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Facebook buys Giphy for $400 million, law enforcement can now get your browsing history without a warrant, OTA DVR solutions, Scott Wilkinson on calibrating your TV with the THX tune-up app, getting a video signal to multiple projectors and monitors for a church service, recovering data from an old hard drive, did I get hacked by my cable company? USB to HDMI adapters for a camera, good microphones for video conferencing, the 3-2-1 backup strategy, a gadget for Safe Spacing 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: linkedinlearning.com/techguy LastPass.com/twit

This episode requires Homebrew, so if you haven't yet installed it, watch last week's Hands on Mac and install it now.Then open the Terminal and type`homebrew bundle`to install the bundler.If you've been using homebrew you can automatically write a bundle with the command`brew bundle dump`add the —describe switch to get a comment before each item in the brewfile describing its use`brew bundle dump —describe`Last week we mentioned a cool tool called `mas` - if you've installed it you can also use brewfiles to install Mac App Store apps. brew bundle dump will automatically add these to your brewfile.Save your brewfile to iCloud or locally and now when you set up a new Mac you can use it to automatically install everything.Once you've created a brewfile, updating brew is as simple as issuing the command brew bundle.Thanks to brew and mas, updating your Mac system entirely is as simple as:`sudo softwareupdate -ia —verbose ; brew bundle -v ; brew cleanup ; brew doctor —verbose`softwareupdate is a built-in MacOS command to update the system from the command line. To see which updates are needed type`softwareupdate -l`it will also let you know whether a reboot will be requiredthe -i switch can be used to specify individual components to be updated, -ia says update them all.We covered the brew commands last week.Combining softwareupdate with brew bundle -v will upgrade everything on your system that's been installed using mas or brew, too.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: expressvpn.com/hom

New threat vectors, contact tracing, and digital identity. The new decade, along with Covid19, brings new risk in digital security. Digital identity is among the highest concerns for thought leaders in the cybersecurity world. On this special live event, our panelists dive deep into how these new risks will impact digital identity for businesses and individuals alike. They discuss new threat vectors and how to prevent them, how the role of remote work affects security, and what we can expect next. Host: Leo Laporte Co-Hosts: Steve Gibson, Gerald Beuchelt, and Andrew Keen Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/twit-events. Sponsor: LastPass.com/twit

How to Work From Home Forever Zoom fatigue is a real thing Twitter employees can work from home forever - do you want to go back to the office? Google employees are charging their shelter-at-home lunches to their expense account Pixel shake-up - top members of the Pixel team have left Google Jarvis' Pixel Buds are still busted - and now so are Jason Howell's Pixel Buds will get feature drops Jeffrey Katzenberg blames Covid-19 for Quibi's failure Google Meet captions are incredible Jeff interviews the voice of Steak-Umms Taco Bell Quarterly - Taco Bell Poetry Can Facebook possibly regulate itself? Google's Sidewalk project in Toronto is canceled Facebook's new American Edge pro-tech advocacy group Amazon hired 175,000 new workers to deal with COVID order spikes Amazon's new Kindle Fire Netflix and Amazon Prime win the streaming wars Hamilton coming to Disney+ July 3rd Uber tries to buy GrubHub Australia wants Google to pay for news snippets Doomscrolling Luminary podcast network raises another $30 million to burn France gives platforms one hour to remove pedophilia and terrorism-related content Picks of the Week Leo's Tool: Scunthorpe Sans - A s*** font that f***ing censors bad language automatically Stacey's Thing: August Wi-Fi Smart Lock Jeff's Numbers: 1.8m people pretend to be ants on FB Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Sponsor: WWT.COM/TWIT

