hey guys I'm going to lynge and this is
the iFixit rundown where I give you all
the news that happened this month and I
fix it hope you had a great holiday and
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the brand new iFixit master tech
certification our friends over at the
wirecutter got a hold of us to take a
deep look inside their tentative
recommendation for which hoverboard you
should get the swagway the only thing we
knew about hoverboards was that we've
seen a lot of them exploding on YouTube
so we decided to break it open to see
what makes a hopefully safe hoverboard
tick we were most concerned about the
battery and found it's actually 20 LG
made 18 650 batteries all in a tidy
block there's a lot more we found inside
this swag board so head over to our blog
to check out all the pros and cons we
found from our teardown if you've got
other repairs around the house after you
finished with your non exploding
hoverboard check out our macro bit set
there are 97 high quality quarter-inch
bits made out of crv steel that have
been selected by our iFixit techs
ensuring that you get all the bits you
need and none that you don't over at our
blog we have a post that's near to my
heart it's highlighting five groups of
women in repair from a woman who leads
electronic repair workshops for other
women to the authors of the home repair
book dare to repair and yes there's even
YouTube host on the list you'll want to
read each of their stories and share it
with the female repairer in your life
General Motors just backpedaled its
position on car hacking the car maker
recently opened a pathway for non
malicious hackers to report security
vulnerabilities in GM cars this despite
previous opposing efforts to legalize
independent security research by hackers
under US copyright law the program is a
smart move for GM as car makers
integrate more Wi-Fi enabled features
into cars they are transforming
automobiles into giant movie
internet-connected computers you can
read the whole story at iFixit org Janet
Gunter from the restart project flew all
the way to California to have a chat
with us about the awesome things they
are doing in the UK the restart project
is a london-based social enterprise that
helps people fix their broken
electronics to give them another life
and to keep waste out of landfills they
have community events where they gather
people who are repair savvy and offer
free help to anyone who shows up with a
broken device you can watch Janet's
interview with Kyle on our channel or
read more about the project and the
people there helping over at our blog
the USBC port is relatively new to the
Mac Book scene and makes life with your
technology super simple until it stops
working if that's happened to you don't
worry I can help we have a brand new
repair video on our channel where I walk
you through how to replace your USB C
port in your 2015 retina MacBook if
you've been keeping up with our rundowns
you should have seen our latest contest
I asked you to share your recent repairs
with me for a chance to win our
brand-new pro tech toolkit my friends at
Flo high and at Thomas task one and they
didn't waste any time breaking into
their new tool kits either next month
we'll have an all-new giveaway so be
sure to tune in for that and that's your
January iFixit rundown next month I'll
be sending you the rundown from our
office in Germany be sure to tune in for
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