Lock Down Tech News and Todd’s soapbox time on the Chinese and what they are up to and the culpability they have in trying to hide the CoronaVirus. I dig in and we also have a little fun on this show with a lot of interaction of the live audience. I have some theories and we dig in. I appreciate the recent insider donations as well.

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Show Notes:

• 34:24–Jupiter’s Great Red Spot may be shrinking
• NASA is working with university teams
• 33:57–The best streaming service you can subscribe to right now
• 36:09–Lego bricks could linger up to 1,300 years in the ocean
• 37:30–NBCUniversal to release new movies online
• 38:53–WhatsApp may be introducing self-destructing messages
• 39:45–Amazon stops selling most editions of Mein Kampf
• Google Doodle still celebrates St. Patricks Day
• 41:50–T-Mobile expands 5G offerings 
• Which Amazon Echo should you buy?
• 31:46–The NYC subway’s new tap-to-pay system
• 42:29–8 useful iOS apps to help ease work from home stress
• 57:57–LG’s new V60 ThinQ 5G
• 45:19–Microsoft to hold Office press event on March 30th
• 47:05–Apple is reportedly making an entry-level 5.5 inch iPhone
• 47:50–Discord goes down
• 28:19–US HHS suffered a cyberattack
• 48:20–Microsoft says 1 billion devices are now running Windows 10
• 55:29–Amazon will hire 100,000 workers
• Supergiant star Betelgeuse
• 50:30–Uber drivers are losing their jobs
• Apple Powerbeats
• FCC largest spectrum auction
• French antitrust authorities fined Apple

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Oh, how does 72 hours make a difference in one’s schedule? New plans I am Studio Bound for a minimum of two weeks and we will see how it goes from there CoronaVirus is really disrupting lives. More on that during the show and lots to share on what is happening. But I will have some time in the studio to get a bunch of stuff done.

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Show Notes:

• 25:05–ExoMars rover mission suspended
• OnePlus invests $30 million into 5G research
• 25:59–Verizon just spent $1.6 billion on new millimeter wave spectrum
• 27:15–Google’s G Suite surpassed 2 billion users
• 28:40–US cable customers lost 5 million paying customers last year
• 23:38–AT&T CEO pay rose to $32 million in 2019
• 30:46–Comscore partners with Twitch
• 16:47–Bitcoin hits 10 month low
• 31:31–TAG Heuer’s latest smartwatches start at $1,800
• 18:29–ACLU sues Homeland Security
• 20:12–Ring temporarily pauses most third party data collection
• 12:19–Telecom Italia
• 32:40–President Trump signs bill to help rural carriers…Huawei
• 33:54–Senators want to ban TikTok from government phones
• 35:13–Airbnb reports losses
• 36:57–A massive new telescope
• 37:39–Rocket Lab to pay homage to Queen
• 38:41–New MacBook Pro and MacBook Air
• 39:44–US House votes to extend FISA surveillance
• 41:47–Twitter requires all employees to work from home

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Well, your geeky podcast nomad is back in Columbus after a wonderful week in Florida where there is no sign anyone is worried in the least about the CoronaVirus. Back in the studio in Michigan on Thursday. Lots happening strap in I have a great show for you.

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Show Notes:

• 25:14–Apollo 13 50th anniversary exhibit 
• 26:13–SpaceX Dragon
• 28:05–What’s new on Netflix
• 28:27–Max von Sydow dies at age 90
• 29:17–Switch from Google Authenticator to a more secure 2FA app
• 19:21–Police use of location data is causing more harm than good
• 30:25–Facebook sued by Australian privacy watchdog
• 30:45–Ford warns FCC
• Twitter will keep Jack Dorsey as CEO (for now)
• NASA center in California issues mandatory work from policy
• 34:41–Comcast and Charter expand broadband domination
• 36:32–Apple watchOS 7 features leak
• 37:44–Scientists will soon be able to monitor air pollution from space
• Robots can learn to set the table 
• 39:04–Just Walk Out
• 22:26–Do Not Pay
• Robinhood app goes down again
• 39:58–Spotify’s new home screen
• 40:58–New iPad Smart Keyboard 
• 12:06–Amazon tells New York and New Jersey employees to stay home
• Quibi accused of patent infringement

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I go over the poll results from two shows ago and I was slightly surprised in the results and I go over half a dozen of the respondent’s comments. I do appreciate the participation of all the listeners that participated. Next week I will be in Florida and then back to Columbus the following week of which I will spending a large amount of the foreseeable future here doing shows. Lot’s of time on the road racking up frequent stay points lol

