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Hosts: Gordon West (WB6NOA), George Thomas (W5JDX), Don Wilbanks (AE5DW), Dale Puckett (K0HYD),Valerie Hotzfeld (NV9L) and Amanda Alden (K1DDN) The Perseid meteor shower and the airwaves, Dr. Scott Wright and his tower, Shreveport Hamfest and more! We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes at wiki.twit.tv. Download or subscribe to this show at http://twit.tv/hn. Submit your own video to Ham Nation at HamNationVideos@twit.tv Thanks to Joe Walsh who wrote and plays the Ham Nation theme. Thanks to Cachefly for the bandwidth for this show.

Host: Jason Howell Hands-on reviews of Textra, QKSMS, EvolveSMS, and the Don't Get Fired game. Send in your app tips to arena@twit.tv. Vote for your favorite apps on our subreddit at androidapparena.reddit.com. Bandwidth for Android App Arena is provided by Cachefly.

Hosted by Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis Google creates holding company called Alphabet. Records live every Wednesday at 4:00pm Eastern / 1:00pm Pacific / 20:00 UTC.

A fancy Swiss smart watch, Robot Dating, Kim Kardashian's illegal selfie, Twitter lifts character limits, and more... Guest: Jon Phillips Bandwidth for Tech News 2Night is provided by Cachefly.

Get Google on your Today screen, free up space on your iPhone, check if a movie is appropriate for your kids with the Common Sense Media app, how to check your usage stats if you have battery anxiety, more GPS app suggestions with Navmii GPS. Email us at ifive@twit.tv Leave a voicemail: (614) ON-IFIVE Thanks to Cachefly for the bandwidth for this show.

Ashley and Khail investigate the Touchjet Wave and its goal of turning your TV into a huge touchscreen, discuss an action camera that automatically edits your footage for you and pine for a personal vehicle you can fit in your backpack.

Slap endless emoji on your Snapchat posts, and learn about a new feature to stop the app from draining your data. Also, the popular messaging app is the latest tool for presidential campaigning.

Hosts: Aaron Newcomb and Guillermo Amaral We talk with Brandon Philips about Tectonic, which is a complete and flexible open source architecture for Linux containers. Guest: Brandon Philips Download or subscribe to this show at twit.tv/floss Here's what's coming up for FLOSS in the future. Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email Randal at merlyn@stonehenge.com Thanks to Cachefly for providing the bandwidth for this podcast and Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Mary Jo Foley Windows 10: the two week report, Windows 10 mobile, how Alphabet will change the MS relationship with Google, add-ins for Outlook and OneDrive, Cortana on Android, and more!  <p>Download or subscribe to this show at <a href="http://twit.tv/ww">twit.tv/ww</a></p><p>Check out Paul's blog at <a href="https://www.thurrott.com/" target="_blank">thurrott.com</a></p><p>Check out Mary Jo's blog at <a href="http://allaboutmicrosoft.com/" target="_blank">AllAboutMicrosoft.com</a></p><p>Thanks to <a href="http://cachefly.com/" target="_blank">Cachefly</a> for the bandwidth for this show.</p><p>The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of <a href="https://twitter.com/carlfranklin" target="_blank">Carl Franklin</a>.</p>

Anchor: Mike Elgan and Co-Anchor: Kevin Tofel 8/12/15: Facebook is making a news app, Twitter feud between Tinder and Vanity Fair journalist, Lessig for President, hacked press release stockmarket scheme, Zirtual is saved by Startups.com, Oracle Chief Security Officer's rant, and more... Guests: Kristina Monllos, Rebecca Ballhaus, Dean Starkman, Biz Carson, and Sean Gallagher Check out the full show notes for today's episode. Download or subscribe to this show at twit.tv/tnt. Thanks to Cachefly for the bandwidth for this show.

Airing on Wednesday, August 12, 2015: Why Wall Street cares about Google's restructuring, Android devices vs. HTC, and teaching computers to recognize humor.

The hilarious Jesse Popp (@JessePopp) joins Matt and Andy to talk about his former life as a blackjack card-counter, a newly discovered tessellating pentagon, Penrose tiling, Fermat's Last Theorem, space lettuce, giant marrows, angry people in local newspapers, pumpkins smashing cars, a goat-throwing festival, dreamy eye movements, brain-scanning software, Hannibal's mask prototypes, brain dipsticks and trepanning. Don't forget to visit LAPodFest.com to get tickets to watch Probably Science in person in Los Angeles on September 19th, or buy access to the festival's live video stream and save $5 with the code SCIENCE.

It was 1981 when IBM rolled out the first PC model 5150. Of course they had other computers, but nothing that targeted the home market as the PC would. The 5150 contained a 4.7 MHz processor, 16k or RAM and 40 k of ROM. All for $1,565. If you wanted to customize, well, get out the check book – that will cost you $6000.Each PC came with Microsofts’ CP/M Operating System. “We intend the IBM Personal Computer to be the most useful system of its kind,” C. B. Rogers, Jr., IBM vice president and group executive, General Business Group said. “Besides...

Hosted by Jason Howell, Ron Richards. Analyzing Google’s transition to Alphabet. Records live every Tuesday at 8:00pm Eastern / 5:00pm Pacific / 3:00 UTC.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Steve Gibson StageFright Watch, Windows 10 Tracking disable tool, was TrueCrypt decrypted by the FBI?  Firefox vulnerability, and Steve's search for a low-hassle solution for safely browsing the danger-filled World Wide Web. We invite you to read our show notes. Download or subscribe to this show at twit.tv/sn. 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. Bandwidth for Security Now is provided by Cachefly.