On The New Screen Savers recorded on June 2, 2018, with Leo Laporte and Alex Wilhelm: The HomePod is now available in stereo and multi-room audio with AirPlay 2. But there's a catch. We show you how it works and if the sound is worth the price. Are you looking for an alternative to Facebook or Instagram? Both Guy Kawasaki and Simon Hudson show us their 'anti-social' media app Privy by Cheeze, Inc. Jason Howell reviews the Lenovo Mirage Solo, the first standalone VR headset with Google Daydream. ...
Jun 03, 2018•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 159
On The New Screen Savers Episode 158 for May 26, 2018 with Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone: Did you hear about the Amazon Echo eavesdropping scandal? A couple says their's secretly recorded a private conversation and then sent it to a friend! Amazon has responded, we'll show you what happened and how to change the settings to secure your device. Jason Howell reviews the new One Plus 6. Does it offer a premium phone without the sticker-shock? In Call for Help we'll talk about iCloud Storage devices...
May 27, 2018•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 158
On The New Screen Savers for Saturday, May 19, 2018, with Leo Laporte and Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ: You've seen the barrage of Terms of Service emails in your inbox. So what is GDPR and all the changes that start Friday, May 25th? Danny O'Brien, the International Director at EFF is here to sort this through. After last week's segment on 360-degree cameras with DPReview.com, Leo bought the new GoPro Fusion camera. He's been playing around with it all week and shares his cautionary review. Now that...
May 20, 2018•1 hr 39 min•Ep. 157
On The New Screen Savers show recorded on May 16, 2018, with Leo Laporte and Kevin Rose: It's the third anniversary of this show and it would have been 20 years of ZDTV/Tech TV. Kevin and Leo talk about working for the cable channel and hear from Becky Worley, Patrick Norton, and Megan Morrone. Plus, Martin Sargent makes a surprise visit. We talk about the big Artificial Intelligence announcements from Google I/O like Duplex. And next year Boston Dynamics will start selling its SpotMini robot. L...
May 13, 2018•1 hr 58 min•Ep. 156
On The New Screen Savers show for Saturday, May 5, 2018, with Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ and Patrick Norton: After a couple of weeks with the new Caavo smart tv hub, Patrick gives his review. The device controls all your home-theater boxes and also has a voice remote. It promises to make finding shows easier than fumbling for multiple remotes, but it's not cheap. See how it works and if it delivers as promised. Imagine having a high-end gaming system on any device, even a smartphone. We will test-d...
May 06, 2018•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 155
On The New Screen Savers for April 28, 2018, with Jason Howell and Rich DeMuro: Everyone is doing it except Apple. Those pesky Mac laptops have no touchscreens. We'll meet Kevin Kwok who can turn your MacBook Pro into a touchscreen for around $1! There are a lot of tricks out there to learn guitar. What if you could learn chords using light? Jason shows you the Fret Zealot which uses LED lights mounted on the fretboard. And speaking of light, Megan Morrone shows us the modular smart-light system...
Apr 29, 2018•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 154
On The New Screen Savers episode 153 on Saturday, April 21, 2018 with Megan Morrone and Jason Howell: The new Nintendo Labo Kits just shipped and we're borrowing Karsten Bondy's kids Zak and Alex to test out the cardboard DIY kits that work with the Switch console. Jason tries on a motion-capture suit that does not require cameras to capture his body's actions. The Xsens system uses wearable sensors. In Call for Help, we'll talk smartphone cameras versus stand-alone cameras. And we bring an expe...
Apr 22, 2018•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 153
On The New Screen Savers for Saturday, April 14 with Leo Laporte and Patrick Norton: Those stamped metal license plates could be a thing of the past if the folks at Reviver Auto have their way. CEO Neville Boston shows us what their new digital plate, the Rplate Pro can do and when they will be coming to your state. Patrick recently went to CanJam SoCal, a showcase for the newest headphones. He shares his top picks. In Call For Help, we answer questions about RAID vs. a large SSD, and Thunderbol...
Apr 14, 2018•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 152
On this episode of The New Screen Savers for Saturday, April 7, 2018, with Leo Laporte and Iain Thomson: What if you got an alert before an earthquake hits? The founder of Early Warning Labs talks about their app QuakeAlert. It can give you up to 30 seconds of warning on your smartphone before you feel the shaking. Odds are you know about the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Well, there's more! Astrophysicist Chuck Hailey explains how his team found thousands more! ...
Apr 08, 2018•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 151
On this episode of The New Screen Savers for Saturday, March 31, 2018, with Leo Laporte and Jason Howell: With 'Ready Player One' now in theaters, Jason takes a trip down to SVVR, an organization for VR developers and startups, to talk to the CEO of Infinadeck and try out their omnidirectional treadmill that was featured in the movie 'Ready Player One.' Leo has the new third-generation Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga and gives his review. We have two Calls for Help. One about quitting Facebook and priva...
