Tech News Today 1228

Lead Anchor: Mike Elgan and Co-Anchor: Jason Hiner 4/01/2015: Google announces a dongle that turns any TV into a Chromebook, Twitter wants to put ads on your feed, Facebook figures out how you can tag your kids who are too young to be on Facebook, and more... Guests: Kurt Wagner and Natt Garun Download or subscribe to this show at twit.tv/tnt. Submit and vote on story coverage at technewstoday.reddit.com. Check out the full show notes for today's episode. We invite you to read, add to, and amend the wiki entry for this episode at wiki.twit.tv. Thanks to Cachefly for the bandwidth for this show. Running time: 37:27 Please take the TWiT Audience Survey. It only takes a few minutes and we'd love to know what you think.

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