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Show Notes:

• 26:15–Possible new “minimoon”
• 26:51–SpaceX’s next Starship prototype
• 27:36–The biggest known explosion in the universe
• 29:35–Northrop Grumman test-fires new OmegA rocket
• 17:28–YouTube isn’t bound by the First Amendment
• NASA Curiosity rover
• 23:53–Here are all of the companies pulled out the GDC
• 20:10–FCC readies hefty fines for carriers
• 21:46–Congress postponed a vote to extend the Patriot Act
• 30:44–T-Mobile conducts layoffs
• 31:29–YouTube appoints first “creator liaison”
• 32:21–Tim Cook says Apple is reopening factories
• 35:19–Apple reportedly releasing an iPad keyboard with a trackpad
• Pope tells his followers to log off for Lent
• Uber app update
• Altice One and Apple TV
• 36:30–The latest Timex smartwatch
• 37:05–Spotify redesign 
• 37:37–Steven Segal settles with SEC
• 38:57–Facebook cancels F8
• 39:45–Walmart+
• 40:59–Researchers find an Android malware strain
• 43:33–Clearview
• 44:47–Facebook sues analytics firm

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Imagine your sitting in Jail and your Landlord clears out your apartment and throws away a piece of paper with bitcoin worth 58 million on it. Yepp it really happened. Hey folks next shows from our Columbus office and then down to Tampa. So a lot of shows on the road for the near future.

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Show Notes:

• 30:46–“Black in Space”
• 31:26–DARPA Launch Challenge delayed
• 32:13–New Airpods, iPad pop up in Target listings
• 33:04–“Marsquakes”
• 34:01–Windows 10 Home vs. Pro
• 34:24–Robot suitcase uses AI to help
• 35:51–Venmo is reportedly testing out a debit card for teens
• 29:22–Katherine Johnson dies at age 101
• 50:11–New Sony Xperia 1 II
• 26:49–Petnet goes offline for a week
• 16:57–President and COO of AT&T worries about tech companies’ power
• 36:35–Warren Buffett finally upgrades to an iPhone
• 37:33–Xbox Series X will have a 12 teraflop GPU
• 38:59–Apple to launch ARM Mac
• 40:29–Uber OOH
• 19:45–A robot can change your tires in 10 minutes
• 42:42–Intuit is buying Credit Karma
• 25:53–Netflix Top 10
• 43:31–Samsung data breach
• 12:35–Drug dealer loses $58 million in bitcoin
• 49:43–TSA bans TikTok

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Amazon is shaking up its shipping operation again by canceling contracts with shippers who underperformed and or did not meet service expectations putting 1200 drivers out of work. I think some of them that were canceled delivers to my house the most lazy delivery people ever. Just one show this week, as well as I, head to Houston on Thursday.

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Show Notes:

• FTC to re-examine Google’s 2013 Waze acquisition 
• Apple might use its own 5G antenna 
• Target’s Shipt
• Elon Musk’s Borning Company
• Android saw a 98 percent drop in apps asking for data
• Next version of Chrome
• The best smart locks
• NY AG won’t keep fighting T-Mobile merger with Sprint
• Judge rules on DoorDash
• U.K. to spend $1.6 billion on the worlds fastest weather supercomputer
• Hackers could shut down satellites 
• 8 high capacity power banks
• The PS5 is releasing soon
• Watch Mars disappear behind the moon
• Motorola Razr display reportedly already peeling 
• Best surge protectors
• Don’t click on texts from your “bank”
• EU and Facebook
• Data shows Tesla owner experienced repeated glitch delays
• Apple warns revenue will be lower
• Google is ending its Station free public Wi-Fi program
• SpaceX lost another Falcon booster
• Global smart speaker shipments
• Redbox Free Live TV

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SpaceX is expected to have it first manned launch in May of 2020. This is exciting news as we will be one step closer from being out from under the nose of the Russians in getting astronauts to the ISS. This will be a monumental achievement. It’s not yet known if they will be going to the ISS on the first launch we can only hope so. No show on Thursday I will be in Los Angeles for Podcast Movement Evolutions.

