Jun 9th 2018
The New Screen Savers 160
Ancient Organic Matter Found on Mars
Hosted by
Leo Laporte,
Jason Snell
Organic matter on Mars, WWDC 2018, Gemini PDA, Lenovo Mirage Camera, and more.
Although the show is no longer in production, you can enjoy episodes from the TWiT Archives.
On The New Screen Savers recorded on June 9, 2018, with Leo Laporte and Jason Snell:
- Leo and Jason discuss how macOS Mojave is bringing iOS apps to the Mac and other big Apple announcements from WWDC 2018.
- Forget the BlackBerry Key2, Planet Computers is bringing the PDA back into the 21st century with the Android-based Gemini. Leo has his review.
- NASA's Curiosity rover has found 3 billion-year-old organic matter on Mars. NASA Goddard Astrobiologist Jennifer Eigenbrode joins us to talk about their findings.
- Jason Howell reviews the first camera to shoot in Google’s VR180 format, the Lenovo Mirage Camera. This 4K camera shoots photos and video in 180-degree stereoscopic VR.
- Did you know that your Amazon Echo saves all your voice data? Megan Morrone shows you how to listen to these recordings and how to delete them.
- And Leo and Jason answer a few Mac-centric viewer questions in our Call for Help and Mail Bag.
The New Screen Savers records live every Saturday at 3PM Pacific on twit.tv/live. Episodes are available for download and streaming later that evening at https://twit.tv/shows/new-screen-savers.
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Links
- Microsoft to acquire GitHub for $7.5 billion
- Facebook bug set 14 million users' sharing settings to public
- The 6 biggest highlights from Apple WWDC 2018
- NASA Finds Ancient Organic Material, Mysterious Methane on Mars
- Mars 2020 Rover
- Lenovo Mirage Camera with Daydream on Amazon:
- Planet Computers Gemini PDA
- Plex media server