TechByter Worldwide 2017-09-03: Lying with Landscape Pro 2 (It's OK if You Do It Honestly). Just What We (Probably Don't) Need. Short Circuits. Spare Parts.

Photographs lie. The malicious ones are unethical, but sometimes they're just gentle fibs or changes made in the pursuit of artistic vision. Those are fine and we'll look at a tool designed to enhance the truth. Would you buy a thumb drive with 16 built-in slots for microSD cards? Do that and you could carry 2 terabytes of data in your pocket. In Short Circuits: There's a new toll free area code and scammers are all over it, but now they also make calls that look like they come from local numbers. We're surrounded by cameras these days. They watch every move, but are we safer? There's no clear cut answer and a New York attorney has some worthwhile thoughts on the subject. In Spare Parts (only on the website): Malwarebytes comes to the Mac and just in time because more crooks are targeting Macs. • Toyota wants to connect your car to everything and the company has a new division that's working on it. • NASA's live streaming of the recent solar eclipse was a record breaker for internet streaming.