Windows 10 version 2004 creeps towards completion No word yet on final release date, but we have new "final" build And Microsoft has released the Windows 10 version 2004 SDK Microsoft will fix cracked Surface Laptop 3 displays for free What really happened here? Surface Go 2, Surface Earbuds, and Surface Headphones 2 are now available for purchase A few more observations about Surface Go 2 The rest of the new hardware arrives later this month Surface Duo emulator is updated again Microsoft finally takes on Reply-All storms, but only in Office 365 Commercial Outlook is getting a Smart Reply feature. Outlook on the Web, that is. Meaning Office/MS365 Commercial Microsoft Family Safety app arrives on Android, iOS in limited preview Build is next week - here's the agenda. Microsoft (Godzilla) takes on Amazon (King Kong) Microsoft accuses Amazon of secretly continuing its fight for the JEDI contract And then Amazon lashed out at Microsoft in a deliciously unprofessional post Sony says PS5 is on track for holiday 2020, PS4 has sold 110 million units. Tip of the week: 555-5555 (Jenny) I think I've figured out how to bypass the Microsoft account requirement in any recent version of Windows 10. App pick of the week: Halo 2 Anniversary for PC. 4K/UHD graphics/60+ fps for just $9.99! Enterprise pick of the week: Windows Autopilot program comes to ... HoloLens (?) Microsoft is testing a Windows Autopilot program for HoloLens 2, which implies it either is getting bulk orders from businesses for HoloLens or it thinks it can and will in the foreseeable future. Enterprise pick of the week 2: New branding (madness) for Microsoft 365 Apps. The artist formerly known as Office 365 ProPlus is getting a bunch of branding and ring changes. Hold onto your M365s, folks! Beer pick of the week: Night Shift Brewing Night Lite. 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: WWT.COM/TWIT

Apple re-opens USA stores, Mini-LED vs. LCD, Hamilton on Disney+ The Week's Stories: Elon Musk re-opens Tesla Factory, defying stay-at-home order Apple re-opens several stores in states that do not have stay-at-home orders Hamilton is coming to Disney+ Apple is moving production out of China and into Vietnam, Taiwan, and India Apple COO Jeff Williams is "optimistic" about Apple, iPhone 12, and the economy Why is Mini-LED better than LCD? All the details about the biggest Logic Pro upgrade in years - why now is the best time to learn Logic X-Ray of iPad Pro Keyboard reveals some amazing engineering Rene Ritchie's 13" MacBook Pro review Macs vulnerable to new Thunderbolt hacking flaw - if they are running Windows Inventing the iPad cursor iPad Pro Magic Keyboard vs. Brydge iPad Keyboard Apple Watch will detect panic attacks with watchOS 7 Tim Cook and others making graduation podcasts Disneyland Shanghai is open for business Picks of the Week: Leo's Pick: TWiT Face Masks for sale! https://twit.tv/store Rene's Pick: MotionVfx Lory's Pick: Sick Burn T-Shirts Lory's Pick 2: The Office Slack Alex's Pick: Yousician Hosts: Leo Laporte, Rene Ritchie, Lory Gil, and Alex Lindsay Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Sponsor: LastPass.com/twit

Thunderbolt security flaw, Zoom buys Keybase. Why the ThunderSpy Thunderbolt security flaw is such a big deal Zoom purchases Keybase to fix encryption Firefox 76 released with new features But Firefox 76 broke Amazon's Assistant! Hallelujah!! Edge moves to silence those annoying notification requests. Critical WordPress plugin bugs present on over one million sites Critical vBulletin patch Samsung has patched a CRITICAL bug affecting the past 6 years of Smartphones DefCon and Black Hat 2020 go virtual We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-766-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: manscaped.com code SECURITYNOW itpro.tv/securitynow promo code SN30

After a week of training their brains, Leo and Mikah are taking a break with apps that let you zone out and relax.On this week's iOS Today: Zone out: Dots, Churchill Solitaire, Patterned, Osmos, Prune, MEISAI, Viridi. News: Everything you need to know about Apple's newly launched cursor for iPadOS, Mikah's epic tale of replacing faulty AirPods Pro, and Jeffrey Katzenberg says COVID-19 is responsible for Quibi's less-than-stellar launch. Listener feedback: WiFi-connected garage door openers and an app to edit photo EXIF data. Mikah's App Cap: Incognito — Private Browser Leo's App Cap: MonkeyBox #1: Polarized! 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: expressvpn.com/iostoday

