouTube TV raises its price to $65/month Ant's Thing: Hand on Tech: SENNHEISER MKE 400 REVIEW - Shotgun Mic for DLSR/Mirrorless Cameras Ant's Thing 2: Peck of the week Jeff's Thing: Popup pods for a safe office Jeff's Number: When it's cold outside, it's hot on Twitter Mike's Stuff: Trust and Safety Professional Association Mike's Stuff 2: Trust and Safety Foundation Karsten's Mask: Techdirt's YouTube Takedown Mask Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt Guest: Mike Masnick Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Sponsors: Wasabi.com offer code TWIT LastPass.com/twit

The drama of the week: Microsoft is closing its retail stores Perhaps overdue, but shocking nonetheless: Microsoft is closing all of its retail stores Related: A look back at the 2012 opening of the first Boston-based Microsoft Store The drama of last week: Apple, the morning (OK, week) after Two developments of interest to the Microsoft community As expected, the first Apple Silicon developer device destroys Surface Pro X in benchmarks, no matter how you look at it Apple is reportedly thinking about bringing a Continuum-like feature to the iPhone where it could run macOS and be connected to a keyboard, mouse, and display. A more reasoned assessment about the impact of Apple's moves on Windows Windows 10 version 2004 is off to a slightly faster start than 1903. And now (finally) SL3 and SP7 can get 2004. Yay? (But not SL1 and SL2. Boo!) Windows 10 Pro no longer has deferral capabilities Except that it sort of still does. Here's what changed. That shift from rings to channels just happened Microsoft to expand automatic Edge rollout to education then businesses Microsoft announces new digital skills initiative Related: Teams is getting a new learning app Big changes coming to OneDrive for consumers and businesses It's July, so Xbox Games with Gold and Game Pass subscribers have new games on the way Mixer co-founder is OK with closure Xbox Game Bar is now extensible Tip of the week: Download this tool, just in case: Windows File Recovery is a command-line tool you'll want to download just in case. App pick of the week: Amazon Prime for Windows 10. I don't often get to recommend Store apps. Also: Power Apps and Power Automate. You need to look at these M365 commercial features. Enterprise pick of the week: Your Office 365 IT pro bible has gotten a feature update. Tony's Redmond's 7th edition (2021) of Office 365 for IT Pros is now available. https://gumroad.com/l/O365IT/windowsweekly Enterprise pick No. 2 of the week: STOCKHISTORY. Pulling stock prices directly into Excel has been a top request for a while. It's almost here in the form of STOCKHISTORY. And perfect timing, given Microsoft's stock price has been at an all-time high lately. Beer pick of the week: Victory Prima Pils. Hosts: Leo Laporte, Mary Jo Foley, and Paul Thurrott 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 The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Sponsor: canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT

Congress wants to kill encryption & face recognition. New information about Ripple20 The Facial Recognition and Biometric Technology Moratorium Act wants to kill face recognition The Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act wants to kill encryption Michigan State's legislative House passed the "Microchip Protection Act" Apple forces the industry down to one-year web browser certificate lifespans Safari to eschew 16 new web API's for the sake of user privacy Apple also got on the DoH & DoT bandwagon Mozilla + Comcast + DoH: Strange Bedfellows Don't forget about VirusTotal We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-773-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte 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. Sponsors: Melissa.com/twit OpenShift.com/SecurityNow expressvpn.com/securitynow

The most important stories from WWDC 2020 The Week's Stores: In a post-PC world, does it really matter what chips are in Macs? Related: Microsoft closes their retail stores Will the new Apple hardware require a signed operating system? WWDC should be virtual every year Macs will lose Boot Camp - how will Windows work in virtualization? How much will macOS merge with iOS? Will Macs get a touchscreen? Computing in the cloud is the future Apple ARKit will change how we see the world Apple makes small improvements to their App review processes watchOS adds handwashing sleep tracking, and dance - where is our teeth brushing app? The death of macOS 10 echoes the death of Mac OS 9 macOS 11 design echoes iOS, and seems suspiciously touch-friendly iOS 14 just started making people very worried about ad tracking Ming-Chi Kuo: 13" MacBook Pro and 24" iMac will be the 1st Apple Silicon Macs Should you buy an Intel Mac now? should you risk buying the 1st ARM Mac? Apple Design Award winners No charger with the iPhone 12 - does this mean it won't have a charging port? Picks of the Week Andy's Pick: Carl Reiner dies at 98: read his memoirs, particularly in audiobook...starting with "My Anecdotal Life" Rene's Pick: Rene's Apple iOS 14 & Privacy Interview Leo's Pick: 1st Space Force launch Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, and Rene Ritchie Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Sponsor: casper.com/macbreak - promo code MACBREAK

