In letters sent to US Attorney General Bill Barr and UK and Australian leaders Facebook has stated it will not remove encryption from WhatsApp. What exactly were those governments looking for in encryption and what does it mean for the end user?

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Patrick Beja.

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How two of the poorest counties in Kentucky became revitalized with the introduction of fiber internet.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang.

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How securing environments just gets more and more complicated over time, but the reality is the basic security issues (e.g., known vulnerabilities) is what is most commonly the fail point.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Len Peralta, David Spark.

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Are flagship phones falling out of favor and will mid-range phones take their place in the marketplace?

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Patrick Beja. 

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Tuesday Alphabet announced that Google co-founders Larry page and Sergey Brin will step away from their duties as CEO and President and Google CEO Sundar Pichai will take on the additional role of CEO of Alphabet. Is this a sign of rougher waters for Google and Alphabet or just the normal evolution of the company?

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Scott Johnson.

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Adi Robertson has a thoughtful article on The Verge today called “How to fight lies, tricks, and chaos online.” We break down the recommendations and add our own suggestions.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Justin Robert Young

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Chris Mancini from Comedy Film Nerds joins us to explain how the blurring of the lines between VFX in movies and fully rendered CGI cutscenes can lead to audience detachment from the content.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Chris Mancini.

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LG Electronics announces a change in CEO following its earnings report, the EU data regulator sanctions the EU parliament, and researchers demonstrate using undersea fiber optic cables as seismographs.

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Twitter confirms it’s testing threaded messages on Twitter.com with a potential release in 2020, TikTok unblocks account and apologies to teen with viral video critical of Chinese policy, and a US District Judge rules users impacted by Facebook’s 2018 data breach can sue as a class, but not for damages.

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For the second year Mozilla has published its “Privacy not included gift guide” rating gifts on a scale of Not creepy, a little creepy, somewhat creepy, very creepy and super creepy. For instance, Facebook Portal is super creepy, the Nintendo Switch, not creepy. We take a look at this gift guide and share out thoughts on effectiveness of it.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Scott Johnson, Amos

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