An AI to detect Alzheimer’s early, A brief occurence of PS4 and Xbox cross-platform play, and would you rather your websites showed you ads or mined bitcoin with your computer?

Featuring Tom Merrit, Veronica Belmont, and Roger Chang.

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CCleaner infected with malware, Google launches payment app that uses sound, Slack gets new valuation.

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Patrick gives us the lowdown on what processors to put in our PCs, Google declatres a kind of war on autoplay and Facebook opens a 4th front for AI research in Montreal.
With Tom Merritt, Roger Chang, Patrick Norton, and Len Peralta.

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• News You Should Know
  • (02:35) Unified autoplay | Chromium Blog
  • (06:00) Facebook’s New Lab Bolsters Montreal’s…AI | Fast Company
  • (10:05) Google in talks to invest in Lyft | Axios
    • Alphabet Considers…Investment of…$1 Billion | Bloomberg
  • (12:35) China’s Southeast Asia obsession continues… | Tech In Asia
  • (16:15) Amazon waves goodbye to…one-click… | engadget
• Discussion
  • (19:10) PC Perspective Hardware Leaderboard | PC Perspective
• Messages of the Day
  • (30:10) Matt Bertolini – Equifax software patch process
  • (31:30) Anonymous – Equifax downsizing
  • (32:30) BigJim – Tech In Trade
  • (33:30) Rob – Apple two-factor authentication
  • (34:25) Matt Stevens – Managing older iOS devices
• Today’s Contributors
  • Watch Patrick Norton‘s TekThing on Hak5 and support it on Patreon
  • Len Peralta’s “FaceID Not Working“

Mr. Kaspersky goes to Washington, Google sued for gender discrimination, and Daimler brings electric trucks to the US

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Liverpool embraces digital currency, YouTube faces backlash on censorship, and what you need to do about Equifax.
With Tom Merritt, Roger Chang, and Justin Robert Young.

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• News You Should Know
  • (01:20) October 4th is new Pixel day… | Android Police
    • LG-Made Google Pixel XL 2 Hits FCC! | Droid-Life
  • (02:35) Snapchat adds 3D Bitmoji to its [AR] features | engadget
  • (04:20) YouTube Pulls North Korean State TV Videos | WSJ
    • Youtube…Bans Award-Winning Animated Short | Cartoon Brew
  • (08:05) Face ID will have a quick-disable feature | circuit breaker
  • (10:00) The Liverpool app that sidesteps the banks | BBC
• Discussion
  • (15:15) What to do about Equifax | DTNS Patreon
    • …two-month-old bug led to massive…breach | Ars Technica
    • Ayuda! (Help!) Equifax Has My Data! | Krebs on Security
    • FTC probes Equifax; top Democrat likens it to Enron | Reuters
    • Equifax blames breach on a server flaw… | engadget
    • Equifax CEO to testify to Congress… | Reuters
    • How to freeze your credit after a data breach | The Verge
    • Recovering from Identity Theft | FTC
    • Credit Freeze FAQs | FTC
    • Cybersecurity Incident & …Consumer Information | Equifax
    • Equifax waives credit freeze fees… | engadget
    • Report identity theft and get a recovery plan | FTC
• Messages of the Day
  • (30:40) Neil – App Store removal from iTunes
  • (33:15) Petie – Google Authenticator
• Today’s Contributors
  • Justin Robert Young

Google announces a phone event, Equifax announces what caused its breach and Snapchat announces 3D cartoon versions of you.

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A burger-flipping robot and the truth behind power grid concerns.
With Tom Merritt, Roger Chang, Scott Johnson and Bob Schultz.

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Apple’s new phones, watch and Apple TV, WhatsApp cofounder leaving, facebook restricts ad-supported content.

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Apple’s new phones, watch and OTT TV device, plus Samsung promises a bendable Galaxy Note phone next year.
With Tom Merritt, Roger Chang and Patrick Beja

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• News You Should Know
  • (02:15) Apple updates mobile line up
  • (02:45) MacOS High Sierra release set for 25 September
• More Top Stories
  • (02:55) BlueBorne can attack Bluetooth devices without user input
  • (05:25) Samsung announced plans for bendable display phone in 2018
  • (07:30) Equifax breach lawsuits begin
    • Chatbot lets you sue Equifax…without a lawyer | The Verge
    • Equifax…will waive credit freeze fees for 30 days | TechCrunch
  • (08:45) Nintendo updates production schedule of NES/SNES Classics
• Discussion
  • (11:40) Apple Press Event details
    • New Apple Watch announced with LTE
    • Apple’s watchOS 4 due out September 19th with better heart rate monitoring
    • New Apple TV 4K announced, launches September 22nd for $179
    • Apple will sell 4K movies for same price as HD
    • iPhone 8 and 8 Plus announced with wireless charging, True Tone display, A11 Bionic processor
    • The iPhone 8 and 8 Plus start at $699 and $799, and are available on September 22nd
    • iPhone X announced with edge-to-edge screen, Face ID, and no home button
    • Apple announces Animoji, animated emoji for iPhone X
    • iPhone X will unlock with facial recognition instead of home button

Patrick Beja

Samsung Bendable phones, Equifax lawsuits, monkey reaches copyright settlement.

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