Leo and Mikah comb through the next version of iOS on the iPad and talk about what they're looking forward to. News: ARM-based Japanese supercomputer, iPadification of the Mac, Find My App 3rd-party accessories, Apple Keyboard emoji search, and Jiggle Mode! Mikah's App Cap: HomeDash Leo's App Cap: MySudo Hosts: Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/ios-today. You can contribute to iOS Today by leaving us a voicemail at 757-504-iPad (757-504-4723) or sending an email to iOSToday@TWiT.tv. Sponsor: LastPass.com/twit

Do you need antivirus software for a Chromebook? Leo Laporte explains Chrome OS security. Find the right Chromebook for you: https://my.lustre.ai/hTJ9a Host: Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/ask-the-tech-guy Sponsor: LastPass.com/twit

Apple WWDC Recap - Apple Silicon, macOS 11, iOS 14 Mac moves from Intel to Apple Silicon What happens to Intel? Microsoft? iOS apps will run on Macs Will Macs still run Windows on Boot Camp? Microsoft closes all retail stores - are PCs moving to the cloud? PC gaming - the biggest reason you need a PC Can x86 die already? What could go wrong with the shift to Apple Silicon? Should you buy an Intel Mac now? Should you buy the first version of the ARM Mac? The fastest supercomputer in the world has an ARM chip macOS goes to 11 Should WWDC stay virtual next year? Will macOS and iOS merge? Group Messages grows up Will ARM Macs use Thunderbolt? USB 4? When will the first ARM Macs show up? How well will Rosetta 2 work? How is the transition to ARM going to work? How long has it already been going on? Apple WWDC interviews and presentations Six Colors has all the info you need on all the WWDC presentations - here are the best WWDC iOS 14 and watchOS 7 Speed Round - back tap, custom home screen, group FaceTime with sign language, App Clips, Shortcuts on Apple Watch, translation app, hand washing timer, dance, AirPods Pro custom EQ Tik Tok is grabbing your clipboard every 10 seconds Don't install Big Sur beta on your main computer! iOS 14 warns you about tracking cookies Trump campaign app steals all your data Hey.com app allowed on the App Store Olympus leaving the camera business Finally, surveyors all use the same foot Microsoft kills Mixer; Ninja and Shroud get to keep their money Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Lory Gil, Jason Snell, and Dan Moren Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: GetRoman.com/TWIT extrahop.com/TWIT Zendesk.com/twit LastPass.com/twit

Staying connected while traveling the country. Troubleshooting a laptop unable to connect to the Internet, Chromebook options, why a caller has to boot up their PC twice, why Windows Defender the only anti-virus software you really need on your Windows machine, troubleshooting an eero router, Sam Abuelsamid and the OTA Ford F150, Chris Marquardt and PickOnePhoto, 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.

Apple announces a big change to future Macs, Microsoft announces the closure of all Microsoft stores, buying a quadcopter, finding the right colors for your website, troubleshooting bad call audio on Bluetooth headphones, travel policy updates with Johnny Jet, troubleshooting a game controller on a PC, finding the right drone/quadcopter for a beginner, are watching YouTube ads helping creators? Finding a laptop for photo editing, the GizWiz has a toothbrush with games 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.

​Dictate your messages and documents on Mac Say the name of the punctuation mark, such as "exclamation mark." Say "new line" (equivalent to pressing the Return key once) or "new paragraph" (equivalent to pressing the Return key twice). After you say "new line," the dictated text appears when you're done dictating. 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