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Show Notes:

• • 18:47–Iran satellite launch fails to reach orbit
  • 19:45–NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
  • 20:34–Space Force gets $15.4 billion in 2021 budget request
  • Sony withdraws from MVC
  • Samsung plans to ship 2.5 million Galaxy Z flip phones
  • TCL cancels MVC 2020

• 10:44–Republican Senator targets Google and Facebook
• NASA captures a rare view of dancing Mars dust devil
• 12:48–Foreign hackers are targeting more US government agencies
• 26:12–Man who helped the Queen with sending an email dies
• 26:40–Apple’s epic patent troll fight
• 27:45–Sprint’s first smartwatch for kids
• 28:34–Amazon is still crushing Google and Apple
• 29:35–IBM picks Slack over Microsoft Teams
• 31:32–Amazon wants to question Trump
• 33:42–US charges 4 Chinese members in Equifax breach
• 34:47–British Airways breaks the New York to London flight record
• 36:33–ACLU rejects Clearview AI’s facial recognition accuracy claims
• Apple fined $27 million in France
• Fiat Chrysler and AutoX
• The new budget Moto G Series
• 09:26–The first crewed SpaceX flight
• “Planetary simulator”
• 14:50–Tech giants warn U.S. against E.U. upload filters and site blocking
• Bill and Melinda Gates talk about health and education
• 41:19–This robot does a better job drawing blood

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One million dollars and SpaceX will launch 440 kilograms into space. This is down 1 million dollars and now can be all scheduled online and of course, they take American Express. Lot’s of great news stories today that you will want to tune into the show for. I also talk about my schedule over the next couple of weeks. Lots happening over the next 4-6 weeks.To all the long time listeners thanks for being loyal to the show.

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Show Notes:

• 21:25–Record-setting space travelers return to Earth
• 22:28–SpaceX is holding a Starship career day
• 24:16–NASA honors Tuskegee Airman
• 25:25–Ad blocking takes off on mobile
• 26:56–Alphabet’s Loon
• 28:28–What is a VPN?
• 29:19–The app that broke the Iowa caucus 
• 39:16–Amazon details huge expansion for Bellevue, Washington
• 39:28–This strange garden is made from cellphones
• 09:28–Book a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket ride for $1 million dollars
• 52:41–How to block websites in Chrome on your Android phone
• 40:19–Is 5G dangerous or is it safe?
• 41:22–The first supermoon of 2020 is this weekend
• 41:47–FCC reaches deal with satellite industry
• 52:50–Google has begun rolling out Automatic Call Screening for Pixels
• 16:22–The first driverless car exemption
• 42:23–Google Play apps 
• 43:48–SpaceX plans likely spinoff and IPO
• 44:52U.S. Air Force to pilot blockchain
• 18:28–The FCC broadband survey is missing people
• 45:30–US opens investigation into Google
• 46:19–Netflix will now let you disable its autoplay feature
• 46:38–AG thinks US should buy controlling stake in Nokia and Ericsson
• 47:37–Uber expects to be profitable by the end of 2020
• 50:31–Twitter Q4
• 52:15–Huawei sues Verizon

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Google Revenue and profits are up but they missed expectations and the stock is down 3%. Funny how missing revenue by a few million over billions of dollars makes the stock market stupid. I’m back in the Coldwater studio and will be for 2 more shows before I leave for Los Angeles. Thank you for your ongoing support we have had a number of new insiders step up and support the show.

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Show Notes:

• 31:25–Lego releases International Space Station
• 32:06–New Star Trek series: Section 31
• 33:56–How to shop for a smart home security camera
• 35:56–5 ways to use Google Flights
• 36:57–The 7 Best NAS hard drives
• February 2020 security patches for Pixel 4
• 17:25–NASA solar probe smashes 2 records
• 40:12–OneWeb
• 41:31–Bernard Ebbers has died
• 42:19–Twitter boots Planters Nut “Baby Nut” meme
• Ring App update
• 43:12–Facebook pays $550 million settlement
• 44:08–Jeff Bezos paid more than $16,000 in parking tickets
• 45:00–Galaxy Home Mini
• 45:26–Windows by the numbers
• 19:31–Uber temporarily suspends 240 accounts in Mexico
• 16:38–Apple News for US elections
• 23:37–Siri, Google Assistant, Alexa study
• 47:24–European Space Agency Chief will quit
• 47:39–Google Maps “hack”
• 50:35–TCL will stop selling Blackberry branded smartphones
• Samsung updates the Gear S2
• 11:18–Alphabet Q4
• 26:19–Study of the top 100 international airports 
• 52:08–Rare sighting of a burst of activity
• TESS Space Telescope
• 54:10–Cox asks court to overturn or lower verdict
• 57:47–Apple now offers iPhone repairs in the comfort in your home

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