Apr 01, 2018•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 150
On this episode of The New Screen Savers for Saturday, March 24, 2018, with Leo Laporte and Jason Snell: As the controversy around Facebook and Cambridge Analytica grows, Cory Doctorow joins us to help sort through this mess and discuss if Facebook or regulation can help fix these privacy issues and whether people should delete their Facebook account. Leo reviews the new HP ENVY x2. With a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor, this 2-in-1 is one the first ARM-powered Windows 10 PC to go on sale, wi...
Mar 25, 2018•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 149
On this episode of The New Screen Savers for Saturday, March 17, 2018, with Leo Laporte and Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ: - The new Samsung Galaxy S9+ is here, and Leo gives us his review. Plus, Kelsea Weber from iFixit.com joins to tell us what is inside! - This week marked the passing of two men in tech. Physicist Stephen Hawking and hacker Adrian Lamo. - Eko is a company producing and streaming interactive shows and movies, including the remake of the 1983 classic 'War Games.' We chat with Alon Be...
Mar 18, 2018•1 hr 42 min•Ep. 148
On this episode of The New Screen Savers for Saturday, March 10, 2018, with Leo Laporte and Alex Lindsay: Dan Bracaglia from DPReview joins us to talk about what's new from the large camera show in Japan CP+ 2018, including Canon's AI (Auto Intelligent) flash. Also, he shows us two recently launched mirrorless cameras: the Sony A7 III and Canon ESO M50. Alex Lindsay and Fred Feickert, of F3 & Associates, show us the different ways to capture the world in 3D, from photogrammetry to LIDAR. Jas...
Mar 11, 2018•1 hr 47 min•Ep. 147
On this episode of The New Screen Savers for Saturday, March 3, 2018, with Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone: What kind of dash cam should you get? In Call for Help we have a listener who wants to know, so we asked Rik Paul from thewirecutter.com to talk about their reviews of the best dash cams. Leo just got the new Owl dash camera. Basically, it's a Ring (Sponsor) video doorbell for your car. Mobile World Congress 2018 wrapped up this week in Barcelona. and Cherlynn Low from Engadget was there. Sh...
Mar 04, 2018•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 146
On this episode of The New Screen Savers for Saturday, February 24, 2018, with Leo Laporte and Iain Thomson: Why have some farmers turned to hacking to fix their tractors? Jason Koebler from Motherboard talked to several farmers who are doing just this, and it all boils down to the "right to repair." Kelsea Weber from iFixit updates us on what is happening with this movement on the state and federal level. Jason Howell has a review of the new professional audio controller for musicians, the Univ...
Feb 25, 2018•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 145
On this episode of The New Screen Savers for Saturday, February 17, 2018, with Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone: What makes smartphone cameras so good? Rishi Sanyal from DPReview joins us to compare two of the best, the iPhone X and Pixel 2 XL, and discuss computational photography. So many gadgets, where to charge them? Megan has a docking station problem, so we try out several charging stations to see what works, what's the best, and what you need to know to build your own. Back in 2015 on show #...
Feb 18, 2018•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 144
On this episode of The New Screen Savers for Saturday, February 10, 2018, with Leo Laporte and Jason Howell: Apple's HomePod launched this week. We show you how it works and how it stacks up to its competition like Google Home Max, Sonos One, Amazon Echo Show, and the Harman Kardon Invoke. The #TWiTSwitch continues as Megan Morrone and Jason Howell pit the Apple Watch vs. Android Wear, High School Debate style. How do you replace your phone's OS if you want a non-Android platform? Find out in ou...
Feb 11, 2018•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 143
On this episode of The New Screen Savers for Saturday, February 3, 2018 with Leo Laporte and Florence Ion: Now you can see the ruins under the trees! Archeologist and National Geographic Explorer Thomas Garrison and his team used LIDAR to scan hundreds of square miles of Guatemalan jungle and discovered thousands of new Mayan structures, roads, buildings, and reservoirs. California is taking Net Neutrality into its own hands and upsetting the FCC. Our legal expert Denise Howell from ""This Week ...
Feb 04, 2018•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 142
On this episode of The New Screen Savers for Saturday, January 27, 2018, with Leo Laporte and Patrick Norton: Do you know what Blockchain is, what it can do, and why it's all the rage? We have two experts here to help explain: Eric Cole Ph.D., former Technical Director for the C.I.A., and served on Cybersecurity Commission; and Kevin Quennesson an AI and Blockchain expert, formerly at Twitter's AI group Twitter Cortex. Which is better, Siri or Google Assistant? In our #TWiTSwitch 2018, Megan Mor...
Jan 28, 2018•1 hr 41 min•Ep. 141
On this episode of The New Screen Savers for Saturday, January 20, 2018, with Leo Laporte and Jason Howell: Edward Snowden has a new app for Android called Haven that turns your phone into a portable security system. Nathan Freitas, Director of the Guardian Project joins us to talk about how they created it and why. Steve Gibson joins us to explain his latest freeware InSpectre and how it looks for Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities. We have two Calls for Help. The first wants to know about th...
Jan 21, 2018•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 140