Leo Laporte explains how to improve the sound from your smartphone and other devices with the use of DACs and headphone amps. Headphones.com: https://www.headphones.com/AudioQuest Dragonfly Black DAC: https://amzn.to/360JW93iFi hip-dac: https://amzn.to/2WJN1pDFiio DACs: https://amzn.to/35NQZ4N Compare Headphones: https://my.lustre.ai/lpCim Host: Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/ask-the-tech-guy Sponsor: LastPass.com/twit

Zoom Fixes Encryption, Elon Musk and X Æ A-12 Elon Musk names his child X Æ A-12: here's how to pronounce it Zoom buys Keybase to fix encryption Google Meet, Facebook Rooms, and Microsoft Teams desperately try to catch up with Zoom Zoom is much more secure now but how did it win the video calling race, to begin with? Leo won't give up on jitsi even though it sounds like a mold Rich DeMuro says Zoom is like slime Teslas now stop automatically at red lights (and green) Google abandons its plans for a data-driven community in Toronto Is Amazon handling the coronavirus crisis well? Tim Bray quits Amazon in dismay over whistleblower firings Australia wants Google to stop showing news snippets Do ISPs need bandwidth caps? Is everybody working from home hogging all the bandwidth? New 13-inch MacBook Pro heralds the end of butterfly keys Microsoft 10X will come to single-screen devices in 2021 Pixel Buds vs Surface Earbuds vs AirPods Boston Dynamics Spot robot patrolling Singapore parks to enforce social distancing BBC releases Zoom backgrounds A hazmat-inspired suit lets you party, drink, and vape in safety Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Doc Searls, Rich DeMuro, and Larry Magid Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: expressvpn.com/twit WWT.COM/TWIT casper.com/twit1 - promo code: TWIT1

Why JPEGs Look Bad and QLED vs OLED. Quality degradation of JPEG images, The "Lemons" Race, Longevity of an SSD drive, good gaming laptops under 1200, sheet feeders for old scanners, best hard drive for searching through data, 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.

Are you tired of Zoom meetings yet? Are 4K disks worth upgrading to? Projectors for a church, AV receivers with 4K pass-through, backing up text messages for printing, internet for a laptop while traveling, a soundbar that a won't anger the neighbors, 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: expressvpn.com/techguy simplisafe.com/twit

Intro to Homebrew - the MacOS package manager Host: Leo Laporte For full show notes, visit https://twit.tv/shows/hands-on-mac/episodes/8 Sponsor: hover.com/twit

Pixel Buds Problem, Pew Die Pie's YouTube Deal New Pixel Buds have a major problem Elon Musk and Grimes' baby X AE A-12 Governor Cuomo appoints Eric Schmitt to COVID panel Does technology help education? What lessons are we learning from distance learning? Apple/Google contact tracing API sample code Bruce Schneier: contact tracing apps have absolutely no value PewDiePie gets an exclusive YouTube deal Some Good News, YouTube, and Facebook hold online graduation ceremonies Facebook announces 20 members of its oversight board Serena and Venus Williams' Mario Tennis match Tim Bray quits Amazon in dismay .org sale called off Tik Tok is a hard place to make money Wink moves to a subscription model New Sonos speakers New York shuts down the subway for the first time ever Twitter will warn you before you send a vulgar tweet Tom Cruise and NASA will make a movie in space Picks of the Week Leo's Tool: Jukebox Stacey's Thing: Level Lock Jeff's Numbers: Zoom is worth more than all US Airlines Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Sponsor: LastPass.com/twit

Windows 10X Delayed "Because COVID" Hosts: Leo Laporte, Mary Jo Foley, and Paul Thurrott For full show notes, visit https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly/episodes/671 Sponsors: canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT barracuda.com/windows Wasabi.com offer code WINDOWS